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26 авг 2022 : |
Original SALIVA Singer JOSEY SCOTT Joins POISON On Stage In Tulsa To Perform 'Nothin' But A Good Time' |
1 июл 2022 : |
BRET MICHAELS Says 'An Unforeseen Medical Complication' Forced POISON To Cancel Nashville Concert |
26 июн 2022 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT 'Didn't Know Anything' About TOMMY LEE's Broken Ribs Prior To Start Of 'The Stadium Tour' |
23 июн 2022 : |
Watch: POISON Performs In Miami During 'The Stadium Tour' |
17 июн 2022 : |
POISON Plays First Show In Four Years At 'The Stadium Tour' Kickoff (Video) |
11 июн 2022 : |
POISON Share Video From Rehearsals For The Stadium Tour |
26 апр 2022 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Sides With MIKE TYSON For Allegedly Punching 'Aggressive' Plane Passenger |
4 окт 2021 : |
POISON - RIKKI ROCKETT Unboxes 2022 Drum Kit In New Video |
28 июл 2021 : |
POISON Drummer RIKKI ROCKETT Is Still Cancer Free |
17 июл 2021 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Being Fully Vaccinated |
1 июл 2021 : |
Former POISON, MÖTLEY CRÜE And TWISTED SISTER Producer TOM WERMAN Sells His Rights To RESERVOIR |
8 апр 2021 : |
RICHIE KOTZEN Looks Back On His Acrimonious Exit From POISON: 'I Think We All Got Over S**t And Moved On' |
19 мар 2021 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Receives First Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine |
24 ноя 2020 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Defends His Right To Speak Out On Political Issues: 'I Am Not Going To Hide Who I Am' |
16 июл 2020 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Says There Is 'Talk' Of Adding More 'The Stadium Tour' Dates For 2021 |
21 июн 2020 : |
POISON's BRET MICHAELS Reveals Some Of His Biggest Life Regrets |
7 июн 2020 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Attends Santa Clarita Protest Over GEORGE FLOYD's Death (Video) |
22 май 2020 : |
POISON's BRET MICHAELS On Future Of Touring: We All Wanna Get Back To The 'Old New Normal' |
21 май 2020 : |
POISON's BRET MICHAELS On Status Of 'The Stadium Tour': 'At The Moment, We Don't Know' |
13 май 2020 : |
POISON's BRET MICHAELS Says 'The Stadium Tour' Will Happen 'When The Health Time Is Right' |
7 май 2020 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Is Still Waiting To Hear From LIVE NATION About Fate Of 'The Stadium Tour' |
23 апр 2020 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Says Rock Music Has 'Been A Little Stagnant For A While' |
13 апр 2020 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Blasts People Not Taking Social Distancing Seriously |
10 апр 2020 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Doesn't Know Anything About Possible Postponement Of 'The Stadium Tour' |
31 мар 2020 : |
POISON Inducted Into CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME |
4 мар 2020 : |
BRET MICHAELS 'Would Love To' Release New POISON Song Before 'The Stadium Tour' |
26 дек 2019 : |
POISON's BRET MICHAELS 'Can't Wait' For 'The Stadium Tour' With MÖTLEY CRÜE And DEF LEPPARD |
12 дек 2019 : |
BRET MICHAELS Says 'It's Time' For POISON To Release 'At Least A New Song Or Two' |
3 дек 2019 : |
BRET MICHAELS On POISON's Tour With MÖTLEY CRÜE and DEF LEPPARD: 'That Is The Rumor' |
30 апр 2019 : |
COREY TAYLOR Covers POISON's 'Nothin' But A Good Time'; BRET MICHAELS Says He Is 'Honored' |
26 фев 2019 : |
POISON Drummer Is 'Hopeful' For New Music And Return To Europe In 2020 |
29 янв 2019 : |
RIKKI ROCKETT On Possibility Of New POISON Music: 'Hopefully We'll Get Our S**t Together And Go Do It' |
27 дек 2018 : |
BRET MICHAELS Says POISON Will Return In 2020 'With Some New Songs' |
25 июн 2018 : |
POISON Dedicates Holmdel Concert To VINNIE PAUL (Video) |
8 май 2018 : |
POISON: 30th-Anniversary 180-Gram Red-Vinyl Reissue Of 'Open Up And Say… Ahh!' |
2 сен 2017 : |
POISON Releases 'Nothin' But A Good Time' Fan Video |
30 авг 2017 : |
POISON Releases 'Tour Wrap' Video |
10 май 2017 : |
BRET MICHAELS Says That He 'Would Love To' Make New Music With POISON |
12 апр 2017 : |
Watch POISON Perform In Montreal |
10 апр 2017 : |
POISON Kicks Off Tour With DEF LEPPARD In Manchester, New Hampshire (Video) |
30 мар 2017 : |
POISON: First 2017 Photo Of Reunited Original Lineup |
24 мар 2017 : |
RIKKI ROCKETT Says SLASH Was 'Really Pissed Off' He Didn't Land Guitarist Gig In POISON |
30 янв 2017 : |
