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Dokken - Tooth and Nail<br />
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Artist...............: Dokken<br />
Album................: Tooth and Nail<br />
Genre................: Heavy Metal<br />
Source...............: CD<br />
Year.................: 1984<br />
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Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)<br />
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Ripped by............: Warlordhunter on 9/17/2008<br />
Posted by............: Warlordhunter on 9/17/2008<br />
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Included.............: NFO, PLS, M3U, LOG, CUE<br />
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1. (00:01:35) Dokken - Without Warning<br />
2. (00:03:40) Dokken - Tooth and Nail<br />
3. (00:04:34) Dokken - Just Got Lucky<br />
4. (00:03:30) Dokken - Heartless Heart<br />
5. (00:04:10) Dokken - Don't Close Your Eyes<br />
6. (00:03:44) Dokken - When Heaven Comes Down<br />
7. (00:04:27) Dokken - Into the Fire<br />
8. (00:03:36) Dokken - Bullets to Spare<br />
9. (00:04:20) Dokken - Alone Again<br />
10. (00:04:44) Dokken - Turn on the Action<br />
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Playing Time.........: 00:38:20<br />
Total Size...........: 258.74 MB<br />
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NFO generated on.....: 9/17/2008 8:49:51 PM<br />
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Tooth and Nail is the second studio album by heavy metal band Dokken, <br />
released in 1984 through Elektra Records . The album has sold over a million <br />
copies in US and overall, 3 million copies worldwide. The album reached #49 <br />
on the Billboard 200 U.S. album chart.<br />
<br />
<br />
Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band that was formed in <br />
1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and selling more <br />
than 10 million albums worldwide. While the band became associated with <br />
bands like Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot and Cinderella their traditional style <br />
never set them apart or gained them much notoriety outside of the "hair" <br />
metal style. Though some have insisted that Dokken produced an image that <br />
was somewhat "glam," the band insists that its music, due largely to the style <br />
of guitarist George Lynch, was traditionally heavy with technical expertise, <br />
and the band relied much less on a "glam" image than later glam metal bands <br />
such as Poison and Warrant, focusing more on the musical aspect.<br />
<br />
Dokken was composed of founder Don Dokken on vocals, George Lynch on <br />
lead guitars, Juan Croucier on bass, and Mick Brown on drums. In 1983 <br />
Croucier left Dokken in order to form Ratt and was replaced by Jeff Pilson. <br />
Currently, Dokken and Brown remain from the original lineup. After several <br />
personnel changes on guitar, Dokken's attorney Jon Levin stepped in to fill <br />
the role in 2004. In 2001, Barry Sparks replaced Jeff Pilson on the bass <br />
guitar.<br />
<br />
In 2008, Dokken returned to the mainstream music scene with their first <br />
studio album in four years titled Lightning Strikes Again. The album was <br />
critically acclaimed and it gave the band a return to the charts when it <br />
debuted at #133 on the Billboard Top 200 and became their highest charting <br />
album since 1995. The album's success has been attributed to its sound which <br />
is very similar to the band's material in the 1980s.<br />
<br />
Band history<br />
<br />
Early Years<br />
Dokken was first formed around 1978 when Don Dokken teamed up with Jim <br />
Monanteras, Greg Leon, and Mick Brown. Prior to this, Don had been playing <br />
club shows in the Los Angeles area billed as "Airborn", but had to change it to <br />
Dokken because another band with the same name had already acquired a <br />
record deal. In 1979, Don Dokken flew to Germany to sing background vocals <br />
on the upcoming Scorpions album in order to assist the band's vocalist Klaus <br />
Meine who was suffering from a vocal ailment. While there, the band Accept <br />
was recording in another studio, and its manager was able to secure Don a <br />
deal with Carrere Records. Breaking the Chains was first released with this <br />
label in Germany under the name "Don Dokken", but shortly after Don met up <br />
with George Lynch and Mick Brown, who were playing a band called Xciter at <br />
the time. With the addition of Juan Croucier, Dokken finally had a steady line<br />
-up. Meanwhile in the United States, manager Cliff Bernstein discovered that <br />
Dokken was having success in Germany, and signed them in the United <br />
