Devastated, CHEATED ON & Flat Broke…80s Icon Wrote CLASSIC at Laundromat at 3 AM!--Professor of Rock
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- Coming up the story of one of the greatest #1 hit singalongs of the late 80s, Every Rose Has It’s Thorn… From Poison’s hard rock frontman Bret Michaels who was absolutely devastated.… It wasn’t the Greek tragedy that the singer made it out to be, but the revelation of a cheating girlfriend left this struggling rock icon reeling with hurt & betrayal. Michaels drowned his sorrow at the laundromat at 3 AM with his acoustic guitar and out fell this perfect 80s power ballad… Even though the label warned the band not to release it because it would kill their budding career, they proved the label wrong once again… Next, the story behind a proverb that became the heartbreak anthem of its time on Professor of Rock.
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Stick around, because this is one of the coolest stories behind a song that I’ve ever heard…
“Every Rose has its thorn,” is a proverb meant to remind us that nothing is perfect…. Even one of the Earth's most beautiful flowers, the rose, is not without blemish. For Bret Michaels, the lead vocalist & lyricist for the band Poison, the adage was a metaphor for the contrasts facing the life of a rock star, and the title he chose for a #1 pop song he wrote back in 1987.
Bret Michaels was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. On his birth certificate, “Michael” is his middle name, but Bret claims that his parents originally intended on giving him the middle name “Maverick” after the title character- played by James Garner, in the popular TV Western series of the same name.
Bret was a 6th grader when he formed his first band called Lazer- covering songs by Aerosmith & Kiss. When he was 16, Michaels met Rikki Rockett, and the two assembled the Spectres - enlisting bassist Bobby Dall & lead guitarist Matt Smith a short time later, and changed their name to Paris in ’83. Paris entered the Miller High Life ‘Rags to Riches’ battle of the bands contest but came in 2nd place to a New Wave styled band called the Sharks. The Sharks, let’s talk about them for a second because it’s pretty interesting.
The Sharks got a record deal for winning the contest, and for a few years, it looked like they would quite literally rise from ‘rags to riches.’ The Sharks won MTV’s Basement Competition a year after the contest in ’85, but the largest margin in the history of the competition, leading to a four-EP contract with Elektra Records.
The first EP was titled A Black and White World, and it featured the single “Only Time Will Tell.” The clip for “Only Time Will Tell” was the 2nd ‘most requested video’ during MTV’s Top 10 countdown for 2 straight weeks in 88, but it wasn’t long until The Sharks fortunes sank. - Розваги
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest BALLAD of the 80s?
Making Love Out
Of Nothing At All - Air Supply
Never Tear Us Apart, INXS
I'll nominate ... "Keep on Loving You" - REO Speedwagon
Lavender Marillion (not sure if Kayleigh qualifies)
So Far Away Dire Straits
That Was Yesterday Foreigner
Anything from journey
The 80s was my coming-of-age decade. There will NEVER be another time for such an awesome era of music-Poison, Foreigner, Def Leppard, AC/DC and so many more. If I had the chance to go back, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
Agreed!
Ditto kiddo
@dvongrad Couldn't agree more. So glad I grew up in the 80's. I even remember when MTV (in U.S.) and Much Music (In Canada) used to play music videos and have interviews with artists. Ohhhhh how I miss those days.
High school then👍High school now👎So glad we didnt miss it!..Oh the tunes!🎉
@@longlongshadows392 Definetly didn't/don't miss high school.
I’m 65 and still like all of those bands.
Same!
Same!
