"It f*ckin ain't
right, dude!" -CC
*pops open a
beer* "Ah, how sweet it is!" -CC (again)
*looks at this
girl drunkenly* "We've been dating for seven...seven minutes now..yeah." -Rikki
Bret signs a
girl's pants. "I hope that's permanent marker." She says. "Yeah. Me too." is his reply.
After the show, each band
member had their own way of cornering 'meat'. Lead guitarist C.C. DeVille would chase girls around the entire area. Drummer
Rikki would stick a backstage pass onto a drumstick, and, find a girl, would toss it to her. Lucky Girl.
"When
you're performing in an arena and the entire audience is singing your own song, the one you wrote, sang, and played in, that.......nothing
can equal that." Bret
"One night they were opening for Warrant and Bret had too much to drink. They did a few
songs, he said, thank you, good night, and tossed me the mic. The he ran up off the stage.....bam! Right on the floor." Roadie
Rikki Valentine on Bret's diabetes
"It's pretty hard to find out halfway through a tour that your guitarist is
f***ing your woman." Bobby Dall on guitarist Richie's affair with his soon to be bride.
"Maybe POISON will fade
away. The critics want us to. But I'd sure as hell like to piss them off one last time." Rikki
(laughing)"It wasn't
shot for angles, it wasn't done for perfection, it was for us, seeing how we are 'in the moment'." Bret talking about the
tape of him and Pamela Lee makin love....and speaking about makin love....
(serious) "I personally think that
a tape of someone f***ing Pam.......is pretty cool......Don't publish that." Bobby
"C.C., at times,
would act like such a f***ing idiot." Bret on, who else, C.C., the psycho.
"It was the
house of Whores....then it was the house of Horrors." C.C. on his years spent alone in his huge ass mansion after being kicked
out of Poison.
"I didn't remember
a damn thing most of the time. When they told me that I sold out RedRock twice, I was like 'I did that? Wow, I'm good.'" C.C.
When on VH1's
Behind The Music's anniversary special with Rikki and Bret, C.C. whipped out the cover of Samantha 7's CD and paraded it around
the screen. When the camera shifted to the host, C.C. popped his hand out there and wouldn't quit advertising. Rikki and Bret
were laughing their asses off.
"But seriously,
you know what I like so much about Illinois? It's getting up, early in the morning, and smelling that fine reefer oil..."
Bret at Tweeter Center, 6/23/02
"You guys gonna
light a fire under my ass or what??" C.C., after completing his about three minutes long guitar solo, 6/23/02
"I think we're
all nice people.....in general." Rikki
"I've seen a
ton of things that normal people shouldn't see." Bobby
"I don't know
whether to salivate or cringe!" C.C.
All of the
information above was taken via VH1's Behind the music: Poison. All rights reserved.
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