States. The band did an arena tour in the United States with Blue Öyster Cult <br />
in 1983, but when the tour was over the band was left with little money and <br />
was nearly dropped from the label due to the album's lack of success.<br />
<br />
While the band was very popular in Europe during this time, they had not yet <br />
made it onto the charts in the United States. For United Kingdom rock fans, <br />
Dokken offered a tantalizing glimpse of the kind of slick, but still very heavy <br />
rock coming out of America. Magazines such as Kerrang! blazed the trail for <br />
Dokken in the UK.<br />
<br />
Commercial Success<br />
Juan Croucier left Dokken in 1983 to join the band Ratt and was replaced by <br />
Jeff Pilson. 1984 became Dokken's breakout year in the US with the release <br />
of the album Tooth and Nail on September 13. The album contained several <br />
hit songs including "Just Got Lucky", "Alone Again", and "Into The Fire". The <br />
album sold over one million copies in the US alone and peaked at #49, while <br />
selling an estimated three million copies worldwide. On November 9, 1985, <br />
the band's third album Under Lock and Key was released. It also sold over <br />
one million copies with the singles "In My Dreams" (#24), "The Hunter" (#25) <br />
and "It's Not Love".During this time in the 1980s, Dokken opened for such <br />
bands as Judas Priest, ACDC, Aerosmith, and Dio among others. In 1986, <br />
Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a documentary about concert goers before a <br />
Dokken and Judas Priest concert, was filmed and released.<br />
<br />
Following a successful tour with Scorpions, Dokken returned to the studio in <br />
December of 1986 to record "Dream Warriors", a song for the movie A <br />
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. The track brought the band to <br />
the attention of many UK hard rock fans. The song was released as a single <br />
(Dream Warriors / Back for the Attack) on February 10, 1987. After this <br />
release, the band took nearly half a year off before returning to the studio to <br />
record the album Back for the Attack. The album was released on November <br />
27, 1987. It spawned the singles "Burning Like a Flame" (#20), "Heaven <br />
Sent" and "Kiss of Death" to become the band's most successful release, <br />
reaching #13 on U.S. charts. It also included a remixed version of the single <br />
"Dream Warriors" (#22), and the accompanying music video, which featured <br />
band members interacting with the film's characters, became popular on MTV. <br />
Back for the Attack became Dokken's third record to reach platinum status. <br />
Sculptor Steve Fiorilla's customized writhing skeleton guitar was the highlight <br />
of another Dokken video.<br />
<br />
After releasing Back for the Attack, the band toured as part of the 'Monsters <br />
of Rock' festival in the summer of 1988, along with Van Halen, Scorpions, <br />
Metallica, and Kingdom Come.Recordings from their tour in Japan led to the <br />
release of the live album Beast from the East on November 16, 1988, which <br />
went Gold in the United States and charted at #33.<br />
<br />
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[edit] Hiatus<br />
After the extensive 1988 tour, the band broke up due to creative and <br />
personal differences between Don Dokken and George Lynch. During this <br />
hiatus, Lynch and Brown formed Lynch Mob and recorded two albums: <br />
Wicked Sensation in 1990 and Lynch Mob in 1992. Don Dokken also recorded <br />
a solo album, titled Up from the Ashes in 1990, which spawned two singles. <br />
After 1992, bassist Jeff Pilson fronted the band War and Peace, while <br />
George Lynch released a solo album. Lynch's first solo effort, Sacred Groove <br />
reunited him with Don Dokken for the writing of the track We Don't Own This <br />
World. Don Dokken was also supposed to sing lead on the track, however at <br />
the last moment, Don was unable to attend the studio session and was <br />
replaced by Matthew and Gunnar Nelson.<br />
<br />
<br />
Reformation<br />
After releasing Up from the Ashes in 1990, Don Dokken wrote another solo <br />
album in 1993. Titled Dysfunctional, the album was recorded and produced in <br />
Don's studio. However, when John Kalodner wanted to sign him for the <br />
album, he suggested that George Lynch be brought back into the band so <br />
that the album could be marketed as a Dokken album, and not another Don <br />
Dokken solo effort. Despite the fact that the tension between Lynch and Don <br />
Dokken was the cause of the band's 1988 split, the two agreed to put their <br />
problems behind them for the time being. The band re-united in 1995 along <br />
with Mick Brown and Jeff Pilson, with Lynch re-writing and re-recording the <br />