Same here Went from Hippy Woodstock song Joni Mitchell to Glam introduction
T Rex Ride a white swan Then Black Sabbath Paranoid next up Led Zeppelin Imagrant song Along came Slade Alive and Guess Who Live at Paramount then Machine Head
WE would have been 11 years old experiencing RnR
Rock On
At 68 I don't want to grow up. I will be a 12 year old till the savior calls me.😅
I'm 56 and Poison was my daughter's band that I listened to in the car. She won front row seats and go on stage for Nothin but a good time. She was like 7 and on my shoulders singing with Bobby Dahl. The DJ thought i was using her to get tickets for me when I told him they were her favorite band. So she got on the phone and ripped out all the lyrics to Fallen Angel and he gave her the tix. And in hometown if Pittsburgh. PS she's 25 now
Got to be the best story.
That would be a great video shoot theme storyline...
DVE Rocks!!!
"Hey look!!! It's Donnie Iris"
"Shut up yunz two, ain't no Donnie Iris workin' at no Pants n Nat, he's a big rock star ya know"
@dukecraig2402 she loved Donnie too. Took her to his outdoor concerts still in stroller. At like 5 she loved Minnie the Moocher because of the little hip wiggling dance he did. He later gave her an autographed pic.
Math is hard
This video is very close to my heart because my husband would always sing the chorus to me in only a way that he could… We loved Bret Michaels, but at the same time he joked around with me by singing… “Every Rose has its thorn.” Since he died a few years ago, it is quite common for me to think of him… Turn on the radio and literally, at that second hear, “every Rose has its thorn “and I know he is with me!❤
Thanks for sharing. RIP and peace to you!
@@ProfessorofRock
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Sorry for the loss of your husband!
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So many songs are about cheating!
Professor, you should do a top 5 songs about cheating segment!
Good idea
For sure!
@@mikenixon2401 !
Ooh. Yes!
The professor might have to ban miss Swift.
Beyond anything else he accomplished, for Bret Michaels to navigate the world of rock (in maybe the hardest partying genre of it) for decades as a Type 1 diabetic is really amazing.
FOr sure He's a survivor.
It’s hard, but he conquered it!
Plus he survived a brain aneurysm!!!!
It's 1987. I'm 17, and my first proper girlfriend has a Fisher record system and I hear Def Leppard for the first time. I'm now hooked on Rock music . Guns N Roses, Metallica, amongst many others . My girlfriend and I would listen to Every Rose has its Thorn unknowing what our future would hold . The relationship ended but the words and memories from all those years ago still play in my head and I'm transported back to the 80s. Now a grown man I listen to those lyrics, and in my mind, I'm 17 again.
Unless you lived through this era of music, you really can’t understand how great of a time the 80’s were!
Glad I was around to experience it!
I’m friends with Tracy, (the inspiration for this song). We met in 1985 when we were teens and she was my 16 year old next-door-neighbor in a condo in Tustin, California.
She was gorgeous, extremely nice and already dating Bret at the time. She used to drive a piece of crap little red car and my friend and I regularly kept her car running so she could drive up to Hollywood to see Bret, bring him and his band-mates food and cheer him on. She adored Bret and only had eyes for him, constantly telling everyone how talented he was and how he and his band were going to be huge one day.
When Poison’s album was released in May of 1986 they were still unknown outside of LA, but they started getting airplay on KNAC, the heavy metal station of SoCal at the time.
Shortly after their album was released they opened for a Japanese heavy metal band called Loudness at a little former movie theater called the Pomona Valley Auditorium on August 3, 1986. The co-opening band was another that time unknown band called Cinderella.
(There’s a crazy story about attending that night, but I’ll save that for another time.)
Back to Tracy, she wasn’t a stripper when she met Bret, she was just a teenage high school girl from Orange County. In her defense, according to Tracy, she was totally devoted to Bret for years and only cheated on him when she found out from a “friend of Bret’s” rival band guy that Bret, (the love of her life), was cheating on her regularly while touring the US. The mystery person who told her used her moment of weakness when she was heartbroken, crying and devastated, to make his move on her. That’s the night Bret called from the laundromat in Texas.
I know who the mystery guy is, but it’s not my place to say.
