A Night Out With Poison's Bret Michaels

New York Times:

THE beer was chilling inside Bret Michaels's dark wood-paneled tour bus just minutes after a recent set at the Meadowlands when word filtered back to Mr. Michaels, the lead singer of Poison and star of VH1's "Rock of Love," that there were two girls waiting outside (of course), and that they just had to meet him (of course).

The girls, it turns out, were actually girls. Emily Trock and Stephanie Kornfeld, both 14, were too young to remember Poison's reunion tour in the 1990s, let alone its '80s heyday. They were looking to gain entry into the moodily lighted lair of the hair-band lothario simply to pose for a photograph (with help from Stephanie's father, Adam, who is Poison's booking agent) after the singer's show at the Bamboozle festival, where he was promoting a new solo album, "Rock My World," to be released June 3.

"I had three generations of fans out there today," Mr. Michaels said, after the girls nervously posed for a few snapshots with their 45-year-old idol. Such a scene is now common, he said, since "Rock of Love" became a hit .

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Comments

[citizenofmars]

03:11 PM on 05/19/2008

Brett makes out like a Pot-Superstar for "High Times" and other 'weedzines', proudly displaying sticky fatties between his ringed fingers of fame. But his proselytizing seems to hide in the closet when it's time to court the mainstream media. Where's that bud, bud?

[LiberalBuzz]

05:06 PM on 05/18/2008

Ya gotta hand it to Bret.

Making a cottage industry out of getting laid all the time using the oldest cons in the world. "I'm rich BUT LONELY, Please show me you can be that special person. I love plastic tits, no morals, no dignity, and ya gotta love three/four/five or more somes and most importantly be stupid and gullible enough to think I am going to find my one true love out of this pack of total bimbos"

OR

How about calling the show "Who wants to look like a total tramp and spread for me JUST TO BE ON TV!!

BUT nonetheless ya gotta give it to him for getting rich off of dumb blondes.

[indyny]

03:32 PM on 05/18/2008

Cowboy Gay.

[Grulg]

10:48 PM on 05/17/2008

What's w/ the bloody spam here? Figgers. Oh Poison's okay, no worse than your average arena rock band from the 90's like say, Candlebox or Bush or STP or whatever. I don't think any of these acts -Winger, Whitesnake and Warrant-that are Michaels' cronies-were exactly Rock Hall of Famers, so-kudos to him for being able to last at least a ways longer.

[JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin]

08:06 PM on 05/17/2008

Every girl he meets on his show he always says "I felt that spark. It was so real". It's almost like he's memorized the line, like there is a writer somewhere on his reality show feeding him lines through an earpiece.

[AurigaRa]

07:52 PM on 05/17/2008

guess the girl he settled on on Rock of Love didnt last very long.
Can't imagine why anyone wouldn't try to hold on to this dude (hack, cough...)

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

06:31 PM on 05/17/2008

See my tattoos? I don't have a lot to contribute, so I've added pictures.

[NYCforObama]

06:15 PM on 05/17/2008

AMAZING wig!

[johnnyjust]

05:38 PM on 05/17/2008

Give a guy a guitar and put him on stage and women will line up to spread 'em.

'Course, women like this who needs?

[fudgebuster]

03:56 PM on 05/17/2008

a minor contributor to our culture. so minor in fact that the feces from a spider would substantially obliterate whatever contribution this tired man has contributed.

[jgalvan]

02:45 PM on 05/17/2008

What a buffoon, this is poster child for abortion.

[joekonn]

01:30 PM on 05/17/2008

A complete ZERO.