An interview with Bret Michaels and Richie Kotzen of Poison that featured on, rock music show, Raw Power in 1993. They talk about Richie joining the band, and the new album Native Tongue.
I have loved Poison from the first time I ever saw 'I Want Action" on MTV . Being a country boy, moved to the city, I had never seen MTV. With that, Native Tongue is my favorite album. I feel that it brought out the best in Bret and all that he can do as a vocalist. Rikki and Bobby really brought that tight blues rhythm. Regardless of what Ritchie did, that dude is phenomenal.
There I lay,in a deep,deep Coma after a bike racing crash.When I woke up over three months later,I had nothing.I could not walk,talk,eat,drink nor read or write. Going through the tuffest recovery was just total hell,I seen the flames,the hands reaching for me as rocks and roses hit me non stop,flames all around me.I needed something To Believe In.Needed something so,so bad.Lucky for me I found this wonderful song,like a few others it helped me to go on with my life,even after going to hell and back.Thank you Poison for giving me the something To Believe In,thank you so much.
Poison is a great band. Very underrated because of their look….which I love btw. Nothin but a good time…best party rock song ever. Played at my wedding. Life goes on solo is one of the best guitar solos ever.
@@headbangermetal5929 I was never a Poison fan, I can't relate. But if that song was their biggest deal, I can see why I wasn't impressed. Not dissing anyone else's taste, just speaking for myself.
The last 60 seconds of this interview Bret says it all. Richie was asked to join the band TO MAKE THEM BETTER!!!!!!!!!! He has the talent to elevate them from a very limited musical capacity, 80's make-up wearing stage show to REAL musicianship.
Wrong , Heavy metal bands WERE REAL musicians , you guys just get caught up in all that "his hair is big & they're wearing makeup bullshit lmao KISS wore makeup , people like ratt , motley crue , whitesnake & dokken never wore makeup like KISS , it was VERYYY little . If Ritchie dressed like poison used to would you still have given him credit & called him a real musician or would you have said fuck him cus how he looked lol fuck that early 90's grunge style that shit was garbage . 80's Rock & Roll for fuckin ever !!!! Real Rockstar shit 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
@@playyuh You are a complete moron. DO your research on what Richie has accomplished and still does verses any of them. Save yourself from looking stupid.
Well hate to break it to you but the vast majority of fans weren't buying Poison because they were technical guitar players, that's what Yngwie, Mcalpine and Satriani were for. The "limited musical capacity" CC brought helped them blow UP. Maybe Richie should have focused more on writing hit songs instead of banging Rikkis finance. This was 93 when there was still amimosity between Bret and CC so his comments don't surprise me but in 99 after time apart to heal Bret said "I remember looking over at our guitar player and thinking, man I wish CC was there ". 🤷♂️
@@alanndrake2619 You’re not breaking anything to me wise guy. Lol, I agree with you 100%. That’s not my point. Cc was a better fit for his band all along. My point is the rest of the band didn’t have the musical talent to support RK, I have a lot of respect for poison even though I’m not particularly fond of their music. They worked their asses off and they put on one hell of a show. On this I’m guessing we can agree on
@@BC08 The rest of them were deep? LMAO! Please. Richie is the epitome of not doing music for money and/or fame. He was young then, so he took the gig with the hairspray band. He proved himself a million times over and still does, the whole time not even trying.
Richie's posture and his head buried down to the ground says it all! Guilty! That was just fcked what they did to Rickie! I don't care if they fell in love or not, you don't do that to true friends! Clearly the Poison band member weren't his true friends!
In 1993 it was scary to be in a hair band. With the worlds attention on grunge music, the hair and makeup just became old and kinda gay, lol. Almost overnight! Bret was obviously trying to steer the band away from the popcorn style tunes they were writing. I dig Ritchies style and he is very talented. Maybe too talented for Poison. But CC has that over the top style. If Poison sticks to their roots in pop metal, CC is the best fit for the band
they had so many yes men and enablers that I doubt they knew they were getting stabbed in the back by record companies. I for one, didnt get a purchase choice. there was no new hairmetal music being released so its a moot point about who killed it. Music is a for profit industry, you have to market for the buyers and pop music was big and R&B came from nowhere to erode the market share. even the joke (one hit) songs had more market share than hairmetal combined. 3 Little Pigs by Green Jelly. mmm mmm mmm. when I was a sperm. detachable penis.
