Poison's "Open Up and Say...Ahh!" (1988): Track by Track

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious Podcast. I am here today with my black
<v Speaker 1>cowboy hat, my mass scara, and my leather buttlss pants.
<v Speaker 2>Jason, Hey, I've got.
<v Speaker 3>My stubble going, I got my cowboy, have got my
<v Speaker 3>sunglasses on, I got some lipstick on.
<v Speaker 2>Dale. I'm ready to go. I've we've got the fire
<v Speaker 2>technic set up here.
<v Speaker 3>And we're ready to go. That is awesome, everybody.
<v Speaker 1>We are here for our very special episode on Poisons
<v Speaker 1>album Open Up and Say Ah, released thirty five years
<v Speaker 1>ago this month. We are super excited to be talking
<v Speaker 1>about that and we are super excited to have our
<v Speaker 1>special guests for the day, mister Dale Selby Dale, how
<v Speaker 1>you doing man?
<v Speaker 2>Thank you guys, appreciate it. I love love being here.
<v Speaker 2>This is really exciting. Great to be back in Oklahoma.
<v Speaker 2>Big fan of the show since day one, proud Patreons
<v Speaker 2>porter of you guys, and really excited to be here.
<v Speaker 2>I anticipate nothing but a good time as we break
<v Speaker 2>this album down.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Dale has mentioned that he is a Patreon member. Guys,
<v Speaker 1>if you want to join up on our Patreon page
<v Speaker 1>and then say hey, can you guys have us as
<v Speaker 1>a co host by all means, yes, we are willing
<v Speaker 1>to hoore ourselves out.
<v Speaker 2>And just like the backup singers for Poison's.
<v Speaker 3>First tour, Dale is a good college buddy of mine
<v Speaker 3>and so it's good to see him.
<v Speaker 2>And he's back in town.
<v Speaker 3>And I guess the three of us all went to
<v Speaker 3>OU and it's a little little Sooner reunion.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Sound a good time?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, all right, guys, you guys are ready to talk dirty.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, let's talk dirty.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, before we get going, Dale brought us a present.
<v Speaker 2>I can't come and empty handed.
<v Speaker 1>The man Patreon subscriber, co host gift giver. I'm pretty
<v Speaker 1>sure that we're gonna you know, this is really cool,
<v Speaker 1>cry tough hearness.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, let's see what we got here. Oh nice, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>we have a pop Rocks Brett Michaels with the vandana
<v Speaker 3>and everything he's got thrown up the little horn sign.
<v Speaker 3>This is greatbody.
<v Speaker 2>My son collects these. He tends more towards the Marvel
<v Speaker 2>and Star Wars kind. But I saw this the other
<v Speaker 2>day and I thought this after we talked, and you
<v Speaker 2>guys invited me up here, so I thought, what better
<v Speaker 2>gift to bring you guys, maybe have a little Bret
<v Speaker 2>Michael's watching over us as we.
<v Speaker 1>Have this Funko pop shall be the first Funco pop
<v Speaker 1>on the studio shelf over here.
<v Speaker 2>Fantastic. Thank you, buddy, you appreciate that. That's nice. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>thank you for bringing me up.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you've definitely primed the engine. We all are now
<v Speaker 1>remembering what we were listening to back in nineteen eighty eight. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and so May of that year. I can remember going
<v Speaker 1>to Hastings Records with my mom because I was like,
<v Speaker 1>new Poison album is out. I didn't buy very many albums,
<v Speaker 1>and so I was like, we're going I would love
<v Speaker 1>to go and get this and she's like, sure, I'll
<v Speaker 1>take you. And then I realize, oh crap, this doesn't
<v Speaker 1>have talk Dirty to me on it.
<v Speaker 2>That's the old album that has talked dirty to me.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't know which one
<v Speaker 1>of these I get right, And my mom was like,
<v Speaker 1>why don't you get both?
<v Speaker 2>Nice? That was a memorable day.
<v Speaker 1>Ready to go look what the cat dragged in and
<v Speaker 1>open up and say, oh, same.
<v Speaker 2>Day double taper.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Hastings Records in Central Mall, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
<v Speaker 2>DLLE, What about you? Did you on this album? I
<v Speaker 2>owned this album. I think I got mine at sound
<v Speaker 2>warehouse in Oklahoma City. I think if Memory Service was
<v Speaker 2>at the corner of Rockwell and Northwest Highway maybe in
<v Speaker 2>Oklahoma City. Nice.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, now here's my question. Did you guys own the
<v Speaker 3>original cover?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, day it came out, so don't remember. I don't
<v Speaker 2>think I did. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So I got mine as a birthday gift from my
<v Speaker 3>buddy Dax Junker down the street, Daks. If you're listening,
<v Speaker 3>hit us up on email, hit us up on Facebook.
<v Speaker 3>My fifteenth birthday would have been May fourth of nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty eight. This album dropped May third of eighty eight,
<v Speaker 3>and I remember he came over to my house gave
<v Speaker 3>it to me as a birthday gift, and it was
<v Speaker 3>the original model with the giant tongue. What do you
<v Speaker 3>think about this album cover?
<v Speaker 2>Well, it's interesting.
<v Speaker 1>The size of the tongue leads you to believe that
<v Speaker 1>there's some other bodily part that suggested other than a tongue.
<v Speaker 2>Yes.
<v Speaker 1>The album title adds to that belief. Yes, And then
<v Speaker 1>you got the question of who is this guy? It's
<v Speaker 1>a girl or girl or girl?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what is she supposed to look like? Is this
<v Speaker 2>a cat? Is this a demon?
<v Speaker 4>Is this?
<v Speaker 2>What is this exactly?
<v Speaker 3>It's like a tiger girl thing, right, you know?
<v Speaker 2>So do you have an answer for us? Well, here's
<v Speaker 2>what I know.
<v Speaker 3>I know that they changed the album title to open
<v Speaker 3>up and say Ah. The original album title was called
<v Speaker 3>Swallow This. A little more suggestive then, right, So I
<v Speaker 3>think that they said, you know what, let's clean that
<v Speaker 3>up just a little bit. Although I think they should
<v Speaker 3>rename this album. I don't like open up and say ah,
<v Speaker 3>but I think an album title like nothing but a
<v Speaker 3>Good Time would have been and a better title rather
<v Speaker 3>than open up and Swallow.
<v Speaker 2>This, you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 3>So that's just my personal opinion. By the way, this
<v Speaker 3>episode drops May second of twenty twenty three, this album
<v Speaker 3>will have just turned thirty five years old.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, all right.
<v Speaker 1>I don't have a lot to go into on the history.
<v Speaker 1>We've got some incredible songs to cover, and I'll throw
<v Speaker 1>some tidbits in as we go through.
<v Speaker 2>I'll give you a very abbreviated history.
<v Speaker 1>So these guys were from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Brett Michaels Ricky
<v Speaker 1>Rockett who were not born Brett Michaels and Ricky Rockett.
<v Speaker 2>You got their original.
<v Speaker 3>Names for me, Sir Brett Michael Sycheck so.
<v Speaker 2>Cc Deville was Bruce Anthony Johannson, Bobby Doll, Robert Harry Kaikendahl.
<v Speaker 2>Ricky Rockett was born Richard Allen Reim. Ricky Rockett gets
<v Speaker 2>more girls.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So both Brett and Ricky had been involved in
<v Speaker 1>bands before they got together. They got together after Brett's
<v Speaker 1>first band, which I believe was called Laser.
<v Speaker 2>Is that right?
<v Speaker 3>Brett had a band and started like in the sixth
<v Speaker 3>grade and called him Laser. Yeah, and then Ricky joined
<v Speaker 3>and they were called the Specters. The Specters. Do you
<v Speaker 3>think it was a James Bond thing. I don't think so.
