DON DOKKEN on His Friendship with POISON’S CC Deville!

#hollywood #dokken #80smusic
DON DOKKEN Goes on Record | UNDER THE SHEETS with POISON
Don discusses His Friendship with Poison’s Guitarist CC Deville and why Ritchie Kotzon was fired from Poison.
Dokken formed in Los Angeles in 1978. It split up in 1989 and reformed four years later. The band had several hit singles which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, such as "Alone Again", "In My Dreams", and "Burning Like a Flame", and have sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.
Order The Vinyl
amzn.to/3TAX9A8
**********************************************************************
**********************************************************************
Join this channel to get access to perks:
➜ / @artistsonrecord
The Ultimate VIP ALL ACCESS BACKSTAGE PASS
Full episodes can be seen in Patreon! Get exclusive content and entry into the vinyl games on Patreon:
➜ www.patreon.com/The_adika_gro...
Merchandise
➜adika-live.creator-spring.com
* The New Website
➜ www.adikalive.com/
Your Donation Helps Support your Favorite Show & Channel
➜ www.paypal.me/stephenadika1
AMAZON WISHLIST
➜ www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls...
Theme Song - Mark Slaughter
Website:
➜ www.markslaughter.com/

[@72seasonsofwither]

Very interesting story. I wonder if C.C. is still in possession of that '59 Les Paul? Kudos to Don for looking out for him.

[@MadChiller]

“I flunked my black belt test 3 times due to bad cardio” Don says while chain smoking cigarettes during the entire interview….😂

[@mariopalos9238]

And?

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

Gross and embarrassing is Don FLOPPEN

[@markjay6092]

At least he was honest about it. 🤷‍♂️

[@rayfabris2512]

​@@mariopalos9238love you response 👍made me laugh you had to been in the 80s to understand dam what a decade long party idk how much I spent on coke? regret? a little but I made it out alive 😅

[@mariopalos9238]

@@rayfabris2512 ??

[@chrisgraves4561]

I got a '67 Strat the very same way. Dude was jonesing for some blow, and sold me the Strat his dad had given him (with the original tweed case) and a Fender Blues Junior for $500 (in 1991 money).

[@surfshack2]

Can you play Purple Haze on it?

[@ChuckShute]

“Don’t bang the drummer’s wife” - words of wisdom 👍

[@edwinh7908]

C.C. Deville did the same thing with a vintage Fender stratocaster around the same time.

[@huskylove-666]

Don has always been a hero and loved the guy since I’ve 15. I’m now 55 ..Got me through most of my adult like listening to his music. Awesome to hear this stuff. Really wish he’d write this stuff down. Bestseller. ❤ 😂🎉

[@Razrback]

Can you imagine how many other expensive things walked out of his house

[@Vinylrebel72]

Don Dokken is a damn LEGEND!!…I would take his advice all day long, and take martial arts lessons from him too.

[@unclefido6484]

Really? I see your unaware that he got his ass kicked on a regular basis. The band was legendary though. Don not so much.

[@Vinylrebel72]

@@unclefido6484 You do know that when you achieve black belt you’re registered as a lethal weapon … and they encourage martial artists not to fight

[@lfader]

@@unclefido6484 plus the constant Don vs George thing was always the forefront of the group idk .....

[@chrispellicci6587]

IDK , he's probably talking about the 1980's not 2023... now he looks shot

[@sunjester8254]

Don is a big mouthed hypocrite.

[@MrNumber1gator]

DONS THE BEST, I COULD LISTEN TO HIS MEMORIES FOR HOURS!!! LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT HIS ORIGINAL CHARVEL VH GUITAR.

[@DavidTasche]

Loved this interview Glad CC got clean plus I have been a Dokken and Poison fan for years. I grew up on the music from both bands

[@debbiemoeller2169]

Don was a great guest with amazing stories!! Can't wait to see your edit here❤❤❤

[@stephensanchez9590]

Great interview Don dokken is always very interesting to listen to all the stories he has about his life and all the other bands he knows I love hearing about it you feel like you get to know these guys alot more it's great

[@80sluva92]

What a great story.. Love cc I think those were cc's rough years. Back when he was doing the Samantha 7 album. So glad he's back with poison that's where he belongs. Thank Don for the great story..

[@SombraPiloto]

I got my hands on a '59 Les Paul here in Nashville about a year ago that was going for $200k at the shop where my luthier is and they have another now that's priced at $520k. If the story is true Don did CC a big solid.

[@BeyondOurSolarSystem]

Fuckin Don comes across like you're next door neighbor who's your best bud. Nothing rockstar about this guy. Very solid and grounded. Great man!!

