Many years after the infamous George Lynch affair broke up the most promising phase of the bands career, Dokken fans must be hoping to finally hear an album worthy of the name - but I'm afraid this ain't it.

While John Levin's guitar playing is perfectly good enough with one or two interesting solos and a couple of good riffs to be heard, on this album it sounds neither new or fresh and fails to excite.

I'm afraid no better can be said for Don Dokken's vocals, which on some tracks were just achingly poor.

As for the song writing - the dissapointment continues.

At best sounding like a collection of 2nd rate Scorpions album fillers and at worst - the painstakingly awful ballad "How I Miss Your Smile" - difficult to listen to and just plain shite.

There are a few ok tracks on here, most notably the ballad "I Remember", but they are so few and far between that I simply cannot recommend it.

MOO ! pmsbull

Current Lineup :

Don Dokken : Vocals

John Levin : Guitar

Mick Brown : Drums

Barry Sparks : Bass