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Post by azbatx on Mar 6, 2010 15:05:44 GMT -5
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Post by G on Mar 6, 2010 20:34:39 GMT -5
I stay away by Alice in Chains is one of my all-time favorite songs and the video kicks ass too! I'm sure you will find it tucked away on my 1st play list down at the bottom of this sight. (I've been working on a 2nd playlist for months). The guitar solo in the middle is perfect! The mood and vibe is so solid. This is one song I never get sick of hearing. Maybe if I listened to it over and over I would, but I don't do that to myself. Instead, every time I hear it coming on, I crank it up and rock out. The video is just an extension to the masterpiece that is.... I stay away! 
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Post by azbatx on Mar 14, 2010 20:00:49 GMT -5
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Post by G on Mar 14, 2010 20:12:33 GMT -5
I'm not going to say they didn't have a few good songs, because they did, but I was never a big fan of Dokken back in the day. A lot of my friends were though. Rockin with Dokken was the battlecry when it came to them. And I'll never deny that George Lynch could shred on a guitar. But to me, Dokken was always too formulatic, posing, overhyped hair bands of the late 80s. They kind of remind me of Europe with less keyboards. This is kinda when Rock or Heavy Metal was becoming almost pure silly and it was ripe to be overtaken by the next new thing. I think if Dokken would have downplayed the cuteness and the sweet syrupy choruses and upped the rockmanship, I may have dug them more than I did. I don't know....they always just seemed like a bunch of posers to me and I never got past that.
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Post by defiant1 on Mar 15, 2010 20:11:00 GMT -5
Dokken was one of my favorite metal bands, but they wimped out after their second album. Dream Warriors had a little edge to it, so it was a little bit of a comeback to what I liked. Don Dokken could actually sing whereas a lot of the metal vocalists couldn't.
I liked a few songs on his solo album better than the later stuff he did with Lynch...
df1
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Post by G on Mar 21, 2010 10:53:28 GMT -5
I certainly wish Dokken didn't wimp out. They burst onto the scene like they could really rock if they wanted to, but they always sounded like they were on the edge of going either way. I did like a few of their songs. I remember liking along with "Into the Fire" like you have here. I liked "Alone Again" and "In my Dreams" and the guitar solo of "Mr. Scary". But in the end, they had just a tad too much glam for me and you can see it in these videos that they were caught up into the look of the day like a lot of bands were. By this time, we were getting away from bands that were going too much into that direction. I always waffled with Dokken. I never hated them, they just were never my favorite band. I only liked the pieces, but not the sum of its parts. I still think George Lynch could flat out shred and yes, Don Dokken could actually sing. I just think those two sides clashed and eventually went off into a direction where they were easy for me to forget about.
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