THE classic Dokken line-up - Don Dokken, Mick Brown, George Lynch and Jeff Pilson - is reuniting but drummer Brown says: "I don't think anyone wants to play together"

Brown said six gigs have been booked “at the end of this year.” During an appearance on the One on One With Mitch Lafon podcast, the drummer said that hopefully there will be even more plans to come.

He noted: “There’s talk of us doing something in Japan at the end of this year and if that happens and we make it through, then there could be talk about something. Let’s just get through six shows and if we can do that, then maybe we can go ahead. It’s just up in the air.”

When it comes to the troublesome relationship of Dokken and Lynch, Mick commented: “It was something that was there since day one and it’s never going to go away – and that’s what’s making me feel hesitant about getting together again. I haven’t seen a change in either one of them (Dokken or Lynch), so I don’t know what to expect. But I’m willing to find out. In spite of ourselves, we always seem to do well. It’s never very easy and I’m sure it’s not going to be this time either.”

The musician was also brutally honest about the band’s main motivation behind the whole thing, openly admitting they’re in it for the money.

He said: “It’s the money we’re doing it for and I think that’s the wrong reason. The reason should be we want to play together – and I don’t think anyone wants to play together – but the money we’re being offered to do it, you just can’t say no. And to me, that’s the wrong reason, but that’s it…

“I’d rather be excited playing with the four guys again … I don’t feel that way. I’m already happy playing in the Dokken I’m in now.

“I don’t know if it’s a plus to have the original members or not. That’s my personal opinion. I think Dokken does real well without the original members and we’ve built that for so long.

“That’s a long time to now have the original members around and when they come back I’m nor sure that it’s a huge plus. Maybe on the recording end it might be.

“The big prize isn’t there anymore, like it was when we started out as teenagers and turned into Dokken. There was a prize – and the prize was all these little platinum records I have on the wall, the money we were making, being famous on MTV.

“Now there’s none of that. I don’t see any prize there anymore.”

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