{"id":1880,"date":"2012-08-15T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2012-08-15T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T12:00:23","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/15\/my-musical-evolution-part-228\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 228 The Metal Years Dokken"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dokken<\/a>September 6th, 1985 was payday. Aric and I put up our rent. It would be the last time we saw that security deposit. We moved into this duplex on Goshen Avenue. It was duplex by design not one of those big old houses that was awkwardly split into two homes. Our portion was in the back facing the alley. We didn’t mind and it actully turned out to be a bonus when we had parties. Any neighbors calling in a “disturbance” would give out our address which was not visible from the street. Officers called out would see 802, 806 and just figure that the call on 804 was a prank.<\/p>\n

One of the benefits of sharing a house with another guy is instant access to a bunch of music. Aric and I had plenty of overlap especially in our newly acquired metal stuff but he had a good dose of new stuff too.<\/p>\n

Dokken<\/em> was a band that Aric took a chance on. I really didn’t care for Dokken much. They always seemed like pretneders for some reason. Like a classically trained musician who puts out a gangster rap record. I have no knowledge of Dokken’s biography and I’m just basing all of this on his eye-liner.<\/p>\n

Just recently, I heard about how talented Don Dokken really was in those days as a collaborater with a bunch of other artists. Another recent Dokken sighting was on local cable access. When Dokken was here in town opening for Dio, <\/em>some local music group whivh might have been radio sponsored got to interview the band backstage after the show. You coulkd hear the muffled remains of Dio performing in the background as the interviewer asked young Dokken a few questions. It seemed somewhat tragic to me in that it didn’t appear that the dreams and goals they expressed then were ever met.<\/p>\n

Tooth And Nail<\/em> is a pretty good record with some quality execution but still I can’t shake the feeling that these are a bunch of white bread boys just dressing up and pretending to be metal. I’m willing to be wrong.<\/p>\n

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Without Warning<\/em>
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