<v Speaker 1>No, Okay, something about ghosts. Anyway, they didn't stick together
<v Speaker 1>with that band. They decided to branch out because they
<v Speaker 1>had more They had bigger dreams than the rest of
<v Speaker 1>the band seemed to have. And one day they run
<v Speaker 1>into this guy who's calling himself Bobby Doll in a
<v Speaker 1>I think it was a dairy queen. They met him
<v Speaker 1>at a dairy queen and he had the same ambition
<v Speaker 1>that they had.
<v Speaker 2>He had just been playing in garage bands.
<v Speaker 1>But I think his words were, these guys had day jobs,
<v Speaker 1>and I wanted to play with guys.
<v Speaker 2>Who wanted to do only this, right.
<v Speaker 3>I want somebody dedicated and who wants to be a
<v Speaker 3>rock star.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And so they got together with a guitarist and
<v Speaker 1>his name.
<v Speaker 2>Was Matt Smith.
<v Speaker 3>Matt Smith, he needs to work on his stage name
<v Speaker 3>a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, I don't know, it seems I don't know
<v Speaker 1>when these guys came up with their other names. I
<v Speaker 1>think it was probably when they moved out to Hollywood,
<v Speaker 1>but I'm not sure. But you know, you look at
<v Speaker 1>bands like Guns n' Roses, who obviously wasn't wasn't a
<v Speaker 1>thing yet, right, But it seemed like that was the
<v Speaker 1>thing to do once you get to the Hollywood strip,
<v Speaker 1>was rename yourself.
<v Speaker 2>Right. Sure, Matt Smith probably didn't hang around long enough
<v Speaker 2>to get his stage name. It doesn't sound like I
<v Speaker 2>think he got frustrated as the band was making their
<v Speaker 2>rounds around La. Yeah, here's the deal.
<v Speaker 3>So he went out to LA with him in eighty three,
<v Speaker 3>and he left in eighty five.
<v Speaker 2>Right before they hit They hit it big in eighty six.
<v Speaker 3>Right right, Jim Matt just the wrong time to jump
<v Speaker 3>off that train.
<v Speaker 2>Buddy, My gosh. Now I will give him credit.
<v Speaker 3>He realized he had got his girlfriend pregnant, was like, crab, guys,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not gonna leave my son fatherless. I love rock
<v Speaker 3>and roll, but I'm going to go back and be
<v Speaker 3>a father to my son.
<v Speaker 2>So all the cred in.
<v Speaker 3>The world this guy left the Hollywood dream and the
<v Speaker 3>rock and roll lifestyle to be a dad.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And so now they're without a guitarist and the guitar
<v Speaker 1>and Matt Smith was kind of the centerpiece of the
<v Speaker 1>music of the band.
<v Speaker 3>I mean he was he was in charge of the music.
<v Speaker 1>Bobby Doll was kind of in charge of the business
<v Speaker 1>of things, and Ricky and Brett were like.
<v Speaker 2>Let's do the band image.
<v Speaker 1>And so they're without kind of their main music guy.
<v Speaker 1>And so they start auditioning local guitarists and basically it
<v Speaker 1>comes down to two guys. C. C. Deville, Yes and Slash.
<v Speaker 3>Can you imagine Slash from Guns N' Roses and Poison,
<v Speaker 3>I can't.
<v Speaker 1>It is a fit that doesn't fit, and I think
<v Speaker 1>that was kind of the primary issue. I mean, Slash
<v Speaker 1>is kind of an easy going, not glamorous guy. And
<v Speaker 1>CEC de Milt they didn't like it, Like even at
<v Speaker 1>the audition they didn't like it.
<v Speaker 2>They're like, this guy's kind of a dick. Wasn't playing
<v Speaker 2>what they asked him to play. The other right, he's like,
<v Speaker 2>I don't want.
<v Speaker 3>To play your music, listen to what I've got.
<v Speaker 1>And now that being said, what he had was talk dirty,
<v Speaker 1>that's right, because he had come from a band screaming Mimi's,
<v Speaker 1>screaming Mimi's and had that song in his arsenal. And
<v Speaker 1>I mean you got to say, hey, that's not a
<v Speaker 1>bad idea to come in with that song and play
<v Speaker 1>it strong.
<v Speaker 3>Well, here's the thing. I think that may been the
<v Speaker 3>main reason why they brought him on board.
<v Speaker 2>You think it was because of that song.
<v Speaker 3>Well he could play, yeah, But so all three of
<v Speaker 3>them thought, this guy's obnoxious.
<v Speaker 2>He's loud, he's rude, he's I don't know if he's
<v Speaker 2>going to fit in. He rubs everybody the wrong way.
<v Speaker 2>He's very New York.
<v Speaker 3>He's from Yeah, he's from Brooklyn. But he's got this
<v Speaker 3>song right and it's great. Yeah, and I think we
<v Speaker 3>can do something with that song.
<v Speaker 2>And he had the glam look that they were going for.
<v Speaker 1>He had grown up watching the New York Dolls and
<v Speaker 1>was into that kind of idea of glam metal lily Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and that fit with what these three guys had going.
<v Speaker 3>So I read Slash's autobiography right, and I remember when
<v Speaker 3>he auditioned for Poison, he had these like come up
<v Speaker 3>to your knee moccasins, and Bobby Doll said to him, so,
<v Speaker 3>would you like wear those type of shoes? Slashes like,
<v Speaker 3>what's the matter with my shoes?
<v Speaker 2>You know?
<v Speaker 3>He's like, yeah, we don't really like those type of shoes.
<v Speaker 3>So they were much more interested in their image that
<v Speaker 3>Slash was not going to be a part of them.
<v Speaker 2>So I think everybody ended up where they were supposed
<v Speaker 2>to end up. I totally agree. Yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, C C. Deville almost ended up in Striper.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that would have been weird. That would have been
<v Speaker 2>a Christian rock band. Ye.
<v Speaker 3>Well, hey, Striper, people forget this. Striper was a big
<v Speaker 3>name on the on the Sunset Strip and they did
<v Speaker 3>have some success. They had a big selling album on MTV.
<v Speaker 2>They were big junior high years.
<v Speaker 3>They were they were now then they have not sustained
<v Speaker 3>that success.
<v Speaker 4>But C. C.
<v Speaker 2>Deville has since become a.
<v Speaker 3>Born and green Christian, so maybe he would fit by.
<v Speaker 2>Now than he did at that time.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so these guys became popular on the Sunset strip yep,
<v Speaker 1>popular with the girls especially. They had girls who were like, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>can we come clean your apartment and bring you groceries
<v Speaker 1>just for the opportunity to hang out with the pretty
<v Speaker 1>boys in the band. Sure, the pretty boys who, like
<v Speaker 1>the other bands we've talked about, all were crashing together
<v Speaker 1>in the same writty apartment. But they weren't successful enough
<v Speaker 1>to pull a major record label. What they got was
<v Speaker 1>this smaller record label called Enigma.
<v Speaker 2>That's a mystery to me. That joke.
<v Speaker 1>You knew it was coming. And so Enigma is the
<v Speaker 1>one that puts together their very first album, the album
<v Speaker 1>we just talked about.
<v Speaker 2>Look what the cat dragged in.
<v Speaker 1>Now, this album was made for thirty thousand dollars. That
<v Speaker 1>I mean, if you just imagine how much is spent
<v Speaker 1>on so many other albums that we've talked about, and
<v Speaker 1>the success of this album to think that they did
<v Speaker 1>it all for thirty thousand, a lot of which they
<v Speaker 1>paid for themselves, right right.
<v Speaker 3>They didn't have the benefactor that.
<v Speaker 1>Like all of the other bands we talked about, these
<v Speaker 1>guys invested in themselves and it paid off. They started
<v Speaker 1>touring with Ratt and Cinderella and suddenly, little by little,
<v Speaker 1>the album.
<v Speaker 2>Started to take off.
<v Speaker 3>First single off of that album was cry Tough, Right.
<v Speaker 2>I pointed out to you.
