Great story .. Joel in Florida

I'm sure he was after your old lady's panties, and that's it.

oh donnie, it was more than just cocaine lol but yes 80'swas the coke era, scarface was one of the best 80's movies too

He did coke, my sister did it with him at the channel in Boston in 88

Thanks for sharing Rachel ... that's very heartwarming.

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Well said Ryan. Don definitely, 'made it' with me ... I missed out on the American metal hair band era ... got into blues instead. 40 years later a friend had a cover band of Krokus. I listened to Krokus via Pandora & iHeart Radio ... and then stumbled across Dokken. Wow! I was hooked, and always will be. Don's song writing & arrangements are right up there with the best. Whenever I'm driving my car, I'm either listening to Dokken, Krokus or The Lynch Mob (and of course other hair metal bands from the 80s).

@@Jonathan-L awesome 🤘

Loved your band man! My band covered Teas'n, Pleas'n for several years in the 90's. Thank you!

What instrument did you play?@@robertgrayson4406

Vocals@@ModernMountainLiving

That would have been cool to see.@@robertgrayson4406

You know a dude named Rusty, that owns a landscaping business & lives in Pflugerville? I wanna say he played with yall at some point or at least definitely knew you faily well. Insanely good drummer. Jammed with him for a bit, in his garage, back in like '07. Miss that dude. Super good guy.

100% right!!!!

"druggies" are normal people with a problem. " there are "druggies who are some of the best people you'd ever meet-- to generalize and label like that is ignorant at the very least

Druggies are no longer normal people once they lose themselves to the drugs to become druggies or junkies. They are broken people who ruin their own lives and the lives of people who love them because they are weak.

​@@earld158never trust a druggie

​@@earld158"normal people" can have professions and families and hobbies and interests and lives. Everyone I used to do tons of coke with was in education, entrepreneurship, law enforcement, healthcare, etc... One of my best friends is a multi millionaire who owns half a dozen farms. Beautiful wife, lovely children, helps his elderly parents out. But he does lines all day and night. That's where the distinction comes in. "Druggies", however, are not normal people. They're flailing in the middle of the street, screaming at themselves, barfing everywhere with needles sticking out of their arms, getting aggressive with people who don't want to give them change or a cigarette. There's a big differece. If some normal looking guy crosses the street in front of me, I won't think twice. If some psychopath comes banging on my windows and screaming nonsense... I also won't think twice, if you know what I mean. Pretending "walking dead" fiends are even remotely comparable to normal humans who contribute to society is ignorance at its' finest.

It's a strange thing. I like to casually drink but not get overly impaired. So when I stop after my 3rd drink sometimes I get the pressure from the folks around me, wanting to buy me a drink and what not. I always tell them I appreciate the gesture but I really have had enough. Some folks have to share in the experience I guess, like kids who need their parents to pee lol.

Never got that either, but for me it was the drugs thing, I was probably one of the biggest drunks around but had no interest in drugs and it would piss people off, it was never like I had an attitude or preached to anyone, I didn't ever have an anti drug stance except for myself

Don is a heavy drinker though.

you guys act like fucking aliens. it's because you change when your under the influence and if you're sober you just have a different vibe. it's not compatible at all. i don't drink often but i wouldn't want to hang out with a person that doesn't drink while I do. Personally, i would just drink nothing in that situation as well but not everybodyy can adapt like that. and that's why. goes also for every other drug

I'm in my 40's now. I never smoked, been high and only maybe once or twice a tad buzzed. I don't drink and yet wherever I went I was the kid/guy the people wanted around. I'd hang out at this local bar for years and the girls there would be it's boring when you're not around. Even bartenders that met my friends who didn't know they were people would bring up my name and be like oh the non drinking guy he's awesome. At the same time I was judged too. I get what you mean. I just never cared for it. I liked sports, adrenaline shit and girls. I'm a homebody more than ever these days too. I got a sweet tooth though and I need to curb that haha. I'm still tall, thin and people think I'm a lot younger than I am even with the hair loss. I got a friend I've known for over 30 years now. He's OD many times, rehab, drug addiction etc. was a troubled kid who finally turned his life around and is clean today with a family and is a great man and always was a great person just troubled...not once in all the years including teenage times did he ever push me to smoke or drink. Why I will always respect and love him whereas some friends who hung around wiht me more pushed it. I know women now over 40 with kids from multiple men on drugs not being responsible. Nothing cool about that. Some of them actually over 40 think it's cool to still party and not be a parent. Sad. And I'm far from perfect.

"We got clean" Next sentence "We smoke weed".

@@ZackMorris1015 open your beady eyes old man. can't you even read?? looks like the sentence LITERALLY says " told her we are getting clean" and the "next Sentence " actually says " she was pissed" .. how can you not read that ?? and weed is really nothing compared to coke addiction old man, go back to your child hood "reefer madness" panic of the 30's and stay there, the world has progressed past your ignorance , Gramps

@@ZackMorris1015 ok boomer , weed isnt even illegal , and you should learn to read before you misquote everything boomer

​@@ZackMorris1015it's the new Cali sober

Same here. I was one of the idiots that did way too much coke/speed in the 80's and beyond. Don Dokken made the better choices. Respect to Don.

kelly keeling wrote his solo album and hell to pay and long way home he gives him no credit and collects royalties - i used to respect him a lot. thye lies are too much. damaging and not a way to repay the respect

Summit?