You can blame Ritchie lol the dude was in his early 20's while the dudes were more mature. The dude was having his rock star moment and banging chicks left and right. Can't blame him lol
Not only that. Not his fault she saw Richie and said, "WTF am I doing with this clown who's nick name is a neon sign for his rod when I can have THIS?" She made the right choice, they made a wonderful daughter together.
All these comments bagging on Richie make me laugh. He was the best thing to ever happen to Poison, and had more talent than the lot of them combined. And as for his affair with Rikki's wife, it's not like they were just in it to fool around. They fell in love, got married, and had a daughter. You can't plan something like that happening, it just happens. Plus, Poison haven't put out anything worth listening to since Native Tongue. Richie has gone on to make great album after great album with multiple bands.
Richie was a different type of guitar player compared to CC but I wouldn't say better. Just different styles that's all. CC is a massively underrated player. This was a great album but for me the soul of the band was missing
They are different for sure. And CC is a great guitar player for Poison and a great guitarist, but you're on meth if you think as a guitarist or as a musician he's even close to Richie's level.
@@tommynoble3428 Kotzen is overrated. It sounds a bit absurd considering he's not very popular outside of the guitar fanboi community... but there's also a reason for that. Has this guy - on his own - ever written anything memorable for the non-guitarists?
ritchie kotzen,es un gran guitarrista,pero jamas se podra comparar a los riffs,a la fama y al carisma d cc de ville. increible q aqui solo hayan fans d kotzen opinando😅😅,ritchie es algo conocido gracias a poison... Lo otro es q bret miente al decir que ritchie fue la primera opcion,ya q al q ellos llamaron fue a blues saraceno,pero como el estaba terminando su disco en solitario ,rechazo unirse a la banda ,ya que rikki y bobby decidieron que el fuera el reemplazante d cc. una vez expulsado kotzen d poison,inmediatamente llaman a blues,y esta vez saraceno acepto ser el guitarrista d poison ,y con el comenzaron el tour sudamericano en chile,argentina,venezuela y mexico,para volver a sudamerica en 1994 para tocar en sao paulo y rio de janeiro.
@@morgancatherwood5665 Think it had more to do with a conscious shift in image - trying to get away from their poppy glam metal past - and trying to evolve with the grunge scene rather than body language betraying anything, IMO. They’re acting just like most of grunge bands from the early-mid 90s here
Right! They only thing I'm thinking watching this video is how uncomfortable they look. This looks like a sports team that brought in an all-star player, but ruins the chemistry of the team. On paper it looks great, but it doesn't work gametime.
I think they were nervous. Bret was pissing in his pants needing a new player to replace C.C. after he left and kotzen needing money and experience. I would say Brett had more to lose, here's grunge coming and he has nothing but pop glam catalogue that is irrelevant. He's literally putting all he's eggs on one basket and that's Kotzen.
Paul Gilbert? Lol Gilbert wished he was Kotzen and had the richness of Kotzen blues phrase! Now all Gilbert does is sell DiMarzio pickups. Ironically Gilbert has been trying to mature and has been more subtle, rather then just noodling. But it's too late at this point. Kotzen still has a band with remarkable players.
@@eldirtyfaygo5395 I'm not familiar with Gilbert's actual work - my only opinion about him is that his guitars are far and away the ugliest in rock history.
He is the only one that made something of himself. Ignorance pisses me off. Two people fell in love, you can't plan that. He married the girl and had his only daughter. Blind and stupid makes me sick.
Richie sucked he couldn't match or play any of cc licks every time he would play it would sound like an old blues song in stead of poison major hits seen them at deer creek in 1993 native tounge your plus Richie was making moves on rikki girlfriend they all decided to kick his,ads out of the band he was only in it to get quick fame the sick weed sucks
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I have loved Poison from the first time I ever saw 'I Want Action" on MTV . Being a country boy, moved to the city, I had never seen MTV. With that, Native Tongue is my favorite album. I feel that it brought out the best in Bret and all that he can do as a vocalist. Rikki and Bobby really brought that tight blues rhythm. Regardless of what Ritchie did, that dude is phenomenal.