[@chickd8326]

Great story from a legend ! Really glad CC is cleaned up and Im sure that was the real deal 59 les paul ,I kno he had 59 flame top... the things that walked out of his house I could only imagine.. shame it happend to him. But the best thing that money cant buy waa his son !!! Who is a killer drummer now..

[@butcho7492]

Don seems cool as fuck.

[@user-km4ul2ry4d]

I love Don's stories sure had some life I'd rather hear you talk about anything but music cause I've heard those stories 100x love Don love of my metal head life ❤

[@TGMATCHIM]

Looking forward to some hot-goss on Poison from Don. Would love to know what Lynch thought of CC and vice versa. Thanks for this interview

[@artistsonrecord]

Thanks for being here!

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Ya Don Bruce is a good guy. Everybody's had their Rock and roll party years you know but it's good to see so many that have gotten cleaned up

[@lfader]

Not a '59 Deluxe they went into production years later. the r9 today the Grail '59 Les Paul Standard is what Don meant to say ...... 🙂

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

Ya beat me. lol

[@lfader]

@@johnsmith-ug5tp been there bruh 🤣👍 The money on those now you really pay attention😳😱

[@whamsie4022]

That’s not the only thing he embellished in this clip.

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

haha He is good for a laugh though. @@whamsie4022

[@bigpoppa5732]

I'd love to hear about Jack Russell and the survivors of Great White

[@johnn58]

Don Dokken is hilarious! He could do a spoken word set that would be really funny and entertaining.

[@Syamhouse]

Great Story!

[@user-tv1le7sw2l]

Don Dokken is so correct about Kotzen being a nobody. Rikki got his heart broken, but the other 2 went back to being nobody's.

[@buckster2575]

They where on there way out Richie just came into the picture.a studuim tour for nobody's ok dude.

[@christopherhuff3123]

Bullshit! 😂You're on KZbin. Type in Kotzen, DeVille and Rikki and see who's doing what at this moment. Look at the music being put out and by who. There's no comparison. And Rikki wasn't married to her. Richie was.

[@jimthar17]

*Nobodies.

[@mhsandifer]

Lol, he's a nobody like Allan Holdsworth or Steve Morse

[@user-tv1le7sw2l]

@@mhsandifer Who?

[@nickfuller20]

I was in Sacramento for the last day of that Poison Richee Kotzen 94ish tour. I have never seen so many hot chicks at a concert, 3-1 female male ratio. There were about 90 to 100 waiting to get back stage all lined up to the left of the stage at Cal Expo. Then grunge happend. Motley Crue and Poison were invisible and hated by everyone in that 90s era. Except me, I played Crue, Poison, Dokken and ALL hair bands as loud as my speakers in my car would go!! People forget about how hated Motley Crue were back then. Now it is "in" to be a fan of their's.

[@jimthar17]

*Theirs.

[@nickfuller20]

@@jimthar17 Corrected.

[@ralphemerson497]

That was the “Native Tongue” tour. Saw them also at Jones Beach, Long Island over the summer with Damn Yankees. Kotzen was guitarist.

[@acefromspace2727]

Hair metal was a joke by the end of 1991. Seattle grunge hit at just the right time.

[@akadkins69]

I love don such a great dude overall

[@beeemm2578]

Musicians code right there. Been there. Someone at the party trying to walk out with drum pedals, cymbals, guitars, ect while the musician is hammered...snakey people.

[@aceisagodkiss3872]

2:21 .... "My problem was cardiovascular" .... As a cigarette burns in the background during the interview😒

[@timtonner946]

I was ready to hear Don further the story by telling us WHEN, after being rejected three times, he got his black belt...

[@islandgirltai]

❤ I’m glad to hear you sober… only at house once… respectfully… almost fell in ur pool… cuz my adhdh brain wasn’t in lala land no drugs… never been my thing…

[@williamhutton2126]

Story went from interesting to "I have all the blackbelts, no srsly, I am kungfu".

[@neilsimon544]

Don seems like a kool dude.

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

There wasn't a 59 deluxe. It was a standard. The Deluxe was originally from 1969 to 1985.

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

So Don Dokken is also a bad ass. This guy never ceases to embarrass me FOR HIM.

[@libsrcrazy9634]

Great story. Good job don for protecting cc’s property

[@SuperHotrod4]

Lol Don cracks me up. I love how he just says shit… Lol

[@GembaDocs]

Don’s just great! Is it true Netflix are making a documentary? That would be great.

[@armandomorenotherevival7827]

They weren’t married , it was Rikki’s fiancée. But regardless screwed up move. Richie ended up marrying her . But that ended I believe.

