Dokken - Kiss Of Death - Philadelphia 1987

Don Dokken, George Lynch, Jeff Pilson And Mick Brown.
Live In Philadelphia November 10, 1987.
"Back For The Attack" Tour.

[@thomasaghotmail]

George Lynch is in my top 5. Dude rocked. Hard.

[@ColonelStraker]

This song was written about AIDS and Groupies, according to Don Dokken on a recent Shute interview.

[@nitolopez6783]

El solo es brutal,,,,,,

[@RobberStormfire]

I don't know why Back for the Attack isn't heralded more. It was the best Dokken record and one of the best of any band at that time. I agree, 1987-1989 was the absolute pinnacle of the era.

[@kingofdragontown9680]

Because Under Lock And Key is Dokken's best album.

[@RobberStormfire]

@@kingofdragontown9680 Only to the casual fan - if you are a fan of George Back for the Attack is the best.

[@kingofdragontown9680]

@@RobberStormfire BFTA is my very, very close second but ULAK just does it better for me. Personally though, Lynch's best work is Sacred Groove.

[@YoDudeRock]

Agree, Lynch really "Unchained The Night" and tapped into the muse on Back For The Attack. :)

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

For me its between BFTA and Tooth and Nail. I like underlock and key but I like he lyrics on Toith and Nial better and the Guitar on Back for the attack better. And out of all 3 Under alock had more filler

[@markwoehler6694]

Lynch was so good live..80s metal ruled

[@edinaldolimafrazao950]

THIS IS HARD ROCK 80 ' S

[@max051472]

Can't believe that I didn't appreciate these guys more back in the day. They clearly blew the competition away.

[@herbcanter2114]

Oh pleaseeeeeeeeeeee LOL.

[@gordon9177]

same here man.

[@gordon9177]

seriously. their were other bands that were bigger and better ( I thought) @ that time. you get older and you look back @ other bands, that you didn't care to much about and/or didn't get it. @@herbcanter2114

[@BeamRider100]

I love them now. At the time I remember seeing Breaking The Chains and It's Not Love on the TV a lot, as huge hits. Also I remember seeing Dream Warriors, Into the Fire, Just Got Lucky and Heaven Sent.

[@oregonxyz]

George Lynch: my favorite guitarist

[@dianebroude8321]

FRICKIN AWESOME ROCK AND ROLL!! This is what REAL MUSIC sounds like. DON DOKKEN AND GEORGE LYNCH are two of the most TALENTED MUSICIANS of the 80s! LEGENDARY!!!

[@bblade77]

This is when music actually had a heart beat!!! Nothing like today’s garbage.. Amazing song!!

[@jeremycubs8331]

Benjamin Lemons Exactly, like fucking Bruno Mars harvesting the Grammy's!

[@tigerbalm666]

Agreed! Next to EVH, Lynch had that angry tone and poetic solos that just made a song that much better! His solos seemed to be a verse in the song and not just filler like most bands.

[@ColonelStraker]

Fact!! 80s rock - like no other. Raw, hard-core, unfiltered, unlike the computerized BS today. I listened to the amazing 1.5 hour interview with Don Dokken (Chuck Shute channel) where Don said this song was written about the real danger of AIDS and women groupies!!! 😮

[@imabigfanshow783]

Saw them on the Monsters of Rock tour in ‘88. They were great!

[@Fearzero]

Metallica destroyed them.

[@MusaFinderi]

Lynch was a monster guitarist. He adds some nice fills, which I always liked about his playing.

[@CalumonRocks]

George really was on another plane of guitar playing on Back for the Attack.

[@robertsuttner8999]

The solo George decided to play SHOULD'VE been the one on the studio recording. This is why LIVE music is (or at least used to be) the BEST. The real human comes out of each member here. Real, live, and RAW!!!! I wish I could've found this live rendition in the record stores back when I was younger!

