06.21.07
Poison LIVE: We only play songs you know!
I recently had the pleasure of checking out Poison in concert - but I almost didn’t make it.
A friend of mine who was heading to the show with me mentioned that they had a new album coming out. <Cue loud record-scratch> This was nearly a deal-breaker: while I love rocking out to classics like Look What the Cat Dragged In and Unskinny Bop, I simply don’t have the patience to listen to “something off our new album”.
…But then he quickly changed my opinion with this key detail: It’s a COVER ALBUM!
Awesome. So not only would the night be filled with Poison’s greatest hits, but we’d also get to hear their rendition of some classics such as Suffragette City, Your Momma Don’t Dance, and Just What I Needed. And, just when you thought that the Annual Summertime White Trash Bash couldn’t get any better, C.C. Deville covers Ray Charles’ Georgia on guitar with piano accompaniment.
It was an entertaining show as usual, complete with pyro and tons of people watching… not bad for an $8 ticket from the local Street Sellers (as an aside, I’ve recently learned that the term “scalper” is considered derrogatory).
After the encore, Bret, Bobby, Rikki, and C.C. told us “we’ll see you next summer!” …and you can bet that they’re right.