Ultron
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Aiiight, so I snag this disc and I'm pretty blown away by the guitar tones. This is just a stock DSL50 with a boost? Killer rhythms and leads! Should be in everyones player/ipod, if you dig the 80's metal. 
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Shiny_Surface
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Ultron":3b22zqin said:Aiiight, so I snag this disc and I'm pretty blown away by the guitar tones. This is just a stock DSL50 with a boost? Killer rhythms and leads! Should be in everyones player/ipod, if you dig the 80's metal.
Definitely sounds more like old school Dokken, scaryingly Lynch-ish. Tone was ok.
Gainfreak
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Yup, I was told it was a combo of DSl's and a 900 that he had and some Marshall cabs. Id be willing to bet that the tone would be even better with H30 speakers.
Ultron
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Gainfreak":1a2hj1pz said:
you think he was running regular greenbacks?
Gainfreak
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Ultron":8nkrko68 said:
nope. Pretty sure it was v30's.
goldwing68nv
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yeah,it's a really good album.bought it a few weeks ago.i think it's the best music Dokken's put out since the Lynch days.the guitar "tones" and "chops" are killer! ...out of curiousity,i did e-mail,Jon Levin,as to which "pickup" he recorded with,in his guitar,for THIS album...he answered: Dimarzio "Tone Zone".
SQUAREHEAD
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Great guitar player and good tone on the cd... I just can't stand Don Dokken after hearing a few very disturbing things about him recently. The guy's a class "A" HORRIBLE human being. period.
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MisterBulbous
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on a different note, this george lynch release seems kinda strange. You'll have to scroll down a bit. An album of Scorpion covers??
http://www.aghnohaytiempo.blogspot.com/
http://www.aghnohaytiempo.blogspot.com/
MrDan666
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Levin rocks!! I love his playing and tone on this new Dokken cd and also i really dug the bootleg of his old band which Ralph posted a while back.. cant remember the name though 
goldwing68nv
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donbarzini":owtt7j8p said:
BINGO!!! ...hit the nail on the head!!!
fek
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I listened to the clips on Amazon.com and was not inspired to buy it. I am a Dokken fan too. I guess I need to hear entire songs because the clips just did nothing for me.
metalowns101
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goddamn, I've gotta check this out!
my rig -
tone zone - boost - dsl50 - vintage 30's!
my rig -
tone zone - boost - dsl50 - vintage 30's!
jkdsteve
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SgtThump":37xynn32 said:
Amen to that..I d'loaded it..have to buy it on my next trip to Dimple.
I think I still prefer Up from The Ashes (John Norum) but that's 'coz I haven't listened to the new one much.
MrDan666
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JKD":39hzgiju said:
Up from the Ashes is almost impossible to top... i dont mean that against all of Dokken's releases, but Up From The Ashes is by far the best non-Lynch Dokken album ever made. All IMO!
sandman
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The new Dokken "Lightning Strikes Again", I just got today...listened to it and it is very Lynch like indeed...however the overall CD sounds like a cross between Lynch and the playing Norum did on "Up from the Ashes" Don's solo cd....great cd in my opinion...
70strathead
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just my opinion, but i liked when JNorum sat in with dokken because he plays his own signature feel and approach..this guy is a total lynch copy, great player, but I'd rather see Norum any day over Levin. Those Euro-Cats have that strong melodic sense and cool bluesy stuff.
MrDan666
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70strathead":2q4khhcy said:
Norum rocks
One of my alltime biggest influences!Ant, did you ever see Don Dokken live during the Up From The Ashes era? I know Ralph did.. Lucky bastard
Id give anything to go back in time and catch one of those shows with John Norum and Billy White on guitar!
Gainfreak
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70strathead":5j1ehpb2 said:
Sorry Brother, Id have to humbly disagree. Norum playes in a style of whoever he was listening to at the time. I have Recordings of him where he copied licks that were directly lifted from Gary Moore,Lynch,Yngwie,ETC.ETC. I think he is a great player but on most of his recording you definitely knew who Norum was listening to at the time and it showed in his playing. I don't think that he found his own voice until years later.
As far as Levin being a Lynch copy, there is no denying that he was going for a Lynch vibe on that disc even although he denied it in interviews lol.
I grew up watching Levin play in clubs and he's always had a Lynch/EVH style. To be honest with you , he is not playing up to his ability in Dokken. The shit that he used to pull off live back in the 80's was mind-bending.
70strathead
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MrDan666":27h6fztm said:70strathead":27h6fztm said:
Norum rocks
Ant, did you ever see Don Dokken live during the Up From The Ashes era? I know Ralph did.. Lucky bastard
no I didnt Dan, i was loosing interest in Dokken at that time...but i did like some of the tracks on the record and the guitar playing on it.
70strathead
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Gainfreak":20o6ttmq said:
yep, i know that levin guy can do some shit, i heard him playing in the back room at Bogner a few years back and he can definitely rip it up. And u r correct about JN copying those dudes, i guess its the songwriting that i dug and love Norum's vibrato. I saw levin and norum both with Dokken and enjoyed norums performance over Levin's....matter of taste. I remember he played a Black Les Paul all night through MArshalls and it was just powerful and yet played soulful.
what the hell is Norum up to these daze anyway?
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