Dokken

It's no secret that bad blood drove Dokken apart near the peak of the band's popularity — or that the lineup's upcoming temporary reunion started with a lucrative offer from a promoter.

Whatever Dokken are getting paid for their reunion tour, it sounds like it isn't enough to put a damper on the old personality conflicts that originally tore them apart.

American Dokken fans who want to catch a glimpse of the upcoming reunion tour with the band's most commercially successful lineup may want to start pricing out plane tickets to South Dakota.

Dokken were one of the bigger rock bands of the late '80s, and with their fourth studio LP, 1987's 'Back for the Attack,' they seemed poised for a major breakthrough.

I've been covering the Fair since about 1927...OK, not really, but for a long long time.  One of the best things about covering the fair is the people you meet and become friends with that you see year after year.  Now with social media, it's easy to keep track of and keep in contact, but it used to be you'd just see them at fair time.  Steve Barry is one of those guys.