<v Speaker 1>Guys, you know I'd been a while since I listened
<v Speaker 1>to it from the beginning, and we went into detail
<v Speaker 1>on a song that was a major factor back in
<v Speaker 1>the sixties by the Ronettes called My Baby. Same drum
<v Speaker 1>and drum, same drum introduction, right, but here we come
<v Speaker 1>in with this metal awesomeness in the guitar and it's
<v Speaker 1>a totally different song.
<v Speaker 2>But it's not that single that does it for him.
<v Speaker 1>It's the one that CC brought to the band, that
<v Speaker 1>makes them who they are.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So here's the thing. When they released Krytop, it
<v Speaker 3>had a little bit of success. They released it on MTV.
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember it being a success.
<v Speaker 2>I don't either, And the.
<v Speaker 3>Record company said, hey, for your first record out of
<v Speaker 3>the gate, you've done pretty well. You've sold two hundred
<v Speaker 3>and fifty thousand copies. That's pretty good. Let's go back
<v Speaker 3>in the studio, let's make album number two and they're like,
<v Speaker 3>what are you talking about. We've got other songs we
<v Speaker 3>want to release. They're like, no, it's too expensive. And
<v Speaker 3>so Brett had to beg varrow and steal and basically
<v Speaker 3>fund that video for top Dirty to Me. He's like, listen, guys,
<v Speaker 3>we need one more single out of this. And so
<v Speaker 3>they scraped together seven thousand dollars, They invited all their
<v Speaker 3>friends out and they filmed talk Dirty to Me and
<v Speaker 3>it goes through the roof.
<v Speaker 2>I remember when this was a huge song on MTV. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>seven thousand bucks. That's nothing back in the day.
<v Speaker 3>So this album goes on to become the most successful
<v Speaker 3>album for Enigma in all of its history.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and Talk Dirty to Me is the song that
<v Speaker 1>made me want to go out and buy the album
<v Speaker 1>that we're going to talk about today, which is their
<v Speaker 1>second album, Open Up and Say.
<v Speaker 3>Aw Before we go track by track, I've got a
<v Speaker 3>little bit on Open Up and Say Awe.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 3>This album sold eight million copies worldwide, peaked at number
<v Speaker 3>two on the Billboard two hundred chart, behind behind Faith
<v Speaker 3>by George Michael.
<v Speaker 1>If you haven't caught that episode, go check out the
<v Speaker 1>Shirley Can't Be Serious podcast episode on George Michael's Faith
<v Speaker 1>versus in Excess Kick.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, so listen to this. The week that it
<v Speaker 3>topped out at number two was June eighteenth of nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty eight. Okay, Number one was Faith, Number two was
<v Speaker 3>open Up and say Ah. Number three was Hysteria. We've
<v Speaker 3>also covered that. Number four was Dirty Dancing.
<v Speaker 2>We've covered that.
<v Speaker 3>Number five is o UA one two, which we're going
<v Speaker 3>to cover in about a month. Number nine is Appetite
<v Speaker 3>for Destruction. Number ten is Bad. Out of that top ten,
<v Speaker 3>we will have knocked out seven track by track albums.
<v Speaker 2>Three more to go, We're awesome. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This album was originally supposed to be produced by Paul Stanley. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>now he got wrapped up in his own album at
<v Speaker 3>the time, Crazy Crazy Nights, But he was a hero
<v Speaker 3>to them, and in fact, Bobby Dall has that bass
<v Speaker 3>with Paul Stanley's face on it and he plays it
<v Speaker 3>through all these videos.
<v Speaker 1>The other interesting thing is that they covered rock and
<v Speaker 1>Roll All Night for the Less than Zero soundtrack, Right.
<v Speaker 5>Mister Rocket, thanks you.
<v Speaker 2>That song also makes an appearance in the video.
<v Speaker 3>It does good time, it does, Yes, it does Tom
<v Speaker 3>Mormon produced this album?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Tom Mormon is the guy. He's worked with Motley Crue
<v Speaker 3>like he did Shout Out the Devil, he did Girls,
<v Speaker 3>Girls Girls. Yep, they got a legit producer. You know.
<v Speaker 3>I heard Brett talk about how look what the cat
<v Speaker 3>dragged in was just a glorified demo.
<v Speaker 2>Took him twelve days to record that. Wow. So this
<v Speaker 2>one they.
<v Speaker 3>Actually dug in, got a real producer, produced a real album,
<v Speaker 3>and it's all parties and limousines.
<v Speaker 2>All right, guys, are we ready to jump in? Track
<v Speaker 2>by track?
<v Speaker 3>Let's do it, man, I'm ready.
<v Speaker 2>Let's go all right.
<v Speaker 3>First song out of the gate is a song called
<v Speaker 3>Love on the Rocks.
<v Speaker 2>Now right out of the box. Great opening guitar riff,
<v Speaker 2>just hits you right in the face. Track one. This
<v Speaker 2>is the perfect opening song for the album. I like
<v Speaker 2>the line in there.
<v Speaker 3>I think I told you guys earlier that the original
<v Speaker 3>title of the album album was called Swallow This, and
<v Speaker 3>you've got that She's my poison, So why don't you
<v Speaker 3>swallow this right? Call back to the original title there.
<v Speaker 2>I love the fast paced nature of this song. I
<v Speaker 2>think this might have been another single perhaps for them
<v Speaker 2>to release.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great one, right, this one begs to be
<v Speaker 3>thumped out of my speakers driving down the road.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a tempole.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, if you're gonna put some tent poles on
<v Speaker 1>the beginning of the album and then the album, this
<v Speaker 1>is a great.
<v Speaker 2>Song as your first one out of the game.
<v Speaker 3>Poison had its own way of snagging groupies. So Bobby
<v Speaker 3>Doll anytime he licked his fingers and pointed, that was
<v Speaker 3>his clue to the roadies, that's the girl. Brett Michaels
<v Speaker 3>would point out his selection, either during the drum solo.
<v Speaker 2>Or during the guitar solo, even some time to look around.
<v Speaker 1>Less likely to have a mistake that way too, Like
<v Speaker 1>you're pointing, you're licking your fingers and pointing.
<v Speaker 3>To a crowd, right, and then like this one, how
<v Speaker 3>about that one?
<v Speaker 4>This one?
<v Speaker 2>This one? Are you serious? Now?
<v Speaker 3>Listen, here's what Ricky Rocket would do. He would throw
<v Speaker 3>his drumsticks at the one. He You know, Dale, you
<v Speaker 3>and I were talking before we started recording. Poison always
<v Speaker 3>advertised that they were all about having good time and
<v Speaker 3>rock and roll.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this checks all those boxes we talked before. This
<v Speaker 2>is not you two, This is not the Beatles. This
<v Speaker 2>is fun, ear candy rock and roll, kick ass a rock.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's not Living Color. Right, we're going to talk
<v Speaker 3>about Leaving Color next week. Living Color is a great
<v Speaker 3>rock band, but they're more political, they're more conscientious. There's
<v Speaker 3>you know, intelligent, smarter, Yeah, better musicians. Yes, so that's
<v Speaker 3>gonna be an interesting comparison. But this is just straight
<v Speaker 3>fun rock and roll. Okay, we're ready to jump into
<v Speaker 3>track number two. Let's go to maybe the single greatest
<v Speaker 3>party rock song of the night eighties. This song is
<v Speaker 3>called nothing but a Good Time.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is a fantastic song. I think the opening
<v Speaker 2>is a great guitar riff, maybe second only to Talk
<v Speaker 2>Dirty to Me. I think this was the mega hit
<v Speaker 2>that really established them as super rock stars. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This was the first single off of the album.
<v Speaker 1>This was a combination of a guitar riff by Ceci
<v Speaker 1>and a chorus by Brett.
<v Speaker 2>They go together seamlessly. It is perfection.
