That really was their best album by far. Great production, songs, playing...everything. But for some reason I still end up listening to ulak more. Probably more emotional connection to it for me.
@@area51audio Totally agree ! And maybe it's just me but I believe if they had managed to work things out the follow up would have been even better than the Dysfunctional album they released in the 90's .
@@colossus316 agree with you 100% I think it would have been way better than Dysfunctional ! I so wish that unreleased unused songs from back from the attack with surface ! That would be the closest thing we would get to a follow-up from back from the attack that might have been stopped it would have went on to the next album !
Dokken as it was : Don pretending,Brown looking like the most stupid guy in the world,jeff trying and George in the back silently wondering "WTF am i doing here!" God bless u George,u'r the man!
The fact that people are thinking the Art of music is an industry and the baneful effects of Ego are corrupting and destroying the hard rock and metal Artists/ Art is Life/ Art is not entertainment/ Industries glorify greed, ideologies, the seven deadly sins, the soulless productivity and profit syndrome/ Without spiritual life and vocational talents of the Artists, there is no enthusiasm, no professional standards, no killer guitar riffs and no fabulously hot rockin' songs/
I thought George played best when he was in Dokken!!! He is still a great guitar player now!!! I think he plays best within a context of a good song!!! Then I think his lead work shines through!!! George Lynch has done so many music projects since Dokken that his music lacks focus. He will never escape the Dokken fame!!! I get it he's an artist and you got to progress and evolve and improve as a player!!!! He s still a fantastic and brilliant player to come from 80s hard rock and metal scene!!!!☺ I think it's more challenging and more creative to play a solo when one has to fit it within a song and play in certain perameters. ( Time constraints and melodic content , more musical and less flashy, something rememberable!!!)☺😉
@Mick Crippz George was always the problem from day one. He's a great guitarist but the more I've learned about him the less I like him. His ego is way out of control and he has all this resentment for Don that the man himself did virtually nothing to deserve.
@Mick Crippz Yeah you're absolutely right about Don, I've seen so many comments on here from people with cool stories about meeting him. Seems like he really treats people as individuals and goes above and beyond the normal rock star meeting his fans thing.
Kids are so spoiled today, they can look at their phone when they are bored to death, back in the 80s all you could do is scrape dirt off your fingernails like Lynch is doing.
This is a really good interview!!! Usually these Japan ones are horrible and very annoying to watch!!! Not so with this one!!! The guys were great!!! Never knew George Lynch was the quiet one because he sure isn't when he plays on stage!!!
It’s possible that Don had already told them he was breaking ties with them, and that is who George so obviously didn’t wanna be there. It was a HUGE shame, they all just had made the best album they were ever involved in, “Back for the attack”.
@@King5150EdGeorge had and still has a HUGE ego. Putting all the blame on Don is 100% inaccurate. Don has explained himself in plenty of recent interviews on what happened with that band.
George sat very quiet. Don said in a recent interview. that Beast From The East was a mandatory ' Live' album because Don could not cut a studio record again with Lynch, without having a nervous breakdown.
A lot of people say Don became egocentric and that may be true. However, George became the biggest primadonna to walk this earth and that's what ruined the band. Don, Jeff & Mick were a band still, but George ruined the whole vibe and even played with his back to the audience at the Monsters of Rock Festival 🙄
@CaptGeech That's bullshit and you know it. Don Dokken was not only a great vocalist but he was also a very good guitarist. To say the only talent in Dokken was George is absolutely retarded, how about Jeff Pilson? How about Mick Brown? Pilson is a multi-instrumentalist and and great vocalist as well. This is coming from a huge Lynch fan, but I have the utmost respect for Don Dokken as well.
This is a true story about George playing with his back to the crowd, kids. I saw the MoR tour in Indy August of 88 I believe, and he stayed by his amps, hardly looked at and never acknowledged the crowd. Don't even get me started about Metallica playing before Dokken. Jason's dad was a few rows in front of me at that show. Waited outside Karma Records 2 days for those tickets.
Kingdom Come definitely did not belong on that tour! They had one hit & sounded like Zeppelin so they were considered a monster of rock? No way! I could have said.. which band didn't deserve to be on that tour & everyone would have said.. Kingdom Come!!!
Libra's can be a pain. They're also master manipulators. Some people now think Don is the bad guy because the other three work together in a separate band but I don't see it that way. Not that I'm a Don groupie or anything.
