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Poison Tickets Information
Born, raised, and introduced in Pennsylvania, Poison moved to Los Angeles, California to make it big in the industry where bands like Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Boston, KISS, and the New York Dolls were already carving out a niche for them. They made a big splash on the Sunset Strip and the rest, as they say, is rock ‘n’ roll legend.
Originally going by the name of “Paris”, the heavy metal glam band took on the name Poison based on a t-shirt worn by a player in the fictional band portrayed in the cult classic mock-doc movie This Is Spinal Tap.
Their debut album, Look What the Cat Dragged In, hit music stores in 1986, giving radio listeners the hits “I Won’t Forget You”, “Talk Dirty to Me”, and “I Want Action”. The following year, the band breathed new life into the KISS classic “I Want to Rock and Roll All Nite” for the soundtrack to the movie Less Than Zero.
Open Up and Say…Ahh!, Poison’s second album was released in 1988 and ended up doing 8 million in sales worldwide. Poison’s most successful song “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” came off this album, as did also-hits “Fallen Angel”, “Nothin’ But a Good Time” and the cover “Your Mama Don’t Dance”, originally recorded by Loggins and Messina. Open Up and Say…Ahh! received particularly notable attention because of having its album cover censored, the lengthy demonic tongue sticking out of the depicted figures mouth causing too much of a stir with the faint of heart.
Poison’s third album, Flesh & Blood, came out in 1990, also with a controversial album cover depicting a tattoo with bloody-ink running from it. Flesh & Blood went multi-platinum and soared to #2 on US Billboard charts, thanks to hit songs “Ride With the Wind”, “Something to Believe In”, and “Unskinny Bop”.
Their subsequent album, 1993’s Native Tongue marked a change in style for Poison, with a shift away from party anthems and towards more earnest themes. While critically Native Tongue was received well, the fans weren’t as impressed. They started recording their follow-up to that, Crack a Smile, with the intention of reverting back to their glam rock roots, but a car accident interrupted that process and a Greatest Hits album was released in stead.
Power to the People and Hollyweird came next, in 2000 and 2002 respectively, bringing Poison fans new favorites like “Last Song”, “Stand”, “Strange”, “Can’t Bring Me Down”, “I Hate Every Bone in Your Body But Mine”, “Livin’ in the Now”, “Home (C.C’s Story)”, and “Emperor’s New Clothes”.
In 2006, Poison broke out on their 20 Years of Rock tour which turned out to be one of the hottest selling tours of the year, breaking 20,000 attendees most nights.
Already well-versed in playing covers, Poison let the fans pick the covers they’d put on their Summer 2007 release Poison’d. The 2009 Poison is slated to perform in many cities across the nation including, Salt Lake City, Utah, Pheonix, Arizona, and will wrap up their tour in San Bernadino California on September 6th of this year.
In their lengthy career, Poison has sold 25+ million records. Get your Poison tickets now and be there to hear their pick of the best of the bunch.
