Fellas, any of your patreons ever suggest Highly Suspect? Y'all should check out Bloodfeather. It's a cautionary tale, not to fall for women who belong to the streets basically. That's about as nice as I can put it.

Mr. Scary is a “ neeed to do”! No doubt

Just a fast rocking killer tune -- The musicianship is really good, everyone knows George Lynch (The guys a guitar genius and MONSTER player) but the whole band just ripped on this CD, Mick Browns drumming is really underrated and holds it together, the whole band was tight.... Great song from start to finish and just listen to that "Guitar tone".. That guitar sounds likes its going to explode through the speakers, my goodness what a GREAT Marshall tone!!.. ... Monster track!

Maiden is the original for the galloping riffs!

Dokken🤘🏼🥰🤘🏼

Usually I agree with him about the solos but this time he is wrong. The lead fits really well with the song and not over the top.

Hate Lynch. Go lift some more weights, & bulk up George. And don't forget the tanning bed. A guitar solo should in most every case FIT the groove & vibes of a song. And really "hate" isn't what I meant (just from the hip comment) and shouldn't have gone that far. I'm just not-much of a Dokken fan. Just another 80s "hair metal, pop band like Poison. However this tune is kick ass! Cool riffs & groove. Sorry (NOT sorry) I think Lynch is way, WAY overrated. He's no doubt a good guitarist. Did the solo go on too long? I think so. First part of the guitar solo was cool... but it went on & on too long. George & Ryan are very objective. They certainly didn't dead wrong. And CERTAINLY the "Lynch mob" fans are going to be pissed off. That's all I was responding to. George/Ryan are exceptional in their reviews of heavy Rock & Metal bands. Especially for a couple of guys who're really into Hip Hop and R & B even more so.

@@josefsreba6702 jealous much? Lol

@@CL8ON6 No and never felt jealous of any players. Troll on brother, troll on...

Josef Sreba Nobody is right every time. 90% of the time they are right… this time they missed the boat. George Lynch is great. He and DeMartini were the best of a certain era.

Lynch is so underrated in my book…. He’s one of the few that kills it both on rhythm guitar and his solos…… his solos always fit the song perfectly

Lynch is a stud. His stuff has meaning and fits the mood. It takes me places.

agreed. This solo fit the groove and intent of the song. Lynch is a killer player and always seems to nail the solo that the song needs.

Malmsteen very rarely "needlessly shreds". Maybe actually listen to his music instead of regurgitating this npc opinion

Agreed - George's playing was flawless

This is probably there best song IMO , Back For The Attack is my favorite Dokken album by far. Lynch is an absolute beast , killer shredding on this and i love the haunting outro licks as the song fades out! P.S. You're spot on about George , have you seen him doing this song with Dokken from last month. He hasn't lost a step and still goes ballistic on this song!

Back when I was listening to a ton of 80s rock/metal, I always thought George Lynch was the best guitarist in any of those bands. Idk if I would still agree with that or not but there's no doubt that he was criminally underrated.

@@mikeg.9238 This album is absolutely badass and not in small part due to Lynch's amazing and unique guitarplaying

@@samskott2344 I think you're correct , i'd put Jake E up there also!

@@Walamonga1313 Yeah that's right , i don't quite think the guys understand that. His playing and going off on these song's is what made them great. He is the cog in the Dokken wheel. Without him they would not have gotten noticed...

This album more than the others really let George off the chain.

@@joebalusikiii5811 yea he's really breaking the chains on this one

Sweet!@@SecretlyStarscream

SHITYA'!!!

dream warriors and burning like a flame

Into the fire

They had so many good songs and that’s one of them.

The hunter

"Tooth and Nail" - #1 song on my workout playlist

I consider them hard rock or metal.

And Breaking The Chains comes to mind..... probably on Tooth and Nail.

Definitely not hair metal...more progressive

@@brianjinglea1 Dokken is a very pure kind of metal. Very under-rated band, I mean they had their own thing going - one of the best.

Totally agree!!!!!! Ryan's wrong in this one......

Classic track, but they wouldn't get it.

George might like it, Ryan would hate it lol 😆

Excellent song!

Ryan won’t like it… not his style of shred

Monster tune!!!💪🏻

yes

Badass track

Oliva go Brrrrrrrrrr!

He's still sick , did you see him play with Dokken last month , doing this song. He's ridiculous and hasn't lost a step!

quasipseudo1 What are you talking about???? George was never underappreciated. Maybe now, but he made his legend back then. He was all over the guitar mags & hugely influential. He's a titan in the guitar world.

