Thursday
Jan272011
More Fuel to the Poison/Crue Fire
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 08:00AM
So, Eddie Trunk dropped a quasi bombshell last night.
He Tweeted: “From what I'm hearing Motley and Poison will tour together this Summer after all.”
And there it is. I must be too cynical because I just dismissed all the rumors as just that: rumors. I guess if this does happen, Motley Crue would headline, but I suppose I shouldn't assume. I will say this: if Poison/Crue does happen, I can't see as how it would be a long tour. I'm thinking a very short run.
Think back to all those times Nikki Sixx said he and his band would never tour with Poison. Fascinating. I guess money (and Live Nation) talks.
Thoughts?
Reader Comments (21)
There's a boatload of money to be made for both bands if this happens, and that's a pretty powerful incentive.
If it happens, I'll be there for sure.
He knows these guys and I would think he'd have pretty credible intel that Crue/Poison will happen.
I just hope their tour dovetails into M3, as that show REALLY needs a boost in the band roster department as there is just no real headliner material for this festival yet.
A semi-scab Whitesnake does not a headliner make.
I guess we'll know tomorrow.
And we'll know the schedule for Crue/Poison that I predict will be a fairly long extended Summer Tour. If it takes off and sells out in multiple cities, they'll keep it going.
This will do more to Bring Back Glam! than anything in years!
Now, I just wish both bands would put out great albums, not best-of's or halfhearted quickies. We want all killer-no filler albums!
Too bad they didn't put those together in time for the tour. It would have helped anticipation and ticket sales. The only reason characters like the members of these bands gave up on the classic tried and true "put out an album and tour on it" mentality is because the albums they've put out recently have been either crap or fair to middling and created zero hype.
Fans didn't want to hear the new stuff because it wasn't on par with the old stuff. Want to make a memorable tour? Make a memorable album of material you can tour off of.
Crue toured off "Saints of Los Angeles" with some success, but you have to wonder if "Life Is Beautiful" wound up on the album along with Vince Neil's Desmond Child produced "Promise Me", for example, how much better the response would have been, dialing down the filler, dialing up more sold out shows in bigger arenas.
Nevertheless, since enuff people are there solely for the old hits, it probably duzn't make that much difference to mount a tour like this.
Just picture the T-Shirts! Those two logos together!
"When I hear the music, all my troubles just fade away.
When I hear the music, let it play, let it play!"
- Poison
See ya up front!
Even if they can't stand each other, which is totally ridiculous, unless there's some skeletons in the closet between them we don't know about, they will create bigger hype and anticipation and thus sell more tickets in bigger halls.
Talk about killing two birds with one stone!
This double bill will be the biggest thing to happen to Glam Metal in years!
After all the bullshit from Vince Neil & Nikki Sixx, slagging Poison off last year, IF they do tour together, all credibility for anything Sixx or Neil says from now on, will go right in the toilet.
And, Poison will put on a solid show, & Motley will will attempt to do the same. Vince will continue to squawk out every 5th word, further ruining the legacy of what was once an incredible live band.
I'd much rather spend the what I'm sure will be "stupid money" elsewhere. Like supporting the bands that are still out every year playing the clubs and bars all over America.
But he nails it, and the other 1/8 is classic singer/audience call and response during the bridge or whatever the songwriter term is for that part (you know, which one I mean!).
The thing about Michaels is, though he may sing/talk most of the words with minimum call and response, I don't think he's ever hit a clean actual note of music in his life.
So, what you've got is two "singers", or shall we say, vocal stylists, who even in self parody or with relatively new found limited vocal range (which can happen when one gets older), they are still better than the alternative -- impersonators in cover bands or replacements that, though maybe more vocally skilled, could never even come close to approximating the sound of the originals -- The Ones! The Only's!: Vince and Brett!
In other words, I'll take half a Vince Neil and a tone deaf Brett Michaels over replacements or tribute band impersonators any day!
And it duzn't matter. Because the music is still there and we are going to see two of the greatest Glam Metal bands of all time in one shot!
I'm even thinkin' havin' the two of 'em together will make them rise to the occasion in a healthy dose of a little bit of competition. Maybe they will embrace the challenge of trying to top each other.
I would love to see 'em join each other on stage but I realize that might be pushing it a little, hahaha!!!
Speaking of which, when are they announcing the Def Leppard-Heart
-Kansas tour?
i want o comment on metalboy1 and his calling Whitesnake a semi-scab band. That band has always had a fluid line-up from the get go. While I would love to see Sykes back, it has been 2 decades since he was in it. Plus, the album they did last year was really good, so I could care less who is in teh band as long as they deliver.
Or shall I say, Classic line-ups, as Poison had a different guitarist for 5 minutes before C.C.
That's why I'll be right down front, point blank, no matter how half-as*ed it could potentially be.
But I think these guys will actually rise to the occasion in an unconscious or semiconscious effort to outdo each other.
It may be a Cash-Grab, but they will be lovin' their art as well, trust me. I just wish they'd put out new albums, which is obviously dreaming at this point.
You want a real Cash-Grab all the way around, especially from the promoters, since they settled for less?
Try M$!