Dokken - Breaking The Chains (Translucent Gold vinyl)
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Don Dokken – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar
George Lynch – lead guitar
"Wild" Mick Brown – drums
Juan Croucier – bass
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Translucent Gold
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : unspecified
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Carrere
Recorded at Studio Stommeln, July - September 1981 by Dieter Dierks, Michael Wagener
Produced by Dieter Dierks, Michael Wagener
Remastered by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios
Originally released in 1981
Reissued in 2020
Tracks:
Side A
- Breaking The Chains
- In The Middle
- Felony
- I Can't See You
- Live To Rock (Rock To Live)
Side B
- Nightrider
- Seven Thunders
- Young Girls
- Stick To Your Guns
- Paris Is Burning (recorded live in Berlin, Dec. 1982)
Reviews :
"After vocalist Don Dokken supplied backup belting on the Scorpions' scorcher Blackout, producer Dieter Dierks gave him leftover studio time to produce demos. Guitarist George Lynch, drummer Mick Brown, and bassist Juan Croucier (who immediately left to form Ratt) rounded out the rockin' Dokken. Combining Teutonic thunder with Sunset Strip sensibilities, the band began carving out a comfortable niche in the '80s hair market with this Carrere release, soon remixed and remastered for proper distribution by Elektra. The quartet's debut slings clichés fast and furious, but the shopworn staples seem bearable because the playing is at peak form. Opener "Breaking the Chains" remains a pop/rock perennial (forever linked to the accompanying apocalyptic video wherein Don and the boys, well, break the chains). The remainder of side one, while unremarkable, still sticks to the ribs after only a couple of spins. Side two begins to lag until the sizzling final cut, the live "Paris Is Burning" (originally a studio track called "Paris"), erupts into flames through the phenomenal fretwork of dazzling axe-god Lynch, a legend from an era with no shortage of six-string-heroes. After intense glory in the Headbanger's Ball daze, Dokken splintered into several dysfunctional side projects, tainting the band's solid '80s output. Everything started with this record, which remains an enjoyable, if not essential, slab of competent corporate metal." AllMusic Review by Whitney Z. Gomes
Ratings :
AllMusic : 2,5 / 5 , Discogs : 3,92 / 5