Thursday
Apr092015
Bret Michaels Announces New Album and Single
Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 12:01AM Bret Michaels is teaming up with a country artist named Luke Laird for a cross-over song called "Girls on Bars." The song is from the upcoming album True Grit. You can hear "Girls on Bars" below. It's pretty brutal to be honest. Like the Skid Row reunion that will never happen, a new - proper - Poison album clearly isn't going to happen either.
Bret Michaels Set To Release “True Grit” Album With First Single "Girls On Bars" New... - Team Bret #LiveBretMichaels http://t.co/fclTlhe36x
— Bret Michaels (@bretmichaels) April 8, 2015
Reader Comments (25)
n that way, he can join Neil on the casino circuit once the Crue hang it up (while saving some time for a Poison festival appearance or two whenever the mood and paycheck suit him). And I would be willing to bet that sort of ticket would be in the offering in the next year or two. Throw in Bach and you can sell out some small-to-middling venues, as opposed to going it alone and under-selling off-market venues (Bach at the Rock Bar in Santa Clara, Calif., for instance). They could call it "The Three Glamigos."
And, truth is, those fans clamoring for a reunion with new songs are in the minority relatively speaking. The amount of an up-tick they would see in sales or venue sizes is probably a lot smaller than most think, no less that the impact wouldn't have a very long tail.
You mean, what's wrong with Michaels!
Granted, he's got his "people" but they're talentless "yes people" or talented and quelling it to say "yes" to this miscalculating clown.
This guy has turned into one of the oddest narcissists to ever walk the earth. He's obviously in love with himself and has to be out there, "just him", but the Brett Michaels brand and product he puts out there is underwhelming, at best, the epitome of mediocrity... The epitome of LCD (lowest common denominator).
Study the "sanitized", cartoonish, over-photoshopped image above. The "turned up" blue eyes, like he's just hit the high beams, the overly tanned John Boehneresque hue to his skin, the background he's plopped into looking so overly staged with the American Flag strategically placed to capture the stars and bars of his cowboy hat, even the Army-like stencil of the title.
He's dumbed himself down to levels previously thought unatainable in my view, it's only a question of time to see how much lower he can go.
The whole thing reeks of artifice way beyond his "sins" on Sunset Strip with Poison that seem artful compared to his current antics and what he's become. The whole thing stinks so bad I'm afraid to subject myself to sacrifice my sense of hearing by clicking on the little red arrow on the window of the Bread Michaels Hell awaiting. Doh, I'm holding my breath... Here we go-oh-oh... echo... echo... echo...
Bret is playing a free concert less than a half-mile from my house in September. I'm looking forward to it, because there is no way I would pay to see him these days.
The poster says it all. Pandering to heartland in its cheesiest form. I'd recommend a dead carcass here or there, maybe a hooked bass on his giant pole for subliminal phallic effect!!!
Truth is stranger than fiction
BUT...at the end of the day, I actually don't really mind his solo stuff.
The country stuff in his solo material is mostly suspect but, he still has songs that easily sound like bada$$ vintage Poison songs...
"Menace To Society"
"It's My Party"
"Go That Far"
"Loaded Gun"
"I Remember"
Of Course, I would much rather Poison release a new studio album or better yet release a box set of Poison rarities including early stuff when the band was still called Paris.
Lot's of cool songs from them have yet to be officially released...
"Hot Shot"
"Top Dogs"
"Night School"
"Talkin Loud"
"Steal Away The Night"
"Razors Edge"
"Rock Like A Rocker"
& I believe they also used to cover (live) the Motley Crue songs "Shout At The Devil" & "Looks That Kill"?
ALSO Poison officially releasing a vintage Concert on DVD would be nothing short of amazing.
I have a excellent copy of a Poison concert from the "Flesh & Blood " tour on DVD but a official release of a "Look What The Cat Dragged In" era concert or "Open Up & Say Ahh" era concert would really rock.
How the mighty have fallen
That about sums it up.
Him AND this song.
I think Poison should get a new singer and go out without him.
Let's recap...
JT -- What you said is PRICELESS!
GNR -- "It's just talking about different ways to get drunk and what you are looking at."... I've never heard a better way to describe his crap songwriting or that of any of the new members of his newfound pseudo-hick genre!!!
KENNY O! Good idea about Poison getting a new singer and going out on tour.
JASON -- Whatever I think of Solinger, he is a helluva lot better than Michaels at this point. Yours just may be the funniest comment of all!... "That dude can point at the crowd and high five with the best of them."... Hahaha!!!
JAKKI -- it doesn't surprise me a couple of his songs aren't bad. He has been a pretty good songwriter in the past. A few good ones are bound to slip out, the same way they used to occasionally eminate from that dude from Iron Maiden (please don't make me bother to remember his name). Anywho... You've given me an idea... First off, imagine had he not completely sold out and stuck with Poison, these more than likely could have been Poison songs... Well, better late than never... Taking a page from Aerosmith covering one of their own, Joe Perry's "Let The Music Do The Talking", Michaels should go back to Poison, tail between his legs, and redo them Poison style. Granted, it ain't Aerosmith but they would probably really crank his stuff up! Also, I've got a PARIS bootleg CD (... ur... um... "Live Import", in case this is being read by the authorities) that's killer but very poorly recorded, unfortunately. On it, they do a fantastic cover of "Looks That Kill", as you mentioned, plus other covers including "We Belong" by UFO, "Lipstick Killer" from the New York Dolls, Aerosmith's "Lightning Strikes", "Let's Get Crazy" by Quiet Riot, Van Halen's "D.O.A.", "Strutter" by KISS, T Rex's "Get It On", Priest's "You Got Another Thing Coming" and "Shout At The Devil" from Crüe.
And finally, GARY... "Billy Brett Michaels"... That's where I lost totally lost it... ROTF... Hahaha!!!
I can't top any of this... Hahaha!!!
I firmly believe that a set of the most rocking songs from Bret's solo stuff would easily be better than 'Hollyweird' & I actually dig that CD but when Bret is rocking out on his solo stuff it's much better than 'Hollyweird'
Also, I loved reading about the other covers Poison used to do, I only knew about the Crue covers.
P.S. Where, by chance did you get your bootleg er umm import Paris live CD from?
Talking about deep cuts and Poison seems like an oxymoron. The mind reels when you think about what they have in their vault (sponsored by Petco). That never released version of "Ride the Wind" with a string accompaniment? Their version of "Ace of Spades"?
But who knows? Anything is possible with Michaels these days. I might even be proven wrong. He is so brandtastic, the sheer oddity of actually doing what him limited fan-base wants might appeal to him, his handlers, and his friends and family who work in his PR department (an old "Rock of Love" bus), busily waxing and varnishing and photoshopping away the last remnants of credibility he has left.
Since I can come at this from an angle as a fan of country music, I'll chime in.
First of all, anything you hear on any "country" radio station is NOT country music. It's bad twangy pop.
This song by Michaels takes bad twangy pop and drags it through the mud. There are no redeeming qualities to this song whatsoever. It's bad Bro-Country/EDM Country/Country Rap extracated from sewage and attempted to put a shine on
And those are the good things I have to say about it.
The Chris Gaines thing though? That just sorta' creeped me out. Like jumping several different sharks all in a row.
He was one of my favourites in that genre, and the fact that he loved KISS (one of my early favorites) had something to do with that, I'm sure. I was sad when he married Trisha and retired :(
Curious to hear what Cheap Seats thoughts were though and sorry I hijacked the thread.