Yes, Bret was hurt and it inspired him to write a timeless song of heartbreak. But Tracy was totally faithful to him until she reacted, when she had her own heart shattered at the news of Bret’s regular infidelity behind her back.
Bret was the love of Tracy’s life and I believe he felt the same about her.
Bad things happen sometimes, but in this case, the world could relate to Bret and Tracy’s deeply personal heartache.
It is very kind of you to defend a teenage girl's honor, and it shows that you are a true friend, even all these years later.
Men who seek fame are often highly narcissistic (seeking fame give them the public admiration they crave) and narcissists are very often (not always) serial philanderers, but will whine, play the victim, and cry foul when someone cheats on them once because their uber fragile ego can't handle a dose of the medicine they so often dish out to others.
Now, if it's Tommy Lee who told her Bret was cheating, he's a damn sociopath (that is not hyperbole) that will say and do anything to manipulate others so it could be untrue. In fact, that is exactly the kind of thing a sociopath will make up just so they can swoop in and prey on the person's heartbroken vulnerability. That is right up Tommy Lee's alley. I digress...
You are a good man to not only help keep her car running when she was likely too young to have much money for repairs, but also to post more of the story you know, first hand, to help defend her honor since few would likely believe her side of the story (unfortunate, but true).
Wishing you much contentment in life~
Can you say 'Ratt'?
@@le_th_ thank you for your kind words. Yes, Tracy is a genuinely kind and good person, but The Professor’s narrative, to label her as “a stripper”, diminishes her to a cardboard cutout. She was beautiful, it was the 80s and she was dating Bret Michaels. Being scantily clad made more money than being a waitress, and she was always devoted and faithful to Bret. But again, she was a high school girl when she met him.
The mystery guy wasn’t Tommy Lee. I met Tommy a couple of times in the 80s. He now gets a bad rap for his shenanigans, but again, he was a kid caught in a whirlwind in the 80s when Motley became one of the biggest bands in the world. Looking back, the drugs and debauchery of the 80s was horrendous, but it was normal and glamorized then. Again, horrendous and shocking by today’s standards, and not my cup of tea, even then, but it was a different time.
@@mowm88 the mystery guy wasn’t a member of Ratt. But Ratt was definitely a band in the same circles.
@@lagunapainterthank you for being a gentleman. There’s two sides to every story. Thing is, music is loud and heard on the world stage, so too often the other side of the story isn’t told. Thank you for redressing the imbalance🤗
CC is such an underrated guitarist, but he’s amazing. His guitar solos send me to heaven. I love Poison, and Bret’s vocals were perfect for that band.
Tom Werman, Produced the Open Up album, said Poison knew they weren't great musicians. They are something when they get together though, its pretty much nothin but a good time.
This song and "Something to Believe in" are my two favorites of Poison. The phrase "Every Rose has its Thorn" has worked itself into our lexicon.
You know Brett Michaels was cheating on his girlfriend as well during this time. He makes think it was all her. What a joke he is.
NO question.
something to believe in is just as emotional a song if not more so....Poison deserves way more respect than they get....
I love both songs.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Thanks 🙂
My dad didn't listen to my music growing up like the Adam Reader's did. We mostly listened to his together. Getting him to listen to a mid or late 80s song was like pulling teeth. I knew I didn't have many shots. But when I played "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" for him, he loved it. He asked who the singer was. My dad said, "I think he's going to go far." I just shook my head and sad, "He already has dad. He already has." It was probably early 1989. He passed last summer. Thanks for bringing back that memory, Adam.
"Something to Believe In" is still my favorite Poison ballad. The line "Sometimes I wish I didn't know now...." meant alot to a 15 year old me at the time and still does.
I went to High School with Bret. He was a sweetheart. I freaked out the first time I saw him on MTV. It was the same day I saw G N R Welcome to the Jungle for the first time. It was a good day! His last name Sychek is pronounced Sigh Check
I started high school in 89 and this song was everywhere. I believe there isn’t a girl my age that doesn’t think of someone they used to know when they hear this song.