[@billydeewilliams9104]

Strange tale. Honestly sounds like Don got caught taking the guitar. Why would he take the guitar from the thief at CC's house, and then put it in his car and take it home... ?

[@KristinBerdis]

Keep it safe

[@NealVio]

Man what a great story, I love it. I thought Richie slept with the bassist's wife.

[@pb12661]

wow, that's a guy with high character.

[@rayfabris2512]

Don has some great stories btw loved DOKKEN from 1st time I heard "Paris is Burning" on the radio so i went to the record store those were cool btw and bought "Breaking the Chains" one of favorite albums and that was the 1st DOKKEN song I learned

[@davidsamueld2015]

Dokken was a true talent. C.C. was a zero crack head.

[@lfader]

​@@mariek6993Lynch was a premier guitarist (Ed Randy) .... but Dokken never got the top billing big stage show tour status push .,, more the opening act for established big name bands .... Remembering all the inter fighting bitterness Don vs George I'd hear abt so .....

[@leonardhill4440]

Almost same exact thing happened to me over 30 years ago…I’ve been in many local bands over the years and there was this young kid who was a friend of mine he was a new upcoming fantastic guitarist. I live 20 miles outside of Buffalo NY and I’m a Native American/ Canadian Indian and around that time the Seneca Nation of Indians were making millions selling cheap gas and smokes. There would be lines for miles for gas one gas station would sell gas for $1 a gallon and another would charge $.85 the lowest I’ve paid was $.23 cent…yep CENTS…anyway there was this one crazy filthy rich Indian dude who had a mansion on Lake Erie worth over $8 million and was a good friend of Stevie Ray Vaughan and had a signed hand made guitar in a hidden secret room in his house in an amazing glass case on his wall and whenever he’d go to jail his wife would have coke parties with bands and etc it was a good scene. I take this young guitar prodigy to one of the parties and the Indians wife took a huge liking to this young men so I went home he decided to stay the night. The afternoon I get a call from this guy asking if I was home and if he could stop by quick to show me something cool….I said sure he opens up the trunk and shows me the Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar that the Indian dudes wife gave him and this kid was a huge Stevie Ray Vaughan fan. He couldn’t believe it. I told him immediately hop in your car and I drove him back to the house and put the guitar back, and he asked me why I said because that Indian dude is one of the craziest guys you’ll ever meet and he’ll be home in two days and if he sees this gone, I’m sure another stent in jail would not bother him because he would un-alive you without ever blinking an eye. Sorry the story was long, but Don D just reminded me of what I did… pretty crazy.

[@shannoncook6208]

I like dokken. And I just wish they would have put out more hit songs. I think that came along a little too late.. And they were a little too pretty, but all of those guys were at that time.

[@canyonproductions7683]

Great guitar story Don. Always love hearin that dude talk Old Hollywood. I dont see the need to bag on Kotzen though- thats literally 30 years back, and Im sure we’ve ALL done stupid shit and moved on. Cmon guys. IMO Smith/ Kotzen and Heaven Comes Down are the two BEST Rock albums out right now.

[@philfrank5601]

Come on: everybody knows that Taekwondo literally gives away black belts. Don coulda saved the flights. I thought he had a Karate black belt that actually means something!

[@williamsaldanah3554]

How much is that guitar worth again Don??

[@JayLee-bv3vw]

$100k to $800k depending on how many cigarettes he's smoking while talking about it.

[@vistalite]

Poison live in mansions?!?! I had no idea. They must have had good management and financial advisors. I see bands that sold way more records and sold out coliseums working regular jobs now.

[@chrisrose3967]

Poison has sold 30 million records in the United States and over 65 million albums worldwide. That's comparable with Def Leppard and more then Ratt, Dokken or Whitesnake combined.

[@vistalite]

@@chrisrose3967 ​​⁠ Unreal. I never really paid attention to them after the first record. I assumed they were an industry joke. Good for them. Beats working.

[@daa5249]

@@vistalite MTV made them very rich!

[@matthewchicchi7262]

10 days in Korea, huh?

[@troynelson8345]

Yeah your a badass Don 😂😂😂😂 while you puff on the cigarette 😂😂😂😂😂😂 that's why you couldn't last in cardio

[@RexCars1]

Have Another Cigarette Don.. ( it's done your voice so well )..

[@cg1288]

And how many albums have you sung on?

