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Poison: The Band's Disastrous 1991 MTV VMA Performance
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One can totally feel the amount of coc*ine in the ambient.
It didn't seem that bad to me. At least they weren't lyp singing
Classic MTV drama
Poison were never anything..sort of like Foreigner or Starship…
I remember seeing this live
This band sucks so bad
Dt julie brown was smokin
gucci gang
I can't believe they actually had hits, for a greatest hits album ..
I was never a fan
The folks of today cant get when music was real and call these things, " disasterous." Umm no your music today is disastrous fur real. Have a seat. I don't even like poison, but you made me like them now.
Very cool
Disaster? It’s seasoned professionals correcting a blip, I applaud them playing on, giving fans a great set.
I never cared much at all for "Hair"/"Glam" metal in general and Poison specifically…but I respected their work ethic. Even in comparison to the usual "dues-paying" phase bands invariably go through to catch a break, they *really* hustled. Sublime– a band I *did* like– called it the "One Brick At A Time" approach: if you get offered a gig playing for half a dozen drunks at some dive the size of a walk-in closet 300 miles away…take it. If you win just one fan, that's progress.
Which is why I am especially stupified at the number of bands who, like Poison, works for years to get off the launch pad, and once things start to happen, it's as if they said "Okay, fellas…this is it. We've *arrived.* All those years spent road-tripping all over the place in some old beater, eating $1 Value Meals from Taco Bell split five ways, staying in fleabag motels that offers hourly rates for a room with 5-day-old dead junkie under the bed, playing crappy gigs at crappy venues for chump change, working the street, passing out flyers, the whole bit…it's *FINALLY* paid off. So then: how can we best go about fucking all of this up in spectacular fashion?"
It's become such a cliche. Musicians knocking themselves dead to get noticed, then signed to label, and then…it's all booze, coke, car crashes, heroin, fistfights, criminal charges, waking up in the ER with a priest standing over you to administering the Last Rites after someone ODs.
A bunch of arseholes
I was such a Guns and Roses fan back then and got a laugh from this. I was such the stereotypical teen I imagined I wasn't back then. ???
CC is totally high hahahahahahaahahahaha
Poison IS a disaster. Since always.
Money.drugs…..more money more drugs……this band sucks
Richie Kotzen is an outstanding player.
Metal is the worst music ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
CC was really high…his fucking hair is pink and he keeps touching his nose.
The voiceover makes me want to eat fire lighters.
I remember this. I also remember hoping Bill Clinton was going to win the election. Although kids were not anywhere near as crazy and dumb as kids today. No riots. No crying..I also wanted to go downtown on Julie Brown
What a jerk off
What's so shocking??? This band sucked balls then and kept getting worse!!!
i saw Poison when they opened up for David Lee Roth, SkyScraper Tour…they were a friggin mess…i mean completely unlistenable…good memory tho and still love the band
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They rocked!
Poison? Never heard of these girls.
Poison always sucked..
So a shame they could cut their hair. They look horrendously…. Disgusting. Their time was done. They look like girls and the clothes horrendous
Hg if Fi t
Deception in plain sight.
Seen them in 89 and they were good ,Cinderella opened for them
Thanks god a year later Nirvana closed huge shit chapter so called '' 80s fake hairspray rock ''
I remember watching this shit show on TV. Too funny.
They suck bad, always did
that hurt my eyeballs and my ears
Poison is the best Spinal Tap type band ever! What a bunch of dumb-dumbs!! Ditto to the music!
I totally admit Poison was and still is a guilty pleasure, I loved their early pop rock songs (haven't listened to anything since the Native Tongue album, didn't like it). Say what you want about the performance, you can't say it was pre-taped playback! Performers actually playing their instruments, novel concept these days ?
This happened AFTER Spinal Tap came out!
Part of the problem might have been that CC was a horrible guitar player.
Poison was atrocious
The end of the hard rock era, the eighties glamour bands.
This was the same show that Van Halen performed Poundcake on, watch that clip and you’ll see a HUUUUUGE, difference between a well rehearsed, oiled machine of a band , and one (Poison) that “sh*t the bed”
I don't think this person talking was even alive yet ?
Catsin. Whhhaat?