[@richross9224]

One of the best intros ever period!!!!. Lynch is the fucking king!!!!!!!

[@2216sammy]

I busted out laughing when I read that , thanks ha ha ha ha

[@Manimal1985]

Pilson absolutely killin it with the moves 😄

[@MrClassicmetal]

Hell yeah! Great bassist! And he's had one hell of a career too!

[@HyperInflation2020]

Yeah, he was always Constantly Posing. Douche

[@Scorchedbrain]

Pilson (much like Michael anthony) was dokkens secret weapon.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

but those stupid boots need to go

[@ForeverMPH]

And his hair still never goes flat! :-))

[@amirrizvi1333]

Dokken what a great band. Killer guitar by Lynch👍

[@mastermoney9110]

I was there June 27th 1987 Phoenix, Arizona -Dokken and Aerosmith, it changed my life forever!

[@horseshoecrabs2000]

I saw that same pairing in San Francisco and thought Dokken was the superior act that night

[@christineayres7199]

Amazing to hear Don Dokken actually in his prime before his voice went

[@JR-to8sn]

His voice was already on the downward slide at this point. Too much alcohol and cigarettes

[@nonameman7114]

@@JR-to8sn which is a shame because IMO he was one of the best rock singers from that era

[@coolbreeze1627]

Long time ago.... but this was the shit. Never be another time like it.

[@christineayres7199]

@@coolbreeze1627 💯 % ☺️👍🥂

[@christineayres7199]

@@coolbreeze1627 Yeah shame we cant pass a law forcing everyone to live like it’s 1987 again lol 😂

[@JACKSHMACK101]

this song is so badass

[@judithgrabencamp4246]

What can you say , George Lynch is a monster guitar player, Don Dokken is fantastic, the songs are captivating .

[@ericscottstevens]

Mick machine gunning it in the intro. He gave it his all, apparently now retired from drumming as he can no longer take the injuries of past endeavors. He was one of the greats in the 1980s.

[@tyson0074]

I was lucky to go and see dokken it was one of the greatest shows I seen that year

[@weimarcarvalho6266]

I was lucky to have lived that era. The world of entertainment, as a whole, is dead today.

[@davedropd1]

COULD NOT have SAID IT BETTER!!! 10,000% AGREE!!!!!!!

[@romanp.4319]

honestly, compared to 2020, it was fuckin alive in 2018 :D

[@mello2029]

One thing that hasn’t changed: men still dress like women

[@The-Punnkk]

OK Grampy

[@richardremick1639]

I love his voice sounds just like the record dokken rocks man Whoo! ❤

[@troybeck8565]

look up beast from the east dokken it's killer ass hell

[@richardremick1639]

@@troybeck8565 I saw dokken back in the 80’s open for Aerosmith killer band and and killer show I’ll look that up for sure!! Thanks 🙏

[@crushthedemon]

Cool to see this. Back when don had an incredible voice. Those Japan clips were hard to watch. Even the overdubbed live album from that reunion tour is hard to listen to.

[@ArekSuroboyo1]

One of the best concert I've been to, Dokken with L.A Guns, Warrant, Ratt (Dokken headliners) Washington DC at The Nation in 2003

[@eugeneredsteer919]

Lynch was Dokken !!🤘

[@treeduck3705]

The cameraman loves Pilson!

[@clapstix3495]

George setting fire to his fretboard with his fingers during the solo… and we keep seeing shots of Pilsons hair instead for some reason ha ha!

[@kin-g1019]

懐かしいなぁ…このアルバムは良く聴いたわ。 どの曲も最高やった。 まぁ最初はドッケンが好きってよりもエルム街の悪夢3の主題歌に惹かれて買ったんだけど、このアルバムはマジ当たりやったよ。

[@Tim_G_666]

George is the man!

[@julioocasioalbino551]

What a guitar sound lynch#1

[@bonichols8511]

What AWESOME vocals by Don#1

[@user-tv1le7sw2l]

How could they break up after this masterpiece of an album 😪 and how did that work out for them.