BRET MICHAELS Wants POISON To Embark On Headlining Tour In 2018, Says He Is Open To Making New Music With Band |
10 янв 2017 : |
BRET MICHAELS On Possibility Of POISON Tour: 'We're Close To Making It Happen' |
27 окт 2016 : |
POISON's Debut Album Released As Limited-Edition Picture Disc To Commemorate 30th Anniversary |
6 окт 2016 : |
BRET MICHAELS Is Still Hoping That POISON And DEF LEPPARD Can Tour Together Next Spring |
26 сен 2016 : |
Will POISON Tour With DEF LEPPARD In 2017? BRET MICHAELS Says Yes, PHIL COLLEN Says No |
29 июл 2016 : |
POISON And DEF LEPPARD To Tour Together Again In 2017, Says BRET MICHAELS |
19 июл 2016 : |
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Wants To Get Word Out About Immunotherapy After Being Declared Cancer-Free |
16 июл 2016 : |
POISON Drummer RIKKI ROCKETT Says That He Is Now 'Cancer Free' |
20 апр 2016 : |
BRET MICHAELS Still Sees 'Something Amazing Happening' For POISON In The Future |
10 апр 2016 : |
BRET MICHAELS On POISON: 'When The Time Is Right, We Will Get Back Out There' |
18 дек 2015 : |
RIKKI ROCKETT On POISON: It's Time For Us To Do Something |
28 окт 2015 : |
BRET MICHAELS Is 'Sure' POISON Will Do 'Something Special' Next Year |
23 июн 2015 : |
POISON Without BRET MICHAELS: Multi-Cam Footage Of THE SPECIAL GUESTS On MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise |
10 дек 2014 : |
BRET MICHAELS On POISON: Next Year 'Is Gonna Be The Biggest Reunion Ever' |
6 ноя 2014 : |
RIKKI ROCKETT Doesn't Know If POISON Will Tour Next Summer |
26 окт 2014 : |
POISON Reunites For Corporate Gig, Teases Possible 2015 Tour |
16 сен 2014 : |
BRET MICHAELS: 'It Looks Like' POISON Will Tour In 2015 |
2 мар 2014 : |
One Member Of POISON Is Making Touring A Problem, Says RIKKI ROCKETT |
4 мар 2013 : |
POISON Drummer, Wife Welcome Second Child |
23 сен 2012 : |
POISON Singer: 'No Concrete Plans For A New Album' |
6 сен 2012 : |
BRET MICHAELS: Why SLASH Wasn't The Right Guitarist For POISON |
26 май 2011 : |
POISON Kicks Off 25th-Anniversary Tour In Front Of Nearly 4,000 Fans |
28 мар 2011 : |
POISON: \'Double Dose: Ultimate Hits\' Artwork Unveiled |
19 мар 2011 : |
POISON Singer Comments On \'Double Dose\' Collection |
10 ноя 2010 : |
POISON: Entire \'Nothin\' But A Good Time\' Collection Available For Streaming |
25 май 2010 : |
BRET MICHAELS Wins \'Celebrity Apprentice\' |
5 май 2010 : |
BRET MICHAELS: \'I\'m Lucky To Be Alive\' |
28 апр 2010 : |
Report: BRET MICHAELS Being Treated At Neurology Center In Arizona |
26 апр 2010 : |
BRET MICHAELS Remains In Critical Condition |
24 апр 2010 : |
Report: BRET MICHAELS Awake And Talking After Brain Hemorrhage |
13 апр 2010 : |
BRET MICHAELS Rushed Into Emergency Surgery |
29 янв 2010 : |
BRET MICHAELS: New Solo Single Release Moved Forward |
6 янв 2010 : |
BRET MICHAELS To Release New Solo Single Next Month |
24 дек 2009 : |
BRET MICHAELS: Demo Version Of New Song Available For Streaming |
30 янв 2009 : |
BRET MICHAELS On Split With PAMELA ANDERSON |
7 янв 2007 : |
POISON To Record Album of 'Classic Rock' Covers |
21 апр 2006 : |
POISON Frontman To Star In Film Based On His Life |
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6 янв 2025
POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Explains Why Original 'Open Up And Say … Ahh!' Album Cover Was 'Rejected' By WALMART
Regarding how the original cover art ended up being censored, Rikki said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "So my buddy Mark Williams, God rest his soul, built that tongue. And it was a prosthetic, obviously. So we had this model. We did this photo session with this one photographer, and the label said it was too mild. We're, like, 'Okay.' It just kind of looked like this rock girl with his long tongue and her hair pumped up and she had very dramatic makeup on, but it wasn't shocking enough. So we went to [famed rock photographer] Neil Zlozower, and [POISON bassist] Bobby Dall and I, we got his girlfriend Bambi and we started doing all those stripes on her and did all this stuff. And she had contacts — we had her get the contacts — and then we just kind of did her up, Bobby and I did. And then we did that tongue and everything like that. And everybody loved it, thought it was fricking great. And Walmart rejected it — Walmart. So Wally [presumably referring to Walmart founder Sam Walton], he was alive at the time, said it represented a demonic figure and he didn't want it. So we sat down with management and the