"We went right in there and handed them our record and they played it," Michaels says. They hand-delivered the album to KROQ in Los Angeles. "But honestly, we had the time of our life. They had jets and parties and limousines," Michaels says with a laugh. "I'm thinking, 'This sure as hell isn't like the Kiss autobiography. He and his bandmates were putting promotional items in with the record stores' orders, shrink-wrapping their own cassettes. "Our big signing party was sitting on a cement floor in a warehouse, boxing up albums," Michaels says.
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'Dirty, nasty and hot': How a Tempe dive bar became Cheers for Phoenix metalheads 'Look What the Cat Dragged In'įinally, in 1986, an independent label called Enigma Records took a chance and signed them, releasing a "glorified demo," as Michaels has called "Look What the Cat Dragged In," a glam-metal classic that spent a full year climbing to its Billboard chart peak, No. Then Jessie's girl walked in 'No record label would touch us' Rick Springfield didn't think he'd ever get a record deal. We could load all of our gear in and play all these outlying cities and towns to make money to eat."
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"We had a windowless Chevette, or pretty much no windows left, an old ambulance van and a Ford pickup truck. "Los Angeles at that point, you actually had to pay to play," Michaels says. One thing Poison quickly figured out was they could make enough to scrape by if they lined up some gigs on the outskirts of town. So we got real smart and adapted real quick." Little did we know there's 40,000 other bands trying to write original material. We thought we'd be one of the few bands out there. "When I got to Los Angeles, I'm not gonna lie, at first you're like, 'Wow, this is overwhelming,'" Michaels says. What was Alice Cooper like in high school? Friends and bandmates share their stories Poison's early days in Hollywoodĭespite that extroverted personality that made him what my brother swears was the most entertaining act on the bill when the Stadium Tour hit Pittsburgh, there was some culture shock involved in leaving small-town Pennsylvania for the Sunset Strip.
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