@@Remco96187 according to both parties in the beginning it was a publicity construct that Don and George didn't like each other, but at some point it began to be a reality and they despised each other George never liked the fact that the band was named Dokken, he even made Shadowlife to kill the damn band, but these days I think they're in good terms
@@Remco96187 they did do a reunion tour but it was for Japan only and one US show I think George will play with Don at this M3 festival but other than that idk if they'll ever fully reunite again because Jeff tours with Foreigner
Well, its always between George n don. But as far as I know. Maybe it's one of them that really spoils the whole vibe which ends up breaking up the band. I'm not gonna blame one of them. But certainly if u put ego as the first priority, u will never be happy with every single bit of things. End up, u lose everything. Like dokken, they choose to go on separate ways in the 80s. If they learned to talk and confide each other out I think the band will be better and will sell more gd records. But they didnt. So who win in this game ? Nobody. Not even George or Don win the game.
Dons always on pitch with a great timbre. Great range and vibrato. Clearly in the top 20 of LA SunStrip Metal of the 80’s. Sure he’s no Ronnie or Geoff. Still awesome nonetheless. Just an alt opinion to those saying he can’t sing. Dirks thought so (Blackout)…
Totally disagree, vocals were far from limited ex. Unchain the night, dream warriors, walk away, lightning strikes again, some of my favorite riffs too like it’s not love, tooth and nail, kiss of death, the hunter, lots of great stuff
Best album they ever released front to back
Agreed!!
Id say this and Breaking the Chains
Absolutely......agree, this album is fire
George: "I can't stand Don, I can't stand Don, I can't stand Don..."
"Back for the Attack" is a smoking album!! Lynch is underrated.
Their best.
Indeed!
That really was their best album by far. Great production, songs, playing...everything. But for some reason I still end up listening to ulak more. Probably more emotional connection to it for me.
@@area51audio Totally agree ! And maybe it's just me but I believe if they had managed to work things out the follow up would have been even better than the Dysfunctional album they released in the 90's .
@@colossus316 agree with you 100% I think it would have been way better than Dysfunctional !
I so wish that unreleased unused songs from back from the attack with surface ! That would be the closest thing we would get to a follow-up from back from the attack that might have been stopped it would have went on to the next album !
George Lynch is like "When is lunch being served?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He looks like that kid in class who is bored and just waiting for recess! :-)
Dokken as it was : Don pretending,Brown looking like the most stupid guy in the world,jeff trying and George in the back silently wondering "WTF am i doing here!"
God bless u George,u'r the man!
👍Good choice.
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ありがとうございました。
お給料日楽しみですね。
みんなでドッケン観ましょう。
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wild Mick looks so cute in this hair style. I love his hair! 😍😚
I wonder why most people lack putting time into their hair these day, it's almost like they're lazy
Don was worried about digital audio tape recorders destroying the music industry. He wasn’t too far off.
The fact that people are thinking the Art of music is an industry and the baneful effects of Ego are corrupting and destroying the hard rock and metal Artists/ Art is Life/ Art is not entertainment/ Industries glorify greed, ideologies, the seven deadly sins, the soulless productivity and profit syndrome/ Without spiritual life and vocational talents of the Artists, there is no enthusiasm, no professional standards, no killer guitar riffs and no fabulously hot rockin' songs/
George is like hurry up with this interview gotta pack my nose.! Lol😆😎
lol yep
I thought George played best when he was in Dokken!!! He is still a great guitar player now!!! I think he plays best within a context of a good song!!! Then I think his lead work shines through!!! George Lynch has done so many music projects since Dokken that his music lacks focus. He will never escape the Dokken fame!!! I get it he's an artist and you got to progress and evolve and improve as a player!!!! He s still a fantastic and brilliant player to come from 80s hard rock and metal scene!!!!☺ I think it's more challenging and more creative to play a solo when one has to fit it within a song and play in certain perameters. ( Time constraints and melodic content , more musical and less flashy, something rememberable!!!)☺😉
@Mick Crippz George was always the problem from day one. He's a great guitarist but the more I've learned about him the less I like him. His ego is way out of control and he has all this resentment for Don that the man himself did virtually nothing to deserve.
@Mick Crippz Yeah you're absolutely right about Don, I've seen so many comments on here from people with cool stories about meeting him. Seems like he really treats people as individuals and goes above and beyond the normal rock star meeting his fans thing.
Hooked on second Mob album now. Some of Georges best playing, and good songs too!
@@stratrat57 Yeah I like the second Mob album better I think, especially love his tone on that album
Lynch's playing was also excellent in early Lynch Mob stuff.