<v Speaker 3>It's a song for the working people, the people that
<v Speaker 3>are breaking their backs every day. Right, Yeah, it's totally relatable.
<v Speaker 3>It's for the working man. We've all had jobs that
<v Speaker 3>we hate and we just want to turn on the
<v Speaker 3>rock music.
<v Speaker 5>Hands don't do it or wait, hand you can hear me.
<v Speaker 4>This is what I'm saying.
<v Speaker 6>Good time, that's what the guys back in the mechanics bird,
<v Speaker 6>that's the thing, that's exactly right.
<v Speaker 3>I definitely would say this is the greatest party rock
<v Speaker 3>song of the eighties. It is everything that Poison advertised
<v Speaker 3>themselves to be.
<v Speaker 2>See uh reasons.
<v Speaker 5>Breaking a bone, The good laps a crab.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great crunchy lick. The chorus is singable, something
<v Speaker 3>we can relate to.
<v Speaker 2>The guitar solo is fantastic, and.
<v Speaker 3>Then you got that like pumping drums in the middle
<v Speaker 3>of it when it kind of breaks down.
<v Speaker 2>It so fun. Love it by the way.
<v Speaker 3>He was released an April of eighty eight, made it
<v Speaker 3>to number six.
<v Speaker 2>On the charts.
<v Speaker 3>Do you want to hear them?
<v Speaker 4>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>I definitely want to hear them. Yeah? What beat? What beat?
<v Speaker 2>This song?
<v Speaker 4>Out?
<v Speaker 3>Here are the five songs that are better than nothing
<v Speaker 3>but a Good Time in eighty eight. Number five Dirty
<v Speaker 3>Diana by Michael Jackson.
<v Speaker 2>That's fair. That is honestly, that's a fantastic song. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Number four New Sensation by an Excess like it.
<v Speaker 2>Well, it's a good it's a really good song.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Number three Pour Some Sugar on Me, well obviously, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Number two Mercedes Boy by Pebbles.
<v Speaker 2>Well, now we have our loser.
<v Speaker 3>I like Pebbles and I like Mercedes Boy, but come on,
<v Speaker 3>nothing but a good time, no way. The number one
<v Speaker 3>song this week in nineteen eighty eight by let that's
<v Speaker 3>July of eighty eight is the Flame by Cheap Trick.
<v Speaker 2>Great, something wrong my bag? But yeah, I can understand
<v Speaker 2>that that was a huge, huge song back then.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, can we talk about the video for a second.
<v Speaker 1>First, let me say the video starts off with that song,
<v Speaker 1>just like you said, It starts off with Conroll Night, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>the one that they had covered off of from Kiss
<v Speaker 1>And there's a guy washing dishes listening to this song.
<v Speaker 1>That guy was the same guy who was in the
<v Speaker 1>Motley Crue video You're all I need.
<v Speaker 2>I was hoping to blow your mind.
<v Speaker 1>So, but that being said, I'm shure I'm going to
<v Speaker 1>show you guys this. I mean, I'm sorry you know
<v Speaker 1>podcast audience that you can't see this, but look at
<v Speaker 1>the cover for the single for this song.
<v Speaker 2>Right right now, I'm going to show you the cover
<v Speaker 2>for the single for wow song. Like they're identical.
<v Speaker 4>Guys.
<v Speaker 1>If you want to go check out the You're All
<v Speaker 1>I Need single cover versus the nothing but a Good
<v Speaker 1>Time single cover, they may very well be standing in
<v Speaker 1>front of the exact same curve, like literally, the arms
<v Speaker 1>are around each other in.
<v Speaker 3>The exact same way.
<v Speaker 1>Like it is uncanny, how alike these two albums are crazy.
<v Speaker 3>That's the song You're All I Need, the one I
<v Speaker 3>said was the best song off Girls, Girls, Girls that
<v Speaker 3>you ripped me for last summer.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's terrible. It is still terrible. No, it's so good.
<v Speaker 3>So that's the guy who kills his girlfriend and You're
<v Speaker 3>All I Need video. Yeah, okay, I just want to
<v Speaker 3>play something for you, all right. I want to play
<v Speaker 3>you the song Deuce by Kiss. You think first five
<v Speaker 3>notes are the same five notes?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? I thought it sounded pretty similar.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's It is definitely very It's a variation on
<v Speaker 1>a theme, I would say, But.
<v Speaker 2>I would say Cec pulled it off better. Yeah, I agree.
<v Speaker 2>It's more of a beat version of that riff.
<v Speaker 1>He twists it up instead of letting it kind of
<v Speaker 1>they let the air out of it on Kiss. But
<v Speaker 1>I'm also not the biggest Kiss fan, so you're probably
<v Speaker 1>not gonna they can convince me otherwise on that one.
<v Speaker 3>So the director on this video is a guy named
<v Speaker 3>Mark Ryshevski.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 1>This was only his second directing attempt. First one was
<v Speaker 1>a band called bond Iron Sleeping Alone.
<v Speaker 2>This is his second one.
<v Speaker 3>The next one was Britney Fox Girls' School.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Britney Fox.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Then he did Cinderella Coming Home, which is we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>be covering later on this year Cinderella versus LU eight
<v Speaker 1>one two right, yep. And then a couple videos later
<v Speaker 1>he was doing skid Row I Remember You, which we
<v Speaker 1>covered on our Motley Crue Versus skid Row combination from
<v Speaker 1>what was it last year?
<v Speaker 2>That was two years ago?
<v Speaker 4>Wow?
<v Speaker 2>Crazy.
<v Speaker 3>That's a pretty good string of hit songs right there,
<v Speaker 3>hair metal hits coming Home maybe my favorite song off
<v Speaker 3>of Long Cold Winter. You have to stick around and
<v Speaker 3>listen to that episode to find out. Okay, So in
<v Speaker 3>this video you and I were talking about how this
<v Speaker 3>is a theme that Poison has throughout their videos. There's
<v Speaker 3>number one constant movement, high energy, flashy clothes, tons of
<v Speaker 3>clothing changes, tons of different guitars, bright colors.
<v Speaker 2>Big hair, especially on cz Big Hair.
<v Speaker 3>Those pyrotechnics, they get too close to him. Yeah right,
<v Speaker 3>Case's got a giant school guitar.
<v Speaker 2>That's really cool.
<v Speaker 3>You have tons of pyro and it all finishes off
<v Speaker 3>with loads of confetti. It's like they're inviting you to
<v Speaker 3>have fun with them. Yeah, but I love that in
<v Speaker 3>the middle of this video they're all holding their guitars
<v Speaker 3>over their head and they're they're kind of doing this
<v Speaker 3>pump action, and then the pyro is going off behind him,
<v Speaker 3>and you know, Ricky's patting the drums. It's just so
<v Speaker 3>much fun.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how anybody can resist this song. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I've said it over and over again. It's candy for
<v Speaker 2>the ear. You know, it's a guilty pleasure and it's
<v Speaker 2>a fantastic song.
<v Speaker 3>I defy Cameron Ecker to say this is not a
<v Speaker 3>great song.
<v Speaker 2>We love you, Cameron. All right.
<v Speaker 3>We done with this one, guys, thanks, So yeah, all right,
<v Speaker 3>We're onto the next song. This song is called Back
<v Speaker 3>to the Rocking Horse.
<v Speaker 2>This is a definitely a toe tapper, a pencil tapper song.
<v Speaker 2>That's great, great, great drunk track. This is easy to
<v Speaker 2>listen to.
<v Speaker 4>For sure.
<v Speaker 2>That cow bell is infectious.
<v Speaker 3>Right, I got a feva, you got Cazi's guitars, You've
<v Speaker 3>got that catchy chorus.
<v Speaker 2>This is a level down.
<v Speaker 3>From nothing but a good time, but it's still a fun,
<v Speaker 3>good time rock and roll song.
