The Poison gang were out to prove that beneath the glam and image were hearts that rocked with passion and intensity and they smashed the idea that glam bands were only image and did not have the chops to back it up. "I got to walk out on stage and play a 10 minute solo in front of 20,000 people every night" says Deville, which he describes as a magical and marvellous experience. Their names now famous Poison with the hits and their faces on the covers of music mags, the guys set forth to concert venues with more confidence. Singles "Talk dirty to me" & "I won't foregt you" made it to the top ten as well and the album was a big successful debut. "Look what the cat dragged In" came out in 1986 and created a big noise when within a week it had climbed onto the #3 spot on the Billboard Charts. After long negotiations Capitol Records signed Poison in 1985 and the band retreated into the studios to create their first album.
Soon they became the hottest unsigned band in Los Angeles and record companies sent their representatives sniffing about to see just what the hell Poison would send out flyers themselves and chat with the very people who were to be in the audience later on in the night. Just like in their hometown, fans flocked to their shows to see the boys in action. With their lineup complete and the band members getting on just fine, Poison started working on original material and creating a name for themselves in California. was a mean string bender and also an image man, who could strut his stuff and be charismatic on stage while knocking out great licks one after the other. He had also replaced Slash in a band called Screaming Mimi, when the Slash left to form Guns n'Roses. club circuit and played in the band Stryper when they used to be known as Roxx Regime. was a major star in his own right on the L.A. they set about looking for a replacement guitarist and when C.C.Deville approached them with the desire to be the guitar player the rest of the guys could not believe their good luck. Their guitarist left the band not willing to leave everything for a shot at stardom. As much affection the fans in Harrisburg showered them with, Poison realised that if they wanted to stake their claim to big time success they would have to move to the hotbed of the pop-metal movement, Los Angeles.
#Power to the people poison album free#
They would play free concerts evry weekend and play till all times of the night, honouring every request for songs. Along with bassist Bobby Dahl and a guitarist they set about forming a strong fanbase in their hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the very fanbase that would soon extend to other cities and countries and would be responsible in Poison being around today. Posion started in 1984 when singer Bret Michaels and drummer Rikki Rockett split up from their former band "Spectres" and decided to from a band that played more melodic rock. "We wanted to be flowers in the dirt", said frontman Bret Michaels when asked about their decision to mold themselves on the best of the New York Dolls, Kiss & David Bowie, all bands that were predecessors to the Glam era rock. Their true fans also need to be appreciated, cause it is easy to stay a fan when the artist(s) is popular and apprear on music channels and mags regularly, but to stay loyal when times are bleak is another matter altogether. The band may have had some hard times but they deserve respect and admiration for sticking to their guns when times got tough. One of these bands are Poison, now back to their original lineup after a couple of guitarists came and departed. Well while there may have been many such bands that seemed to be guilty of the above crime, there were the cream of the crop that rose above the rest and still continue to rock hard and release albums and tour - maybe not as lucratively as before and without all those rock cliches and over the top extravanganzes and perks that stuck to '80's rock bands like glue.
And yes the hair, carefully groomed and teased hair that would make every young woman envious. The industry was stagnated with bands undistinguishable from each other, with band members that wore makeup, dressed in rags and spandex.
These bands were said to have brought rock n'roll down to the level of a formula - the anthemn rocker, which would make entire areans to chant as one and raise their hands and the complusory 'power ballad'. those who were bracketed in the "Glam Rock" category. It became fashionable for rock bands and fans from 1992 onwards to ridicule the '80's bands esp.
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