Name that 80's riff

Can't really make out anything beyond the first note or two.

My guess though...Dokken.

God only knows. Dokken or if I had to guess maybe Hurricane?

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Right at 10:44 far left there’s an Sk spray painted on wall I can’t make out the rest.

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Yeah, but the images are all just quick cuts and don't line up with the music anyway. I think that is a Skid Row video at that exact moment, FWIW, but that's not a Skid Row riff, I don't think.

While there are some similarities in contour, it isn't Breaking The Chains. In the clip from WMRTW, the drums are playing a half time feel throughout that section. BTC doesn't have that. Also, the rhy guitars in the show are playing held power chords, E (2 bars), C (2 bars), D (2 bars), B (1 bar), G (single note 2 beats) F# (single note 2 beats). BTC, the solo has two different sections of rhy material. The first half is the basic riff. It is an E pedal chugging 8th notes with the riff moving above (Moving through E, D, C, D power chords). The second section stays in normal time. The guitars play sustained chords starting on G, then E (with a lick of B-A-B with perfect 4ths above). C back to E (with same B-A-B riff).

The solo itself is different as well. The one in the show starts with a whole step bend into an E, rises to an A then falls to the B (a major 7th over the C power chord). This is an A bent up to a B which gives this line a nice sound. I don't hear anything like that in BTC. The closest George gets is the first phrase of the second half of the solo (2:30). He's bending up into a B then goes down to the lower B, which is over the E (specifically the B-A-B riff). So not the same tonality.

I haven't found a Dokken solo that sounds like the show. Walk Away has the right feel, but the chords are different and the solo is too (plus it is in D, the show excerpt is in E)