POISON drummer Rikki Rockett has revealed that Bret Michaels is no longer interested in touring with POISON next year.
Yesterday (September 10), Rockett took to social media to address why POISON won’t be touring in 2025.
He wrote: “I keep getting asked multiple times a day, ‘Why isn’t POISON touring in 2025 now?’ Super simple answer, Bret doesn’t want to.”
Rikki‘s recent comments come just under three months after the 63-year-old musician announced on social media that POISON would be touring in 2025. He wrote in June: “As usual, there will be no backing tracks. Live, raw and uncut. Warts and all.”
During question-and-answer session held aboard the Rock Legends Cruise XI this past February, Bret Michaels discussed POISON‘s intention to reunite for additional performances after their involvement in “The Stadium Tour” in 2022, which featured MÖTLEY CRÜE, DEF LEPPARD, and Joan Jett.
Michaels said: “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 [Rockett, drums] and myself and go do another big stadium tour and arena tour in 2025.”
When asked about his drive to tour with POISON again after primarily focusing on his solo band’s tours, Bret stated: “We’ve known each other since we’ve been in junior high school… I wouldn’t be here without Bobby or Rikki or C.C. And then, as you go along, we’ve been together a long time — still great friends. If anyone saw ‘The Stadium Tour’, that was a party. And when you’re out there with that DEF LEPPARD and MÖTLEY and Joan, you’re talking A-plus awesomeness. And we just came out and brought it.
He continued: “For me, what it is, we do about a couple of years solo, and then we’ll go out and do 35 or 40 dates with POISON. And we set it up, we schedule it.”
In 2018, POISON concluded the “Nothin’ But A Good Time” tour, which featured performances alongside CHEAP TRICK and POP EVIL.
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