[@RexCars1]

@@cg1288 .. Only a few.. Don.. was an AMAZING Singer.. I first met him in 1979.. When he was the Singer / Lead Guitar Player of Dokken.. I said that comment because Heavy Smoking has RUINED his voice.. Very Sad 😔

[@cg1288]

@RexCars1 I hear you, but It seemed to be a little tasteless the way you commented. Even more so, since it seems you are acquainted with him. He seems to be a target nowadays for anyone with a keyboard. Of course, smoking doesn't help. But two to four days without smoking, and the voice comes back. I bet he does that before going into the studio. Father time though, is undefeated. And it has no mercy on the chords after about 55.

[@RexCars1]

@@cg1288 I wish i could agree with you CG.. I'm in my 60's ( a few years behind Don ).. and I have seen SOO Many people RUIN their voice from smoking... My comment sounds harsh because I remember how great Don's Voice USE to be.. Very Sad...

[@matthewmatt5285]

@@RexCars1 Alcohol will ruin your voice MUCH FASTER than smoking,. You DON'T KNOW,.HUSH~

[@williamcallahanlll2924]

Especially when the Drummer is a BB in BJJ 😅

[@bobdooggie]

Everyone knows that ??? I didn’t know that haha. I knew Lynch was into bodybuilding. Yeah no doubt CCs house was a mess if he had lots of parties. So what kind of woman was Rikki Rocket’s wife to screw around too ?? Maybe Rikki is not quite the rocket he wants people to believe 😂😂😂. It takes two to tango. Don’t blame only Kotzen. Now Kotzen is married to that hot Brazilian babe bass player from Vixen. Domo obrigado 😂

[@scottarmen9097]

Maybe CC can help Don quit smoking the cancer sticks.

[@chromemusic4401]

Don’s defense mechanism is bragging how tough he is. “Maybe if I tell them I’m lethal they will back off”😂

[@shannoncook6208]

He talks about CC deville being high on cocaine. You can tell this guy is the epitome of what alcohol cocaine does to you.

[@ugaais]

Don is famous for not doing coke and didn’t over indulge in partying…it’s why he has a $20 million dollar net worth…he had throat issues and surgeries that’s why his voice is rough

[@whamsie4022]

Still want to see the Dokken/Lynch cage match.

[@scottmcclure4153]

Richie married that girl and had kids . People don't leave good marriages. So Don really should not air out that dirty laundry. Richie is all around musician . Plays every instrument. He in my top 10 guitarist. CC is great to . I seen him twice. He impressed me . But Richie man so good. Great voice and all . The whinney dog's last album lll is f'n awesome .

[@SuperHotrod4]

He didn’t air any dirty laundry, that’s old news. Anybody that follows poison knows the story already.

[@scottmcclure4153]

@@SuperHotrod4 if it old news then shut the f up. It's that simple. Talk about the album, the music. Maybe how good Richie is . Not other bands dirty laundry Nothing personal. Call me old school. But I grew up in NY. We keep our mouth shut or get punch in it . Don should know better.

[@Malte-Micha]

Richie wasn't actialy a nobody! Native tongue by poison was NOT his first album! Richie was signed long before 93. Rockets wife was a schmuck it takes 2 to tango.

[@lonniegammon3401]

I loved dokken

[@jumpingjacks5558]

I thought he was going to talk about CC Deville, not his martial arts and how tough he thinks he is. I can see why he failed those three tests. Don Dokken told a hash story about CC Deville that pretty much everyone new because that is how CC was. Sorry, fragments of stories past followed by a narcissistic rant about how tuff Don is doesn't cut it.

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

I think he had a few pops. ha

[@anthonylove821]

Did the guy that did this video or Don realize there was an orb at the 1:49 mark… pretty wild😮 Unless Richie kotzens balls flew off lol 😂

[@gregc8483]

Cigarette Smoke, dude. Try to stay in reality.

[@kentbancroft1114]

Don has a lot of opinions on a lot of people I was around in the 80s this guy has never been anything but a fly by night musician if you want to sum up this guys career listen to a medley of his hit😳

[@cg1288]

That sounds like the retort of someone who has a lot of jealousy.

[@chromemusic4401]

Someone that spends 5 minutes telling you how bad ass and tough they are ABSOLUTELY ISNT trust me. The toughest bad ass just shows you if it ever gets to that point.

[@chriswilgus4752]

It takes two to tango, so maybey it was goid for Rikki to getbrid of her.

[@anthonylove821]

And Don, Don, Don!!!! You had a chance to knock this guy out but didn’t …. At least say “ go ahead, make my day” or say to this guy “see my right right hand, his name is Clyde, Then say right turn Clyde” and knock the focker on his arse!!!! Lmfao😂

[@scottdunn2178]

Love Don, but c'mon man you're no Chuck Norris 😂

[@eddiebranden1]

Richie Kotzen wasn't "some nobody".

