Tooth and Nail is the second studio album by
heavy metalHeavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...
band
DokkenDokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band that was formed in 1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide....
, released in 1984 through
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. It was the #35 album of 1985 according to
Billboard magazine. The album has sold over a million copies in
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and overall, 3 million copies worldwide. The album reached #49 on the
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album chart.
This album was the group's first with bassist
Jeff PilsonJeff Pilson is an American bass guitarist.Pilson was a member of heavy metal bands Dokken and Dio. He currently has his own progressive metal group called War and Peace, which was formed in 1993, releasing two albums: 1993's War and Peace and 2004's The Walls Have Eyes...
following
Juan CroucierJuan Croucier is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.-Career:Croucier attended South Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for the metal bands Dokken and Ratt, Croucier was also very briefly in Quiet Riot...
's departure to join
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.
Tooth and Nail is the second studio album by
heavy metalHeavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...
band
DokkenDokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band that was formed in 1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide....
, released in 1984 through
Elektra RecordsElektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009.-Beginnings:...
. It was the #35 album of 1985 according to
Billboard magazine. The album has sold over a million copies in
USThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and overall, 3 million copies worldwide. The album reached #49 on the
Billboard 200The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
U.S.The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
album chart.
This album was the group's first with bassist
Jeff PilsonJeff Pilson is an American bass guitarist.Pilson was a member of heavy metal bands Dokken and Dio. He currently has his own progressive metal group called War and Peace, which was formed in 1993, releasing two albums: 1993's War and Peace and 2004's The Walls Have Eyes...
following
Juan CroucierJuan Croucier is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.-Career:Croucier attended South Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for the metal bands Dokken and Ratt, Croucier was also very briefly in Quiet Riot...
's departure to join
RattRatt is an American heavy metal band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Way Cool Jr." and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in...
. Associate producer was
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, who had produced successful albums for
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and
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and had re-recorded, remixed and re-mastered
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's
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after the album was picked up by Elektra/WEA. It was produced by
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, known for producing several successful albums for
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and the previous year's
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, the Crüe's breakthrough album.
Lead-off single for the album was "Into the Fire". A
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for the song received moderate play on
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. "Into the Fire" spent eight weeks in the Top 40 of Billboards Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from October to December 1984, peaking at #21 and charting for a total of eleven weeks.
Second single, "Just Got Lucky", was somewhat less successful, again supported by a music video while charting on the 50-place Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks during January and February 1985 and peaking at #27.
It would be a power ballad that would give the album—and the band—its biggest hit. "Alone Again" spent fourteen weeks on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, including two at its peak position of #20. More significantly, the melodic song of heartbreak was aided by strong rotation that spring and summer at
MTVMTV is a cable television network based in New York City and launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs...
and gave the band their first and biggest hit on the Hot 100, where its eleven-week run from May to July 1985 peaked at #64.
Though clearly more an album act than a singles act, Dokken's album sales were tied to the videos for the singles from those albums. Tooth and Nail
rose to #71 on The Billboard 200 during the release of "Into the Fire", but fell off the charts for a week before re-entering and rising to #77 during the release of "Just Got Lucky". It was during the run of this single that the album, sliding down the charts after "Just Got Lucky" faded, reversed course and hit its peak of #49. This time, Tooth and Nail would be certified Gold by the RIAA (in August 1985)—the band's first certification—and would linger on the charts for the remainder of the year, aided by a gig opening for the
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. This continued buoying of sales resulted in the unusual circumstance of the album being rated higher on the 1985 year-end charts (#35) than it had actually reached in its chart peak.
The album's three music videos were later featured along with the band's other videos to date on a longform videocassette release, Dokken—Unchain the Night, by
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through Elektra Entertainment. That video debuted on Billboard's Top Music Video—Longform chart at #11 in January 1987, peaking at #5 that May. The video collection was certified Gold in April 1987, and Platinum the following April. In 2007 the collection was re-released in the
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format by Rhino Home Video through Warner Music Vision, debuting on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos chart at #27.
The song "Into The Fire" was featured in the 1987 film "
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", along with their newly-written
title track"Dream Warriors" is a song written by Dokken members George Lynch & Jeff Pilson for the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. The song was released as a single / EP on February 10, 1987. Later that year it was remixed for release on their 4th album Back For The Attack...
.
In March 1989, on the strength of continued sales, Tooth and Nail—the band's first Gold album—was its third to be certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales of 1 million in the U.S. alone.
Track listing
Side One
- "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
Side Two
- "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
Production
- Produced By Roy Thomas Baker & Tom Werman
- Mixed By Michael Wagener
- Engineered By Gary McGachan
- Mastering By George Marino
Personnel
- Don Dokken
Donald Maynard Dokken is a singer most famous for being the lead singer and founder of the band Dokken. He is known for his vibrato-laden, melodic vocal style which has made him an influential figure in American heavy metal. After enjoying mainstream success with Dokken, he parted ways with the...
- Vocals, Guitars
- George Lynch
George Lynch is a Hard rock guitarist best known as a member of the band Dokken.-Pre Dokken:Lynch was born in Spokane, Washington and raised in the small town of Auburn, California. Guitarist Mark Kendall claims George started two hand tapping before Eddie Van Halen did...
- Lead and Rhythm Guitars
- Jeff Pilson
Jeff Pilson is an American bass guitarist.Pilson was a member of heavy metal bands Dokken and Dio. He currently has his own progressive metal group called War and Peace, which was formed in 1993, releasing two albums: 1993's War and Peace and 2004's The Walls Have Eyes...
- Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Mick Brown - Drums, Backing Vocals