Poison - Second Coming...

I am not sure where and when I heard Poison the first time, but I don't think I am far off saying it was on the radioshow "Rockbox". I got "Look What The Cat Dragged in" for my birthday in 1986 and it didn't leave my recordplayer longer than it took to flip from a-side to b-side :-)


I had just finished my releationship with Europe, as John Norum left the band. And I was dying for a band to love, a band that had everything. As Kiss was what got me into this musical genre and Thin Lizzy sadly had to call it a day I needed something spiritual, something happy, something to feed my teenage dreams... Poison was that band. Poison was more than that band, they were everything. While my friends didn't quite get the thing with Poison I was happy to have them on my own, to myself. Like a secret. I loved them to bits. Or perhaps I should say, I loved Bret Michaels to bits. I read Hit Parader, Circus and RIP and in every issue they had a A4-sized portrait of bret. I collected them all and put them on my bedroom wall. I think I had over 100 of them at one given point. No matter how many times I told everyone it was the same person on all pictures, I got asked who it was.

While all the girls at school wanted to look like Madonna but I put my make-up on to look like I was belonging with Poison on Sunset Strip in LA. I didn't success I might add, but the spirit was there. They gave me all the dreams I needed and they gave me a personality. "You better cry tough - out in the streets - to make your dreams happen". Cause while my friends dreamt of starting a family, own a house and that crappy version of life I wanted more. Once again I am not sure I have succeded in my dreams, but I would like to think so. I would like to think that the 14-year old version of myself wouldn't be disapointed. All though I still haven't been in LA yet...

I saw Poison in Stockholm on August 21, 1990. It was fantastic and later I was told CC DeVille stood behind me watching Whitesnake. My friend didn't tell me cause she was sure I would have died or something equally horrible. I was supposed to do an interview with Bret Michaels at the venue but as there werenät any time for it it didn't happen and I had to do it via phone instead. The most nervous ever. It's true. I haven't met Bret yet, or anyone in Poison... And I am lucky enough to have met most of the artists I look up to!
I was supposed to go to UK in 1993 to see Poison doing their "7 days over Europe" gig, it's classic Spinal tap doing a European tour in UK!! Anyway, I had to stay in Sweden cause I had an exam and it was too important to miss. Knowing what I know now I would have dropped the exam and done UK instead. But how would I know it would take 15 years until the next time?? You never expect it to take that long.

But now, they will be here - only 115 days or so - until they will be back in Sweden.
I hope - with all my soul - that they will not make me disapointed!!