He really is.

I second that. Met Jeff a few years ago talked for quite a while about music the Beatles & since I'm a bassist to we talked basses. Class guy great voice great bassist & most importantly great guy.

In an interview about the _Rockstar_ movie, Zakk Wylde heaped praise on Pilson. The interview is prob still on YT somewhere. It went along the lines "I thought he was just another bassist, but the guy is _smart,_ like you don't know. He's into everything." It was funny listening to Zakk sound so blown away by someone.

I didn't realize this until years later when I got a "Best Of Dokken" as a birthday gift from my brother. They're incredible. They were almost there but these were the days before band therapists lol

Absolutely the best of the best from the 80’s

Horrible lyrics.

The hair bands were actually good. Hard rock, heavy metal bands. Someone labeled a lot of '80s bands, hair bands and the name just took. It doesn't mean that if you're a hair band, you're not a good band or great musicians. Dokken we're not a hair band. But what I'm saying is hair bands themselves were excellent musicians. Some critic or someone coined the phrase hair man and now people think that hair bands aren't good. Which is totally wrong.

@@STAND-ALONE Dokken absolutely were a hair metal band. And most of the hair metal bands could barely play. That's why it was so image conscious. Because they had to sell an image the music mostly didn't matter and couldn't stand on its own.

💯 percent agree 👍 dokken what a great band love there sound you hear them you know who it is amazing musicians all of them

100% Agree!

Yes, his tone is probably IMO, the most unique.

I agree about them both being alphas, but I think Don definitely has more beta qualities than George. I have all of their albums as well, and love them all (with the exception of "Shadowlife"). When Don put out his first solo album, "Up from the Ashes," I thought it was incredible because it had the classic Dokken sound!

I was there!! Yes you tell it like it was. To this day George told me that was the biggest crowd he ever played to. Did you happen to take notice how quick that stadium crowd split after Metallica played! They took 1/3 of that crowd with them after they performed! They were absolute killer, on fire!

@@justincase7628 just some additional context: I was in college in SUNY Oswego and a girl that lived in my dorm was totally into Metallica. I really had no idea who they were, I went to see VH and Scorpions. She was playing Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning pretty much every day so I had heard some of their stuff in the hallways. We took her with us to the show, she wanted to see them live. I remember the stands emptying out and everyone pouring onto the field when they took the stage. We were on the upper deck and watched a sea of humanity head banging down below. I just looked at and said, “WTF?” Never seen anything like it. Then the beer and food started getting launched off the upper deck (started three sections to my right). Everyone below got covered…

I too seen them in 88 but whats even more sad is I then seen Dokken in 1995 at a small club near me that had no stage just a small area that Dokken played in the corner near the bar and I was 5 ft away from Lynch. They were great but did not look happy to be there playing to a small different generation that wasnt showing much emotion toward them. Maybe 200 people were there but when they play now its a lot better.

Saw that show in Philly. I didn't really know much about Metallica at that time but what a great concert that was.

@@luna945 Yep, I was there, too...I remember being amazed that banners from Live Aid were still hanging in JFK stadium. I was in the Navy at the time, stationed at the Philly shipyard, and got to see almost every concert since they would hire guys from my division to be ushers, security, etc for all those shows. We would just go around the entrances until we found someone we knew, and would get in free :) Saw Pink Floyd, Aerosmith/GNR, Def Leppard, and some others all for free...it was awesome!!

The Hunter? Really

I take it you are not a guitar player.

@@machupikachu1085 you know what they say when you assume. Why would you think that?

Too bad Don can't play anymore after his surgery went disastrous.

Don is still touring Guyton better every performance

Getting better every performance that's what I ment

George didn’t “take” the guitar out of Don’s hands. Don relinquished it after realizing it was futile; there’s a huge talent disparity in that area.

@@dusty3913 it's not futile. It's not about talent. Bands sound better and fuller with two guitarists. He was a fine guitarist. George bitched about it. There's a disparity between Malcolm and Angus if you're talking talent. So what? Same between Rudolph Schenker and Mathias jabs/Uli Roth/Michael Schenker. Same between Robin Crosby and Warren demartini. Doesn't negate Lynch's talent

We all wish we could

It was two. Both Don and George were complete asshats back then.

George and Don Eddie and David Slash and Axl The list goes on....

Lol, I'm a bassist, and in the band I played in during my youth, our vocalist & guitarist were girlfriend/boyfriend, and *they* didn't get along.

@@brianshaffneraclc it’s a known fact don and George have issues,and that was down fall of dokken

True story brother ☺️🤘🤘🤘🤘

@@seanmccall7277 Sean 👍 aficionado 🎸🥁

It killed mainstream rock in general. Even the things that did well; Grunge, Pop-Punk, Nu-Metal, etc were never as big. Rap and Hip Hop is what filled the void when Hair Metal died, not anything rock. Aside from Metallica rock has been niche ever since.

@@LouisWinthorpe3 Well said (written) - rap filled the void...but I don't listen to rap, just not my thing.

@@Day3770 Same

Mick Brown

I met Matt Sorum once. As he walked into his hotel he said to Dizzy Reed "Where's Axl the redheaded c#nt?"

​@@eternity8811 😂😅😂😅

They were under contract to perform but had already broke up so yes their was hostility.

I know!!! I don't even know why Jeff is saying "we". Nobody EVER in the whole history of Dokken ever complained about Jeff's [or Mick's] ego. WE know what went down.

To be fair it's also George. Both of them had clashing egos.

I would say they all had egos. It didn't help that they also did a lot of drugs and fought a lot. If they would just have been mature grownups, they could have endured each other and made several great albums together.

George too

Don was the main problem.... it's on record that he wanted the Lion's share of the money and basically wanted the band to get pennies....

Which is childish they couldn't stop fighting. Best thing ever happened to these guys was Dokken

Did he use roads back then though? For guitar playing? Or did he wait until he was lifting like 20 years later?

@@Ezekiel336 he was not using steroids at that time. He started in the mid 90’s right after his accident.

@@breakingthelaw7974 Ok thank you . I didn't think he was using steroids at all during the "Dokken Days" ...no reason too...Thank you sir!

What, Ratt, poison and crue were all great bands. I have to admit that some of the crue shows are not that good singing whise but they were all great bands.

Yikes. I hope you didn't spend SLEEPLESS NIGHTS coming up with that material. Better throw your joke book INTO THE FIRE, and just WALK AWAY. It's the KISS OF DEATH.