By Metal Dave Glessner It’s not without its thorns, but the life of Bret Michaels is rosier than most. As a solo artist and singer for glam-rock legends Poison, Michaels has survived diabetes, a spectacular car crash, a brain hemorrhage and a career of critical slings and arrows. Bruised but never beaten, Michaels also has [...]
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Bret Michaels interview: Thorns N’ Roses
Posted: 11th September 2012 by admin in Quotes and ChatterTags: bret michaels, every rose has its thorn, get your rock on, poison, rock of love
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Ask Michael Monroe: Your favorite album?
Posted: 16th December 2011 by admin in Quotes and ChatterTags: alice cooper, black sabbath, guns n'roses, hanoi rocks, jetboy, led zeppelin, michael monroe, poison
By Metal Dave Glessner Few rock singers can hold eyeballs hostage like glitter grenade Michael Monroe. Electric as a lightning bolt and flashier than a Christmas tree, the ex-Hanoi Rocks, glam-metal mantis is the personification of sensory overdrive. Of course, the spiraling swagger and kangaroo bounce would fall flat on its black-leather ass if not [...]
Poison: A Decade of Dialogue & Good Times With Singer & Party Starter, Bret Michaels
Posted: 28th September 2011 by admin in RewindTags: bobby dall, bret michaels, C.C. DeVille, Cinderella, Loudness, paul stanley, poison, rikki rockett, steven tyler, texxas jamm
GLAM GOOD TIMES!!: Backstage with Bret Michaels in 1999 (above), 2000 (below) and 2011 (bottom). Once Bret gets the party started, it can last a lifetime. By Metal Dave Glessner I’ve been a Poison fan since 1986 when I saw the unknown upstarts open for Cinderella and Loudness at Sunken Gardens Theater in San Antonio. Thirteen [...]
Tommy Lee 2005: The Call of the Wild(man)
Posted: 6th June 2011 by admin in UncategorizedTags: dr. feelgood, girls girls girls, mick mars, motley crue, new york dolls, nikki sixx, pamela anderson, poison, shout at the devil, the dirt, theatre of pain, tommy lee, tommyland, too fast for love, vince neil
2Fast2Die Note: As Motley Crue threatens to uncork some raunch-n-roll debauchery at the AT&T Center in San Antonio June 9 (with special guests Poison and the legendary New York Dolls), I decided to dig up my previous interviews with rock’s most notorious dirtbags. Ticket info is here. By Metal Dave Glessner Tommy Lee is calling long-distance, [...]
Pictured Life: Bret Michaels Calls Me Onstage For One Helluva Rockin’ Good Time
Posted: 25th August 2010 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: bret michaels, kiss rock n roll all nite, poison, sunken garden theater
The photo to the right is one of my life’s jackpots. Snapped backstage in 2000 at San Antonio’s Sunken Garden Theater, the image captures Poison singer Bret Michaels and me exiting the stage just seconds after we sang the KISS anthem “Rock N Roll All Nite” in front of a few thousand of my fellow hometown rockers. This all went down [...]
Jetboy: Flying High Again
Posted: 19th July 2010 by admin in News Bites, Quotes and ChatterTags: hanoi rocks, jetboy, kiss, paul stanley, poison
Got an email from guitarist Billy Rowe informing me that his band JETBOY plugs in at the Midwest Rockfest this Saturday, July 24, in Wichita, Kansas. JETBOY, you may recall, once ruled the mid-‘80s Hollywood club scene alongside Poison and Guns N’ Roses until record industry politics spiraled the band into turmoil and obscurity (c’mon, [...]