The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock

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The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock

Studio album by Poison
Released	April 3, 2006
Recorded	2006
Genre	Glam metal
Length	71:19
Label	EMI
Producer(s)	Don Was
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Poison chronology
Best of Ballads & Blues (album) (2003)	The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (2006)

The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock is a compilation album by the American 1980s hair metal band Poison.

The album was released on April 3rd 2006 on EMI. It features many songs from all of the band's 20 year career. Most notable is the song "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", which was the band's biggest hit, a power ballad. It also features 2 covers: the first is a cover of the KISS classic "Rock and Roll All Nite" and the second is of the Grand Funk Railroad roadie classic "We're An American Band".
The album was produced by Don Was and marked Poison's return to the Billboard 200 top 20 charts, for the first time since 1993. The compilation debuted at #17, quite an impressive showing for a hair metal band in 2006. Showing the beneficial effect of many Behind the Music type shows on VH1, where Poison's hair metal antics were re-lived as if only yesterday.

The cover art is taken from the book Pornography: Opposing Viewpoints. [1]

[edit] Track listing

1. Talk Dirty to Me

From the album Look What the Cat Dragged In

2. I Want Action

From the album Look What the Cat Dragged In

3. I Won't Forget You

From the album Look What the Cat Dragged In

4. Cry Tough

From the album Look What the Cat Dragged In

5. Look What The Cat Dragged In

From the album Look What the Cat Dragged In

6. Nothin' But A Good Time

From the album Open Up and Say...Ahh!

7. Fallen Angel

From the album Open Up and Say...Ahh!

8. Every Rose Has Its Thorn

From the album Open Up and Say...Ahh!

9. Your Mama Don't Dance

From the album Open Up and Say...Ahh!

10. Unskinny Bop

From the album Flesh & Blood

11. Rock And Roll All Nite

From the motion picture Less Than Zero

12. Ride The Wind

From the album Flesh & Blood

13. Something To Believe In

From the album Flesh & Blood

14. Life Goes On

From the album Flesh & Blood

15. Stand

From the album Native Tongue

16. Last Song

From the album Power to the People

17. Shooting Star

From the album Hollyweird

Encore: We're An American Band

It has sold more than 300,000 copies in the US to date.

[edit] 2006 Tour

The band completed a supporting concert tour for the album, with the dates as follows:

Tue Jun 13 Mankato, MN TBA
Wed Jun 14 Burlington, IA Burlington Steamboat Days
Fri Jun 16 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion
Sat Jun 17 Des Moines, IA Water Works Park
Sun Jun 18 TBA
Tue Jun 20 Green Bay, WI Oneida Bingo & Casino
Wed Jun 21 Chicago, IL Tweeter Center
Fri Jun 23 Newtown, ND Four Bears Casino
Sat Jun 24 Fargo, ND Red River Valley Fair
Sun Jun 25 Rapid City, SD Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
Tue Jun 27 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
Thu Jun 29 Lemoore, CA Tachi Casino
Fri Jun 30 Concord, CA Chronicle Pavilion
Sat Jul 01 San Bernadino, CA Hyundai Pavilion
Sun Jul 02 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
Tue Jul 04 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
Thu Jul 06 Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre
Fri Jul 07 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Amphitheatre
Sat Jul 08 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
Sun Jul 09 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
Tue Jul 11 Nashville, TN Starwood Amphitheatre
Wed Jul 12 Lansing, MI Common Ground Music Festival
Thu Jul 13 Cincinnati, OH River Bend
Sat Jul 15 Comstock, NE Comstock Rock Festival
Sun Jul 16 Denver, CO Coor's Amphitheater
Tue Jul 18 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Wed Jul 19 Cleveland, OH Blossom
Fri Aug 11 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
Sat Jul 22 Kansas City Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Sun Jul 23 Cadot, WI Rock Fest/ Chippewa Valley Music
Tue Jul 25 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
Wed Jul 26 Washington DC Nissan Pavilion
Fri Jul 28 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sat Jul 29 West Bend, WI Washington County Fair Park
Sun Jul 30 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheatre
Tue Aug 01 TBA
Wed Aug 02 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Fri Aug 04 Clearfield, PA Clearfield County Fair
Sat Aug 05 Boston, MA Tweeter Center
Sun Aug 06 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Tue Aug 08 Jones Beach, NY Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Theatre
Wed Aug 09 Hartford, CT New England Dodge Music Center
Thu Jul 20 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Pavilion
Sat Aug 12 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless, Virginia
Sun Aug 13 Wildwood, NJ Convention Center
Tue Aug 15 Raleigh, NC Alltell Pavilion at Wlnut Creek
Wed Aug 16 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amp
Fri Aug 18 Birmingham, AL Verizon Wireless Music Center
Sat Aug 19 St. Petersburg, FL Times Forum
Sun Aug 20 West Palm Beach, FL Sound Advice Amphitheatre
Tue Aug 22 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
Wed Aug 23 Myrtle Beach, SC Hard Rock Live
Fri Aug 25 Atlanta, GA HiFi Buys Amphitheatre

[edit] The Atlanta Amphitheatre Altercation 25th August 2006

During the show in Atlanta on August 25, 2006, band members Bret Michaels and Bobby Dall had to be separated by members of the road crew and fellow band member Rikki Rockett after the two came to blows right before the encore, with Bret throwing his mic at Bobby, and Bobby retaliating by slamming his bass into Bret, injuring Bret's knee.

Michaels apologized later and stated, "You may have just seen the last concert by Poison in its current formation."

The altercation happened before the band's set ended, "Talk Dirty To Me". After some tense moments and Michaels' apology to the crowd including his explanation that "like brothers, sometimes you have to air things out", the band did finish the set. Dall left the stage immediately.^[1]

This is not the first physical incident between the band members. There have been many over the years, but this is the first onstage since the famous fistfight between Bret and C.C. Deville at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1991, but that took place after the performance, not during.

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Current Members

Bret Michaels | Rikki Rockett | C.C. Deville | Bobby Dall

Past Members

Matt Smith | Richie Kotzen | Blues Saraceno

Discography