Don Dokken

... and it featured a new singer named Christian Linderson.

And the album, this is no bullshit, the album was produced, in 1992, a doom metal band, their album was produced by none other than [dramatic music] Don Dokken.

What?

[laughs] In 1992.

I don't know.

I just thought that was so weird.

I've never heard that album, but when I read that, I'm like, "I gotta talk about that." I cannot believe Don Dokken produced something from this band.

Just got doomy.

But boy, did they have a lot of stars on it.

Don Dokken was on it.

Did you know that?

Yeah, 'cause that's when they were touring with them.

... for a little while, I, um, I was running Dokken's website.

And, um, Don put out that solitary solo record that he did, the acoustic solo record that he did.

Mm-hmm.

And he had me run that, and he sold about 5,500 CDs.

It was every day.

Oh, yeah.

'Cause, 'cause Don had put it out there that it was only gonna be available for a really short amount of time.

So I mean, people were buying 'em, and people, some people were buying, like, five and 10 at a time.

It's bad to see Vince Neil now.

It's not fun, as Don Dokken's friend, to see Don out there struggling the way he does, show after show after show.

And then to see 4,000, and this is for all three guys, not just Don, but for all three of these guys, they do a performance and then what happens? They get absolutely murdered online.

And whether they care or they don't care, their reputation just keeps on getting beaten.

Those two, and we've talked about it over and over again, and it doesn't make us right either.

I could be dead wrong on this.

But either of those two guys, Don Dokken, David Lee Roth, could go out there with an acoustic guitarist and do Storytellers as-

Well, see, see-

Well, le- uh, less commercial.

Uh, e- uh, le- and the, the, the deal with George, uh, I mean, and, you know, George is still walking the face of the earth, doing his thing, and interacting with Don Dokken occasionally, and he play, playing shows and such.

But, uh, George, um, can, you know, he's, he, he wants to do things the George Lynch way, and when you join a, uh, corporate entity, which essentially w- is what the Ozzy Osbourne world became, especially with Sharon Arden/Oz- Sharon Osbourne, um, you gotta play by their rules.

And, uh, in the real story, uh, I don't know how many people know this, but he was, he was inches away from becoming Jake E. Lee, essentially.

Oh, sure

... between George and Sharon.

Well, as, uh, as, as those of us who, who followed Dokken throughout the years, we know, uh, uh, even with someone with an ego like Don Dokken, George Lynch couldn't really get along with, and that Ozzy situation is Dokken times a, times 100, really, you know? So, it-

But boy, to, to, just to imagine what it would've sounded like, him, with him on guitar, it would be interesting.

I heard, um, on High Life, I heard a little Jeff Keith.

On Basics of the Bullet, I heard a little Don Dokken.

Um, so I, I, I, I heard a little more in the vocals than, than you did.

Mm.