DOKKEN "BREAKIN' THE CHAINS" 1982 CARRERE RECORDS FRANCE NM/EX- OOP RARE LP

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ARTISTS: DOKKEN

TITLE: “BREAKIN' THE CHAINS”

TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTO'S & BELOW

A1

Breaking The Chains

3:50

A2

Seven Thunders

3:44

A3

I Can't See You

3:07

A4

In The Middle

3:12

A5

We're Illegal

3:38

B1

Paris

3:13

B2

Stick To Your Guns

3:56

B3

Young Girls

3:14

B4

Felony

3:24

B5

Nightrider

5:08

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Carrere

• Published By – ROBA Music Verlag GmbH

• Recorded At – Dierks Studios

• Printed By – SNA

• Mastered At – Translab

Credits

• Art Direction – Andrew Christian

• Bass, Vocals – Juan Croucier

• Design – Shoot That Tiger!

• Drums – Mick Brown (2)

• Guitar [Lead] – Georges Lynch*

• Lead Vocals, Guitar – Don Dokken

• Producer, Engineer – Michael Wagener

Notes

Made in France

Original French issue, different to the better known US issue two years later.

Live to Rock (Rock to Live) and Paris is Burning (the live version on the US version) are replaced with a track called "We're Illegal" and a studio version of Paris is Burning (simply called "Paris").

LABEL: CARRERE RECORDS FRANCE

CAT.#: 

YEAR: 1982

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/NM- CONDITION. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.. VISUALLY NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. NO SCUFFS, BLEMS, LINES, VISIBLE SCRATCHES. VISUALLY LOOKS VERY CLEAN. AUDIO WISE THIS IS SUPER CLEAN IN BETWEEN TRACKS VERY CLEAN. THE RECORD IS SUPER CLEAN SOUNDING.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/NM CONDITION. NICE STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, NO TEARS, NO SEAM SPLITS. SMALL SPOT IN UPPER RIGHT CORNER WHERE A PRICE STICKER WAS REMOVED (SEE PHOTO).

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. FRENCH PRESSING.INCLUDES ORIGINAL FRENCH INNER SLEEVE  

MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS/RELEASE:

Dokken is an American metal band formed in 1979. It split up in 1989 and reformed four years later. The band had many charting singles like ("Alone Again", "In My Dreams" and "Burning Like a Flame") and have sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. The live album Beast from the East was nominated for the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1989.

The classic Dokken line-up consisted of founder Don Dokken on vocals, George Lynch on lead guitar, Mick Brown on drums and Jeff Pilson, who replaced the Ratt-bound Juan Croucier in 1983, on bass; this line-up remained stable from 1983 to 1989, and again from 1993 to 1998, and briefly reunited in 2016;only Dokken and Brown now remain. After several personnel changes on guitar, Dokken's attorney Jon Levin stepped in to fill the role in 2004. In 2001, Barry Sparks replaced Pilson on bass. In 2009, Sean McNabb (formerly with Great White and Quiet Riot) replaced him, and was then replaced by Chris McCarvill in 2015.

Band history

Early years

Don Dokken's first band formed in 1976, named Airborn. He played shows at clubs in the Los Angeles area, including the Starwood on Sunset Strip. Airborn included Bobby Blotzer on drums and Juan Croucier on bass, but Blotzer and Croucier left the band in 1978 to form FireFoxx.Don Dokken was unable to keep the Airborn name because another band named Airborn had already acquired a record deal. Bringing in Greg Pecka on drums and Steven R. Barry on bass, Dokken recorded a 7" single, "Hard Rock Woman" b/w "Broken Heart", released in 1979 under the band name Dokken, produced by Drake Levin, best known as the guitarist for Paul Revere & the Raiders.

A Dokken line-up consisting of Don, guitarist Greg Leon, drummer Gary Holland (both from the band Suite 19 which also once featured Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee), and bassist Gary Link toured Germany in 1979 where the band met an up-and-coming producer by the name of Michael Wagener, also the live sound engineer for Accept, who would follow Don back to Los Angeles for a short vacation, a move that became permanent shortly thereafter. The '79 touring line-up quickly fell apart with Leon taking over Randy Rhoads' spot in Quiet Riot and Holland joining Dante Fox, later known as Great White. A Michael Wagener-produced Hamburg recording of the '79 line-up surfaced in 1989 under the title Back in the Streets, released by the German label Repertoire Records without the band's consent. Dokken toured Germany again in 1980, this time with Croucier back on bass.