label. And, really, at the end of the day, it was, like, are we in the album cover business or are we in the music business? Really, we should be able to just make a green cover or a white cover with nothing and put our music out, if that's what we need to do. Our goal was to get our music out. What's our percentage of sales at Walmart? Does it matter? Well, it's 38 percent, sometimes 40 percent of your sales. At that time, man, people were just going through Walmart and going, 'I'm getting my records here. I'm getting my records here.' It was cheaper than going to the record store by a certain percentage. So the percentage of people buying records at Walmart was high. And we're, like, 'Are we gonna throw away 35 to 40 percent of our market share, getting our music into the hands of fans, or are we gonna gripe about it and fight with Walmart?' And so it just didn't make sense. So they said, 'We'll just shrink [the photo] down like this.' And then blah, blah, blah. And then it became a collector's edition, the ones that had come out on Enigma, because we were still technically with Enigma through Capitol, I believe. But there was whole full body shots of her too. And she was naked, by the way. It was Bobby's girlfriend. I wasn't allowed to look at her [while I was] helping paint the stripes on her."
"Open Up And Say... Ahh!" ended up being POISON's most successful release, spawning four hit singles: "Nothin' But A Good Time", "Fallen Angel", "Your Mama Don't Dance" (a LOGGINS AND MESSINA cover) and the mega-hit "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.
"Open Up And Say... Ahh!" was certified platinum in 1988 and five times platinum in 1991 by the RIAA. It also has been certified four times platinum in Canada and gold by the British Phonographic Industry.
Rikki's memoir, "Ghost Notes", will be released on July 15, 2025 via Rare Bird Books. The book was written with writer duo Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson.
Rikki is the co-founder and drummer for the band POISON, which exploded into the highly competitive Los Angeles music scene in the 1980s, making a name for themselves in the clubs on the Sunset Strip.
POISON has sold over 50 million records worldwide, releasing eight studio albums, four live albums, and four compilations. The band has charted 10 singles on the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and one Hot 100 number-one smash hit, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Relentless from the ground up and forged in the hellfires of the Pennsylvania and Los Angeles club scenes, POISON smashed its way up as an independent band who bet on itself. Selling over three million copies of an independent album which included the big hits "Talk Dirty To Me", "I Won't Forget You", "Cry Tough", "I Want Action" and the underground smash "Look What The Cat Dragged In", they were soon picked up by Capitol Records and beat the sophomore jinx by releasing the aforementioned No. 1 smash "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". Written out of emotion by singer/songwriter and frontman Bret Michaels, the song blasted into the charts remaining a top the pop, rock and country genres for threee months consecutively. The album "Open Up And Say...Ahh!" sold eight million copies out of the gate and spawned other hit singles "Fallen Angel", "Nothin' But A Good Time" and "Your Mama Don't Dance". Followed up by the multi-platinum album "Flesh & Blood", POISON again lit up the charts with several more smash hit singles, including "Unskinny Bop" and "Something To Believe In".
POISON's reunited original lineup — Rockett, Michaels, bassist Bobby Dall and guitarist C.C. DeVille — completed "The Stadium Tour" with MÖTLEY CRÜE, DEF LEPPARD and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS in 2022. The trek was originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020 but ended up being pushed back to 2021, and then to 2022, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Rockett was declared cancer free more in 2016 after undergoing an experimental treatment. He was diagnosed with oral cancer back in 2015.
In October, Rikki announced the launch of a new band called THE ROCKETT MAFIA. Joining him in the group are Brandon Gibbs (DEVIL CITY ANGELS) on vocals and guitar, Mick Sweda (BULLETBOYS) on guitar and backing vocals, and Bryan Kimes on bass and backing vocals.
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