*SUBSCRIBE* and *LIKE* for more videos! 0:00 New Album/Band Update 1:45 Getting Paralyzed/Injuries 6:05 Return to Touring 9:53 Life Update 13:39 80’s Rock Scene 18:04 Scorpions Collaboration 24:44 Mikkey Dee 26:23 Dr*g Scene 31:02 Lemmy Kilmister 35:02 4 Mystery Songs

Dokken will forever be one of my favorite bands. Very underrated and underappreciated by most, but the music and songwriting were top notch. Thanks Don for all your music inspiration.

Up From the Ashes is an epic album. Anybody reading this probably knows that, but if you don’t, do yourself a favor and give it a listen.

Ive always been a Dokken fan. Your music carried me thru those tough 80~90s! Pushed me to play guitar and appreciate music a little more. In 1997 i had a car accident, I only fractured my left shoulder, but i cut the left ulnar nerve right off the spine. So my left arm was toast for several years, Oh they offered to amputate my arm too. Fuck That! It took me a good 5 yrs to gain actual hand movement, many more to be useful and play guitar again. I know it'll never be 100% but 80 % is good enough for me to play all my favorite Dokken songs. I hope you have a quick recovery and get use of your right arm again! Cant wait to hear the new music! Good speed Don!

Don is a very underrated song writer. Who doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Don is a very talented person!

Don is a living legend !! One of the most iconic voices in rock n roll ! Love the new album from what I’ve heard so far , Levin is an incredibly underrated guitar player

I was born in '83 and dokken was my very first favorite band. Back in '89 I remember getting the cassette at my local drugstore for "under lock and key" and after that.. I didn't look back! I got tooth and nail, back for the attack, and then beast from the East, along with breaking the chains and then eventually the Don U.F.T.A. Beast from the East is one of the greatest live albums ever!.. love you Don.. keep fighting The good fight!👍🙏✌️

I appreciate you doing this visit with Don. Looking forward to checking out some others you've done. 🎸

was spinning Erase The Slate yesterday..What a great fuggin album.

Dokken is Don...Don is Dokken...what part needs further explained. Don your fans have never left we're still here. My kids grew up on your music and loves Dokken. my mother still listens to her Dokken CDs.

Great interview, thank you!

Great interview! Looking forward to the new album!

Great interview. Thanks for sharing! I'm also left handed and play the guitar right handed. I never knew that about Jon.

Their music is amazing and still listen nowadays. 80s music is masterpiece

Thanks Don and band for fighting throughout this all! Can't wait to buy the new release! Great interview!

Great interview mate, subscribed. Don had it worse than I thought. Wish him and the band all the best!

Poor Don. My first tip: stop smoking! Love his 80's and early 90's albums ❤

Good interview sir,i was pleased to see Dokken 1988 Monsters of Rock Memphis,TN Liberty Bowl .Thats back when Memphis was pulling 2 or 3 rock shows per month. It was a great day. God bless Don and all members past and present.

I wasn't aware of your channel until Don. I've been so stoked about the forthcoming release. It's a good time. The music sounds fresh and invigorating! It's too bad about the 4 songs for sure. I see the label's point but I would have purchased both the cd and lp anyway. This was a cool interview! I came away appreciating Don that much more and it was nice seeing you for the first time. Thanks!

I have followed Don from 1979 in L.A.'s South Bay. I'm never let down by his creative soul. You Rock my world and I can't wait for the Nov 18 show at the Whisky. Your journey is supported by all your fans who love your music. 🎶⚡🎵 .....and the Chris Eyre connect has me floored!!!! Love your new videos ❤

Great interview. I love to hang out with Don and play guitars and shoot the shit. He's such a great songwriter and Still listen to them 25+ years later .Christ I'm getting old. Good stuff👍

Excellent interview. Can't wait for the new alnum!

Back in the mid 80's the only bands i cared about were Maiden, Priest and Dio. The first time i heard Dokken....i couldn't decide if i liked his voice or not , but as the years went by his voice really grew on me. Now i own every album. "Up from the Ashes" particularly.....is a criminally underrated album. Looking forward to the new one, too. 👍

Thanks for the fairly long interview with Don Dokken. Hang in there man. Looking good for 70.

There's no way Accept was in the studio recording Russian Roulette when Don was doing Breaking The Chains.

Hey Don! Always had the highest respect for you and the quality of your music. Listen to it all the time.

Good to see that glow from Don when talking about his friendships. Keep pushing, Don you are golden still. Thks for sharing your experiences.