[@arayapriest1]

they didn’t like each other. especially George Lynch and Don Dokken. a lot of marriages are like that, and other bands too.

[@user-qy8pl4wk5o]

I want to see Lynch more.🙇🏻

[@paulleger6566]

Greasy luck New Bedford Ma. November 4th 2020

[@bradkauser3339]

Lynch is a badass!!

[@PantherScott]

Awesome song my friends

[@user-gy2cb2rt4y]

Lynch has some of the craziest licks if you ever break them down. Almost like he's playing 3d chess on a guitar, while most others are only playing checkers. I'm also noticing Don used to have a little Klaus Meine, and a little Rob Halford, maybe even a little Helloween in his voice... seems to come out more live.

[@IheartKISS]

don did some demo work for the scorpions during the writing and recording of blackout because klaus meine was having problems with his voice due to polyps on his vocal cords which he eventually needed to have surgery to remove and needed to rest his voice as much as possible.

[@justinmcneal3095]

This rocks!!

[@Menyhard]

Underrated band

[@Stew7740]

Love Dokken! Big part of my early life

[@justiceforall3973]

That F’in SOLO tho!!! 🤯

[@sampraz1990]

It's really one hell of a ride

[@herbcanter2114]

Not very good at all especially for lynch .

[@pel666]

Man, gotta love Drop D(okken). Mr Lynch is on fire!

[@johnnymoraes23]

Lynch = The best rock guitar player of the 80's alongside with Eddie Van Halen, Warren de Martini, Jake E. Lee and Yngwie Malmsteen.... however to me George is still #1. Mr. Scary rules!!

[@MidnightLawyer.]

Add Randy Rhoads, Jason Becker, Uli Jon Roth and Michael Schenker to that list and it's complete (:

[@mariek6993]

George always had the coolest guitars, warren's were cool too.

[@EmanoelQueiroz03]

Add Vito Bratta

[@jeffreycalabrese8850]

Gotta add Marty Friedman guys. And Reb Beach.

[@xeonace]

YNGWIE was god in the 80's

[@god6384]

that drum set is bad ass its like a cage

[@1000poundsguitar]

firing on all cylinders! Shredfest

[@smnvfdr]

3 cool riffs in 1 intro!

[@georgie4728]

George ( GUITAR GOD ) Lynch

[@user-yq1ig4cn3m]

いわゆる、Ｌ・Ａメタル花盛りの辺りで当時のギタリスト達が皆、一目置いていたと言っても良いくらい凄いっす💯💯

[@jvidalw]

back from when Don could sing...

[@kylekenan2321]

He's still pretty good for his age and better than an impersonator or replacement.

[@jvidalw]

@@kylekenan2321 , unfortunately, no. he can't sing anymore

[@euphah8721]

@@jvidalw no shit he’s older he’s actually not bad 😐

[@christineayres7199]

Him and Asshole Rose 🌹 too lol 😂

[@greggiskhan3816]

@@euphah8721 He's terrible. Clean your ears out.

[@sonnycrockett0229]

中学生の頃のアイドルでした。中学校の文化祭でジョージリンチの油絵を出品しました。

[@javierhernandezvelazquez2320]

Excelente guitarrero

[@karenmonson9893]

Didn't know women had that kind of power over men. Wow!!! I'd really have to be really "pissed off" to hurt someone like this!!! The song rocks!!! Really impressed with Jeff Pilson here, he's really into the song with his guitar playing and body movement. Don and George are also at peak performance!!!😍🤩😘

[@ppuntrotzooizooi7692]

Jeff Pilson is the bass player 😂 George plays the guitar. 👍

[@area51audio]

The song is about a woman spreading HIV according to Mr Dokken. Pretty damn dark stuff...but I'm with you - great song.