2:47 Ah, George is so bored, he's checking his phone...
kagatobi I wonder if he's got the iPhone X
Kids are so spoiled today, they can look at their phone when they are bored to death, back in the 80s all you could do is scrape dirt off your fingernails like Lynch is doing.
Nobody had mobile phones back then
Checking his phone....hahaha.... kids!
@@dokkengirljo6993 right, there's no pleasing the young and dumb
Don, Jeff, and Mick seem so engaged; too bad that George looks so bored!
Sucks that it would be the last album but what a killer album
You can tell George didn't want to be there
This is a really good interview!!! Usually these Japan ones are horrible and very annoying to watch!!! Not so with this one!!! The guys were great!!! Never knew George Lynch was the quiet one because he sure isn't when he plays on stage!!!
My favorite album! Guitar work was killer!
It's also Don's peak as a vocalist
The best guitar work, from lynch
Never really got a good glimpse of Mick Brown before.
No doubt he was a vital part of the Dokken band.
mild George Lynch.....so cute♡♡
Masterpiece! Jeff is a really funny guy!
George just seems so distant. Tis a shame...
cool interview, very few Dokken interviews on RUclips.
Beginning of the end
Sean Sellars You can tell George had enough already. He was mentally done with Dokken here.
He wants to get back to his studio to start on the first Lynch Mob album.
Sounds like this guy’s first time conducting an interview.
Man…George looks like he just does not wanna be there
Still one of my biggest influences on guitar though…
They knew they were breaking up and it was just harder for George to pretend otherwise.
@@michaelseay9783 True...I'm surprised Don, Mick and Jeff put on a smile
It’s possible that Don had already told them he was breaking ties with them, and that is who George so obviously didn’t wanna be there. It was a HUGE shame, they all just had made the best album they were ever involved in, “Back for the attack”.
Yeah they already knew they were going to break up at this point I think
Yep, they knew this was it for the band when they were making the album.
Don also had HUGE ego issues at this point. Essential wanted all of the money
@@King5150EdGeorge had and still has a HUGE ego. Putting all the blame on Don is 100% inaccurate. Don has explained himself in plenty of recent interviews on what happened with that band.
@WS6 1997 Dokken is Don band,you can really hear on both solo records they did next.
George ''Happy Jack'' Lynch....
George lynch looks totally bored.
I managed the band during this tour of Japan... quit after they insisted paying me in carrots.
In gold? how much carrots gold?
わぁぁぁ！
コレッ昔VHSで録画して！
見れなくなったことを本当に残念に思ってたんです！
アップしてくださっててありがとう！高校生の頃が蘇るよー🎉
Sitting down with lousy interviewers for hours and hours ... gotta be tough. I understand George.
Must have been that time of the month for George
Nope, just hated Don
"we're gonna bootleg our own records" lol
Haha. Lynch gives zero fucks
Great album for its time....came out my senior year!
Sophomore.
Still holds up pretty well today.
懐かしい。こんな動画あがってるの知らなかった。ジョージが口下手でメンバーにいじられてたのが印象的でした。
この時はメタリカより"ビッグ"だったんですよね。
George looks like he doesn’t want to be there
George is always like whatever.
ジョージかっこいいなぁ！！でもなぜかこのインタビューからメンバーと距離感を感じてしまう・・Back for the attackは最高にクールなアルバムなのにね。
この後すぐ解散したし、結構ギリギリだったんじゃないかな？
この時期のライヴの動画見ても、ドンとジョージは目線すら合わせないし。
I remember don saying “if this doesn’t go
Platinum,we’re breaking up!” But they were a live band!
They are so young there little cuties
George was 37 lol.
George looks like he keeps falling asleep 🥹😂
They hated each other !! Lynch and don and it shows! George doesn’t say much or look happy!
George sat very quiet. Don said in a recent interview. that Beast From The East was a mandatory ' Live' album because Don could not cut a studio record again with Lynch, without having a nervous breakdown.
Love Don’s sunglasses!!!
xoxo The Clarences
George very private pal .. awesome
He knew the band was finished - just finishing out the contract so he can get out of there.
GODZIRRA!!
Mick looks like hes in Poison
George Lynch: bored much???
I may be way off on this but to me George looks High as Hell ! Im not knocking on him for it to eaches own !
Yeaahhh haha! Mick rocks! See him at the bike bars by me
🤩 #Dokken Mild #GeorgeLynch
After watching this, I can understand why Don couldn't stand George.
Don already told them he was breaking up the band.
