Poison To Do Las Vegas Residency?

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Bret Michaels is keen on doing a Las Vegas residency with the rest of Poison. In fact, the band was apparently "going to do one last year." Remember, 2016 is the 30th anniversary of Look What The Cat Dragged In, so doing a residency sometime in the next few months makes a lot of sense. Thoughts?

Poison are open to the idea of a Las Vegas residency. Details here: https://t.co/pVQSC6evsA pic.twitter.com/vqyyswqS7O

— UltimateClassicRock (@UltClassicRock) December 8, 2015

Comments

[oper8n]

Oh, HELL YEAH! This would be so freakin' awesome. I already told my wife to pack the bags. If this happens, I'll try to let people know when we're going. Would love to meet some of you peeps in person.

[bon fletchin' leppard]

ah geez and oy vey at thee same time. There are so much better shows a-brewing and coming out than bret and his band of schmucks. swallow this..LIVE, bret.

If you can here me think...this is what I'd post.

[bkallday]

As long as there's no folk or bluegrass music being played, im good. Do Poison songs only, with no covers, the way they were recorded!

[Ace Steele]

Hmmm.... I'm trying to think of a venue in town that's small enough to warrant Poison doing more than one night. Unless they're planning on doing it at the No Regrets Bar with it's 80 person capacity, I just don't see it happening.

[Metalboy!]

Oh, c'mon, Ace... You know how they do in Vegas better than anyone... They'll pack a large venue in one of the large hotel complexes because a lot of the tickets will be comped.

Still, this is HUGE as they will rock the roof off the joint! C.C. absolutely blazes!

They are a natural for Vegas because they are really over the top.

[Metalboy!]

And I agree with BK... No covers!

They need to realize their stuff is SO much better than any cover they could ever do.

[Ace "Snarky" Steele]

CC's is great... & doesn't get the credit he should. He brought in the songwriting talent, That's for sure.

I could see them playing "The Pearl" at the Palms... (around 2000 capacity) for ONE night, & maybe selling it out... No shame there... Motorhead, Alice Cooper, Ringo Starr, Judas Priest all have played there in the last year, maybe come close to selling it out... It's just a matter of aside from weekenders & conventioneers, this place is a little bit of a ghost town. Ratt,The Babys, Firehouse, & Eric Martin all played together on one bill 2 weeks ago, & that was at "Vinyl" a 600/700 person capacity side room at the Hard Rock Hotel... for their era & genre' , there's a only a limited amount of "base" potential customers. And, on any given night, they'd never be "The only gig in town"... They'd be up against at least 40 other shows bigger & smaller on any given night.

IF they tried to play, say... "The Joint" at the Hard Rock... (3,000 seats or so) for a residency like KISS, Journey, Motley Crue, Gn'R, & Def Leppard did, that's 9-13 nights I just don't see them as being able to sell anywhere close to the 27,000 - 39,000 tickets that a standard Vegas residency would require. OK... the "No Regrets Bar" thing was a little bit snarky, But I'm just being a realist here. To pull anything close to a sellout more than one night, they'd have to have an almost equal in stature co-headliner... and that kind of kills the "residency's" who point.

[Ace]

WHOLE point...

[Him]

The key that people are missing is that they are "open" to it. If you read this, and other, recent news stories, Brent still seems hell-bent on inserting his solo band into discussions while halfheartedly paying his band-maters compliments.

I imagine they could do a restricted run at The Joint, since that is the place that caters to these sorts of nostalgia residencies. Maybe The House of Blues? I defer to Ace, as he knows more about this sort of thing than I.

But I stand by my previous comments: Poison is now about brand-extension (and financial incentives) for Bret, when it really should be the other way around. Shame really. For those who like Poison, it strikes me that solo Bret is a glass barely a fourth full . . . even if the tap he largely draws from live is the band he has kept at a distance for most of his most recent ventures.

His fans and band-mates deserve better.

[fletch]

What Him said. Over the years, dating back to 1986, I've read in newspapers and magazines and then later on the Internet, so many people in the rock-n-roll world describe Bret as "one of thee nicest guys in rock and roll", "a real team player", "a lead singer where his band is his first priority", and on and on and on. But since "Rock on Love" and moving forward, he seems hell bent on tarnishing Poison's legacy while simultaneously diminishing his, too.

I don't begrudge the 4 members of poison doing this Las Vegas residency. I begrudge Bret treating his bandmates so shabbily in the process. Over the past decade, I've bared witness to bret acting and emulating the "david lee roth persona" to acting and emulating the "axl rose persona". Sure, LSD is a very real and complicated affliction, but there is a line one shouldn't cross, and people shouldn't support Bret's (mis)behavior toward the poison brand when he has seemingly lost his way.

[Shawn]

If nothing else it would give me an excuse to go to Vegas. Get to see Poison again..C.C. Deville has always been one of my favorite underrated guitarist. Bret suffers from LSD (Lead Singer Disease) and a ton of other issues but it would be great to hear them play only their songs as everyone else has stated no covers. Go see Counts Customs, Vamped, and the Pawn Stars location would not be a bad weekend..

[Dj]

I view Michaels alone as a watered down Gene Simmons. I understand they need to make money and that this industry is a business. But it's a huge slap in the face to the legacy of Poison, the fans, the band members, and himself to a point. I view Poison as his easy gig, his bread and butter. They'll draw a crowd anywhere they want to because of the legacy and memorable songs. All the die-hard rock n roll fans would show plus the fair weather people for nostalgic reasons. If they play Vegas I would definitely go, whether they'd play a greatest hits set or more of a deeper cuts type of thing. I've been waiting to see them again since I saw them for the first time in 2011. It's a fun show, fun times, great music, and a cool vibe/crowd.

[Ace Steele]

Shawn mentioned a few of the R&R haunts in Vegas that are the standards... There's also the Fremont Street Experience , where on any given night, you might catch the 80's tribute band, "Arena" , which is pretty much Poison with zero actual members.... LOL Or Babe's RSB in Henderson, where you for absolutely zero admission charge, you can catch some of Sin City's best musicians playing on the weekends,on one side of the club, & then if so inclined, you can go to the other side of the club & feed your $1 bills to a bevy of marginal "brass pole ballerinas"© Always be on the lookout for a gig by "Vinyl Tattoo" which features 70's glam icon Frank DiMino of Angel on vocals, & Oz Fox of Stryper on guitar... and of course, somewhere in town, the Sin City Sinners are bound to be gigging, if they aren't doing their swing shift job as 3/5ths of Blotz's version of Ratt. Just be sure to tip the waitresses... These girls gotta eat, too. ;)

[Ace Steele]

P.S. If you're planning to be here for New Year's Eve, Dress warm & Slash and the Conspirators just announced they'll be as the House of Blues @ Mandalay Bay.

[Dj]

Hell, just by the members, Vinyl Tattoo sounds cool as hell. And if you are in Vegas you really should check out Sin City Sinners live, I caught employees opening for LA Guns about ten years ago when they were the Sin City All Stars. Played tons of GNR and put on a high energy show.

[fletch]

fair enough, Dj. Bret is acting more like a watered down version on Gene Simmons than a watered down Axl Rose. I made the distinction because Bret acts/thinks (and the other members have confirmed it in interviews) that "Bret "is" Poison", much like Axl believes that "Axl 'is' Guns 'n Roses". You're only as good as those around you.

Sure, I've said the same about Roth, in that, "David Lee Roth 'is' Van Halen". But, the difference is that this is fact, not opinion. :]