<v Speaker 2>I like that chorus where they kind of bring in
<v Speaker 2>a little harmonization to it as well. They do that
<v Speaker 2>on another song or two on this album too. I think, yep,
<v Speaker 2>it's kind of fun. I'm with you.
<v Speaker 3>I think that the line my parents think I'm crazy
<v Speaker 3>and the doctor says I've cracked was kind of appealing
<v Speaker 3>to me as a fifteen year old. Sure, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I think this is a great name for a podcast,
<v Speaker 3>Back to the Rock and Horse, because that's what we
<v Speaker 3>do here at the show that you Can't Be Serious podcast.
<v Speaker 3>We go back in time to the time where we
<v Speaker 3>didn't have any responsibility and all we had was time
<v Speaker 3>and fun.
<v Speaker 2>Back to the Rock and Horse. Okay, we're good, all right, good.
<v Speaker 4>All right.
<v Speaker 3>That brings us to the next song. That song is
<v Speaker 3>called good Love.
<v Speaker 2>This is a good song. It's not my favorite one
<v Speaker 2>on the album. I do like how they brought in
<v Speaker 2>the harmonica there at the beginning. That's pretty unique to
<v Speaker 2>this album.
<v Speaker 3>It's like they invited Hugh Lewis on this album.
<v Speaker 2>Right, It's not my favorite, but I still like it.
<v Speaker 2>It's not a skipper.
<v Speaker 3>I definitely think it's got that bluesy feel.
<v Speaker 2>It's more more aerosmith, almost like a southern rock feel.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's Brett Michaels who's playing the harmonica on this one.
<v Speaker 2>This is kind of a hidden gym for me. I was.
<v Speaker 2>I was pleased to hear them do this more bluesy sound.
<v Speaker 2>I dig it.
<v Speaker 1>It's a nice standard blues mix, and yeah, I agree
<v Speaker 1>that the harmonica coming in is pretty cool.
<v Speaker 3>I heard Glover from Living Color talk about how hip hop, rock,
<v Speaker 3>heavy metal all.
<v Speaker 2>Has its roots and blues.
<v Speaker 3>It's kind of interesting that you get Poison on one branch,
<v Speaker 3>Living Color on another, and then Beastie Boys on another.
<v Speaker 3>So okay, I've got some interesting medical history on Brett Michaels.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>First of all, at age six, they found out that
<v Speaker 3>he was insulin dependent diabetic.
<v Speaker 2>He said, at age six he was feeling really terrible.
<v Speaker 2>He actually stayed in the hospital for three weeks.
<v Speaker 3>Throughout his career, he has constantly given himself injections. He
<v Speaker 3>even had to run off stage one time three songs
<v Speaker 3>into a set, but listen to this. So in nineteen
<v Speaker 3>ninety four, after a night of partying, Brett crashed his
<v Speaker 3>Ferrari into a telephone pole, knocked out all of his
<v Speaker 3>front teeth, messed up his face, broke his nose. In
<v Speaker 3>two thousand and nine, he was hit over the head
<v Speaker 3>with a prop while performing Nothing but a Good Time.
<v Speaker 3>In twenty ten, had a whole bunch of pain, realized
<v Speaker 3>that he needed to have an emergency appendectomy. From that appendectomy,
<v Speaker 3>he had a blood clot that worked its way to
<v Speaker 3>his brain, so he had a major brain hemorrhage that
<v Speaker 3>almost killed him.
<v Speaker 2>I remember that.
<v Speaker 3>I mean he was knocking on deak door, had to
<v Speaker 3>have brain surgery, and then in twenty eleven they found
<v Speaker 3>out he had a birth defect, had a hole in
<v Speaker 3>his heart. It hasn't all been nothing but a good
<v Speaker 3>time for Brett Michaels. Kind of an interesting medical history then, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>all right, so now we are getting ready to talk
<v Speaker 3>about the song Tearing down the Walls. Okay, guys, this
<v Speaker 3>is my favorite of the non singers. Oh wow, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so I.
<v Speaker 2>Love this song. We were talking earlier. You don't really
<v Speaker 2>like this so much? It's not my favorite. I think
<v Speaker 2>it starts out a little slow. Once you get to
<v Speaker 2>the bridge through the chorus, I'm in yeah, but it
<v Speaker 2>doesn't have the kickstart that some of these other songs
<v Speaker 2>do on the album, so maybe I'm I'm spoiled by that.
<v Speaker 2>Up to this point, it's a little more low key.
<v Speaker 1>I kind of I like the guitar riff at the beginning.
<v Speaker 1>Inn At I dig that beginning, And then you were
<v Speaker 1>saying that you like it where a bridge is into
<v Speaker 1>the chorus, right, so let's listen to that here.
<v Speaker 4>Street.
<v Speaker 2>That's great. I like that too.
<v Speaker 3>I think my favorite is when they kind.
<v Speaker 2>Of break it down and do the drums.
<v Speaker 1>It's very foursome sugar on Me style of you know,
<v Speaker 1>you're just singing over that kicking drum beat. That's my
<v Speaker 1>favorite parts. It's a cool little ditty that I'm surprised
<v Speaker 1>didn't come out as a single.
<v Speaker 3>Me too, right, This is the song that I used
<v Speaker 3>to thump going to baseball practice from the high school
<v Speaker 3>parking lot to the baseball field.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. We just, for whatever reason, we love
<v Speaker 2>this one.
<v Speaker 3>When he says you're my silhouette, ecstasy like sex on
<v Speaker 3>the beach. As a fifteen year old, we were like, heck, yeah, man,
<v Speaker 3>sounds great. Sign me up, but drinking or doing I'm in.
<v Speaker 2>There.
<v Speaker 4>You go right, turn.
<v Speaker 2>Party time, rock and roll.
<v Speaker 3>I hate to leave this one so early, but maybe
<v Speaker 3>I'll just play it.
<v Speaker 2>A little longer when I do the edity process. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so that's the end of side one.
<v Speaker 3>Hit stop on your tape player, kick it out, flip
<v Speaker 3>it over side two and we start off with look
<v Speaker 3>but you can't touch?
<v Speaker 2>All right. This is another one with a great, great
<v Speaker 2>guitar intro. I love it. I love how it goes
<v Speaker 2>from the opening riff to c C to drums to vocals.
<v Speaker 2>How it just layers on that transition. I think it's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>This is a song about a girl. It tells Brett
<v Speaker 2>Michael's note kind of a rare thing. I might have
<v Speaker 2>to write a song about this.
<v Speaker 1>Am I remembering Rath that he had a reality show,
<v Speaker 1>yes about him telling other girls know he did well
<v Speaker 1>sort of back in two. I think I watched one
<v Speaker 1>episode of that, and it was when it was down
<v Speaker 1>to the last two and one of the two thought
<v Speaker 1>the way to seal the victory for herself was to
<v Speaker 1>open up and say, ah, if you will.
<v Speaker 2>I kind of thought all of them did that. Well,
<v Speaker 2>it didn't work out, really, it did not. Did he
<v Speaker 2>turned down?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, he was, and so much as to say, well
<v Speaker 1>I already know what's in this package. I'd like to
<v Speaker 1>go see what's in that other package.
<v Speaker 2>So one of them was a stripper. The final two
<v Speaker 2>one was a stripper, one was more wholesome. I guess
<v Speaker 2>you could say, uh huh. And there was all this discussion, wait, wait,
<v Speaker 2>good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to hell. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>so there was a lot of talk amongst the girls.
<v Speaker 2>I remember this because my wife and I watched this
<v Speaker 2>series together and there was a lot of discussion about, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>he's not gonna pick you because guess what the song
<v Speaker 2>Every Rose Has Its Thorn is about. It's about a
<v Speaker 2>stripper who broke Brett's heart. Why would he pick you?