@@inspectorbudget Absolutely correct , the guy who was really underrated and didn't get the recognition he should have was John Sykes as far as i'm concerned!

@@mikeg.9238 Agreed.

Doubt that. Their biggest faction was chicks. They usually could care less about solos. And if we're being honest, most guys could care less about solos. I say this as a guitarist.

@@biffbarely7045 I beg to differ concerning Lynch. You may be right concerning bands like Motley or Poison but George definitely commanded some care above other glam bands. As the original poster stated, George was at least half the draw of Dokken.

@@inspectorbudget we cant forget that Dokken style was much more lean toward speed/heavy metal than other glam bands. Back for attack is basically a heavy metal album.

​@biffbarely7045 I know a few guys who say that, usually because they lack technical ability, but overall almost every guy I know loves solos. All of us being guitarists.

"Dream Warriors" solo won the same in Guitar For The Practicing Musician for the corresponding year.

I believe the band admitted this song was about AIDS in an interview back when it was released.

Yea that one is such a great underrated track by dokken

@@Preacher357 Yeah, I remember it being said by someone in the band that it was about AIDS.

Yes, Steve..Check out that song live in Philly in 87 while they opened for Aerosmith .

Yes they need to react to Mr. Scary

Lynch just violated Ryan so harshly that he couldn't take it

Yeah, rare cold take

If they think Lynch wasn't tasteful and "too much" then they best stay miles away from Malmsteen hahahaha

@@Moveplaylift Quick. Give them Trilogy to listen to. Lmao

Ryan if you think George Lynch is overplaying, would you apply the same standard to Dream Theater songs? IMO they are the poster boys for "showing off" musically. All of them are musical virtuosos but they like to show off their skills , as you stated, to the detriment of the songs.

Solo is the best part of the song

@@Walamonga1313 the riffs and vocals are pretty good too

This and that song are killers!

Breaking the Chains is also an excellent tune by them.

@@kl8455 Yep , there's a lot of good songs , too many to name. But also all those albums up to Back For The Attack were good , they got better on every album. Even that live album from Japan was excellent!

Lightning Strikes? That's a terrible song

@@FrancisSawyer No it's not , that's your opinion. It's not the greatest but not horrible either!

Guess you never owned a copy of 1987's "Back for the Attack." Arguably one of Dokken's best albums. Some old schoolers prefer "Under Lock & Key" or "Tooth & Nail", but "Back" was my favorite album. Wasn't a bad song on it and the tracks flowed well from one to the next.

The entire album is excellent.

@@gregd8427 Their best!

Glad i found them two weeks ago. I was looking for similar tunes like van Halen and dokken got recommend on Spotify. I literally got an orgasm listing to this song the first time. That scream in the end was the icing on the top.

Exactly

This one flowed quite well, as did the outro lead playing at the end. What I find interesting is near the end its like George and Don Dokken are battling for attention and trying to one up eachother almost. George shreds and Then Don yells in the most controlled skilled mix of singing maybe on the album and then George comes in again and then Don hits the high singing part again. It was like a little duel, which is funny because they were always bumping heads, especially around this time(1987)

Modern Day Cowboy for sure, that song has great riffs. And Still of the Night is long overdue

Agreed they really need to check out Tesla

Yes🤘🏼🥰🤘🏼

ANYTHING from that white snake album is straight fire!!

That is not what he is saying though. The issue is being overly technical when the song does not call for it. It's not prog, it's hair metal.

@@SophiaAphrodite If I recall correctly he didn't like Dream Theater precisely because it was too technical.

@@SophiaAphrodite It wasn't called 'hair metal' in the 80's.

@@headlibrarian1996 They didn't really like GOAT by Polyphia because it was too technical also.

@@SophiaAphrodite I never understand why people use that term unless you hate the genre. That term was invented by critics when Grunge got big to insult the glam bands. So bizzare that people who claim to be fans use that term.

Beast from the East is best listened to after hearing the studio versions of songs enough to notice all the differences and extra flare that George Lynch adds to each song live. Despite his notoriety among guitar players and enthusiasts George Lynch is way underrated among the average music listeners.

The intro to Paris is Burning is crazy good

Exactly!

Gungriffen Well put! Totally agree 🤘

SAVATAGE is easily one of the greatest bands of all time and CRISS OLIVA is one of the greatest GUITARISTS of all time. Him and his brother Jon writing songs together is like a metal version of Lennon and McCartney writing songs together. Horrifically underrated band!!