Another great interview

This is an Amazing interview. I always kinda hated Don because I blamed him for the break up of the original line up. I was a huge fan of George Lynch and I ASSUMED George was the primary writer of all that great music. I mean he was the LEAD guitarist. When he left I no longer enjoyed the music as much. But I will confess I have every album Dokken has released Including Dons solo album. But never had that first high I felt from the George Lynch Dokken line up. When George went to Lynch Mob I got that high again, so I ASSUMING George was the ring master. Don Dokken on the blackout album! Don Dokken a solo artist, and the only band member for breaking the chains WHAT! His face wrapped in chains on the album no way! Don Dokken wrote most of the music amazing. 4 way cut. Amazing interview. Don I am sorry for misjudging you! Thank you for this wonderful interview.

Dons a warrior keep singing Don we love you

I think Dokken is such an amazing band and clearly, whether George or Reb or John Norum or Jon Levin.....they still sound like Dokken! I love most of Lynch Mob but they never established a sound. First 2 were amazing even with swap from Oni to Mason...but each CD was a new band, new sound, never capturing that initial magic. Serious respect for Don as a writer, producer, singer...thank you for it all!!!

One of my all time favs. That lineup of Don, Mick, George & Jeff could fart in to a mic 🎤 for an hour and I’d listen intently. Am glad I got to see them in summer 88

Loved Dokken Under Lock and Key most of all, it was always in the rotation for decades in the truck, thank you Don, you are an awesome artist man!

Looking forward to it Don.... I'm "BUYING" The CD.....

I love listening to Don’s stories.

Dokken was never a hair band . They always had an Edge to them , almost a Darkness of you will. George had a lot of aggression and darkness in his playing and dons vocals were real and raw even when talking about love and heartbreak . Heavy metal badass rock band any day of the week they got lumped in because of image plain and simple

Great interview 👍.... just found your channel... Subd

Don! This is a really good album!! 😮😮😮😮 Thank you!!

Best rock interviews are Don Dokken and Jake E Lee. Thanks for this!

For some reason I always remember being on LSD walking home for about 8 miles after midnight singing aloud songs from 'under lock and key' to myself and friend who joined in on the choruses one summer night. Our driver was too fkd up to drive us home before dawn lol so, we walked.. and sang Dokken high af on acid. Early summer of 1986 :) the good 'ol days

First of all I just wanna clarify something here, the term hair band or hair metal didn't exist as a genre in the 80s. No one ever referred to any band in the 80s as a hairband. It was invented by some crappy music critic during the grunge era. Honestly, I don't really care what category of Rock or Metal Dokken is, I still like them.

How are guys functioning with all these injuries😳 it's amazing you guys made an album I can't wait to hear it I have all the love and respect for you guys it's wonderful to know a new album is coming out soon with all you guys been through!! Much love and respect and as Ronnie James Dio said once"LONG LIVE ROCK-'N'-ROLL!" 👻👻🤘🤘✌️🖤🤘🤘👻👻

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God blesd u Don been a fan since 84 85 never got to u live hope i get the chance one day pray your well and continue to get better looking forward to the new record

Don is awesome great singer dokken is still my favorite band ,George lynch is one of the best out there

I met Mick In Phoenix. Great guy!

I know what that feels like. I fell down steps and strained my cervical spine. I couldn't walk.

These older guys are still way more talented than the younger kids of today. I can get why touring would be different from the 80s, but any new albums can still kill the modern junk. Happy to hear new material is coming out. (Still wish Lynch was part of it though! Love you Don!)

This is good from a old Dokken fan its good

Saw Dokken supporting Accept back in 86 at Hammersmith. They were superb.

Sounds GREAT!! 🙂🙂🙂

1. Under Lock 2.Erase 3.Back 4.Tooth 5. Up 6.Lightning 6.Dysfunctional 7.Shadow 8.Hell 9.Breaking 10. Greatest my Top 10 Dokken cds

Don should just do autograph signing at conventions from now on imo his classic catalog will be there forever and that's enough for him to remain a hero.

Legend!

İncredible my friend good job😊😊😊😊

I feel so bad for Don. Damn good Man and the consummate professional.

🤘80s🤘 and still rockin 👽

YAYYY IM 13 AND LOVE DON! Hes so sweet!

Excellent 🎶 🎵 👍💯

I’m glad he is not throwing in the towel. And for those that say his voice is shot, I think he sounds good for his age. No one sounds like they do when they were in their 20’s.

I love Dokken.