<v Speaker 2>And so there was all this kind of cat fighting
<v Speaker 2>going back and forth. Yeah, yeah, on who he was
<v Speaker 2>going to pick anyway, was so you picked the good girl,
<v Speaker 2>he picked the good girl, and later the good girl
<v Speaker 2>they it didn't work out, shock right right. The good
<v Speaker 2>girl actually came back and said, you know what, Brett,
<v Speaker 2>you should have picked the other one. You should have
<v Speaker 2>picked her with her than you would have been with me.
<v Speaker 3>Wow. Wow, So she did tell him though she did, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>write a song about that.
<v Speaker 2>I think this one could have been another single. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know how the Tipper Gore faction would have thought
<v Speaker 2>about this song and terms of its lyrics and its ideas,
<v Speaker 2>but so I agree with you.
<v Speaker 3>I think this could have been a single. It does
<v Speaker 3>tell a story about the girl. You know. Look, but
<v Speaker 3>you can't touch. The equivalent to this song from Look
<v Speaker 3>What the Cat Dragged In to Me is I want action.
<v Speaker 3>It's goofiness and it's fun, and it's about sex and
<v Speaker 3>strippers and funny lyrics, crunch of guitars, killer guitar solo,
<v Speaker 3>a lot of fun again, constantly rock and roll fun.
<v Speaker 3>All right, onto the second song, Side two, huge song
<v Speaker 3>from Summer nineteen eighty eight. This song is called Fallen Angel.
<v Speaker 2>I've probably watched this video for the last few days.
<v Speaker 2>I probably watched it twenty times.
<v Speaker 4>I love this video.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, coolantastic?
<v Speaker 4>All right?
<v Speaker 2>Now what do you think?
<v Speaker 4>Man?
<v Speaker 2>This is my favorite song on the entire album. What
<v Speaker 2>I Spike in the Football.
<v Speaker 1>For Me?
<v Speaker 2>Great guitar intro, again, I'm gonna take back what I
<v Speaker 2>said earlier. This is my second favorite guitar intro for
<v Speaker 2>Poison after Talk Dirty to Me. Wow, it's strong. It
<v Speaker 2>is strong right again, they're going with the layering as
<v Speaker 2>you know. It goes from intro guitar, drums, CC, and
<v Speaker 2>then the vocals. It's fantastic. I like how they do
<v Speaker 2>the harmonizing in the chorus where they singing the word angel.
<v Speaker 2>It's a fantastic guitar solo at the end by Stac
<v Speaker 2>as well.
<v Speaker 3>So you've got that great hook opening the song up,
<v Speaker 3>You've got a fantastic chorus. The song tells the story.
<v Speaker 3>It's mature songwriting. Cec kills it with the guitar solo.
<v Speaker 3>If it were not for the absolute next level of
<v Speaker 3>another song we're going to talk about here in a minute,
<v Speaker 3>this would be the best song on the album.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So I absolutely love this song and for me lyrically,
<v Speaker 3>this is their most mature works on the album. This
<v Speaker 3>song was their second single, made it all the way
<v Speaker 3>to number twelve correct number twelve on the Billboard Hot
<v Speaker 3>one hundred. Now then I've got a list for you.
<v Speaker 3>I just want to pop this off really quick. The
<v Speaker 3>eleven songs that are better than this. Don't Be Cruel
<v Speaker 3>by Bobby Brown, Please Don't Go Girl by the New
<v Speaker 3>Kids on the Block, Not a Chance right, What's on
<v Speaker 3>your Mind by The Information Society.
<v Speaker 2>Good song.
<v Speaker 3>I Hate Myself for Loving You by Jone Jet That's
<v Speaker 3>a winner. I'll Always Love You by Taylor Dane Ouch,
<v Speaker 3>Groovy Kindle Love One Good Woman by Peter Setara, Don't
<v Speaker 3>Be Cruel by Cheap Trick. We got two Don't Be
<v Speaker 3>cruels ahead of this. Don't Worry, Be Happy, red red Wine,
<v Speaker 3>and Love Bites. This was the week that Love Bites
<v Speaker 3>hit number one.
<v Speaker 1>Red Wine is on my Doug Gray list of I'm
<v Speaker 1>Gonna Pull My Ears Off a terrible song.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, all right, we got to talk about the video.
<v Speaker 3>The acting at the beginning is awful. So you have
<v Speaker 3>this girl named Susie Hatton who was a singer, songwriter, actress,
<v Speaker 3>Brett's girlfriend. Brett's girlfriend. She's the fallen Angel and at
<v Speaker 3>the beginning she's like, Dad, I got something I want
<v Speaker 3>to tell you.
<v Speaker 2>What else it? Honey?
<v Speaker 3>Dad, I'm moving to California and I want to leave tonight.
<v Speaker 3>Oh no, And he looks over and Mom's overacting to
<v Speaker 3>the fullest.
<v Speaker 7>Dad, there's something I want to talk to you about, true, Ronnie,
<v Speaker 7>what is it?
<v Speaker 5>Well, I've decided to move.
<v Speaker 3>Move where to California?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's bad acting.
<v Speaker 3>So you got Anthony James in this, he's her handler.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I've got it. I've got info on Anthony James. Ny,
<v Speaker 2>let's have it. Okay. So you pointed out to us
<v Speaker 2>earlier in the week that he was in Naked Gun
<v Speaker 2>two and a half.
<v Speaker 3>He's getting ready to assassinate Priscilla Presley while she's in
<v Speaker 3>the shower.
<v Speaker 2>Right, and he starts singing the way we were. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>he was also, all right, the proprietor of the saloon
<v Speaker 2>slash billiard establishment and unforgiven how about that skinny And
<v Speaker 2>unfortunately he's no longer with this. He died in twenty twenty.
<v Speaker 2>He was aged seventy seventy died of cancer. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>very recognizable face. If you saw it, you'd be like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's that guy.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he is a definite that guy.
<v Speaker 2>Now here's the thing.
<v Speaker 3>When he's dragging the Fallen Angel, you know, she leaves
<v Speaker 3>the dinner party, goes out to grab her, kind of
<v Speaker 3>roughs her up a little bit. She kicks him in
<v Speaker 3>the balls, I mean it's three stooges like performance.
<v Speaker 2>Grabs his nuts, falls over.
<v Speaker 3>And then of course she gets on Brett's Hollywood taxi.
<v Speaker 5>Job, puts him on the hill.
<v Speaker 4>Whirl right.
<v Speaker 2>So you have to look really quickly because it's a
<v Speaker 2>very quick shot of the gas tank on his Harley Davidson.
<v Speaker 2>It's a heritage soft tail Harley Davidson motorcycle. Okay, painted yellow.
<v Speaker 2>It's got some black and white checkering stripes, which typical
<v Speaker 2>of the taxi cabs of the day. Yes, so Brett
<v Speaker 2>rolls up in this thing. It also makes appearances in
<v Speaker 2>other poison videos Unskinny Bop and also ride the wind
<v Speaker 2>both off of flesh and ble. Yeah, this particular motorcycle
<v Speaker 2>is not on the road anymore. I can see it
<v Speaker 2>if you want to interesting. Okay, we're gonna go to Mexico. Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna go to a town. And so there's a
<v Speaker 2>town on the Yucatan peninsula. It's called Puerto Aventuris. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I've been to Puerto Aventurists before. We did not stay
<v Speaker 2>at this particular hotel, which is a hard rock riviera.
<v Speaker 2>They have a suite there called the Bret Michaels Rockstar Suite. Wow,
<v Speaker 2>get out of here. Inside the suite I sent you
<v Speaker 2>guys a picture of it earlier this week. There is
<v Speaker 2>a glass encasement inside this suite that has the Hollywood
<v Speaker 2>Taxi nice. Hanging next to it is the guitar from
<v Speaker 2>the video for Every Rose Has Its Thorn that Brett
<v Speaker 2>is playing at the beginning. They get me acoustic guitar
<v Speaker 2>he's playing at the beginning. It's hanging right next to it.