Thanks for sharing!
I know right?
I bought this album on cassette for my girlfriend when I was in the eighth grade. The cassette played all of the music backwards and I had to return it for another copy.
I then bought myself a copy from Columbia House. When it arrived in the mail my mom saw the cover and said there was no way I would be allowed to listen to that. I told her to let me play her one song. I played Every Rose Has It's Thorn and she said let me keep the tape!
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" always takes me back to being 16, delivering newspapers out the window of my dad's 81 Pontiac T1000, "blasting" the radio in the wee hours of the cold CT winter.
I wasn't the biggest Poison fan, but I loved the acoustic guitars in "Every Rose" - combined with Bret's voice, it's a heart-melter.
So good!
We are on the same page.
Graduated high school in the 1980’s, married and became a dad then too. These groups and their music reminds me of the good times that I miss as I approach my 60’s. Teaching my grandkids all about these awesome songs
I am from the 1960's generation, but I started listening to the 80's music, and this song was AWESOME...
If ever there was a time to go back to, it would definitely be the 80s, simply the best 👌
I wasn't a kid when (at least age wise 😁) Poison hit the scene, but still the memories evoked... I was into cars, rock and roll, stereos, speakers, hunting, fishing and women. Things were so different in the 70's and 80's and so much better! even the hard times in the 70's were a wonderful life's lesson that I'd go back to in a heart beat! I remember the first time I heard every rose has it's thorn... I was sitting in my nova jamming my new speakers while waiting for my girlfriend to get ready for our date. Ended up marrying her and got another life lesson and a wonderful son out of it. We were together for ten years, but remain very good friends to this day.
Rock on.!
I'm just surprised no one has guessed who BM's girlfriend was cheating on him with. It was someone famous, who was well known in the LA/Hollywood scene. I'm guessing Don Knotts. 😁
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Awesome!
I was always pumped when Mama’s Fallen Angel came on night tracks.
I know what you mean!
Me too. Great song.
Poison is a lifelong love for me. I was born 1980 and Poison was my first international music love (I live in Sweden) and I cried once when I came home from summercamp, because my big sis had bought me a Poison t-shirt as a welcome home gift, it was too big and hung down to my knees. And you know what? I still have it. Can barely see the picture anymore but *I* know what it is :D
So cool!
Many beautiful songs born out of pain. I really love your, ‘in depth’ history on these bands and their songs.
Thanks for watching!
Underrated, since they are the ultimate hair metal band and will never get their due.
Poison also got hit the hardest by grunge. Three multi-platinum albums showed they were in it for the long haul, then suddenly they weren't.
THanks!
Why didn't they go grunge?!
@@leechjim8023 Would've been laughed at even more.
Grunge really did destroy a lot of careers.
We'll always go back to the 80s, ❤ nobody wants to go back to grundge 🤢🤮
I'm a Gen X Jersey girl, and Bret Michael Sychak is from Butler PA, and the band was founded in Mechanicsburg, PA. I've loved Poison since the release of "Look What the Cat Dragged In" (May 1986).
Thanks!
OMG I didn’t know the song was that old!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It’s that old. I was 15 when it came out.
Kudos to the band for defying the label executives and bringing us this timeless classic. Forget genres and labels, this is just a well composed, well executed song. And, if I am not mistaken, it got Bill and Ted into heaven.
Saw Cheap Trick Poison and Def Leppard just over 10 years ago. The stage came out from the middle towards the crowd.
Bret walked out to the very edge with a chair and acoustic guitar, with the 1st stroke on the string, I jumped out of my seat with my right arm straight up and yelled in excitement. What an amazing and fantastic 3 band concert. Thank you Adam for sharing another kickass video. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
My eldest sister's favorite song since it came out. She passed in 2022 & we played it after her memorial service. I can't hear it w/o thinking of her now.
