Thursday
Jan102013
Were These Two Poison Videos Shot The Same Day?
Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 12:02AM
These videos have the same stage backdrop. Were these clips shot in the same day?
Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 12:02AM
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This is the stage set they used for the Flesh & Blood tour in 1990-91. The videos weren't shot on tour, but rather most of the footage was filmed prior to the tour starting - I think in the rehearsal space. They then released Unskinny Bop as the first single off (the album) Flesh & Blood, basically around the time the tour kicked off. Somewhere I have a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes photos of this video shoot. It was always my favorite collection of Poison pics.
Sacrifice was the fifth (and last) single off that album, released in the summer of 1991 (I think the tour had actually wound up by that point). In any case, the end of the tour was a bit acrimonious, and CC famously got kicked out of the band after they appeared on the MTV Video Music Awards that year. It's probably understandable that they just recycled old footage in order to pull together this video, rather than locking the band together in a film studio again. They were already at a stage of getting into fist fights with one another.
... And the fact that I remember all this stuff 20 years later just proves that I was paying WAY too much attention at the time. Very important tour for me, and my first ever rock concert (the same night Steve Clark died, coincidentally enough). How did that anniversary slip by unnoticed?
Regarding Poison bangin' out the videos. Infighting or not, it really is a shame when one looks at how creative the "Talk Dirty To Me" an "I Want Action" videos and some of their others are that they couldn't realize at the time the opportunity they missed to be a little more adventurous.
And how come we can't get Poison to make a new album?! Can you please reach out to them? Maybe we should start a petition!
And I sure do wish you would stick around!
And I'm not going to start a petition for something like that. It wouldn't bother me if they never put out another album. It wouldn't bother me if they put out an album of experimental jazz, or a rap album, or a spoken word album with Lou Reed. I try not to have that sort of relationship with anyone. Once again, I support their freedom of choice and am simply grateful for the positive impact they have had on my life.
But I've said all that before. No point getting on the internet and saying it all again.
That said, you don't need money to make cool videos. What you need is imagination. Poison had it in the beginning but lost it by the time "Unskinny Bop" rolled around.
Originally, they sort of messed with Commercial Pop Metal Accessibility, punking out on it all the way. Once they made it, they went too autopilot. Bangin' out two vids in the same day is the lazy way of doing it!
Kiki -- Okay! Okay! How about at least giving us your Top 10 of 2012?!
Bri L, I already listed my "Best of 2012" in Comments under Al's Post on the subject, "Top 10 of 2012 -- The Editor's Take" but I'm glad you asked because I have changed my mind and added and subtracted bands from my list so many times based on the suggestions of other BBG! editors, staff and readers. It's really changed and for the better!
I will post them here in a little bit.
I gotta put that list together. Should be in a little bit. Probably one or two of yours are on it, I believe.
Drum roll, please...
My revised, new and improved...
METALBOY'S BEST OF 2012:
1) THE TREATMENT "This Might Hurt"
2) THE DARKNESS "Hot Cakes"
3) TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION "Peacemaker"
4) ACCEPT "Stalingrad"
5) MISS CRAZY "Grip"
6) STICKY BOYS "This is Rock'n'Roll"
7) DYNAZTY "Sultans of Sin"
8) FOXY SHAZAM "The Church of Rock and Roll"
9) BITERS "Last of a Dying Breed"
10) L.A. GUNS "Hollywood Forever"
1) KISS
2) Sister Doll
3) Cyanide 4
4) Diemonds
5) Wigwam
6) Pompei Nights
7) H.e.a.t.
8) Casablanca
9) Julian Angel's Beautiful Beast
10) Imperial State Electric
11) Badmouth
12) Bullet
13) 77
14) Rival Sons
Now onto this topic....WOW, i love me some Flesh and Blood!! Too bad Poison refuses to play the title song in their sets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, i know, dead issue.
Happy New Year BBGers
Kenny O! Yeah, Bro! That Foxy Shazam album is a masterpiece! Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention!
Totally GENEROCK!
And the fact he had to have his name on the cover of the album is chickensh*t! I mean, how come the other employees who play on it can't have their names on it, too!
The band is SLASH!
And that's the ONLY name that needs to appear on the cover!
Metalboy! Has spoken!