_Richie Kotzen.... such a phenomenal artist_
Native Tongue and Crack a smile are both extremely underrated albums!
Sooooooo true!
Richie is so young. ♥️☮️🎶
They where a true Pennsylvania band at this point! I love this recording!
Native Toungue, clearly the Best Body of Work from Poison.
Top 20 album on billboard in 93,not bad for a so called 80s glam band.
There I lay,in a deep,deep Coma after a bike racing crash.When I woke up over three months later,I had nothing.I could not walk,talk,eat,drink nor read or write.
Going through the tuffest recovery was just total hell,I seen the flames,the hands reaching for me as rocks and roses hit me non stop,flames all around me.I needed something To Believe In.Needed something so,so bad.Lucky for me I found this wonderful song,like a few others it helped me to go on with my life,even after going to hell and back.Thank you Poison for giving me the something To Believe In,thank you so much.
great song
Native Tounge is the only Poison album I ever listened to because of Richie Kotzen
Yes, its the best album and he made it so. Shame it came out at the wrong time.
Poison is a great band. Very underrated because of their look….which I love btw. Nothin but a good time…best party rock song ever. Played at my wedding. Life goes on solo is one of the best guitar solos ever.
awesome interview. Bret looked bad ass in this period.
Ca Mo he still does pretty much
Richie was the best thing that ever happened to poison
The best thing that happened to poison was when every rose has it thorn reached the top of the billboard
@@headbangermetal5929 I was never a Poison fan, I can't relate. But if that song was their biggest deal, I can see why I wasn't impressed. Not dissing anyone else's taste, just speaking for myself.
The last 60 seconds of this interview Bret says it all. Richie was asked to join the band TO MAKE THEM BETTER!!!!!!!!!! He has the talent to elevate them from a very limited musical capacity, 80's make-up wearing stage show to REAL musicianship.
Wrong , Heavy metal bands WERE REAL musicians , you guys just get caught up in all that "his hair is big & they're wearing makeup bullshit lmao KISS wore makeup , people like ratt , motley crue , whitesnake & dokken never wore makeup like KISS , it was VERYYY little . If Ritchie dressed like poison used to would you still have given him credit & called him a real musician or would you have said fuck him cus how he looked lol fuck that early 90's grunge style that shit was garbage . 80's Rock & Roll for fuckin ever !!!! Real Rockstar shit 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
@@playyuh You are a complete moron. DO your research on what Richie has accomplished and still does verses any of them. Save yourself from looking stupid.
Zzz…
Well hate to break it to you but the vast majority of fans weren't buying Poison because they were technical guitar players, that's what Yngwie, Mcalpine and Satriani were for. The "limited musical capacity" CC brought helped them blow UP. Maybe Richie should have focused more on writing hit songs instead of banging Rikkis finance. This was 93 when there was still amimosity between Bret and CC so his comments don't surprise me but in 99 after time apart to heal Bret said "I remember looking over at our guitar player and thinking, man I wish CC was there ". 🤷♂️
@@alanndrake2619 You’re not breaking anything to me wise guy. Lol, I agree with you 100%. That’s not my point. Cc was a better fit for his band all along. My point is the rest of the band didn’t have the musical talent to support RK, I have a lot of respect for poison even though I’m not particularly fond of their music. They worked their asses off and they put on one hell of a show. On this I’m guessing we can agree on
He put a lot of himself into Ricki's girl too
😂😂😂😂
He’s the only one still making great music, and with a better voice than Bret.
@@chrisbr1969I love both Richie and Poison, but I do wish Poison would make a new record.
Like Rikki Rockets some saint lol
Rock n Roll life baby
2:06 Bret representing us back home!
This is a really sweet I felt the emotion in the bigining to me this sounds very heartfelt I love it and this is a great band to
Guys I have to say both Richie Brett the best poison album I'm inspired
when richie joined poison, this band bacame more musically than the "entertainment" poison, but it just one album
Thank GOD! Richie was wasting his time with those clowns. He is a fucking genius.
