Jeff Pilson Angry and Disappointed Over Dokken Box Set

Former Dokken bassist Jeff Pilson has expressed his disappointment within the group’s current field set.

In 2023, Dokken launched The Elektra Albums 1983 – 1987, a set containing the band’s first 4 albums: Breaking the Chains, Tooth and Nail, Below Lock and Key and Again for the Assault. Pilson, who performed on all of these releases apart from Breaking the Chains, was lower than impressed with the set.

“I used to be disenchanted within the field set that got here out final yr,” the bassist admitted to KNAC (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “I simply thought it was plain. There isn’t any extras in any way. And, see, that is company individuals making choices not based mostly on something inventive or something fan-oriented, and that pisses me off, frankly.”

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Although Pilson mentioned he’d nonetheless “love individuals to purchase it,” he expressed frustration with how the report label dealt with the set.

“It form of pisses me off that they put out a product with so little thought behind it,” the bassist declared. “I’ve acquired shit mendacity round that would have been nice additional stuff. And I provided, by the way in which, and no person listened. And that makes me offended.”

Pilson’s Disappointment Stretches Past the Lack of Bonus Materials

“They did not remaster the vinyl appropriately,” Pilson famous, additional explaining his points with the set. “I might like to see it completed appropriately, and there are corporations that do it, however now they don’t seem to be gonna have an interest as a result of it simply got here out.”

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In accordance with Pilson, the field set’s launch additionally blocked a possible fortieth anniversary reissue of Dokken’s sophomore album, Tooth and Nail.

“I do not suppose we’re gonna get a superb re-release of that, sadly, as a result of I feel it ought to occur too,” the rocker lamented. “However such is life.”