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WHILE drummer “Wild” Mick Brown is retired, the other three members of the classic Dokken line-up love to take shots at each other heading into their dotage.
To be fair, bassist Jeff Pilson is usually only defending himself or a band-mate when he gets cross in interviews, leaving vocalist Don Dokken and guitarist George Lynch to throw the real barbs.
And Lynch came up with a beauty when he recently told The SDR Show in relation to Don Dokken: “he has the same exact personality traits and character as Trump, except Trump’s a better singer…”
What prompted the double-barrelled put-down? A recollection of their early days together on the Sunset Strip.
“I remember we played a gig at the Starwood and we rolled up — I’ll never forget this, like it happened yesterday — and we rolled up in our Pinto station wagon and were loading our gear,” Lynch, 71, told the podcast.
“And we listened, and Don’s band — Airborn, they were called — they were up there on the stage and they were playing what sounded exactly like one of our songs that we had played the last couple times we played with him. It was called ‘Night Boys’. And he was playing the exact same thing and he was saying it was his song, so he plagiarised it. And we were, like, ‘What the…?’
“So, shoot forward many decades after working with this guy and talking to lots of other people, he did this regularly all the time with lots of bands he ran into. He would just steal the songs.
And I remember that night when he played, he also played a very deep track, a Judas Priest song, and announced to the audience it was his song, it was an original. So the balls on this guy is just crazy.
“I just [think], like, how does this guy lie like this and just get away with it? But he does. I mean, we have a president does the same exact thing.”
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