DOKKEN has released a video teaser for an album called “The Lost Songs: 1978-1981”.
The effort, which is expected later this year, will feature material that was written by Don Dokken during the band’s formative years but that has never before been made available.
Don Dokken said:
“The songs recorded in the ’70s when I was a little pup in my early 20s. And I have 12 songs that I haven’t released,” he explained.
“So we’re gonna go in and remaster them and all that, and I might put out that record and call it something like ‘Dokken: The Early Days’ or ‘Dokken: The Lost Tapes’, or something like that. ‘Cause it was just an accident. I was cleaning out my locker and I found a bunch of master tapes from ’77 to ’79. And I said, ‘What the heck are these?’ And it turns out it was all these demos I did in the early ’70s, before we had a record deal… It’s kind of fun record. My voice sounds a lot younger. I listen to it, and I go, ‘God, I sound like I’ve got helium in my voice.’ I was 23 years old. I sound like Mickey Mouse.”
More information about “The Lost Songs: 1978-1981” will be made available on Friday, May 29.