@@LoveLjubav Poison was a money gig for Richie, nothing else.
@@BC08 The rest of them were deep? LMAO! Please. Richie is the epitome of not doing music for money and/or fame. He was young then, so he took the gig with the hairspray band. He proved himself a million times over and still does, the whole time not even trying.
@@LoveLjubav I don't comprehend how this reply is relevant to what I said.
@@BC08 I think he is putting the 3rd side to the story.
1. Blinded by money
2. Fame whore
3. Only in it for the music
Awesome interview
Lo último que dice Brett se percibe totalmente escuchando Native Tongue.
Richie's posture and his head buried down to the ground says it all! Guilty! That was just fcked what they did to Rickie! I don't care if they fell in love or not, you don't do that to true friends! Clearly the Poison band member weren't his true friends!
More like a severe introvert uncomfortable with interviews
In 1993 it was scary to be in a hair band. With the worlds attention on grunge music, the hair and makeup just became old and kinda gay, lol. Almost overnight!
Bret was obviously trying to steer the band away from the popcorn style tunes they were writing. I dig Ritchies style and he is very talented. Maybe too talented for Poison. But CC has that over the top style. If Poison sticks to their roots in pop metal, CC is the best fit for the band
I dont know. Blues Saraceno fit pretty well with poison.
they had so many yes men and enablers that I doubt they knew they were getting stabbed in the back by record companies.
I for one, didnt get a purchase choice. there was no new hairmetal music being released so its a moot point about who killed it.
Music is a for profit industry, you have to market for the buyers and pop music was big and R&B came from nowhere to erode the market share.
even the joke (one hit) songs had more market share than hairmetal combined. 3 Little Pigs by Green Jelly. mmm mmm mmm. when I was a sperm. detachable penis.
The best
You can blame Ritchie lol the dude was in his early 20's while the dudes were more mature. The dude was having his rock star moment and banging chicks left and right. Can't blame him lol
Alejandro Cisneros actually Richie was only banging one chick. He would avoid groupies so much then other members wondered if he was secretly gay
Not only that. Not his fault she saw Richie and said, "WTF am I doing with this clown who's nick name is a neon sign for his rod when I can have THIS?" She made the right choice, they made a wonderful daughter together.
@@jozefk.7720 Given the fact he married and her his only child I highly doubt it was anything but the fact they fell in love, it happens.
Mmm Bret hi gorgeous
💙
All these comments bagging on Richie make me laugh. He was the best thing to ever happen to Poison, and had more talent than the lot of them combined. And as for his affair with Rikki's wife, it's not like they were just in it to fool around. They fell in love, got married, and had a daughter. You can't plan something like that happening, it just happens. Plus, Poison haven't put out anything worth listening to since Native Tongue. Richie has gone on to make great album after great album with multiple bands.
Have you not heard crack a smile?
Richie Kotzen 😏😎😏😎
Richie was WAY too TALENTED for Crappy ass Poison 😆 Lol !
Richie was a different type of guitar player compared to CC but I wouldn't say better. Just different styles that's all. CC is a massively underrated player. This was a great album but for me the soul of the band was missing
Cc is the poison guitarist just like Vince in the motley singer....
They are different for sure. And CC is a great guitar player for Poison and a great guitarist, but you're on meth if you think as a guitarist or as a musician he's even close to Richie's level.
@@tommynoble3428 Kotzen is overrated. It sounds a bit absurd considering he's not very popular outside of the guitar fanboi community... but there's also a reason for that. Has this guy - on his own - ever written anything memorable for the non-guitarists?
@@tommynoble3428 CC Is a superior songwriter and that's all that really matters to 99 percent of the population.
@@Fearzero 99 percent of the population also watches the Kardashians and eats McDonald's. That doesn't make them good or right.
ritchie kotzen,es un gran guitarrista,pero jamas se podra comparar a los riffs,a la fama y al carisma d cc de ville.
increible q aqui solo hayan fans d kotzen opinando😅😅,ritchie es algo conocido gracias a poison...
