POISON: Top 10 Debut For 'Live, Raw & Uncut' DVD
- July 28, 2008
POISON's "Live, Raw & Uncut" DVD, available exclusively at Best Buy, sold around 2,400 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on Billboard's Top Music Videos chart.
The DVD/CD collection — the band's first in over a decade — includes all of their greatest hits performed live. Captured in glorious high definition, "Live, Raw & Uncut" was recorded in 2007 in front of more than 10,000 rowdy fans at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri. Rounding out the set is an accompanying bonus CD of POISON's greatest hits captured live.
POISON is currently on the road, hitting 50 US cities this summer on their Live, Raw & Uncut Summer Tour 2008.
VH1 has just announced that POISON singer Bret Michaels will be back for a third season of his hit reality series "Rock Of Love", but this time, it's taking place on his tour bus.
"Rock Of Love Bus With Bret Michaels" is set to premiere in early 2009.
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How's your band doing.Poison may not be your cup of tea(or piss in your case)But till you sell 20 million units and have a tour every summer that sell well,your best to keep your soup coolers shut.Your just a jealous little man that would give his nut to be in anyone of Poison 's members shoes for one night.As for they suck LIVE.Once again maybe you don't like the music, but to say they suck live means either you've never seen them or once again,you wish you were up there on stage insted of selling hot dogs at the stand.Then again it's hard to give a nut when you have a pussy !
COMMENT | Ain't nothing but a good time... posted by : Firewind 7/28/2008 5:42:23 PM
The eighties ARE over, however, that decade gave us Slayer, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and thrash metal which no doubt influence every band you listen to. Before you trash a whole decade, respect the bands that came from it, you judgmental idiot.
It's kind of like hating your Grandparents because your parents don't give a shit about you. Dig?
COMMENT | 50 city tour... posted by : lundtheconqueror 7/28/2008 6:39:34 PM
....which means they'll be hitting all the hot spots between Ohio and Montana!
COMMENT | posted by : RiotAct666 7/28/2008 7:12:38 PM
Pretty good dvd it is.
COMMENT | Wow posted by : anti emo 7/28/2008 8:15:53 PM
I thought this was for a CD release.
Its a good thing it isnt.
COMMENT | posted by : Fani Dilth 7/28/2008 8:22:56 PM
Has anyone ever pondered what in the hell is an Unskinny Bop? Is that tagging a fat chick back stage ?
COMMENT | Poison - What Rock n Roll is about! FUN! posted by : Sarge 7/28/2008 8:41:03 PM
20 years later, Poison is still pissing people. That means their still doing something right.
How funny that some people believe that you have to personally outsell a band to criticize them. I guess Britney Spears can make fun of your favorite bands and nobody can criticize her? Grow up, clowns.
COMMENT | posted by : maidenfan08 7/28/2008 11:26:30 PM
Cool, Im gonna buy this
COMMENT | posted by : maidenfan08 7/29/2008 1:26:10 AM
HEY FORCE_FUIELD, NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR SHITTY REVIEW YOU LONER POSER.. GO AND LISTEN TO YOUR SLIPKNOT AND LINKIN PARK CDS YOU POSER !!!
GLAM ROCK RULES !!!
COMMENT | posted by : force_field 7/29/2008 2:00:11 AM
I caught up with Danny last week. He was excited. Manowar had finally released their new album, their first in six years. "Yeah bro the kings of metal are back!" he roared. I sensed some falseness in his tone. A bit forced perhaps. We sat down and watched some TV. "Remember that day when we first heard 'Louder Than Hell'?" Danny reminisced. I remembered. It was 1996. Metal was dying.
We were room mates at the time. We were both broke students going to college. Metal was our way of life. Half the time we didn't even show up to class. We got up at midday, opened a Pepsi or two and listened to metal. Then we went out to college for a few hours just to keep up appearances. Late in 96' I saw Manowar's new one on the shelf. I'd never heard them before. I was interested. I passed it up. Even though we were living in San Diego I had never seen any Manowar CD's. Then one cold Saturday afternoon I was parking in the driveway and I saw Danny standing there waiting. "Come in inside, hurry up man!" he yelled impatiently. "Whooohooo!" the dude screamed on the way inside. I asked what was going on. Danny pressed play on the CD player. "Manowar bro, Manowar" he said. It played. It was the metal we had dreamed of. Finally a band who knew how we felt. They walked it like they talked it. Live for metal, die for metal. To hell with the unbelievers!
