{"id":420814,"date":"2026-01-21T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420814\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:02:08","slug":"poisons-proposed-anniversary-tour-isnt-happening-allegedly-due-to-bret-michaels-contract-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420814\/","title":{"rendered":"Poison\u2019s Proposed Anniversary Tour Isn\u2019t Happening, Allegedly Due to Bret Michaels\u2019 Contract Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

There had been proposed plans for Poison to go on a big anniversary tour, but now it isn\u2019t happening. The cause of the stalled tour plans is allegedly due to frontman Bret Michaels making some hefty contract demands. Specifically, he\u2019s reported to have wanted to be paid more money than the rest of the band.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a great offer, I thought. But we left the table,\u201d drummer\u00a0Rikki Rockett\u00a0told Page Six<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIt didn\u2019t work.\u201d Rockett went on to say that he, guitarist C.C. DeVille, and bassist Bobby Dall \u201cwere all in.\u201d They thought Michaels was as well. But then things went sideways. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted the lion\u2019s share of the money, to the point where it makes it not possible to even do it,\u201d Rockett claimed. \u201cIt\u2019s like $6 to every one of our dollars. You just can\u2019t work that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bret Michaels allegedly demanded 600% more money than his Poison bandmates for a 2026 anniversary tour<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t do this just for the money,\u201d Rockett added. \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

While the situation was discouraging, Rockett said he feels no bad blood. \u201cEvery member of this band has given me so much privilege in life,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like hating your parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rockett then went on to squash any speculation about the band touring with a different vocalist. \u201cIt\u2019s not out of the question. But doing that is like surgery. It\u2019s the last resort,\u201d he clarified. \u201cI don\u2019t want to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not quarreling with Bret,\u201d Rockett continued. \u201cWe 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

The tour would have reportedly been to celebrate the anniversary of Poison\u2019s 1986 debut album, Look What the Cat Dragged In<\/p>\n

Technically, the anniversary tour was never officially announced. Though Michaels himself said it would be a good idea. \u201cIt would make perfect sense to have the possibility of a reunion in 2026,\u201d Michaels said in September 2024, as\u00a0noted by Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a>. He added that it would be \u2018the perfect 40th anniversary tour, with 40 awesome limited dates to go out, play real live hit songs and rock the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

While fans won\u2019t get to see Poison this year, Michaels does have some solo concert dates scheduled for 2026. As for Rockett, he\u2019ll be touring with his side project band, Rockett Mafia. He joked to Page Six that maybe the band could try a reunion tour in 2027, joking that it would be \u201ca perfect Poison folly to do a 41st anniversary tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this time, Michaels does not appear to have commented on the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There had been proposed plans for Poison to go on a big anniversary tour, but now it isn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,201007,216,19643,46608],"class_list":["post-420814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-hair-metal","tag-music","tag-noisey","tag-poison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}