Best Opener/Headliner Combo You've Seen

[pg1067]

Interesting.  My take is Dokken went LESS "hair/glam" after ULAK.  The next album Back For The Attack is a much more stripped down and aggressive sound.  Not only that, a few of their reunion albums are quite good.

You may well be correct.  Since I basically abandoned Dokken after ULAK (the only song I really liked was Lightnin' Strikes Again), I can't offer an opinion about what came after.  Looking at the track listing for Back for the Attack, I'm familiar with Dream Warriors (which I think was used in one of the Freddy Kruger moves, right?) and maybe Mr. Scary.  Looking at the discography, it seems there was a long hiatus after BFTA, and if I've heard any subsequent Dokken song, I wouldn't know it.

I think Dokkens older material holds up much better than Great White.

I definitely agree.  Paris/Paris Is Burning is still a pretty kick-ass song.  Alone Again is a great 80s metal ballad (that was released before that class of songs became cheesy/bad).  And a couple other songs still hold up.  I actually listened to Stick It for the first time in 30+ years not too long ago.  It holds some nostalgia value, and it's probably cool live, but I never liked any of GW's hits -- particularly when they broke big.

I've noticed this before that the perceptions from the west coast are different than the perceptions on the east coast. . . .  I much preferred Twisted Sister (those first two records, from '82 and '83, are in my view essential).

I didn't know who Twisted Sister was until the two big MTV videos.  I bought Stay Hungry and, subsequently, Come Out and Play, but I was basically done with them by the time the latter came out.  At some point, I went back and bought You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll.  The title track is still a great song, but I can't really recall any of the other songs (I bought all these albums on vinyl and didn't replace them on CD when I dumped my vinyl around 1997).  I may have also bought Under the Blade, but looking at the track list, I couldn't tell you how any of the songs go.  For my friends and me, TS was a one trick pony that couldn't sustain itself, and I always think back to a particular interview that Dee Snider gave in which he said something like, "It's awfully hard to write about being an angry and rebellious young man when you're 30 years old and sitting out by your pool behind your million dollar house."

[KevShmev]

I have to admit that the 14-year old KevShmev had Back for the Attack on cassette and thought the cover was killer. I still think it is pretty cool. Burning Like a Flame was one of my favorite songs of that year at the time.  I still think it's a good tune, but the one tune of theirs that has aged really well for me is Heaven Sent. That is a great song.

[bosk1]

I have to admit that the 14-year old KevShmev had Back for the Attack on cassette and thought the cover was killer. I still think it is pretty cool. Burning Like a Flame was one of my favorite songs of that year at the time.  I still think it's a good tune, but the one tune of theirs that has aged really well for me is Heaven Sent. That is a great song.

Yeah, that album was pretty solid as a whole.

PG, give Mr. Scary a listen.  To this day, it's one of my favorite guitar instrumentals.

[max_security]

I have to admit that the 14-year old KevShmev had Back for the Attack on cassette and thought the cover was killer. I still think it is pretty cool. Burning Like a Flame was one of my favorite songs of that year at the time.  I still think it's a good tune, but the one tune of theirs that has aged really well for me is Heaven Sent. That is a great song.

Yeah, that album was pretty solid as a whole.

PG, give Mr. Scary a listen.  To this day, it's one of my favorite guitar instrumentals.

George Lynch plays on this , and may have inspired his Mr. Scary instrumental ( or maybe another artist on the Shrapnel label at the time ).

https://youtu.be/xKPZJ0nEq0E

[pg1067]

PG, give Mr. Scary a listen.  To this day, it's one of my favorite guitar instrumentals.

That's a good one too.  It was transcribed in an issue of Guitar for the Practicing Musician.

[King Postwhore]

He was always older than the rest of the band but he was always super fit. Looked younger than the other band members. 

[eric42434224]

He was always older than the rest of the band but he was always super fit. Looked younger than the other band members.

Then he started body-building and got jacked!  Also, I thought that Pilson was the young one in Dokken, and that the other three were pretty close in age, with Don Dokken being the oldest.

[King Postwhore]

He was always older than the rest of the band but he was always super fit. Looked younger than the other band members.

Then he started body-building and got jacked!  Also, I thought that Pilson was the young one in Dokken, and that the other three were pretty close in age, with Don Dokken being the oldest.

You are right good sir.  I don't know why but I always had it in my mind that Lynch was older. 

[a51502112]

Saw Type O Negative open for Pantera in Montreal. Had no clue who TON were, but became a fan for life.

More of a package deal but, "Clash of the Titans" in Toronto. Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. My 17 y/o mind was blown.

[pg1067]

He was always older than the rest of the band but he was always super fit. Looked younger than the other band members.

Then he started body-building and got jacked!  Also, I thought that Pilson was the young one in Dokken, and that the other three were pretty close in age, with Don Dokken being the oldest.

Oldest to youngest:  Dokken (1953), Lynch (1954), Brown (1956), Pilson (1959).

[Stadler]

He was always older than the rest of the band but he was always super fit. Looked younger than the other band members.

Then he started body-building and got jacked!  Also, I thought that Pilson was the young one in Dokken, and that the other three were pretty close in age, with Don Dokken being the oldest.

Oldest to youngest:  Dokken (1953), Lynch (1954), Brown (1956), Pilson (1959).

Huh.  I always thought it was an AC/DC-type thing, where Dokken was like four or five years older than the rest.

[pg1067]

He was always older than the rest of the band but he was always super fit. Looked younger than the other band members.

Then he started body-building and got jacked!  Also, I thought that Pilson was the young one in Dokken, and that the other three were pretty close in age, with Don Dokken being the oldest.

Oldest to youngest:  Dokken (1953), Lynch (1954), Brown (1956), Pilson (1959).

Huh.  I always thought it was an AC/DC-type thing, where Dokken was like four or five years older than the rest.

I thought the same thing before looking it up (because I vaguely recalled hearing something to that effect back in the day).  And, since you mentioned AC/DC, both Don Dokken and George Lynch are older than Angus Young, which surprised the heck out of me.

[King Postwhore]

That's just crazy. Who knew that?!

[Stadler]

He was always older than the rest of the band but he was always super fit. Looked younger than the other band members.

Then he started body-building and got jacked!  Also, I thought that Pilson was the young one in Dokken, and that the other three were pretty close in age, with Don Dokken being the oldest.

Oldest to youngest:  Dokken (1953), Lynch (1954), Brown (1956), Pilson (1959).

Huh.  I always thought it was an AC/DC-type thing, where Dokken was like four or five years older than the rest.

I thought the same thing before looking it up (because I vaguely recalled hearing something to that effect back in the day).  And, since you mentioned AC/DC, both Don Dokken and George Lynch are older than Angus Young, which surprised the heck out of me.

I would have lost my retirement on that bet.  Well, not Don, but certainly George.  Never in a million....

[ytserush]

Going with:

Rush/Marillion (Twice)
Marillion/Dream Theater
Dream Theater/ Spock's Beard
Metallica/Queensryche