Dave Mustaine and Chuck Schuldiner had that too but in a different sense. Riffs that could've been solos for other bands

For Tesla I think they would LOVE Hang Tough.

And Edison's medicine. Or hang tough. 🤘

Absolutely agree

Same, every song is great

George Lynch loves him btw!

Met him at a laundry mat in the eighties. Tiny dude! He was washing his outfit (spandex) for that nights show. I think startled him when I yelled out "THAT'S AKIRA TAKASAKI! Of course no one else knew who he was hehe. Hell of a show!

Wow! Blast from the past. Yes! Totally this!

@@clevername1349 EZO is far better than Loudness. Especially live. Loudness SUCKED live.

agreed!

Lynch was definitely being Mr. Scary on that as well.

LOL, I just heard that song tonight. It is a really great song, I forgot how spicy the lyrics are though 😲

I Like George's playing

there been stories of those two really not getting along well and would often fight physically. Sadly, Don has a bigger ego.

It's ironic that the band is named after Don Dokken (or is it the other way around?) but its all about Lynch's guitar playing

The riffs and transitions in Still of the Night are awesome

@@stevekozlowski5963 yeah, I reckon they're going to dig all the transitions since they love them so much. 😊

Whitesnake’s Still Of The Night is one of my fav songs and videos of all times!! The video is 🔥🔥🔥!! John Sykes was a great guitarist !!

Your metal license has been revoked

@@chellj8175 was quite disappointed that they actually didn't end up liking the song, like WTF?! 🤣

Bravo.... you didn't stop or talk through the Solo. It's like watching a Sunset. Shut tf up and take it in!!

Lucky man! I wish i could see Dokken live in the 80's.

Rice Stadium Houston 1988. Kingdom Come showed up at the bar we went to after the show and played another set.

What about In My Dreams? That's one of his best solos imo and less shreddy than the one here

Oliva go brrrrrrrrrrrr!

Just because you like them does not make them underrated FFS. Lynch is one of the most regarded metal guitarist. Get over yourself.

No he’s not. He’s considered a metal guitar legend.

Not all thrash bands are low or scratchy with vocals, Toxik is a good example, so is Agent Steel.

Don was more melodic than most 80s metal singers. He’s closer to Klaus Meine than Dio or DT.

Melodic. That’s what I would call Don’s voice. His voice is damn good. Even today

@@SeanHiruki eh not really. His voice is totally shot now

I’ve never heard a thrash band with low growls. Most thrash bands are clean tbh, just raspy and shouting

Hey you want to clown GEORGE pick up your guitar and do what he is doing.

I saw them live many times during the 80's , once opening for Priest, Can't remember which tour it was though , Rob came up from below the stage , and i think they had some kind of spaceship or rocket? Much of that decade is a blur , too much partying and went by to fast....

Drum is not galloping, the guitar and bass are.

Their solos sound so mapped out & safe. I mean they fit the song but there's no spontaneity or fire to me.

Too tame for me. The guitarist is great but yeah like guy above said there's no surprise, no spontaneity. To me what keeps guitar interesting is unique scales, unique phrasing, surprise bursts when you least expect, etc

@@Walamonga1313 I agree with you, but Queensrÿche guitarists are tailor made for the bald guy here. I’m personally a big fan of shredding creative guitarists, and I love George Lynch guitar solos in Dokken. He’s one of the best.

They did muse recently and I saw ur recent comments and I seen you saw the vid lol

Chuck Howard That would be awesome! Needs to happen soon 👌

I've been wanting to see them do a reaction to Firth of Fifth by Genesis for soooo long. That guitar solo is so good. Probably one of the best in prog rock history.

Exactly. It sometimes sounds downright confusing or even nonsense to the virgin ear. For example Megadeth's Loved To Deth sounded like a mess to me first time I heard it. It was so chaotic and fast I couldn't make anything of it. But the more I listened and understood what was happening, I loved it. And even more so if you play guitar. Same thing happens with guitar solos. Lynch's solo here is absolutely amazing to me because of his phrasing and note choices, but I can see how it may sound too weird to new listeners

Or Flying in a Blue Dream by Satch!

IMO the 2 previous albums were much better Tooth and Nail and Under Lock and Key. On BFTW the mix ofren doesnt sound balanced. George is louder than everyone else. Alot of the songs are too the same also

@@awesomebeard1973 Under Lock And Key is close, but Tooth And Nail never worked for me, for some strange reason. But that´s just me !