In early 1981, Don Dokken returned to Germany trying to get a record deal with a new band in tow, guitarist George Lynch and drummer Mick Brown, who had been playing in a band called Xciter at the time, with Croucier remaining on bass. After recording demos with Wagener and with the help of Accept's manager, Gaby Hauke, a deal was secured with Carrere Records.Recorded between July and September 1981 at Studio Stommeln with Wagener and Dieter Dierks, Breaking the Chains was initially released under the name "Don Dokken" before it was changed to simply Dokken on subsequent pressings. While in Germany, Don would also demo songs with the Scorpions for their Blackout album as the band's vocalist Klaus Meine was forced to undergo surgery on his vocal cords and his return was uncertain for a time. Dokken did eventually perform backing vocals on the album. Meanwhile, Lynch, Brown and Croucier ended up working as studio musicians for German singer Udo Lindenberg on his 1982 album Keule, playing on four songs: "Urmensch", "Ratten" (both co-written by Lynch, Brown and Lindenberg), "Zwischen Rhein Und Aufruhr", and "Gesetz". Promotional activities for the European release of Breaking the Chains included a German TV appearance as Dokken performed a 40-minute live set on the Beat-Club as part of a Musikladen Extra which aired on January 4, 1982.

Back in the United States, Dokken were now managed by Cliff Bernstein who got the band signed to Elektra Records for a stateside release of Breaking The Chains, remixed for the American market. The band did an arena tour in the U.S. supporting Blue Öyster Cult in 1983, but when the tour was over the band was left with little money and was nearly dropped from the label due to the album's lack of success.

While the band was very popular in Europe during this time they had not yet made commercial progress in the United States. Magazines such as Kerrang! publicized Dokken in the UK.

Commercial success (1983–1988)

Juan Croucier left Dokken in 1983 just prior to the release of the "Breaking the Chains" video to join Ratt. He was replaced by Jeff Pilson, who joined in time to film the video (without having played the song). The album Tooth and Nail was released on September 13, 1984. The album contained several hit songs including "Just Got Lucky", "Alone Again", and "Into the Fire", and sold over one million copies in the US alone, peaking at No. 49, while selling another estimated one million copies worldwide.On November 9, 1985, the band's third album Under Lock and Key was released. It also sold over one million copies with the singles "In My Dreams" (#24), "The Hunter" (#25) and "It's Not Love". During this time in the 1980s, Dokken opened for such bands as Judas Priest, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Dio and Kiss, among others. The 1986 documentary short Heavy Metal Parking Lot features fans of Dokken and Judas Priest tailgating before a concert in Maryland.

Following a successful tour with Scorpions, Dokken returned to the studio in December 1986 to record "Dream Warriors", a song for the movie soundtrack A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. The track brought the band to the attention of many UK hard rock fans. The song was released as a single ("Dream Warriors" / "Back for the Attack") on February 10, 1987. After this release, the band took nearly 6 months off before recording Back for the Attack. The album was released on November 27, 1987, with the singles "Burning Like a Flame" (#20), "Heaven Sent" and "Prisoner" (#37) making the album the band's most successful release, reaching No. 13 on U.S. charts. It also included a remixed version of the single "Dream Warriors" (#22), and the accompanying music video featured band members interacting with the film's characters. Back for the Attack became Dokken's third record to reach platinum status.

After releasing Back for the Attack, the band toured as part of the Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 festival in the summer of 1988 along with Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica, and Kingdom Come.Recordings from their April 1988 tour in Japan led to the release of live album Beast from the East on November 16, 1988, which went Gold in the United States and charted at No. 33. The album scored one studio single, titled "Walk Away" and a music video was made for it

Breaking the Chains is the debut studio album by heavy metal band Dokken. The album was originally released in 1981 in Europe as Breakin' the Chains on the French label Carrere Records. This version contains some different mixes and titles of songs from the later US edition. "Paris Is Burning" is called "Paris" and is actually a studio version as opposed to the live recording in Berlin from December 1982. The album also contained a song called "We're Illegal", which was later turned into "Live to Rock".

The album was remixed, partially re-recorded, renamed and released in the US in 1983 by Elektra Records and reached number 136 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album was considered a flop by the label, which had the intention to drop the band. However, Dokken management convinced Elektra that they could make a more successful album, which materialized in Tooth and Nail in September 1984. Breaking the Chains title track was named the 62nd greatest hard rock song by VH1.It is featured on the radio station "V-ROCK" in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

In a discussion with George Lynch on January 26, 2011, he mentioned the existence of 500 copies of the Carrere Records Breakin' the Chains version printed with the Don Dokken moniker, instead of Dokken. This version also featured different album cover art.

Track listing

1981 Breakin' The Chains (Carrere Records)

All tracks written by Don Dokken and George Lynch, except where noted.

Side one

No.

Title

Length

1.

"Breaking the Chains"

3:43

2.

"Seven Thunders" (Dokken, Lynch, Mick Brown)

3:56

3.

"I Can't See You" (Dokken, Juan Croucier)

3:12

4.

"In the Middle"

3:44

5.

"We're Illegal" (Dokken, Lynch, Croucier)

3:39

Side two

No.

Title

Length

6.

"Paris"

3:46

7.

"Stick to Your Guns"

3:25

8.

"Young Girls"

3:14

9.

"Felony"

3:25

10.

"Nightrider" (Dokken, Lynch, Brown)

3:14

Total length:

35:01

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