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POISON PARTNERS WITH EMI / CAPITOL AND VH1 CLASSIC FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY CD
AND LIVE NATION!-SPONSORED TOUR
New Hits CD, The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock, Includes
Explosive New Version Of Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band,"
Produced By Don Was
May 16, 2006 Marks 20 Years Since The Release Of Poison's Debut
Album, Look What The Cat Dragged In
20th Anniversary World Tour To Begin In May
CD In Stores: April 4, 2006
Hollywood, California - January 30, 2006 - Poison, one of hard rock's most
iconic, enduring and controversial bands, celebrates 20 years in 2006. To
commemorate this anniversary milestone and the band's career tally of more
than 25 million albums and DVDs sold around the world, Poison and
Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing have partnered to release The Best Of
Poison: 20 Years Of Rock on April 4. The new 18-track collection packs
Poison's biggest hits and fan favorites and will also debut the group's
explosive new version of Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band,"
produced by Don Was (The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan). In May, Poison will hit
the road for a major 20th anniversary summer tour sponsored by Live Nation!
and presented by VH1 Classic.
With the band's most recent studio album, Hollyweird, along with Poison
Greatest Hits, which just reached double Platinum, and their Gold-certified
Greatest Video Hits DVD, Poison continues on with a do-it-yourself attitude,
also touring to sold-out venues around the world. Following a 2003
VH1-sponsored tour, Poison co-headlined a national tour with KISS in 2004.
Poison's 20th anniversary world tour will take the band to major concert
venues around the globe this summer. Tour dates and line-up details will be
announced and posted to the band's official website as they develop. Visit
www.poisonweb.com and www.bretmichaels.com for the latest Poison news and
links to other related websites.
This May, Poison is one of the featured bands in VH1's new documentary
series, "Heavy: The Story of Metal." What Ken Burns did for jazz, VH1 does
for heavy metal - only a lot louder. Premiering May 1-4 (9pm ET/PT), the
four-part series traces the evolution of heavy metal music and culture,
exploring four decades of music.
Perhaps VH1's Behind The Music special on Poison, one of the network's
highest-viewed specials, said it all, encompassing everything about this
band: sex, drugs, fun, violence and rock 'n roll. Poison's Bret Michaels
(lead vocals, guitar), C.C. Deville (lead guitar, vocals), Bobby Dall (bass)
and Rikki Rockett (drums), crashed hard onto the 1980s LA music scene.
Voted Most Popular Band two years in a row by Music Connection magazine,
Poison's unheard of mix of rock, Americana, pop and punk musical styles,
their over-the-top stage show and blue-collar, hard-working mentality shot
the band into Billboard's Top 5 with the 1986 independent release of Look
What the Cat Dragged In. The singles "Talk Dirty To Me," "I Want Action,"
and "I Won't Forget You" all launched into the Top 40, and the band watched
their debut album's sales climb to more than three million copies. 2006
marks the 20th anniversary of the release.
Poison moved further up the charts and into the headlines with its smash,
acoustic-influenced power ballad, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" launching to
#1, and the raucous party anthem, "Nothin' But A Good Time" hitting the Top
10, from the septuple Platinum-certified (representing more than seven
million sold) 1988 follow-up, Open Up and Say... Ahh!. The Top 5 album
spawned several radio and music video hits, including "Fallen Angel" and
"Your Mama Don't Dance."
After a worldwide mega-tour, Poison returned to the studio with fabled
producer Bruce Fairbairn in Vancouver to record 1990's Flesh & Blood.
Driven by the first single, the blues-rock influenced "Unskinny Bop" which
hit #3, the album reached #2 on Billboard's Albums chart. Packing a
Platinum-certified punch, Flesh & Blood also contained the singles "Life
Goes On," "Ride The Wind" and the heartfelt "Something To Believe In,"
written after the death of a close personal friend. The song was unedited
for radio and lasted six minutes, yet still made it to #4. The band's video
for "Something To Believe In" beat out Faith No More's "Epic" to win MTV's
"World Series Of Rock" Video Of The Year. The single was also nominated
that year at the American Music Awards.