ジョージ静かだな笑笑
A lot of people say Don became egocentric and that may be true. However, George became the biggest primadonna to walk this earth and that's what ruined the band. Don, Jeff & Mick were a band still, but George ruined the whole vibe and even played with his back to the audience at the Monsters of Rock Festival 🙄
@CaptGeech lol
he sure did when i asked him about at the photo opp he thought it was a big joke
@CaptGeech That's bullshit and you know it. Don Dokken was not only a great vocalist but he was also a very good guitarist. To say the only talent in Dokken was George is absolutely retarded, how about Jeff Pilson? How about Mick Brown? Pilson is a multi-instrumentalist and and great vocalist as well. This is coming from a huge Lynch fan, but I have the utmost respect for Don Dokken as well.
This is a true story about George playing with his back to the crowd, kids. I saw the MoR tour in Indy August of 88 I believe, and he stayed by his amps, hardly looked at and never acknowledged the crowd. Don't even get me started about Metallica playing before Dokken. Jason's dad was a few rows in front of me at that show. Waited outside Karma Records 2 days for those tickets.
I have yet to see a video of George playing with his back to the audience and there are quite a few vids from Monsters of rock on youtube
Ya think George was tired of Don yet?
I love Don :D
Me too,but my favourite member of Dokken is Jeff Pilson. 😁
In Japan people with Insomnia personally hire this interviewer to sit by their bed and bore them into a deep sleep
Unfortunately last tour monster's of rock great tour
Kingdom Come definitely did not belong on that tour! They had one hit & sounded like Zeppelin so they were considered a monster of rock? No way! I could have said.. which band didn't deserve to be on that tour & everyone would have said.. Kingdom Come!!!
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After reading a fair amount, I've come to the conclusion that George ruined that band.
Libra's can be a pain. They're also master manipulators. Some people now think Don is the bad guy because the other three work together in a separate band but I don't see it that way. Not that I'm a Don groupie or anything.
Can u tell a bit about what happened? Would love to know. Been a big Dokken/Lynch fan for years but I never exactly knew what tore Dokken apart...
@@Remco96187 according to both parties in the beginning it was a publicity construct that Don and George didn't like each other, but at some point it began to be a reality and they despised each other George never liked the fact that the band was named Dokken, he even made Shadowlife to kill the damn band, but these days I think they're in good terms
@@philipkarovski281 aah damn, such a shame...! I hope they get along nowadays! A new tour would be cool as well
@@Remco96187 they did do a reunion tour but it was for Japan only and one US show I think George will play with Don at this M3 festival but other than that idk if they'll ever fully reunite again because Jeff tours with Foreigner
George was so sick of Dons bullshit here after so many years that he just wanted to say"Sayonara im out of here".
George was full of shit probably more so than Don lol
DAT actually died!
That George does not speak at all
How much coke was snorted in that hotel room at the end?
George always hated Don!
raceyro I wonder if it was a constant battle of the egos.
One stole from the other.
Well, its always between George n don. But as far as I know. Maybe it's one of them that really spoils the whole vibe which ends up breaking up the band. I'm not gonna blame one of them. But certainly if u put ego as the first priority, u will never be happy with every single bit of things. End up, u lose everything. Like dokken, they choose to go on separate ways in the 80s. If they learned to talk and confide each other out I think the band will be better and will sell more gd records. But they didnt. So who win in this game ? Nobody. Not even George or Don win the game.
When the band's name is also the weakest member
There is no "weak" member
Weakest member??? Have you paid attention to Don's voice???
Dons always on pitch with a great timbre. Great range and vibrato. Clearly in the top 20 of LA SunStrip Metal of the 80’s. Sure he’s no Ronnie or Geoff. Still awesome nonetheless. Just an alt opinion to those saying he can’t sing. Dirks thought so (Blackout)…
I hope they fired whoever mixed this audio. The music is way too loud.
Most rock band interviews, they try to act funny and crazy..big VH fan but watch there interviews ..goofy jokes
I don't think George, or anyone wants to be around "Don The Douche bag Dokken"..
Looks to me that at this point Jeff, Mick and Don were still a band and George Lynch was pouting in the corner.
Dokken was boring with limited vocals and no riffs that had a long shelf life, I never understood but then again not many remember them today
An opinion
Totally disagree, vocals were far from limited ex. Unchain the night, dream warriors, walk away, lightning strikes again, some of my favorite riffs too like it’s not love, tooth and nail, kiss of death, the hunter, lots of great stuff
ecerybody I know remembers them