{"id":543156,"date":"2026-01-26T02:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543156\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:53:11","slug":"bret-michaels-addresses-poison-tour-and-rikki-rocketts-payment-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543156\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Michaels Addresses Poison Tour and Rikki Rockett’s Payment Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little bit of band drama\u2026 possibly coming to resolve? I don\u2019t know, the Poison<\/a> boys have had a little back and forth going on, but it seems like it might be coming to an end soon. Maybe. The tour the band was supposed to go on this year crumbled, with the band\u2019s drummer Rikki Rockett claiming it was due to contract and payment disputes. Sounds plausible, and now frontman Bret Michaels has finally responded to his fellow bandmates (Rockett, guitarist C.C. DeVille, and bassist Bobby Dall) in a Facebook post\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Green Day and Bad Bunny \u2013 congratulations on the Super Bowl concert,\u201d Michaels wrote. \u201cI cannot wait to watch it and I cannot wait to announce a Bucket List NFL dream come true (stay tuned\u2026).\u201d<\/p>\n

When addressing what Rockett said, Michaels added: \u201cTo my friend Rikki Rockett \u2013 have fun tonight with my good buddy Eddie Trunk and enjoy the Metal Hall Of Fame ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michaels has been playing Poison songs continually while on tour with his solo band, but I guess it\u2019s cool that he acknowledged who Poison is at the end of the day: \u201cAs always, I consider Poison to be Bobby, C.C., Rikki and myself. I also make no bones about loving the BMB and will always have both in my life. Bottom line \u2013 I love music, I love the fans and I\u2019m always forever grateful. Onward & upward and let\u2019s all focus on the positive in 2026, and the potential of a future reunion.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to what Rockett told Page Six, the band was offered the chance to do a 2026 tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Look What the Cat Dragged In, their 1986 debut, but couldn\u2019t go through with it because of endless disagreements over how much each member would be compensated. <\/p>\n

\u201cReally what it came to was [guitarist] C.C., Bobby and I were all in, and I thought Bret was, but he wanted the lion\u2019s share of the money, to the point where it makes it not possible to even do it. It\u2019s like $6 to every one of our dollars. You just can\u2019t work that way.\u201d Yikes.<\/p>\n

Even though it\u2019s not all about the money, that doesn\u2019t change how fairness and equity should be a part of it. \u201cI don\u2019t do this just for the money,\u201d Rockett said. \u201cI do have a love for this, absolutely. But at the same time, you don\u2019t want to go out and work really hard just to make somebody else a bunch of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently, the Poison three have considered replacing Michaels on the tour, which, although pretty wack in the grand scheme of going to see an old band where all the members you want to see are still alive and capable of playing together, isn\u2019t entirely out of the realm of possibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not out of the question. But doing that is like surgery: it\u2019s the last resort. I don\u2019t want to do that. I\u2019m not quarreling with Bret\u2026 We just didn\u2019t come to agreement. I don\u2019t like it, and I\u2019ll say that, but it\u2019s not like, \u2018Let\u2019s put up our dukes.\u2019 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a better frontman for Poison.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopefully the guys can figure it out and come to a conclusion that works for everyone, especially their fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A little bit of band drama\u2026 possibly coming to resolve? I don\u2019t know, the Poison boys have had…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":543157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[80805,171,975,38389,234160,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-543156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bret-michaels","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-poison","12":"tag-rikki-rockett","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115959143097559727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}