In 1991, after a well-publicized fistfight between Bret Michaels and C.C.
Deville, C.C. left Poison. The band continued to tour arenas and
amphitheatres and recorded the Platinum Native Tongue and Crack A Smile.
After eight years of not speaking, Michaels and Deville met in 1999 and with
their chemistry and friendship quickly rekindled, the band went into the
studio to record Power To The People, and had one of the most successful
reunion tours ever. Poison's original line-up has remained intact since.
Throughout Poison's career, the band's members have enjoyed collaborative
and solo successes that have taken them from the stage to the screen and to
many points in between. 2006 promises to be a busy 20th anniversary year for
the dynamic members of Poison.
Bret Michaels recently appeared on the cover of Billboard and Radio &
Records magazines for his recently released solo album, Freedom of Sound,
and his 2005 solo tour broke attendance records at several outdoor venues.
Michaels' rootsy Americana style has helped the album's lead single, "All I
Ever Needed," cross from rock to country airplay charts. Michaels manages
his own record label, BMB Records, and he has also produced and written
songs for numerous artists, including "Love's A Hard Game To Play" from
Stevie Nicks' platinum-certified Timespace: The Best Of Stevie Nicks.
Michaels has made numerous television show guest appearances, including
"Yes, Dear" and "Martial Law" on CBS, "The Chris Isaak Show" on Showtime,
and has been a judge on USA's "Nashville Star" and a co-host of the
syndicated entertainment news show "Access Hollywood." He has also appeared
on VH1's "Rock Bodies" with Beyonce Knowles, made Spin magazine's "Top 100
Greatest Moments in Rock," has appeared on the cover of Playgirl magazine
and has had his ten-acre Malibu Ranch featured on MTV's "Cribs."
Premiering in March, the new season of VH1's hit show "The Surreal Life"
features Poison's C.C. Deville with housemates Sherman Helmsley ("The
Jeffersons"), Steve Harwell (Smashmouth), Florence Henderson ("The Brady
Bunch"), Tawny Kitaen (of Jaguar hood-writhing Whitesnake video fame),
Andrea Lowell (Playboy TV), and the recently gender-swapped Alexis Arquette.
In April, Rikki Rockett will make a guest appearance on TLC's new "Wrecks To
Riches" auto overhaul series, helping to restore a 1969 Dodge Dart before
giving Poison's new version of "We're An American Band" a spin on the car's
amped-up sound system.
2006 will definitely be "Nothin' But A Good Time" for Poison and their fans
as they celebrate 20 YEARS OF ROCK!
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THE BEST OF POISON: 20 YEARS OF ROCK
1) Cry Tough
2) Talk Dirty To Me #9 Pop
3) I Want Action #50 Pop
4) I Won't Forget You #13 Pop
5) Look What The Cat Dragged In
6) Nothin' But A Good Time #6 Pop, #19 Rock
7) Fallen Angel #12 Pop, #32 Rock
8) Every Rose Has Its Thorn #1 Pop, #11 Rock
9) Your Mama Don't Dance #10 Pop, #39 Rock
10) Rock And Roll All Nite
11) Unskinny Bop #3 Pop, #5 Rock
12) Something To Believe In #4 Pop, #5 Rock
13) Ride The Wind #38 Pop, #28 Rock
14) Life Goes On #35 Pop
15) Stand #50 Pop, #15 Rock
16) The Last Song
17) Shooting Star
18) We're An American Band [new recording, produced by Don Was] |
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| MrPleasant |
Don Was was. |
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| exile |
*cringe* |
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| RollingstonesUSA |
quote:
exile wrote:
*cringe*
Yes, I feel your pain.... |
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| glencar |
Lookie! They did "Look What the Cat Dragged In" first! |
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| gotdablouse |
This confirms that Don Was has no class, time to dump him. |
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| Soul Survivor |
quote:
gotdablouse wrote:
This confirms that Don Was has no class, time to dump him.