@@barryshaw7304 yes it was called The Summit back then. Renamed Compaq Center now Lakewood Church

Ya like Keith Richards right ?

@@Kane6676, yeah, and that's why i said "probably".

@@Kane6676 meh I think a lto of rockstars are portrayed to do more than they say they did. Keith seems like a fraud to me at least today. Mainstream media has a way to make people act certain ways to brainwash the youth to think it's cool and I think Keith was and still is one of those.

@@Kane6676richards was more prune like by 70 😅

Keith & Mick cleaned up a long time ago.

Rollins !!

Lol, exactly.

We sat up and took turns wacching over him to make sure he was still breathing Your Welcome don. He won’t remember that just like I was not chasing dealers and getting lost with them or on tso bus When they see that they’re gonna sue you you big dummy. Do you think it makes you look cool dancing around like a sober person. Coke was i minute. Years ago way before I knew you right outa rehab. That’s how long it’s been 2001 … lame don very lame. And I was in there quitting clonopin how many a day don …? OxyContin. Thought you were my friend bro. I am highly offended. Get your lick in too

This interview is some of the most elaborate mental airbrushing I've ever heard and everybody here is just taking it at face value. Don may not have been doing coke but he was doing literally any other tranquilizing drug you can name including oxy, and gallons of booze on top of that. That's why he's been to rehab more than once, a fact he's trumpeted in numerous interviews.

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News flash: Don loved Jack Daniels. That if anything, is poison. He is also a chain smoker. ☠️

No secret

Don't kid yourself here. He was no saint, anti-drugs. Don Dokken was fortunate to survive heavy addiction of "prescription drugs" during the '80s. Can be quite lethal when mixing alcohol.

@@ziggyscatworld he's bipolar no secret he's talked about it

I drank free beer but never a drug or cig.

I only had Back For The Attack but I really loved that album.

Thanks… KK interview in my channel!

Because youtube sucks. DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS

If I had to guess it probably has more to do with KZfaq's ridiculous monetization rules rather than anyone being "sensitive."

A girl I went to school with just died a few days ago from drug use. Meth or coke I dunno. Soo glad I only smoke weed and do psychedelics every once in a while. I gave up drinking in 1998.

@@chrisw5742 I'm sorry that you still struggle with that addiction. I know it's extremely difficult to give up. But I can tell you from experience that God has a better plan for you.

@@scotteffinger4653What addiction? I was partially spinally decapitated and got my neck fused front and back and now have occipital neuralgia for life. Smokeing weed helps my pain and so does psychedelics. It is anti addictive actually. VERY VERY good for you. BTW Hail ODIN. Today is Odin's day. Paganism was here first. Odin made this world from the body of a frost giant. My videos prove it.

The word "god" is derived from Odin or Godan. Look it up.

I had many surgeries and avoided the nasty drugs of big pharma btw. Now I smoke weed and WORKOUT. BOOOOOOOM

Black N Blue was very underrated. Their first album was excellent. 🤘

tons of people survived the great wild 80's coke era, many got lucky, who didn't do cocaine in the 80's, ask fleetwood mac and toto lol

yeah looking back to the 80's, it's like you were fucked up if you weren't an addict.

''melony, didn't know it was a felony'' haha, good for him.

most of these guys would have endless lawsuits back then if there's solid proof.. but when underage girls/women throw themselves at em and enjoyed it, it's really 'not' lol.. thats the irony of it all that the m2 moment don't take about~

@@user-tt6be2zx3h She was walking with 2 friends outside the venue. Unlikely a group of 16 year olds going for a walk would throw themselves at 33 year old men.

aw, best way to look at from your perspective is you got to partake and you survived, I loathe drgus/booze, but am into sex and music, haha, and as I am sure you know being sober around drunks is great!

AIDS in the 1980s was as scary as drugs tbh.. 🙏 u got out in one piece~ (but then there's the MAGIC Johnsons of the world that could afford the treatments etc)

Yeah, But what Don isn't telling everyone is that he also was a drug addict. But in the form of any pill he could get his hands on. Ask Jeff pilson. He said Don's full of shit he also had a drug problem, just not Coke. And I believe it.

You should leave then.

@@max7even284 Ok.

Don always saw himself as a guitar player who could sing on the side. If he had his way, we would have had 2 lead guitarists in Dokken and a much fuller live sound as a result.

@@GorditoCrunch343 I think you're right about that, he definitely could play pretty well. I'm not a big fan of many two guitar bands. I definitely hate playing in them, it's just too muddy when you don't have a pro-FOH guy all the time and a good rehearsal mix. I think it may have been too regular having two guitar players. Don did play live though, I heard. To be sure he wasn't as good as George, right?

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