guitar solos on the album, which were originally conceived by Don. Dokken <br />
was signed with Columbia Records, and the album still managed to sell over <br />
300,000 copies despite the decline in popularity of similar bands during this <br />
time.<br />
<br />
During the tour supporting Dysfunctional, however, old tensions between <br />
George and Don had resurfaced and the band once again began to split <br />
apart. During a Columbia promotion for the new album in which the band was <br />
scheduled to play live on 120 radio stations, Lynch unexpectedly left the <br />
studio and refused to re-enter. The record company was forced to air the <br />
rehearsal tape that had been recorded earlier, and four days later the label <br />
dropped Dokken, presumably because of this and other similar incidents <br />
involving Lynch's behavior. One Live Night, a live acoustic album was released <br />
in 1996 by a new label, CMC, and was followed with Shadowlife in 1997. Don <br />
Dokken was dissatisfied with Shadowlife, an album in which George Lynch <br />
took total control and even went as far as to replace the original Dokken logo <br />
on the album. Don alleges that George intended to destroy the band with this <br />
album, reciting the following quote from Lynch in an interview: "This is the <br />
perfect record. This is gonna be the end of Dokken, and that is what I <br />
wanted to accomplish."<br />
<br />
In late 1997, Lynch left the band abruptly when he refused to participate in <br />
the band's European tour. Needing a guitarist to fill in on the scheduled <br />
dates, Don Dokken looked to Europe guitarist John Norum, who had <br />
previously played on his 1990 solo album and was familiar with the band's <br />
catalog, to help him finish the tour. Lynch tried to re-join the group just days <br />
before the tour began, but was told that he was "out" by the rest of the <br />
group. A lawsuit followed in which Lynch sued the band for $1 million, but the <br />
band prevailed in the verdict. After the European tour, guitarist John Norum <br />
was unable to continue with the band as he had previously committed to <br />
another solo record. The band then hired former Winger guitarist Reb Beach <br />
for the job, and recorded an album with this line-up in 1999 aptly titled Erase <br />
the Slate to signify a new beginning for the band. Dokken released another <br />
live album titled Live from the Sun in 2000 before the departure of guitarist <br />
Beach.<br />
<br />
Beach, who wanted to work on some other projects and could not commit to <br />
Dokken in the long term, was replaced by John Norum, who was now in <br />
between projects and able to participate in the band's touring schedule. <br />
Bassist Jeff Pilson also left the band and was replaced by Barry Sparks. In a <br />
2004 interview, Don Dokken stated that Jeff left because "he wanted to do <br />
something different and didn't want to keep playing these songs over and <br />
over again." This line-up released the album Long Way Home, but Norum <br />
suffered a hand injury during the band's 2003 spring tour of Europe in <br />
support of the album, and had to be replaced by Alex De Rosso, previously <br />
of the Italian metal band Dark Lord. That year, Dokken was featured in the <br />
Metal Edge Rock Fest tour along with Ratt, FireHouse, and other similar acts.<br />
<br />
In the spring of 2003, Dokken embarked on an extensive tour of the United <br />
States opening for Scorpions and Whitesnake. After the tour, however, <br />
guitarist De Rosso lost his work visa and had to return to Italy, at which point <br />
Don Dokken called Jon Levin who formerly played guitar on Doro's Force <br />
Majeure, and also had previously met with the band and played a single show <br />
in 1998. Levin joined the band, and the line-up of Dokken, Brown, Levin, and <br />
Sparks would remain through 2008. Dokken released the album Hell to Pay in <br />
2004, which was seen by critics as a modern approach to the band's style. <br />
The band continued extensive touring in 2005 and 2006. 2007 saw the <br />
release of both a live CD and a compilation DVD. The CD, titled From <br />
Conception: Live 1981, is a previously unreleased live recording from the <br />
band's early years which Don discovered in their master vault. The DVD <br />
release, titled Unchain the Night, was first released on VHS in 1986 and is a <br />
compilation of the band's music videos along with interviews and other <br />
footage. The band also performed at the glam metal festival Rocklahoma in <br />
both 2007 and 2008.<br />
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[edit] Comeback<br />
On May 13, 2008, Dokken released their first studio album in four years titled <br />