[@R.Lennartz]

Jeff's excitement might have been induced by some heavy snowfall before the show if you know what I'm saying, part of why the band broke up, too much drugs.

[@oregonxyz]

his voice is waning - don't smoke kids

[@allpdmusic]

Saw this tour in San Fran. They opened for Aerosmith. I never saw Aerosmith. After hearing George I just wanted to go home and practice.

[@scajmz]

Philly radio would never play anything like this at the time. 93.3 (WMMR) and 94.5. There was nothing playing metal in the Tri State Area. It's a shame.

[@MetalBere]

A brief encounter Like wind through the trees It came so suddenly But then it was gone Like it had never been How could I have ever seen A lost heart Will take your soul How could I have known How could I have known As she took me in her arms And brought me to an end With the kiss of death The kiss of death She promised paradise As she lied upon her bed Like a fallen angel With the devil's charm She promised paradise With the kiss of death I tried to stop As she held out her hand But the fire was burning inside She knew what i wanted She gave it and more But now I must pay the price We were strangers Passing in the night How could I have known How could I have known As she took me in her arms And brought me to an end With the kiss of death The kiss of death She promised paradise As she lied upon her bed Like a fallen angel With the devil's charm She promised paradise With the kiss of death As she took me in her arms I felt the devil's charm Suddenly I see The final destiny With the kiss of death The kiss of death She promised paradise As she lied upon her bed Like a fallen angel With the devil's charm She promised paradise With the kiss of death With the kiss of death

[@arayapriest1]

you know all the words.

[@MetalBere]

@@arayapriest1 Google knows 😄

[@arayapriest1]

@@MetalBere I was just kidding w/ you bud. I didn’t mean any disrespect. I know the words too. such a great song. I wrote a letter to this white black girl one time, and used that opening line cause I knew she never heard it before.

[@MetalBere]

@@arayapriest1 no worries

[@dethangel9082]

Isn't this song about contracting H.I.V

[@wesleyfelipe7290]

🤘🤘

[@jacksonmarshallkramer5087]

It's like a competition between George and Don. Who can be a bigger individual instead of a band member. As a new guitar player, I'd go to a show to hear my guitar God play the solos I've been slaving over in front of my face, and it's something else. It's like, wtf was that? That's not on the record. That's not in the lick ive I've been learning.

[@stevengoodman3498]

Badass hard rock at their peak! 😂🎉😊

[@jasonsmith6408]

Saw this show at the Capital Centre them opening for Aerosmith. George Lynch passed out third song from the flu. I was in nosebleed seats and wanted to leave. I was there to see them! 12 years later I was fortunate to open for Dokken and hung out with Mick Brown for an hour after show. He remembered that night. Said George was dehydrated terribly and said no drugs involved because she was into health and fitness.

[@patrickshannon1547]

Jason Smith i bet they blew arosmith off the stage their guitar player don't hold a candle to Lynch.

[@michaelpalm2210]

saw them open for aerosmith 12/31/87 new years eve show MA ...great band!

[@jasonsmith6408]

Patrick Shannon oh yea

[@jasonsmith6408]

Joesph Nickell ?

[@ForeverMPH]

I saw them in November 1987 (black Friday) on this tour. They blew the roof off the place! Then Aerosmith came out, screaming and screeching, so I left halfway through their show. Dokken should have been the headliners! They always sounded as good in concert as they did on their albums. It's amazing that you got to open for them years later and got to talk to Mick!

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

riff of death.. too bad Lynch n Don couldn't get along. They were great together with Mick n Jeff..

[@freaky_j2207]

I remember this tour it was opening from Aerosmith. Great show.

[@Kevin-dx6co]

Love it, loud ass board mix..ha ha !!!

