Dokken 2/20/10 Dubuque, IA

Hard Rock from the 80′s invaded the Mississippi Moon Bar in Dubuque, IA when Firehouse opened for Dokken. More than twenty years later people are still trying to slam bands like these. Some people never liked the music, some think they have out grown it…until the music starts.

I have to admit I was kind of hoping Dokken was the opening band so I could leave if I felt like it during Firehouse…until the music started. Firehouse opened the show sounding just like they would on CD. These guys are so clear you may think they are playing with a backing track…except they are from the era when live shows were all about playing the music live and not choreography. (more…)

For Christmas this year MusicWife got me a ticket to an upcoming show at the Mississippi Moon Bar in Dubuque, Iowa. I attempted to get one of the Black Friday (the one after Thanksgiving) $1 tickets to Dokken and Firehouse but they sold the allotted amount of tickets before I got there. MusicWife came through.

It has been a good ten years since I have seen either of these bands and I was curious what their setlist looks like these days. Doing a search for Dokken (clearly the band of the two I’m interested in seeing) I was led to a site called Setlist.fm. Setlist.fm is a wiki site where users can add setlists as they wish.

Being a wiki site it is only updated as often as someone enters a show of course. The Dokken show I found was ironically a year from the date I will be attending in February. It’s kinda cool though that each song there is a “play” button that will take you to some media (usually YouTube) to check it out. This is helpful for those songs being played in the “non-Dokken” years of my life.

Granted these are only as reliable as the people entering them but it is fun to look through, especially if someone was obsessed enough with a band 20 years ago that they logged and kept a setlist from a concert you attended.