Bret Michaels told The Arizona Republic this week that he’s now looking forward to Poison touring with Motley Crue and The New York Dolls next month, despite derogatory comments from some Crue members.
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There was a lot of controversy between Motley Crue and Poison, just some comments they had made about how ‘We're not gonna do that kind of tour,’” said Michaels. “I had said something on stage, like ‘Wouldn’t it be awesome if for Poison’s 25th Anniversary and Motley Crue’s 30th, for there to be a tour we did together?’ And a couple of the members of their band made some pretty derogatory comments. I just said, ‘The hell with it. I’m gonna do my own tour.’ Then, Nikki [Sixx] said, ‘I’m really sorry about some of the comments some of the members made. I really want to do this.’ So I think it’s gonna be a great tour.”
Michaels also spoke about the volatile chemistry that’s somehow sustained Poison for all these years.
“You couldn’t put four more different people in a room and try to make a band, so when that chemistry is on and it works, it’s unbelievably great,” said Michaels. “There’s just this fire and this energy. And when it goes bad, it goes horribly bad. We’ve had knock-down drag-out fistfights on stage. But now? Today? Even though we still have four completely different personalities, I think we’re getting along a lot better.”
Motley Crue/Poison/The New York Dolls tour dates:
May 29 - Pryor, OK - Rocklahoma
June 07 - Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavilion
June 09 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
June 10 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
June 12 - Albuquerque, NM - Hard Rock Pavilion
June 14 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
June 15 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
June 17 - Phoenix, AZ - Desert Sky Pavilion
June 18 - Las Vegas, NV - Venue TBD
June 19 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
June 21 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
June 22 - Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
June 24 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
June 25 - Milwaukee, WI - Bradley Center
June 26 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
June 28 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
June 29 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 01 - Tinley Park, IL - FMB Amphitheatre
July 02 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 03 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
July 05 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Live Arena
July 06 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
July 08 - Biloxi, MS - Mississippi Coast Coliseum
July 09 - *Pelham, AL - Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 10 - Atlanta, GA - Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
July 12 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 13 - Hershey, PA - Star Pavilion at Hersheypark
July 15 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
July 16 - Camden, NJ - Susquehannna Bank Center
July 19 - Mansfield, MA - Comcast Center
July 20 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
July 22 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 23 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
July 24 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
July 27 - **Cheyenne, WY - Frontier Days
July 29 - Youngstown, OH - Covelli Centre
July 30 - Frederick, MD - Outlaw Jam 2011
July 31 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
August 5 - Tomah, WI - Fort McCoy
* July 9 - Motley Crue and New York Dolls only
** July 27 - Motley Crue only
Blabbermouth.com reports that, in an interview with Rick Andrews of 98.7 Jack FM in Texas, Michaels said: “This is a much-different-written autobiography; I’m not just trying to just get shock value out of people. What it does is it goes through, I call it, the moments and comedy of errors that is my life – the trying times, the good times, the bad times, the sex, drugs and rock and roll; everything that I went through – what led up to it, what happened, what I did about it.”