Growing up as a kid in the 80's and a teen in the 90's. No cellphones. No internet. Just music and friends. I feel sorry for kids today. I try to show my teenage son that there's more to life than electronics. A little bit gets through
Preach it Professor! I dig how passionate you are about glam metal.Keep on rock'n
Imagine if anyone was in the laundromat with Bret and Ricky, although I realize they were the only 2 there. Would they have overheard Bret writing "Every Rose" and wondered something like, "What does he think he's doing?" That sort of thing has happened. I keep thinking of Sonny Bono writing "I Got You Babe" for himself and Cher one evening; she said, "I don't think it's one of your better songs. I'm going to bed."
Thanks Eric!
A fly on the wall in a laundromat can tell us the full story.
I remember buying "Look What The Cat Dragged In" and really liking it. So, by the time "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and their 2nd album came out, I was already a solid fan. This song lifted the band to another level and gained them a TON more fans. One of my all-time favorite power ballads of all-time. Great to see Poison get some love today! :)
Your passion is so amazing. I can’t tell you how much I do love watching your reviews. Because it brings me back to those days. Keep rocking dude.
Great song!
Also My first concert. Saw them open up for Ratt in Topeka KS. July 8, 1987. It was the summer in between 7th and 8th grade. I got a Poison shirt that I wore proudly on the first day of school in August.
Very cool!
That was also my first concert. Traveled the 70 miles from our farm . I was standing near the stage. I wore my Ratt tshirt to school all the time. So much that other kids called me Rat.
Great ballad been there and got the T-shirt
Gorgeous song
I love your account of the first rock show you went to with your friend and his parents that is so cool. Our era may have passed but with people like you and parents like me we will keep it going. Gotta say that this is one of my favorite video's that you have done. My youth came screaming out. I appreciate and adore what you do. Plz never drop ❤
Great song, Great group.
Thanks!
Poison, for all their glitz and glam, was a lot more than skin deep. The songwriting was top-notch.. And their musicianship. Go back and count the long string of unforgettable songs they wrote.. it's second to none. Nevermind how gorgeous they've always been!
Love this song!!! It's so heartfelt and REAL and relatable.
Great Story as always!I Have a new respect for "Poison" and Bret Michaels! because of your reporting. Job well done!
I always loved that Bill & Ted used those lyrics to get into Heaven when they were asked "What is the meaning of life?" I still recite it the way they said it. 😂
Dude, how could you not mention Bill and Ted getting into heaven with this song?
I knew the song as soon as you said power ballad and saw Brett's pic. Finally, MY kind of music!!! Hard rock ruled the late 80s and resonated with me for most of my adult life. Please do more of these bands!!
Great Story as always! Have a new respect for "Poison" and Bret Michaels!
Great stroll down memory lane with this one! (I’m in Idaho falls this week, close to your old stomping grounds of Blackfoot. Beautiful country up here.)
Great place!
Idaho is a very underrated state. I would love to go someday.
Bring back the 80s I loved it❤❤ poison rock
THanks!
Amen!
Poison are a fantastic band! And what a song. Absolutely incredible.
Well said Adam!! Thank you so much for sharing and I love your memories and thoughts and feelings on it and it’s so true glam rock never died or never will and the experience and feeling and relatively it can bring everyone is the best and how it can make anyone feel 10 feet tall as you said and love Poison I’m from PA so they are a huge band for me!! ❤️🤘🏼 love learning more about this story and Brett Michaels heart and strength!! Thank You Poison!!
This was my first concert too. I was 14 and we had to travel to Evansville, Indiana from Kentucky to see the show. Tesla of course opened for them. My Dad took me and my friend Heather. He hated every bit of it, but I was so thankful and appreciative to him for taking us. I remember him telling my Mom at the kitchen table the next day that it definitely wasnt his kind of music but they were excellent musicians. High praise from my stoic Father.