Lightning Strikes Again, which was met with increased commercial success and <br />
became the band's highest charting album in 13 years when it debuted at <br />
#133 in the United States.Don Dokken told interviewers that Jon Levin was <br />
the bandmate who wanted the band to make an album with the classic sound <br />
in mind, and remarked that the process was difficult, saying: "I had to get <br />
back in that mindset. This is what the fans wanted, and if I stay focused on <br />
that I would give them a straight-ahead Dokken record." During the spring <br />
and summer of 2008 in order to promote the Dokken's new album, Don <br />
Dokken and Jon Levin participated in dozens of interviews including Rockline, <br />
KNAC, The Classic Metal Show, as well as a series of podcasts available on <br />
the band's website.<br />
<br />
The band is currently in the middle of a summer tour in support of the new <br />
album with Sebastian Bach and Poison. While Sparks and Brown are still <br />
members of Dokken, they were not part of the summer 2008 touring line-up. <br />
Brown signed on to play with Ted Nugent for the summer before Dokken was <br />
offered the slot on Poison tour, making him unable to tour in support of <br />
Lightning Strikes Again. Sparks is currently in Asia performing with a stadium <br />
act and is unable to tour with Dokken until he is able to get his wife, a <br />
resident of Italy, a visa. Chris McCarvill from House of Lords played bass and <br />
Jeff Martin of Racer X and Badlands fame played drums for the 2008 tour.<br />
<br />
On July 29, 2008, the band participated in an CD signing at Mohegan Sun <br />
Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut<br />
<br />
<br />
Guest appearances and pop culture<br />
Members and ex-members of the band have appeared on various tribute <br />
albums. George played guitar on "Anthem" on a tribute album to Rush, while <br />
George Lynch and Jeff Pilson have appeared on tribute albums to Iron <br />
Maiden. Jeff Pilson also appeared as the bassist for Steel Dragon in the movie <br />
Rock Star (starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston), which was loosely <br />
based on Judas Priest. They also appeared in Dio's Hear 'n Aid in the '80s, <br />
and were featured prominently in the music video.<br />
<br />
Dokken claims that the eponymous band in the mockumentary This is Spinal <br />
Tap is an exaggerated version of his band.<br />
<br />
Dwight Schrute, a popular character on the American TV series The Office, <br />
was a Dokken fan as shown in Dwight's web log entry from September 27, <br />
2007. In this entry Dwight opened a time capsule from himself that was <br />
sealed in 1985, and it included a letter to his future self that read: "Dokken <br />
Rules. Dwight."[18] The band is also named in Stephen King's novel The <br />
Stand when character Julie Lawry claims to have slept with the bassist from <br />
Dokken. The band was also mentioned in the American television show <br />
Squidbillies.<br />
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Members<br />
<br />
Current members<br />
Don Dokken – lead vocals, guitar (1976-1988, 1993–present) <br />
Jon Levin – guitar (2003–present) <br />
Barry Sparks – bass, backing vocals (2001–present) <br />
Mick Brown – drums, backing vocals (1981-1988, 1993–present) <br />
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Past members<br />
George Lynch – guitar (1981–1988, 1993-1997) <br />
Reb Beach – guitar (1998–2001) <br />
John Norum – guitar (1997, 2001–2002) <br />
Alex De Rosso - guitar (2002-2003) <br />
Jeff Pilson – bass (1983-1988, 1993-2001) <br />
Juan Croucier – bass (1978–1982) <br />
Greg Leon - guitar (1977-1979) <br />
Peter Baltes - bass (1977-1978) <br />
Gary Holland - drums (1979) <br />
Greg Pecka - drums (1978) <br />
Tom Croucier - bass (1980) <br />
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Temporary touring members<br />
Mikkey Dee - drums (2001 Tour) <br />
Jeff Tappen - bass <br />
Frankie Banali - drums (9-21-2002) <br />
Adam Hamilton - bass (9-21-2002) <br />
Greg Smith - bass (5-22 ~ 25-2005) <br />
Sean McNabb - bass (6-30-2006) <br />
Chris McCarvill - bass (2008 Tour) <br />
Jeff Martin - drums (2008 Tour) <br />
Bobby Marks Drums 2008 Tour <br />
Vik "Vikki" Foxx - drums (8-2006 <br />
BJ Zampa - drums (2008 Tour) <br />
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Discography<br />
<br />
Breaking the Chains (1983) <br />
Tooth and Nail (1984) <br />
Under Lock and Key (1985) <br />
Back for the Attack (1987) <br />
Dysfunctional (1995) <br />
Shadowlife (1997) <br />
Erase the Slate (1999) <br />
Long Way Home (2002) <br />
Hell to Pay (2004) <br />
Lightning Strikes Again (2008)
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