You in all probability know Dokken for his or her temporary reign as big-haired ’80s hitmakers, scoring a succession of platinum albums and penning the title observe for A Nightmare on Elm Avenue 3: Dream Warriors.
However many years after they light from the charts, they confronted a brand new opponent far extra formidable than Freddy Krueger: a uncooked hen.
The showdown occurred in a 2010 Norton Antivirus industrial, which aired solely on-line. “Think about this hen is your arduous drive, and the ’80s steel band Dokken is a pc virus,” the narrator says because the quartet glares on the digicam from inside an enormous hangar. “Dokken doesn’t like hen and needs to destroy it. The hen, not realizing Dokken’s intentions, would not actually have any emotions both method. Now, you’ve gotten a alternative: Would you want to permit Dokken to have its method along with your hen, unleashing a wrath the likes of which the hen has by no means seen, or would you wish to deny it?”
A number of variations of the industrial have been filmed. Within the “Deny” model, the hen hops to its toes and flicks a switchblade on the band. “Whoa, take it straightforward, bro,” frontman Don Dokken says. “This ain’t over.”
Within the “Enable” model, all 4 band members stand across the hen and do a pelvic thrust, inflicting the poultry to burst into flames.
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It was a ridiculous premise that got here collectively by happenstance. “It simply fell in my lap. That was completely a fluke,” Dokken instructed The Traditional Steel Present (by way of Blabbermouth). “We have been on the street. The place I dwell, I’ve two homes on my property, and one among them is sort of a crash home for administrators and producers and stuff; I hire it out. And one of many administrators was gonna do that industrial, and it was alleged to [be] with Styx. And apparently, on the final minute, they pulled out and so they [the directors] have been at a crunch, and I simply occurred to be residence pulling within the driveway coming off one among our exhibits.”
He individually detailed to Inside Steel: “A good friend of mine, Ryan Ebner, was truly staying in my Beverly Hills home, and I had a visitor home. And he says, ‘I am doing this industrial and one among my bands pulled out. Do you wanna do a industrial?’
“I stated, ‘Yeah, I will do a industrial.’ He is, like, ‘It’s going to be you and the hen.’ And I went, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no. I am not gonna punk myself.’
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The frontman modified his tune, nevertheless, when he discovered the “loopy sum of money” they have been going to make. “After which he instructed me how a lot he’d pay me. And I went, ‘Actually?’ He goes, ‘Dude, it is Norton Antivirus.’ I stated, ‘For that sort of cash, I will put on a hen go well with. I’ll be the hen. I’ll flap my wings and I’ll cluck.'” The Norton advert by no means made it to tv, however it grew to become an internet sensation, amassing thousands and thousands of views in its authentic incarnation. You possibly can see each variations of the re-uploaded commercials beneath.
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