This is the first song I ever learned to play on the guitar. Super easy, but beautiful.
Very cool!
Thanks for the nostalgic moment ❤
Always!
Love your stuff, Professor.
Don't forget Bill & Ted! They were asked by an angel what the meaning of life is, and start repeating the lyrics to this song!
This song got Bret Michaels that reality show. It's the song every 80s rock band wished they wrote, I don't know a girl that doesn't swoon over this song. Great first concert IMO professor it was definitely good time music!!
For sure!
I was never a big poison fan but I’ve always been a Brett Michaels fan…❤️
@@margaretbonanno654 I loved his show he was very cool and funny
I never watched Rock of Love, but I know this song had to have been an embodiment of that show.
Not every 80's band. Dokken had already released the power ballad of the 80's in 1984. Alone again!
Best monster ballad EVER!!! A must experience in person live. Brett Michael ‘s is an amazing human! Thanks, Professor for this great video and sharing some rock knowledge on us.
There were so many!! I love them all
That song makes my eyes water to this day.
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"The scars remain."
I understand Bret Michaels once told an interviewer that he was never going to do another song like this again. He said it was too telling on him, and he wasn't sure he could do it again. But then, all the good ones hurt like that.
Great show Adam. 80's we're so great.
Oh Yes!!! True Feelings!!! Pure Heartbreak!!!
Amen brutha. There hasn't been many days gone by since I heard Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil on a middle school field trip around the end of 1983, that i haven't listen to glam rock, butt rock, hair metal, whatever name you give it. It keeps me young and makes me feel alive. Thanks all you guys and that you Professor or Rock for keeping the stories alive.
Had me grinning ear to ear with your concert story. It's definitely an era of music and freedom that might not ever happen again. Another great one, Professor!
Thanks for listening!!!
I remember drawing the Poison logo on my text book covers that I made out of brown paper grocery bags🤟🏼
Ha ha!
Ha ha!
Yep I could draw it free hand. And Cinderella and Ratt logos also.
❤ Thank you for all your knowledge and videos you make. Love the 80's music, went to Poison concerts along with quite a few more at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City,Utah. Played in a band that did alot of 80's Rock, good times back then.
Its breakup week on Professor of Rock🤘
Right? We’ve got a theme going again!
❤🎉
Bret Michaels grew up in the next town over from me. He grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania. The other 3 members grew up near Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Bret is a great guy.
This is a great tune.
Thanks Professor!
By the way, which ones Pink? 🤣
Very cool! Ha ha!
@@ProfessorofRock Professor, the family name is actually pronounced "Sy-Check" at least we here in Chicora (where he is really from. Butler is the closest city as Chicora is a very, very small town just outside of Butler.) Not nit-picking, just wanted to make sure the truth was out there. Also, they HQ'd in Mechanicsburg not Harrisburg.
And the band was founded in Mechanicsburg.
Thanks professor! The 80s was just a party for me! Loved Poison and glam metal! It was fun, wild and energetic! Now every minute of all that partying shows on my face 😮 I love Rock and Poison earned their spot in it’s history
Thanks Professor👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I bet the "other man" was one of the Motley Crue band members.
I was thinking Vince myself! Lol At least something freaking awesome came out of it.
Seems I had heard this before and that it was Vince Neil.
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There's A Lot Of Great 80's Ballads
But I Always Liked This one..
Close My Eyes Forever
Nice Reaction,
Cheers From Western Canada
Poison is my favorite band of all time. Their songs take me back to some great times in high school. Saw them in concert on my 16th birthday. Best birthday ever. CC is one of the best guitarist.
Pictures, or it didn’t happen! I need to see that 12 year old rocker with that rocker hair! 🎸🎛🎚🎤
My guess for the mystery man? Vince Neil.
Ha ha. Good guess.
How about Axel Rose?
Hmmmm? Might be someone we'd least expect?