...or he just wants to work with other bands. Weather you like them or not doesn't matter. |
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| MrPleasant |
Most useless information: Zappa produced a Grand Funk Railroad album. |
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| Soul Survivor |
quote:
RollingstonesUSA wrote:
Yes, I feel your pain....
Give me a break |
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| Soldatti |
Good news, at least he's not working on another live album. |
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| IanBillen |
[quote]Soul Survivor wrote:
...or he just wants to work with other bands. Weather you like them or not doesn't matter.
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Correct Sir,
As a Producer, it is silly to turn your nose up to things. I don't think many here understand that being a Producer means to bring out the best with the act your dealing with.
Here are three facts I don't think many people realize:
1. Producers HAVE to appreciate music in many geners and groups in many generes. Producers have to be open, versatile, and work, or at least listen to all kinds of music from all kinds of groups. You would be really surprised what world class producers actually listen to.
2.The more Artisits a Producer knows and works with, the better that Producer will become. He is seen as more versatile and will be more in demand. ESPECIALLY if it turns out to be pretty decent. If it actually turns out to be good. His DEMAND WILL SOAR.
3. Don Was doing Poisen, in the music biz, does not make the demand for him as a Producer go down, it makes it actually go up.
Last of all:
Besides all those facts listed above:
He may know someone connected with the band. He may know someone with the record company that really wants him to do it. He may be in the area and it may only take him three days to oversee the whole thing.
*Let's not forget, being the high stature Producer that he is, he is probably going to get a fee for doing the song, as well as Royalty's on the whole albums sale and not just that particular song. With his stature I am sure he commended this. It should do OK. He'll make 20 OR 30 easy grand for one song....not bad eh.
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quote:
IanBillen wrote:
2.The more Artisits a Producer knows and works with, the better that Producer will become. He is seen as more versatile and will be more in demand. ESPECIALLY if it turns out to be pretty decent. If it actually turns out to be good. His DEMAND WILL SOAR.
Ian
You can't put ketchup on a turd and expect to be considered an expert chef. When you work with shit, 9 times out of 10, the result is gonna stink.
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| Stonzy78 |
Fuck Was, Fuck Poison, Bring on Rubin and the Stones |
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| IanBillen |
[quote]Altamont wrote:
You can't put ketchup on a turd and expect to be considered an expert chef. When you work with shit, 9 times out of 10, the result is gonna stink.
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Yes in certain circumstances. No in others. Take for instance The Black Crowes before their Lions release. No one would of ever imagined they could sound so good. I never really cared for The Black Crowes. When I heard Lions I was taken back. It is now one of my favorite albums. The sound, and impact he brought to that album did not really seem possible before he took over and did an album with them.
So in alot of cases sure. The band in horrible, so the end result is not cutting it.
But The song Poisen is doing here has already been a hit. The song is worthy. So no worries there. The SONGS and SONG WRITING is the most crucial element. Now you need band that can play the song, and their instruments fine.
Poisen, although silly as they seem, are good musicians for what they can do. Brett Michael, as dicky as he is, has a good voice enough to get the song where it needs to be.
After that everything eles is, while not incredibly simple and easy, is still the easier part. A good engineer, on equipment that suites the job in a good room or studio which I am sure Don has access to. And a good Mixing Engineer to put the spin on it he wants, which I know he has access to. And a quality mastering job, which, my guess, is surely in the budget. And it is done.
The song is already proven. The rest, while isn't so easy, IS THE EASIER of obtaining and getting out of the three elements.
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It should be pretty decent. There isn't much left to question like he was having them write their own new stuff. Even then, if he brought them up a notch, to make even the Poisen haters say, "yeah at least it is alot better than their previous stuff. Poisen still suck but it is much better than I thought they could do" will be enough to put another notch under his belt.
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| Jumacfly |
quote:
Soldatti wrote:
Good news, at least he's not working on another live album.
LOL well said !! |
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