<v Speaker 2>I called this hotel to see if they could talk
<v Speaker 2>to me about it. I was asking about Ray. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>they didn't really want to tell me. I think it's
<v Speaker 2>one of those suits where if you have to ask
<v Speaker 2>how much it is, you can't afford it. Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 2>nine thousand square feet. Oh my gosh, has its own gym.
<v Speaker 2>It's got a beautiful veranda looks out over the Gulf
<v Speaker 2>of Mexico. So you and your significant other, your girlfriend
<v Speaker 2>wife can go there and stand in front of this
<v Speaker 2>big glass encasement and do whatever you want to do
<v Speaker 2>in the privacy of your own hotel room.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Shirley fans, The challenge is, can you send
<v Speaker 3>the three of us to the hard rock Riviera. I'm
<v Speaker 3>just kidding that that would be awesome. I'd love to
<v Speaker 3>stay in there and see the Hollywood taxi.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you fly to Cancu, you drive south on I
<v Speaker 2>think it's Highway three oh seven there, right right along
<v Speaker 2>the coast.
<v Speaker 1>So this video Fallen Angel. The director had directed a
<v Speaker 1>video right before this video called Angel the Band, and
<v Speaker 1>he was hot off of a three set of videos
<v Speaker 1>that he had done for a band that we've covered
<v Speaker 1>and is probably responsible for making sure that this band
<v Speaker 1>was a success. Okay, this singer had his girlfriend in
<v Speaker 1>the video and showed up with his Jaguire that wouldn't run.
<v Speaker 2>You got it?
<v Speaker 1>White Snake, You got it? Marty Colner, Yeah, I'm responsible
<v Speaker 1>for HBO and It's success. Who's responsible for a ton
<v Speaker 1>of videos.
<v Speaker 2>And this was early on in his video career.
<v Speaker 1>Had just finished up doing his White Snake run and
<v Speaker 1>started hit Scorpions, hit Aerosmith, and here we are with
<v Speaker 1>Fallen Angel.
<v Speaker 2>His first video for Poison.
<v Speaker 1>He would go on to do Every Rose has Its Thorn,
<v Speaker 1>Unskinny Bop and something to Believe It.
<v Speaker 3>I just listened to our episode on get a grip
<v Speaker 3>on Aerosmith and he did the Crazy video and he
<v Speaker 3>was the guy responsible for bringing liv Tyler in. Hey Steven,
<v Speaker 3>I want your daughter to be a stripper in this video.
<v Speaker 2>Is that cool? So how about that? There you go? Okay?
<v Speaker 3>Now, then we've done with Fallen Angel, Yes, because we
<v Speaker 3>were about to embark on what D says is the
<v Speaker 3>greatest rock ballad of the nineteen eighties, stand by it.
<v Speaker 3>This song is called every Rose Has Its Thorn.
<v Speaker 2>That's great. I can name that song in one side.
<v Speaker 1>So we talked about the song when we did our
<v Speaker 1>best of nineteen eighties we did. You said it starts
<v Speaker 1>with a sigh and was inspired by a cough.
<v Speaker 2>That's right.
<v Speaker 1>And you mentioned a little bit earlier dating a stripper,
<v Speaker 1>and it was a guy in the stripper's bedroom that
<v Speaker 1>Brett Michaels overheard on the phone as he was calling
<v Speaker 1>per to to see what was up, and he was
<v Speaker 1>realized we both got.
<v Speaker 2>To go our separate way.
<v Speaker 3>Why is there a guy in your bedroom at three
<v Speaker 3>o'clock in the morning.
<v Speaker 2>He was in a laundromat in Dallas, Texas. That's right, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>my town. Yes, or he made that phone call.
<v Speaker 3>Uh huh right after a set at a country bar.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, this song.
<v Speaker 1>First radio station to play this song was a country station,
<v Speaker 1>and we talked about in our Best of eighty eight episode.
<v Speaker 1>It topped the rock charts, it topped the Hot one hundred,
<v Speaker 1>and it topped the country charts, and He's crazy.
<v Speaker 3>It was the last number one song of nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 3>eight and the first number one song of nineteen eighty nine,
<v Speaker 3>their only number one hit. And you were talking about
<v Speaker 3>his girlfriend, Tracy Lewis. Yes, I heard Brett talk about this.
<v Speaker 3>I listened to his story today.
<v Speaker 2>He called back. She answered the phone.
<v Speaker 3>She's acting sleepy, trying to dump him on the phone,
<v Speaker 3>like I can't talk right now.
<v Speaker 2>I'm really tired. Call me tomorrow.
<v Speaker 3>And he hears a in the background and it was
<v Speaker 3>a mail cough and that at that moment, his heartbreaks,
<v Speaker 3>and I want it.
<v Speaker 4>Soon be here right now, every road as it's dull, and.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's so cool that you have rockstar guy
<v Speaker 3>can have any girl in the world, still manages to
<v Speaker 3>get his heartbroken. We can all relate. And that relationship
<v Speaker 3>he said they were they went everywhere together and they
<v Speaker 3>were best friends and then all of a sudden.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, that's that's the theme song of the song.
<v Speaker 4>Right.
<v Speaker 2>You can have all these things as a rock star, girls, money, drugs, whatever, right,
<v Speaker 2>but there's always something that can that can hit you,
<v Speaker 2>that can prick you like a like a like a like.
<v Speaker 3>That's all right, that's funny.
<v Speaker 2>We'll leave it in. By the way.
<v Speaker 3>Tracy Lewis is her name. She's an exact dancer. They
<v Speaker 3>dated from eighty four to eighty seven. She was sixteen
<v Speaker 3>when they started seeing each other, and rumor is that
<v Speaker 3>she was with another band member from the La Strip
<v Speaker 3>scene at that moment, and that Brett knew him personally,
<v Speaker 3>but he has never released his Name's got an idea, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and Steel, I mean it could be Vince Steel, right,
<v Speaker 3>maybe definitely possible.
<v Speaker 2>You and I both had this in our top five
<v Speaker 2>of eighty.
<v Speaker 1>Eight, and you still turn up the radio when it
<v Speaker 1>comes on. This is in that pour some Sugar on
<v Speaker 1>Me category. It does not get old.
<v Speaker 3>I told you that when I when I had the tape,
<v Speaker 3>it said had a little sticker on it says contains
<v Speaker 3>the hits nothing but a good time, fallen Angel and
<v Speaker 3>every Rose has its Thorn. And I remember when I
<v Speaker 3>got that tape, I was like, how did they.
<v Speaker 2>Know that it's going to be a hit.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, they're they're calling their shot with that one.
<v Speaker 3>But it's interesting because the record company did not want
<v Speaker 3>to release this song. They said it's too cowboy, it's
<v Speaker 3>too slow, it's not poison, and Brett was like, no,
<v Speaker 3>I believe in this song. We need to release it.
<v Speaker 3>We've played it live, it works live, and the guys
<v Speaker 3>in the band back him up on it. And I
<v Speaker 3>think he has mentioned that Ceci wasn't really a big
<v Speaker 3>fan of the song initially, but stood up for Brett,
<v Speaker 3>stood up to the record company, and they agreed to
<v Speaker 3>release it as the.
<v Speaker 2>Third single I'm bringing. Brett's an emotional guy. He poured
<v Speaker 2>his feelings out in Something to Believe in Flesh and
<v Speaker 2>Blae on the Flesh. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>There's a couple of things in the video I want
<v Speaker 2>to point out.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, First of all, Bobby Doll looks like he's about
<v Speaker 3>to die in the video.
<v Speaker 2>Oh He's like passing out.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and they're like haul of his dead bones off
<v Speaker 3>the stage. Yeah, And every time I see that, I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>what what what happened there?
<v Speaker 2>How he lived through nineties? Seriously? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>And also there is a shot where Brett is throwing
<v Speaker 3>a towel at somebody as he's walking off stage, and
<v Speaker 3>you see this kind of big samoan looking fellow next
<v Speaker 3>to him.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah that's his bodyguard. Yeah, that's the guy who died.
