George Lynch is bringing Dokken’s catalog back to the stage in a big way. The guitar hero has announced “On the Rise of Decades: Performing a Night of Dokken,” a 2027 tour kicking off New Year’s Eve in Fort Myers, FL and running through January 10 in Birmingham, AL. Ten dates have been confirmed so far, with more on the way.
The band Lynch has assembled for the run is stacked. Current Great White singer Brett Carlisle and founding XYZ vocalist Terry Ilous, who also has his own history with Great White, share frontman duties. Rounding out the lineup are current Lynch Mob singer Gabriel, bassist Jaron Gulino, and drummer Brian Tichy, whose resume includes Whitesnake and Gene Simmons. This isn’t a nostalgia cash-grab. It’s a serious lineup built to do justice to a serious catalog.
Lynch appeared on Dokken’s first six studio albums, from 1981’s ‘Breakin’ the Chains’ through 1997’s ‘Shadowlife,’ before leaving the band over creative and personal differences with singer Don Dokken. The split defined a large part of both men’s public narratives for years, but time has a way of softening things. Since 2020, Lynch has made occasional guest appearances at Dokken shows, joining Don for special encore performances. “We’re too old to bicker and fight,” Dokken said in 2025. “We’re both gray haired now.”
Lynch has kept an impressively active pace since leaving Dokken, releasing more than a dozen albums under his own name or as the leader of the Lynch Mob, and joining supergroups including T&N, The End Machine, KMX, and Sweet & Lynch, frequently alongside former Dokken bandmate and current Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson. He announced a Lynch Mob farewell tour in 2025, then kept going anyway. “My agent talked me, as agents do, out of quitting Lynch Mob touring,” Lynch explained in October 2025. “So here we are, we’re still touring, we’re still putting out records.”
That 2025 Lynch Mob run produced a live album, The Final Ride (Live), arriving May 29. The “Night of Dokken” tour follows in the new year.
“A Night of Dokken” 2027 Tour Dates:
December 31, 2026, Fort Myers, FL
January 1, TBD, FL
January 2, Boca Raton, FL
January 3, Sebastian, FL
January 4, Mount Dora, FL
January 6, Saint Augustine, FL
January 7, Savannah, GA
January 8, Atlanta, GA
January 9, Chattanooga, TN
January 10, Birmingham, AL