Great Interview...Just a Note...Hendrix played left-handed but NOT Upside Down...Although the guitar was upside down the re-strung strings were NOT...By the way, I will be 70 in November...I saw Hendrix in Chicago in December 1968

I was searching for the most recent interview of 2023 of don dokken, to see how he was doing basically, on KZfaq found this, I don’t feel so bad now, at 44 years old, I have back and neck problems but nothing compared to what don has, god bless you sir, I noticed he’s not wearing his wedding ring, did him and his wife get a divorce, or was he wearing one, I’m not gonna bash him for smoking 🚬 I smoke, and my dad is 74 years old and chain smokes, lol

Fucked up …don…keep The faith…bring on The new record👍🤟🙏

Wash dishes? Make the bed? I have two perfectly good arms and I don’t do any of that, LOL!

Wouldn't George help you finish the guitar parts?

Aghh, why is he smoking? It's a shame what happened to him. Kudos for still going out there rocking.

DOKKEN

Don...you did too tour with poison, i went to see you guys with them.I believe it was 2002.

WAIT DON ISNT SINGLE ANYMORE?!?! I WAS GUNNA MAKE A JOKE TO HIM MEXT WEEK AND SAY MY BF JUST BROKE UP WITH ME LAST WEEK WANNA TAKE HIS PLACE! As a joke BUT I DIDNT KNOW HES NOT SINGLE ANYMORE WTF 😢

His voice is completely shot but he won’t let go of that cigarette 🙄

I love hearing Don tell these stories. Dokken will always be in my list of favorite bands. I listen to Dokken's music all the time. Pisses me off about your arm. I know you love to play guitar and they took that . sorry bro

Not to belittle the health issues of Don, but this is what you get when you go visit Granddad, a litany of all his health issues. He has all these pictures to prove he and his friends are totally breaking down. Not sure what is worse? This or idiots like Motley Crue pretending to be 24 year olds still. I do like his stories about Lemmy

Too High to Fly is my fave

Don't smoke folks

Glad to here you were smart to stay the freaking drugs. You and I would would have been good friends. Thanks for all the great rock.all these years hope you get better

Billy Corgan recently ranked Dokken as one of the 11th Greatest Heavy-Metal Bands #6 is pretty good in the group.

Sounds like he had a mild stroke and keeping it the DL, I did and all that shit happened to me, just over 2 years ago.

I feel terribly bad for Don's health problems (I have my own) but once he said 'Right Wing' I lost a tiny bit of respect as anyone who is Conservative is labeled Right Wing today and I've never harmed a soul except in self defense! Great interview overall though! 👍

Ok Dokken como foi gravar com Michael Schenker .Gosto muito do seu trabalho acho uma super banda músicas muito legais um forte abraço ❤❤❤

Good singer

First Dokken concert 1985 Providence Civic center...back to back nights opening for Aerosmith... Dokken destroyed them!! Have seen them every Rhode island trip since!!!

Thanks for all the years of Awesome Music 🎶 Don DOKKEN FOREVER !!!

Ryu is a big fan.

I can see why Don vocals went down. Smoking ruins most vocalists. I always liked dokken and the Don dokken era. I hope you get to feeling better Don i know about some of your health issues and its gotta be hard.

Don , I ❤you 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Now that I see Don talking about avoiding the drugs, I can understand why the other guys in the band talked shit about him. Druggies don't trust clean people, and Druggies overstep bounds that piss off normal people.

still smoking...uuuuugh gets me pissed...not 25 anymore and your voice is shot, but ya still smoke I dont get it. was an Idol of mine back in the day.

Dang smoking cigs at 70 lol

Dokken is a staple of great bands from the 80s BUT I wish him well with his sickness of TDS.

I wonder if Jason Becker could help; cause he wrote an album w/ A.L.S.? Hmm... .

They are not right-wing people killing children don. Love your music, but get educated before you make a comment like that.

Both conservative and liberal policies are controversial depending on what side of the coin you call. Some fence sitters complain because it doesn’t matter who calls the shots…they won’t advocate them. You just can’t please everyone . Don is right to point out how things have changed significantly in just forty years.

I'm sure his family will buy it. Just sayin

Don’t forget t You opened for Aerosmith

Always loved DOKKEN, but he shouldn't bash POISON. Their all still together and doing their thing. Hate when bands/singers who have an ego, bash bands because of their style of music.

Surprised you didn’t sue that doctor or maybe you did. Cause that’s a career injury and should be held accountable

"But thank God" did Don give up his Buddhism?

What album let's get real the 80's are gone this kind of music is gone no blessings its gone some people are stuck in denial adios

Why did he have spinal surgery in the first place?