Nope, not Vince or Axel
@@lagunapainter You know the answer?
@@Bonzi_Buddy yes, I know who the Mystery guy is, but it’s not my place to say. Personally, I think what he did was shitty, to tell Tracy that Bret was cheating on her, then while she was crying, to tell her she deserves better, then seduce her. If he really was looking out for her, he wouldn’t have taken advantage when she was heartbroken and vulnerable. Just my two cents.
What a great time in music history. Songs like these take me back to being a teenager. Good times. My first concert was also at the Salt Palace, I was 14 years old and seen Motley Crue on their Dr. Feelgood tour. Faster Pussycat opened. Great show.
This was my 1st CD I ever bought in Germany!! They are great musicians and everyone was dancing and singing their tunes! My son-in-laws and children know who they are. Great music! Thanks for the memories Prof of Rock. Jason
P O R !!!!!
Well, if it was Axel Rose, that would certainly explain how he got the idea for the title/chorus.
Yep.
@@ProfessorofRock I was playing in bands in Hollywood at roughly the same time. Axel Rose wasn't famous yet, but he was a narcissistic jerk even then. He almost got his ass kicked by my very large construction worker friend for hitting on his girlfriend right there in front of me and my friend. Slash came over and defused the situation, moving a drunken Axel (before he even played) on, chilled us out, bought us all drinks, and chatted with us briefly. Slash was a really good guy. Probably still is. Axel was (and surely still is) a complete a**hat. Good band though, I gotta give that to them, grudgingly. (I was doing punk rock in those days, hahaha.)
@ProfessorofRock
You believe it was Axl?
Explain, like, a lot.
A few groupies have said Axl is the worst they've had.
Chills me to the bone..i had the cassette...great song
I was not a hard rock or heavy metal fan in the 80s, but I remember hearing this song on the radio, and it blew me away! Thinking about the relationship I was in, it was like this song was written for me. I could relate to it pretty much word for word! It didn't make me a fan per se but it did open my eyes to the fact that there was more to a hard rock or heavy metal band than what I originally thought! Thank you, Bret and Poison! And thanks, Professor!
Your screen pic reminds of the 80s!
Does the Professor has a Kool and The Gang episode? If not, it should’ve RIGHT NOW! 👍
The professor can even tell us how they opened up for Van Halen, and some info we don’t know…
He mentioned "Joanna" in a year top 10 video. It would be great to have a Kool and the Gang episode.
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally
Truly a classic!😊😊❤
everyone had/has felt that way. this song will grab people today, tomorrow, and for years to come.
Awesome story again Professor!! 🤘🔥
Thanks again!
I had three of their albums when I was 17, I loved their style and sound.
Cool!
Open up and say ahhh was my first cassette. My mom got it for my birthday. It was a fun time back in those days and unfortunately I don’t think they are ever coming back. Much has changed for sure. I’m very grateful for having grown up in the’80’s. Thanks for keeping them alive by sharing the music and the artists stories
I woke up with this song really stuck in my head yesterday. I was singing it most of the morning. Now, I know why, because you were going to post a video about it today.😂
You’re so right. I miss it all.
Poison were great.This was the very first song I learned to play on acoustic guitar. Starting with the "G chord" and "C add 9 chord" etc. A beautiful song that brings back great memories.
One of my younger son's favorites! I must admit, I was rocking out right along side him!
Great video. Love the ending.... 10 feet tall Indeed! It was a magical time.
I was a teenager in the 80's. I loved the entire scene, from the glam rock to the hard rock. My 1st concert was Cinderella opening for David Lee Roth. I could not believe my music heroes were right there in front of me. My father actually enjoyed the music, attended these concerts with my brother and I. It's one of my fondest memories of time I spent with dad.
Definitely jammed to this song on many a late night!
My cousin took me to my first Poison concert. Fell in love with them and still love them to this day. One of the best glam rock bands ever!!!! Love you Poison!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