Poison Reverse Plans to Tour in 2025 Because “Bret Doesn’t Want To”
If you want action from Poison, you might be out of luck. The glam metal giants have gone back on their promise to tour in 2025, with drummer Rikki Rockett laying all the blame on vocalist Bret Michaels. It was just this past June that Rockett announced on his official Facebook account:
“Poison will be touring in 2025. As usual, there will be no backing tracks. Live, raw and uncut. Warts and all.”
Mmm, warts, that certainly makes the tour sound appealing. As Blabbermouth reports, Michaels also spoke back in February at the Rock Legends Cruise XI about plans for Poison to tour in 2025, saying:
“When we go back, I think in 2025, it’s always been, to me, all-original POISON. We’ll have C.C [DeVille, guitar] and Bobby [Dall, bass] and Rikki and myself and go do another big stadium tour and arena tour in 2025.”
But it seems that, somewhere over the past few months, Michaels pulled a 180 and decided against it. Yesterday, Rockett posted again to his official Facebook account, writing:
“I keep getting asked multiple times a day, ‘Why isn’t Poison touring in 2025 now?’
“Super simple answer, Bret doesn’t want to.”
That’s a shame that, after getting a bunch of middle-aged metal fans horny for a big Poison tour in 2025, the band left the fans with blue balls instead. As some have pointed out, though, 2026 might be a more appropriate year for a Poison tour as it will be the official 40th anniversary of Poison’s debut record Look What the Cat Dragged In. However, Rockett and Michaels haven’t given any indication yet of whether the plans to tour have been set back a year or not, simply that Bret doesn’t feel like touring right now.
