Tooth and Nail (album)
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Publication |
September 13, 1984 |
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1984 |
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| Label (s) | Elektra Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
38:11 |
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Studio (s) |
Amigo Studios, Total Access Studio, Le Mobile (Remote Truck) |
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Tooth and Nail is the second studio album by the American glam metal band Dokken , released in 1984 . It is also the first Dokken album on which Jeff Pilson played bass after Juan Croucier left the group and switched to Ratt . The album reached number 49 of the US album forex charts and was by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with platinum excellent.
background
The album was Tom Werman produced the album in the previous year, Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue and before that also numerous successful albums by Cheap Trick had produced. His co-producer was Roy Thomas Baker , who had previously worked for Queen and The Cars , among others . Werman fell ill in the course of the recordings and had to be hospitalized; Don Dokken suggested that Michael Wagener , whom he had met in Hamburg and who had also produced the band's debut album, be entrusted with the task. Wagener was still too unknown to the record company, so Baker was given the task of producing the album - but Wagener actually did the album production, even though he was only mentioned as a mixer on the record cover.
Even during the recording there were repeated arguments between singer Don Dokken and guitarist George Lynch. He refused, for example, to play acoustic guitar for the song Into the Fire , so bassist Jeff Pilson took over this task. Another point of contention is Lynch's claim to record extensive instrumental parts.
The album was released on September 13, 1984; Elektra released a total of three singles : First, Into the Fire was released, followed shortly afterwards by Just got Lucky ; but it was the ballad Alone Again that had the greatest success. Into the Fire was used again three years later when the song was part of the soundtrack for the horror film Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger Lives in 1987 (original title: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors ). The song can be heard in the film when the character of "Kristen" is listening to the radio in her room.
Quotes
“ Roy Thomas Baker didn't add anything worth mentioning to the record. He was just trying to tell me and George apart so Michael could work on the music in peace. Roy mixed us drinks and got us video games. He was our babysitter. "
reception
Daniel Böhm wrote about Tooth and Nail in Rocks magazine that the “masterful riff and solo work of the guitarist” was filigree, that he “played himself into immortality and cultivated his very own intense style” . The songs on the album are "more muscular and metallic than Van Halen, but at the same time more melodically drinkable".
Reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote for Allmusic.com that Don Dokken “doesn't have a great voice,” but he manages to make the “cliché-laden song material sound convincing.” But whoever really makes the album a pleasure to listen to is Lynch. The guitarist is "a lightning-fast instrumentalist" and there is "not a single solo on the album that is not worth listening to."
Track list
- "Without Warning" (Lynch) - 1:35
- "Tooth and Nail" (Brown, Lynch, Pilson) - 3:40
- "Just Got Lucky" (Lynch, Pilson) - 4:35
- "Heartless Heart" (Brown, Lynch, Pilson) - 3:29
- "Don't Close Your Eyes" (Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) - 4:10
- "When Heaven Comes Down" (Brown, Lynch, Pilson) - 3:45
- "Into the Fire" (Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) - 4:30
- "Bullets to Spare" (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) - 3:35
- "Alone Again" (Dokken, Pilson) - 4:20
- "Turn on the Action" (Brown, Lynch, Pilson) - 4:43
Web links
- Tooth and Nail at Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 28, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ RIAA database information
- ↑ a b c group dynamics in: Rocks - the magazine for Classic Rock, issue 01/2012, pages 54 to 61
- ↑ Review: Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 01/2012, page 60
- ↑ Review on Allmusic.com