[@user-uj6vq6uj4f]

ドツケン再結成❤

[@D1m3b4gD4rr3ll]

I was at this show...just cant remember who Dokken opened for...lol Mebbe Judas Priest? Kinda fuzzy on the details of all those mid & late 80's metal shows I saw at the Spectrum. But this one I definitely went to see Dokken for the second time. Saw them in '86 opening for Maiden(?) and that definitely made me a bigger fan after seeing George live. Also Don's voice was pretty damn good live back in those days too. Thanks for posting this gem!!! \m/

[@user-mg5lr4kv7g]

They opened for Aerosmith at the Philly Spectrum.

[@Yonlawlawlaw]

brutal

[@freaky_j2207]

Yep saw this tour too. I was thinking it was the priest tour ,but I was wrong it was the Aerosmith tour.

[@BigtimeJuicer]

FKING George Lynch!!! Is there anything he doesn't absolutely CRUSH?!?!?

[@xxnycstruballaxx]

Lynch is amazing so is Pilson....don was amazing hes done now

[@perrymc2243]

Oh yeah he is. Have you seen the video from the other day of this song?

[@Kevin-dx6co]

This is when bands really kicked ass. No auto tune or pro tools type bullshit...you had to bust ass & learn your shit !

[@MichaelDouglasSkewes]

i wasn't paying attention to what was playing,I thought it was a different version of Bark at the Moon! The Don starts in with his howling!

[@patrickshannon1547]

Reminds me of something Randy Rhodes would have played.

[@rhizomorph-music]

Except much, much better.

[@bonichols8511]

Man the audio in this video SUUUUUUUX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really doing Dokken an injustice !!!!!!!

[@nicholastotoro7721]

Bo Nichols In all fairness, it’s provably direct from the board, from whatever the CCTV broadcast was they had there.

[@bonichols8511]

Well Nicholas i gotta tell ya if that's what it is i sure wouldn't want the cctv broadcasting anything for me !

[@MrEricPymm]

I kinda like the audio. I know the sound quality isn't great, but you can hear every detail in Lynch's playing.

[@robinbolton6064]

Van Halen…. Randy Rhodes…. George lynch top 3 of the era !

[@ColonelStraker]

Don said on a recent Chuck Shute interview that this song about GroupieAIDS dangers.

[@buntline1873]

I liked them too. But judging from the comments people just don't dig very deep at all to see what's out there. I understand that people are spoon fed whatever flavor of the day but Dokken was only the tip of the iceberg. If you didn't grow up in the 80s or even if you did, research a little bit more and you'll really be blown away by what else was lurking just beneath the surface.

[@65coupestang]

THE CRAZY THING IS THIS WAS PERFORMED THE YEAR I WAS BORN WHICH WAS AWHILE AGO SEEING AS HOW I'M 34 YEARS OLD WHICH ISN'T ALL THAT LONG AGO BUT STILL SURPRISING SOMEWHAT THAT IS 🤔🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤨..!!??

[@johnnyapp7885]

Don and Lee Aaron both did that Klaus Meine raunchy-nasal-sound-thing.

[@discussdebate]

I never knew why Don didn't have his guitar in hand! FYI: Don is an awesome guitarist. I saw Don Dokken when he had 2 guitarist (Norum and White?) and that was the first time it sounded remotely like the studio cuts!! ~George was my main guitar man back in those days but Don should have filled it in behind his solo's!! ~just my opinion!!

[@kingofdragontown9680]

Don claims Geoge hated him playing guitar and singing so he stopped to make Lynch happy.

[@jakedibiase7404]

Agree. It would’ve filled out the sound more. A lot of the rhythm guitar on the Breaking the Chains album was actually Don.

[@mattfitzpatrick83]

Tooth and Nail was recorded on 4 track. The best modern rock album ever recorded on 4 track. The band and producer got creative and cranked out a great album in a high pressure environment. Amazing band. Great opening act that never got any meaningful headliner traction.