We played 'Louder Than Hell' non stop. Danny went out and ordered every CD they had ever made. The price was steep. "Barry ripped me off man!" he said, refering to our mate at the local college record store. "By my reasoning I paid thirty seven dollars for 'Kings Of Metal'!" he ranted. Still we got down to the metal. It consumed every minute of the day. Danny could never quite comprehend how metal magazines could give Manowar one out of five or ten. "How in clear conscience could a metal magazine, that is supposed o support METAL, give them a low rating and take the piss!?" I nodded in agreement. "Even that fraud Dani Filth says 'Louder Than Hell' is crap! It makes Pantera look like Poison dude!" he insisted.
Time went on. Manowar released a live album. "Seen that live album man?" Danny came home rambling one day. "All their hits! Gotta get it!" I reminded him it cost thirty five bucks. Not worth it. Now we had graduated college, maybe a waste of money. "To hell with you man!" he said storming off. Danny bought it. As we listened I saw him pretending to like it. "Yeah boy. On the same level as The Who live in 75." Truthfully it was dull. Danny knew it. "Just because I'm getting older, doesn't mean I don't have to stop listening to metal. Right?" I said nothing. "I'll be the thirty year old still buying Cannibal Corpse CD's, getting strange looks, yeah that's me......'
Four years after 'Louder Than Hell' I had gotten married. Danny was still going to college. He had found the working life a bit too much. Danny had one day bought Manowar's second live album. It was worse than the first. I still bought CD's. Not as frequently. Money was too tight. If I got something, it was a well considered choice. Danny kept buying all the new bands however. He was still experimenting. Half way through the latest live debacle Danny turned it off. He went home. I listened to some Krokus in peace.
Two weeks ago Manowar finally released a new album, 'Warriors Of The World'. I knew about it of course. I got a free copy for a website I was writing for to review. It wasn't up to much. I gave it a tepid review. Danny came over later on that week, CD in hand. Trying to look excited he put it in, oblivious that I had already heard it. Through th e 48 minute bore fest he just sat there, occasionly banging his head. Then, without warning I got up and started headbanging like a maniac. "Yeah, kings of metal man" I bellowed "Get up dude, going to town on this one!" Danny was shocked. "Settle down man, this is shit" was his reply.
Danny left town last week. He read my review. "You have to call it like you see it" he reasoned. Yesterday he called me from San Francisco. We told some dirty jokes. Danny told me he was going to kill himself. I tried to talk him out of it. He hung up. Later on his mother called. Danny had shot himself in the heart. He died from blood loss. Years back he had lost his foot in a motorcycle accident. The non stop pain of that and realising he had no passion for metal left spelled the end. In his walkman when he died was a copy of U.D.O.'s 'Timebomb.' I looked around. Laughed. Then I went to bed.
Great dvd by Poison!! Saw them at SRF this year and they were excellent!
COMMENT | Thanx for sharing force_field! posted by : Midnight Glory 7/29/2008 9:27:24 AM
Metal up all asses!
COMMENT | Neil Beaufort Zod from ^^^^^ posted by : Dave Levine 7/29/2008 3:18:59 PM
Beautifully put! That is EXACTLY what I say!
I guess we can't say shit about Britney, N Sync, BS Boyz, New Kidz on Da Block, P Diddy - ya see you HAVE to like them because they SOLD MORE! Are people this stupid? They gotta check out the billboards before buying an album and only the ones hat sell well they buy? That is so FUCKING SHEEP MENTALITY it is disgusting! Bunch of followers who go wherever MTV and commercial prefabricated shit creating labels tell them to! CLUELESS. Fucking sheep!
Poison ain't "fun"! It makes me miserable. That is why I don't listen to any of the bands I listed above. Poison fits right in there.
They acted like they thought they were supposed to act when Motley Crue just WAS THAT.
I have every right to post negative shit here as I do positive shit! This is a "comment board". Some bands get promoted by the labels who have the money. Then you have the opposite like old Metallica and Pantera who did it without ANY of that corporate BS help! They did it on their OWN. To each their own. I feel more ridiculous when I hear shit like "Cry Tough" then when I listen to Boy George or fucking TLC or some shit..
COMMENT | tin omen 07 posted by : Dave Levine 7/30/2008 10:37:40 AM
Well put as usual. I understand the analogy yet the HUGE difference in talent between Zappa and Poison. Good stuff.
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