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“Jack loved that a kid like me, with a blue mohawk and plaid guitar, was making the songs my own – playing Cream and doing divebombs in the corner”: Blues Saraceno toured with Clapton’s Cream bandmates, recorded for Cher and had a bumpy ride with Poison

The ‘kid who replaced Clapton’ as a teenager and landed a double-salary stint with Poison moved into TV, movies and videogame soundtracks – and doesn’t plan to come back

Guitar World

Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine clear Instagram profiles, post Ascendancy and The Poison album covers – are they teasing something special?

Two of metalcore’s leading lights have posted their classic 2005 albums on social media, and we think something’s up

Metal Hammer

“It was down to Slash and C.C. DeVille – I don’t even think they even tried anybody else out. They wanted to go in a glammier direction, and C.C. fit that style”: Matt Smith was Poison’s original guitarist – and helped to choose his successor

Inspired to pick up the guitar by Aerosmith, Poison’s original Strat-wielder answered an ad that read, ‘Theatrical band looking for a guitar player.’ But after the group moved to L.A., things didn’t work out the way he planned

Guitar World

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Poison rocker Bret Michaels, 60, shares his life lessons: 'Cold beer makes good friends'

DETROIT — At 60, Bret Michaels says he's like a classic muscle car.

Tribune News Service

"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

Metal Hammer

Silverhead could have been huge: instead they imploded from a mix of class-A chemicals and "mad, decadent sex"

British glam rockers Silverhead provided the musical template for Hanoi Rocks, Mötley Crüe and Poison, and in frontman Michael Des Barres they gave Hollywood a star

Louder

10 unexpectedly brilliant metal covers of 2000s pop songs

From Children Of Bodom covering Britney to Dillinger Escape Plan covering Justin Timberlake, these are ten surprising times metal did noughties pop and pulled it off

Metal Hammer

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It’s hairmageddon! Is the leather-codpieced world of glam metal making a comeback?

Set fire to your drumsticks and crank the dry ice up to 11. The bands that once ruled metal may be returning to the throne. But is there more to glam than loud riffs, spandex and debauchery?

The Guardian - UK

Poison frontman Bret Michaels hospitalized for ‘unforeseen medical complication’ just before Nashville performance

Poison frontman Bret Michaels says “an unforeseen medical complication” led to him being hospitalized Thursday shortly before the band was scheduled to take the stage in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tribune News Service

Bret Michaels apologises to fans after being hospitalised hours before Poison gig

Bret Michaels' Poison bandmates took to the stage in Nashville on Thursday night to explain that the singer had been hospitalised and as a result, they wouldn't be performing. Bret addressed the matter on Friday morning with a lengthy message to fans

Daily Mirror

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