[@haliaeetus8221]

Who was he then?

[@matthewmatt5285]

FEVER DREAM was amazing ,.His first album,. After that is wasn't that great~

[@eddiebranden1]

@@matthewmatt5285 Fever Dream was this second album.

[@matthewmatt5285]

@@eddiebranden1 Fever Dream was his first SOLO album right? The other one before was a TwoSome?

[@terrytummons8898]

Why would you put it in your trunk?

[@dalepiwek]

Killer 😭😭😂

[@aug-pahunters51]

DEVILLE WAS DOCKING WITH DOKKEN!!!????

[@Walkerbjj]

Taekwondo!? 😆

[@morgancatherwood5665]

1:50 - an orb flew by Don - his house is haunted

[@anthonylove821]

That was pretty wild. I wonder if the guy that did this video or don even realized that? After hearing about Richie doing rikkis wife, there’s also a rumor it was one of Richie’s balls flying around lol😂. That was pretty douchey on his part

[@lisazinn866]

😂

[@elmerfudd1047]

That’s smoke from his cigarette

[@morgancatherwood5665]

it's not - it's an energy orb - I'm very familiar with them@@elmerfudd1047

[@acw2237]

I think kotzen married her, yes?

[@PRIESTWORLD]

YES

[@PRIESTWORLD]

Or they are at least STILL together

[@acason4]

@@PRIESTWORLD No. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Kotzen married her in 94’ & they were only married for 3 years. She married some soap opera actor named Windsor Harmon.

[@paulshamblin6260]

Don must be a good dude. Totally agree, Rockets wife? Dick move. I've never heard a bad word about Ricky Rocket. You just never do.

[@Night2RememberEnt]

LOL "I am a black belt" wait spending 10 days a year even at Dons age now he STILL wouldn't be a black belt HAAAAAAAAA

[@christopherhuff3123]

Kotzen married the woman and had a kid. According to him in interviews , he cared more about her than he did Poison. And he damn sure wasn't a nobody when he joined and he isn't now.

[@wills8705]

He was a nobody to any general music fan. However, he still is a nobody to the same ppl. Seems like you're taking it personally. To say that hardly anyone knows your name, except for the tiny fraction of die hard guitar fans, isn't a put down. By comparison, not many more ppl know who Yngwie Malmsteen is. Name recognition doesn't always follow talent. These are just facts.

[@derhampaul2182]

How silly

[@gabrielanselmi1462]

kotzen married her and had a daughter, this guy talking shit would love to be able to sing like Richie just one day, jajajajajaja

[@The80sKidRox]

Thats Richie Kotzen's legacy. Lol

[@victortiempo-to5il]

It wasn't the uncivilized eugene

[@fromalongtimeago]

You know his "black belt" story is BS. Everyone around martial arts knows it's a carotid restraint not a "chokehold"

[@machupikachu1085]

But everyone outside of martial arts does not know that. He was talking to people who don't know martial arts. Relax.

[@jasondemers4389]

Don, there is no such thing as a 1959 Les Paul Deluxe. The Deluxe wasn't introduced until 1969. If anything it was a 1959 LP Standard. Get your sh!t straight. If it was indeed a 1969 Deluxe they weren't worth but maybe 3-6K then.

[@joehernandez6260]

It’s her fault 😝 but than again you don’t bang your band mates wife ❤

[@sunjester8254]

So, Don couldn't stand George because he was supposedly messed up on drugs or booze, yet Dokeen is friends with CC? Do you get the feeling that Don's full of sh1t?

[@demonspoo]

lol

[@blsrulz]

Smoking, unfuckin real

[@jackolson8775]

Ritchie Kotzen has more talent than every member of Dokken & Poison combined. I dont think he was the least bit concerned about getting kicked out of a band who's best days were far behind them.

[@terrytummons8898]

Whats he doing now

[@TheHardcoreRob]

Ritchie got fired, but the wife was forgiven. Maybe the mouth cancer he got came from her came from Ritchie sticking her?

[@brunocordeiro4117]

still smoking Don? what a imbecile you are...it fucked with your voice

[@riggedreality420]

CC=33 Deville=Devil.

[@jamesball5743]

Horrible musician, good storyteller

[@princessleiagermanshepherd3335]

Don the “snitch” Dokken

[@coyleigh]

C.C. has no class. Anybody that has no respect for his own home is just pitiful.

[@ryant3600]

What? You realize this was back in the early 90's and CC had a serious coke habit. Once he got clean it completely changed around.