Dokken - Return To The East Live (2016) (2018) [FLAC] {Nexus KIZC 450 1}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2022/09/25 RTLDATE: 2018/04/18
GENRE: Heavy Metal SiZE: 4.91 GB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 1:49:37
RELEASE: Nexus KIZC 450/1
ORiGiN: Japan ENCODER: FLAC 1.34
MATRiX: KIZC-450 1W IFPI L244 IFPI 4011
The RockPit (dot) net adds...
I well remember the very day that I purchased "Beast From the East" on vinyl
from my local record store in 1988 and spinning it relentlessly till I wore it
out. The band had just come off the run of their lives with 1984's "Tooth and
Nail" expanding on the promise of "Breaking the Chains" and 1985's classic
"Under Lock and Key" eclipsing even that, before the 1987 opus "Back For the
Attack" completed their run of platinum albums before the band went their
separate ways largely due to due to "creative and personal differences between
Don Dokken and George Lynch".
Well that day when, as The Eagles would say, "Hell Freezes Over" has come and
gone. The band got back together, played a few dates and it didn't come to
blows. There's even a new track here and even more than that - talk of maybe an
album featuring the "classic" Dokken line up.
For now though let’s just concentrate on what we do have – a CD/DVD Blu-Ray and
box set of the Loud Park Festival date on October 8th 2016 that the band played
as part of their six date mini tour of Japan that had been preceded by a
solitary 29th September 2016 warm up show in Sioux Falls South Dakota - the
only reunion show on US soil.
The only odd thing about the release I guess is the running order, with the CD
for some reason running a completely different order to the live footage - and
the latter seemingly not in synch with the running order of the actual show.
In truth though it matters not. The fact that this reunion happened at all that
is the big news and if I’m honest this was one reunion that I thought was never
going to get off the ground. I was at Rock in America in Oklahoma back in 2010
when both Dokken and Lynch Mob played and whilst George played the after party
and both bands played sets a short time apart neither seemed ready to even be
in the same room. I'm glad this has happened no matter how fleetingly but a
live show is not really what the fans are after - what we want is the promise
of something new and in these days of file sharing and modern technology the
fact is I guess that there's not even any need to be in the same room or even
talk...
So the million dollar question is – how does it sound? Lets take the live
portion first - it sounds great, not as good as "Beast From the East" where
Dokken was a tenor hitting the high notes, sadly the years haven't treated his
voice as kindly as say Glenn Hughes but he's adapted and I for one kind of like
his lower baritone and along with the lower tuning for the songs the "new" 2018
Dokken vocal fits the songs well. There's a darker, gritter, dirtier take on
the songs we all know so well. The other reason it works comes down to some
great backing vocals which sonically sort of fill out the sound and deepen the
melodies and there's also the fact that even though this still sounds a little
loose here and there Brown, Pilson and Lynch absolutely nail it.
Of the live tracks "It's Not Love" is still the best thing Dokken ever recorded
to my ears and I actually like how the song has evolved over the years the rest
of the track-listing is pretty much as you'd expect with only "Walk Away" the
closer from "Beast From the East" and "Heaven Sent," which gets an acoustic
make-over, missing from the 1988 set. 30 years on this isn't a bad echo at all.
The fans of course will be even more interested in the new song and the two
acoustic tracks - the latter being reworkings of "Heaven Sent" and "Will The
Sun Rise" both songs of course ideally suited to such treatment and both sound
great here with Lynch's lead guitar colouring what essentially sound like the
acoustic takes that Don was doing with Mark Boals when I last caught him in
2015. I'd like to hear more and must admit I was a little disappointed that we
get just the two acoustic takes and EP would have been nice!
The new track for some might just be an even bigger treat, and as a first stab
"It's Just Another Day" isn't bad - it sounds like Dokken but has a "modern
edge" that isn"t pronounced enough to offend the old school or off-putting
enough to dissuade new listeners. If I'm honest I've liked recent Dokken albums
sans-Lynch and liked recent Lynch albums without Dokken and this sounds more
like the former to me. It is a song that makes you want to hear more and that
can't be bad can it.
Welcome back, sort of...
Ripper's Notes:
I don't know what kinda black magic fuckery they did to make Don sound so good
again, but, damn, if this didn't take me back to 1987.
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