Lo otro es q bret miente al decir que ritchie fue la primera opcion,ya q al q ellos llamaron fue a blues saraceno,pero como el estaba terminando su disco en solitario ,rechazo unirse a la banda ,ya que rikki y bobby decidieron que el fuera el reemplazante d cc.
una vez expulsado kotzen d poison,inmediatamente llaman a blues,y esta vez saraceno acepto ser el guitarrista d poison ,y con el comenzaron el tour sudamericano en chile,argentina,venezuela y mexico,para volver a sudamerica en 1994 para tocar en sao paulo y rio de janeiro.
Body language tells a lot here
Elaborate
@@BC08 Brett just looks super stoked - just glowing with happiness and enthusiasm
@@morgancatherwood5665 Think it had more to do with a conscious shift in image - trying to get away from their poppy glam metal past - and trying to evolve with the grunge scene rather than body language betraying anything, IMO.
They’re acting just like most of grunge bands from the early-mid 90s here
no cc, no poison................ sorry folks
It happened and he came back.
Totally agree. No CC. No Poison.
No way, Cc was a doped up joke, couldn't play for shit, and his shuffling guitar playing didn't belong in an 80's rock band
Agree c.c just fits the poison bill.
Richie was given Ricky's fiance the unskinny bop bop bop bop. Which was a very stupid move because then he got drop drop drop
They looked so gloomy!
Right! They only thing I'm thinking watching this video is how uncomfortable they look.
This looks like a sports team that brought in an all-star player, but ruins the chemistry of the team. On paper it looks great, but it doesn't work gametime.
I think they were nervous. Bret was pissing in his pants needing a new player to replace C.C. after he left and kotzen needing money and experience. I would say Brett had more to lose, here's grunge coming and he has nothing but pop glam catalogue that is irrelevant. He's literally putting all he's eggs on one basket and that's Kotzen.
This Janni vocalis Poison??
Richie Kotzen know Rikki Rocket frist wife she know him, now second wife now he got Kids now he happy now
They both look so depressed
crack a smile has nothing going for it , native tongue is a hard listen .
I love them both
Not a bad record and Richie is a fantastic guitarist. Just a shame he always ended up being behind other players ... like Paul Gilbert in Mr Big
Paul Gilbert? Lol Gilbert wished he was Kotzen and had the richness of Kotzen blues phrase! Now all Gilbert does is sell DiMarzio pickups. Ironically Gilbert has been trying to mature and has been more subtle, rather then just noodling. But it's too late at this point. Kotzen still has a band with remarkable players.
@@eldirtyfaygo5395 I'm not familiar with Gilbert's actual work - my only opinion about him is that his guitars are far and away the ugliest in rock history.
I feel bad for Bret, Bobby, and especially Rikki. Richie was such a brat, backstabber, and was only in it for 15 minutes of fame.
Better than CC
David Henry Lake sure he was better then CC , but CC WAS Poison . Ritchie wasn't no matter how good he is .
Bret has slept with plenty of peoples wife's...so have the rest of em... c'mon. Lol
He is the only one that made something of himself. Ignorance pisses me off. Two people fell in love, you can't plan that. He married the girl and had his only daughter. Blind and stupid makes me sick.
Not the real Poison, sorry.
hahaha
true, this poison is so much better
WELL BRET, IT MAY HAVE BEEN EXCITING, BUT IT SUCKED.
There are 2 killer songs on the album ass hole
Ya....Then ol Rich ended up f*cking Rikki's beloved wife.
JayyBird they had a a kid too.. His daughter August.. I’ve met em both
@@chrisrowe1265 Whoa. Awesome. Ya. chicks are crazy. .
Rikki and his women weren't married yet. Just engaged.
Richie sucked he couldn't match or play any of cc licks every time he would play it would sound like an old blues song in stead of poison major hits seen them at deer creek in 1993 native tounge your plus Richie was making moves on rikki girlfriend they all decided to kick his,ads out of the band he was only in it to get quick fame the sick weed sucks
Ryan Belden are you serious or are you having a stroke?
Stephen King
Auto-correct👎
Ducks everything up!
🙃
Get some more hair spray and inhale.
Ritchie ~ creepy ~awkward guy