Tooth and Nail (Album)
Occupation
- Song: Don Dokken
- Bass: Jeff Pilson
- Guitar: George Lynch
- Drums: Mick Brown
Tooth and Nail is the title of the second studio album released in 1984 by the U.S. glam metal band Dokken. It is also the first Dokken album, played on the Jeff Pilson bass after Juan Croucier had left the group and was changed to Ratt. The album reached number 49 of the U.S. album charts and was awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) with platinum.
Background
The album was produced by Tom Werman, who had produced the album Shout at the Devil by Mötley Crüe and before that also many successful albums by Cheap Trick in the previous year. His co - producer was Roy Thomas Baker, who had previously worked for, among others, Queen and The Cars. Werman became ill during the shooting and had to be hospitalized; Don Dokken suggested Michael Wagener, whom he had met in Hamburg and who had also produced the debut album by the band to entrust with the task. Wagener was the record company still unknown, so Baker was given the task to produce the album - actually led but the album production by Wagener, although he was named on the record covers only as a mixer.
During the recordings, there were repeated dispute between singer Don Dokken and guitarist George Lynch. This, for example, refused to play for the song Into the Fire acoustic guitar, bassist Jeff Pilson so took on this task. Another point of contention is Lynch claim to include extensive instrumental parts.
The album was released on September 13, 1984; Elektra released a total of three singles: First Into the Fire was decoupled, the shortly afterwards Just got Lucky followed; but it was the ballad Alone Again, which had the most success. Into the Fire came three years later again used as the song in 1987 on the soundtrack to the horror film Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger lives (Original Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors ) was. The song can be heard in the movie when the character of " Kristen " in her room listening to the radio.
Quotes
" Roy Thomas Baker has contributed nothing significant to the plate. He was just trying myself and George tell them apart, so that Michael could work in peace in music. Roy has us mixed drinks and worried video games. He was our baby sitter. "
Reception
Daniel Böhm wrote in the magazine Rocks to Tooth and Nail, the " masterful riff and solo work the guitarist " is delicate, he " plays in the immortality and cultivate his own intense style." The songs of the album were " more muscular and more metallic than Van Halen, but also at the same time melodic palatable ".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote the reviewer for Allmusic.com, Don Dokken own " no great voice ," but it could succeed him, " to make it sound cheesy song material compelling. " But who really make this album a listening experience, whether Lynch. The guitarist was "a lightning-fast instrumentalist ," and there was " not a single solo on the album, it would not be worthy to be heard ."