<v Speaker 3>Correct, And Something to Believe In was written about that guy?
<v Speaker 2>How about that Ceci's sad guitars in This gets me
<v Speaker 2>every time. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>It's not speed metal. It doesn't need to be speed metal.
<v Speaker 1>It is soulful, beautiful, hits you right in the fields.
<v Speaker 3>Song about getting dumped.
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, been there, done that all right? Now, then that
<v Speaker 7>brings us to the song your Mama Don't Dance, Your.
<v Speaker 5>Mamma Don't Dance and Your Dad and a rock.
<v Speaker 2>I think this song maybe more than any Earth, at
<v Speaker 2>least as much as any on the on the album
<v Speaker 2>showcases CCS talents right from the beginning.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this is a cover of an old Loginson Messina song.
<v Speaker 1>We talked about Kenny Loggins a little bit when we
<v Speaker 1>did our Footloose episode as well as our Top Gun episode.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, and his.
<v Speaker 1>Relationship with Messina and how they kind of fed off
<v Speaker 1>of each other. But you're right when the intro sounds
<v Speaker 1>very similar, little you know, a little heavier on the
<v Speaker 1>guitar at the intro, but then Ceci comes in with
<v Speaker 1>that lead and you're like, oh no, this is poison.
<v Speaker 1>This is not the folk rock of Loginson Messina. This
<v Speaker 1>is glam rock that we love.
<v Speaker 2>From the eighties.
<v Speaker 3>You know, when we did use your Illusion one with
<v Speaker 3>Guns N' Roses, they did a cover of Live and
<v Speaker 3>Let Die, And I remember at the time Slash and
<v Speaker 3>Axel were listening to old songs that they could cover
<v Speaker 3>that they thought sounded like hard rock songs that needed
<v Speaker 3>to come out, And I think the same thing here,
<v Speaker 3>Like when I listened to the original version of this,
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, it's kind of a bluesy rocky song, but
<v Speaker 3>it's a hard rock song waiting to be born again,
<v Speaker 3>you know.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, they say that you got it, You're out, you
<v Speaker 5>bring it on.
<v Speaker 3>Late Big from nineteen seventy three. This one actually got
<v Speaker 3>to number ten, So I wanted to talk about that.
<v Speaker 3>This is the fourth single reach number ten in April
<v Speaker 3>of eighty nine. Now, I won't read through the songs
<v Speaker 3>that are that are better than this song, but I
<v Speaker 3>did want to point out something to you. In this
<v Speaker 3>top sixteen, there's a song that we talked about before
<v Speaker 3>called Room to Move by an Emotion.
<v Speaker 5>That song, well, that song.
<v Speaker 2>Lead singer on that song.
<v Speaker 3>Cynthia Rhodes, Star from Dirty Dancing from His Penny Wow. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that was when that song peaked.
<v Speaker 2>Out on the chart. Also star of the Rosanna video.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely one hundred percent. That does not have Patrick Swayze.
<v Speaker 3>Patrick Swayze, I'm not sure about great song love It Fun,
<v Speaker 3>good Time.
<v Speaker 2>Again.
<v Speaker 3>They took a song that was just kind of bluesy
<v Speaker 3>rock it turned it into a great pop rock song.
<v Speaker 2>Alright.
<v Speaker 3>That brings us to the last song on the album.
<v Speaker 3>This song is called bad to Be Good.
<v Speaker 4>Walk as.
<v Speaker 3>The Okay, So this one's really a showcasing Bobby Doll
<v Speaker 3>at the beginning.
<v Speaker 2>It's nice bass riff coming in here. It's strong.
<v Speaker 1>You don't see him coming out as kind of the
<v Speaker 1>showcase in any of these other songs, but it really
<v Speaker 1>he comes out in the song.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's a great job. I like the song.
<v Speaker 2>It's not my favorite on the album, but not a skipper.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's a good I think it's a good song.
<v Speaker 3>This is the only song on the album that I skipped. Wow,
<v Speaker 3>this is the only one and it's not because it's
<v Speaker 3>not a terrible song. It's just I'm ready to get
<v Speaker 3>back to love on the rocks.
<v Speaker 2>That was awesome.
<v Speaker 1>Before we like completely leave the album, I wanted to
<v Speaker 1>show you guys something, so I grabbed this picture off
<v Speaker 1>of a video. This is this is CC's guitar and
<v Speaker 1>you see that it's a little fuzzy, but can you
<v Speaker 1>see that face?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? Yeah, might remind you of anything? No, which guy?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So it's buy an artist named Patrick Nagel and
<v Speaker 1>we've talked about him before.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, the Deuranderan Rio cover.
<v Speaker 1>So CEC has a guitar that has the same artist
<v Speaker 1>that had created the cover for the Rio album. Same
<v Speaker 1>artists created the face that is on his guitar.
<v Speaker 3>Awesome, all right, So that wraps up the album. Let's
<v Speaker 3>talk reception real.
<v Speaker 2>Quick, okay, okay, Yeah, so I found something on this
<v Speaker 2>Rolling Stone Magazine nineteen eighty eight review. Let me just
<v Speaker 2>read you the first paragraph. We'll see where it goes
<v Speaker 2>from there. The sole positive attribute of Open Up and
<v Speaker 2>Say ah is that it very neatly illustrates the folly
<v Speaker 2>of banning album artwork. When the first pressing of AHWA
<v Speaker 2>Shift the hanchos at Walmart took one look at its
<v Speaker 2>grotesque cover featuring a hellion and tiger stripe makeup with
<v Speaker 2>an ob sanely long tongue, and refused to stock it
<v Speaker 2>on their pristine racks and act carried out in finest.
<v Speaker 2>Save the children to tradition the sole positive attribute of
<v Speaker 2>this album. Yeah, Wow, Rolling Stone was not a fan.
<v Speaker 2>I don't care what they say. This is a pop
<v Speaker 2>rock masterpiece. I agree. We're fifteen years old. You and
<v Speaker 2>I are fifteen at the time. I think you're probably twelve.
<v Speaker 2>D Yeah, this was a fantastic album for the teenager. Yeah. Right,
<v Speaker 2>Is this going to change the world?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 2>Is this gonna make people think?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 2>Is this gonna make people have a good time?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>That's what it is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean this is these guys were hanging on
<v Speaker 1>to the glam still. I mean, you'd gone through with
<v Speaker 1>the seventies glam rock, You've gone through it with Kiss.
<v Speaker 1>Motley Crue brought it back in by this time. He
<v Speaker 1>By this time Motley Cruz started to take off their
<v Speaker 1>makeup and drive their motorcycles with the stubble to the
<v Speaker 1>strip club. But these guys are still hanging on to
<v Speaker 1>the glam and for the MTV generation, the pop metal guys.
<v Speaker 2>It is a definite hit.
<v Speaker 4>I love it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this is literally nothing but a good time. Like
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna talk later with the album that we're going
<v Speaker 1>to compare to. This album is the album by Living
<v Speaker 1>Color called Vivid, and it is not necessarily nothing but
<v Speaker 1>a good time.
<v Speaker 3>It is.
<v Speaker 1>It is much much more than that. But the question
<v Speaker 1>is at the end of it all, are we going
<v Speaker 1>to grab the one that makes us feel good? Well,
<v Speaker 1>we're going to grab the one.
<v Speaker 3>That well, we'll just see how Vivid makes us feel right,
<v Speaker 3>absolutely all right. We'll come back next week when we
<v Speaker 3>break down Vivid track by track by Living Color.
<v Speaker 2>See you guys then, Dale, thanks so much for joining us. Dale,
<v Speaker 2>good to see you, buddy. Thank you for being here,
<v Speaker 2>man for inviting me. Appreciate it. I had a lot
<v Speaker 2>of fun. We will see you guys next week.