Year : 2000 (Church Of Vinyl Edition 2024)
Style : Hard Rock , Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 168 mb
Bio:
Dokken is an American heavy metal band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.The band was nominated for a Grammy in 1989.Dokken was composed of founder Don Dokken on vocals, George Lynch on lead guitar, Juan Croucier on bass and Mick Brown on drums. In 1983 Croucier left Dokken in order to join Ratt and was replaced by Jeff Pilson. Currently only Dokken and Brown remain from the original line-up. After several personnel changes on guitar Dokken's attorney Jon Levin stepped in to fill the role in 2004. In 2001 Barry Sparks replaced Jeff Pilson on bass. In 2009, Sean McNabb (formerly of Great White and Quiet Riot fame) replaced Barry Sparks on bass guitar.
Album:
”Live From The Sun” is a live album released on April 18, 2000 by DOKKEN. The album captures a performance of the reunited Dokken, minus guitarist George Lynch, held at the Sun Theater in Anaheim, CA on November 4, 1999. But on lead guitar there’s no-other than the awesome Reb Beach, so expect an incredible guitar work.The live set featured some of their most popular songs, including two from the then-recently released Erase The Slate album. ”Live From The Sun” has been recently reissued, and for the first time on vinyl.Being 2nd best is largely reliant on how good the prevailing winner is, and if that winner is the godly “Beast From The East” in the category of Dokken live albums, it’s could be seen as quite an accomplishment. In the sense that the famed 1988 live album can be seen as the band’s peak before the fatal plunge, “Live From The Sun” can be seen as them clawing their way back up from the valley for one last attempt at reliving their once held glory.It is an exceptional performance by a band that is only slightly weathered, mostly in the vocal department, by the wear and tear of more than 20 years on the road.After losing longtime and instrumental powerhouse guitarist George Lynch, the logical choice of a successor would be one who could attempt to match chops with his wildly expressive, to the point of neurosis, approach to fret board blazing.Reb Beach, though coming from a checkered band in Winger, turns out to be the logical choice as his leads gave said 80s glam band their principle appearance of strength. At times he gets a bit carried away with the pinch screams an over-elaborates on what was essentially lead perfection, such as on the melodic guitar solo on “Alone Again”, but he stops short of turning into a pretentious, showboating, spotlight hog.The one area where this album distinguishes itself from the others in Dokken’s catalog is the pervasiveness of added on sections to various songs. In some cases the add-ons prove to augment the song nicely, as is the case with the extended intro and ending of “Alone Again” and a collection of gravely vocal ad lib parts to go with them, as well as the extended jam section with crowd participation on “It’s Not Love”.They get carried away with how long they drag out “Too High Too Fly”, but compensate by giving Reb free reign to show just what the human hands are capable of. Picture an insane mishmash of Hendrix, Van Halen, Lynch, Vai, and a couple of other wild shredders who also play with feedback effects and you’ll have a basic idea.Those seeking to own one live album by Dokken are naturally to be referred to “Beast From The East”, but this does give it a run for its money.The turn of the millennium saw a fair number of prominent bands that were either from the 80s or were created out of members from said bands come back with a vengeance, and combined with a solid album in “Erase The Slate” Dokken can definitely be counted among them.A band that reminded to all metal heads that it is okay to sing about other things aside from necromancy, death, gore, occult pursuits, violence, and all those other things that mainstream society tends to shy away from, just so long as the music hits as hard as Dokken always did.
Line Up:
Don Dokken – lead vocals
Reb Beach – guitar, backing vocals
Jeff Pilson – bass, backing vocals
Mick Brown – drums, backing vocals
Production:
Art Direction, Photography – Mark Weiss
Design [Graphic Design] – Richie Rodriguez
Edited By [Pro Tools Editing] – Phil Soussan
Engineer – Ken Botelho, Kevin Berouty
Producer – Dokken, Tom Fletcher
Recorded By, Mixed By – Tom Fletcher
Tracklist:
01. Erase The Slate
02. Kiss Of Death
03. The Hunter
04. Into The Fire
05. Maddest Hatter
06. Too High To Fly
07. Breaking The Chains
08. Alone Again
09. It’s Not Love
10. Tooth And Nail
11. In My Dreams
Recorded at the Sun Theatre on November 4th, 1999 / Anaheim, CA.
On location audio recording provided by Century Productions Inc.
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