[@machupikachu1085]

I'm sure the demos for the album were recorded on a 4 track, but the actual recording sessions for that release were recorded at Cherokee in Los Angeles with Roy Thomas Baker and the guy who produced Shout at the Devil. Cherokee had a 24 channel reel to reel at the time. I agree though, it is a fantastic album. Cheers!

[@ssdtrain1]

Besides George the real FN talent in Dokken was Jeff Pilson. He could play everything and sing his a** off !!

[@Trollamollex]

"LIKE A FALLEN JOE!"

[@arayapriest1]

George Lynch was top of his game in this one. just banging poon, hard.

[@myruke]

彼って結構るけぶしなんだよ、全く！

[@65coupestang]

DAMN THIS GUY'S (GITUARUST) (SP?) GOING CRAZY RIPPING THOSE GITUAR STRINGS APART 😲😒👍👍..!!

[@shahmirabdrahman5565]

Dokken Hardcore

[@warmoth68]

Don was losing his voice by Back for The Attack. Arrogant prick!!! He saved his steams and talked through most songs.. Lynch is on the money on this tour. Don't know why he changed his tone later on? Progressively got bad. Added phaser to all his solos trying to be a VH clone. Back for the Attack is the sickest guitar tone IMO. Rhythm and lead tone delay is monsterous!!!!

[@user-yq1ig4cn3m]

８０年代では～ランディとかエディ••イングヴェイ～数多いるけど•♪•彼は凄い🙋🙋

[@kenflint6127]

Lynch is a good guitarist

[@krade180]

Crazy lynch

[@JR-to8sn]

Was this recording taken right off the board?

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

Is George in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ? Anyone know?🤔

[@robinbolton6064]

Damn that Dokken could belt it out like Klaus Meine from The Scorpions same high end and as I say this I think Don even sang on Blackout too ?

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

I could be mistaken but I believe that Don sang back up for Klaus Meine at one point and that is why they had similar vocal ranges.

[@robinbolton6064]

@@jocelynharris-fx8ho I looked it up Jocelyn and we are correct 👍

[@altag1]

nice video, audio sounds kindof 'mono' ???

[@1251wire]

I was there and left as soon aerosmith came on.. No regrets.

[@user-bl6gx9hr2n]

George bleeping Lynch!!!!!

[@autk]

Camera man queer for Jeff Pilson all the way thru, Fail.

[@HyperInflation2020]

With the drum set so close to the front of the stage, you know that once again they were not headlining this show.

[@user-wc7fd8br6r]

メチャ音悪いけれど、迫力ある演奏

[@jakedibiase7404]

Lynch is actually not using that much gain here. Sounds like a stock unmodded cranked Plexi.

[@LiquidSwords5150]

I'm new to these guys and am a huge Van halen/Ratt fan........... did these guys fill the void of hard glam metal (once owned by DLR era VH and then by Ratt) when sammy joined VH ? i mean DLR had steve vai but I like Dokken now better than solo DLR, george lynch is a absolute beast .... enlighten me people

[@LiquidSwords5150]

@@nosferatu7325 ratt fell off after dancing undercover

[@LiquidSwords5150]

@@nosferatu7325 it was decent..........i actually preferred detonator over reach for the sky but ratts albums slowly declined where as dokken was the opposite in they're albums started as quality and then they got better as they progressed.... meanwhile ratt barely made it into the game and they went right into headlining whereas dokken never headlined

[@LiquidSwords5150]

@@nosferatu7325 they are are more of my lane but I can't say that dokken is all that much better than Ratt.......... but Lynch does do everything that I wish EVH did and more.... i especially like how the tapping is slightly incorporated into his playing whereas EVH it is alot of his playing..... warren demartini is great and robbin crosby was no slouch either.... if crosby hadn't sold his soul the devil with heroine i think ratt could have been much, much better and more successful as a popular band

[@chad6326]

guitars are too loud in the mix

[@user-uj6vq6uj4f]

エイズ死☠️したドン・ドッケンさんの親友のことを歌った曲😎🥸🐭☠️