Dokken - Beast From The East - 2CD

2 CD - UK Remaster on Rock Candy 

Killer live 2CD set fully restored from the original release. 16 page full colour booklet – 4,000 word essay, enhanced artwork with previously unseen photos and a new interview. Dokken not only crafted great songs, looking and sounding very much like the archetypical eighties LA rock band, but that they were also an extremely musically gifted unit.

This combined talent pro-duced several big selling albums and paved the way for the recording of this their career-defining double live album. However, all was not well within the ranks of the band. Leader and vocalist Don Dokken and guitarist extraordinaire George Lynch were involved in a long running feud, one that was played out in public, but one which also added colour to the project, giving the band an edge that provided a palpable frisson to their appeal.

In many respects ‘Beast From The East’ benefits from this tension, giving the music a sense of purpose and energy that easily eclipsed the studio recordings. Taped in Tokyo in early 1988, during an eight date Japanese tour, and released later that year, the record received tremendous reviews and featured seriously impressive versions of Dokken classics. Look out too for a new studio track ‘Walk Away’, giving some indication of where the band might have gone had they remained together