Poison Tickets

Glam-metal, hard rock gods Poison are the poster children for sex, drugs and rock and roll. Originally a bar band in Pittsburgh, Poison’s opening night line up of lead vocalist Bret Michaels, guitarist Matt Smith, bassist Bobby Dall, and drummer Rikki Rockett moved to L.A. and built up a following playing clubs on the Sunset Strip. It was in L.A. that they picked up guitarist C.C. DeVille in an audition where he narrowly beat out Slash from Guns N’ Roses for the spot. Despite onstage scuffles, cocaine and alcohol addictions and head injuries, Poison has lived to tell the tale.

With hit singles from Every Rose Has Its Thorn to Unskinny Bop, Poison positioned itself as the fifth best-selling hard rock band of the 80s after Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and Guns N' Roses. Poison tickets were scarce and tours with Ratt, Cinderella, Quiet Riot, Kiss, Def Leppard and Cheap Trick have led to sold out shows.

During this time, lead singer Brett Michaels managed to handle a career as a solo recording artist and actor. At one point Michaels co-founded a production company with Charlie Sheen and wrote, directed, acted in and scored the soundtrack to A Letter from Death Row. Michaels even had his own reality show called Rock of Love and was the winning contestant on Celebrity Apprentice 3. Not to be outdone, fellow bandmate C.C. Deville starred in VH1’s The Surreal Life, appearing on set the day he got out of rehab. Now a fixture in pop culture, Poison has sold over 30 million records and are enshrined in the video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Poison and Def Leppard tickets are on sale now at TicketLiquidator!