Poison apparently received't be touring to have fun their fortieth anniversary in spite of everything.

The band has formally shelved plans to reunite for his or her highly-anticipated fortieth anniversary, in accordance with a brand new report from Web page Six. Simply as followers suspected, the rock band supposed to reunite 4 a long time after they first got here collectively, however these plans hit a standstill because of a cash dispute with lead singer Bret Michaels.

"We had an ideal supply, I believed. However we left the desk,” drummer Rikki Rockett instructed the outlet in an article revealed Jan. 18. "It didn’t work."

Michaels wished to earn 600 % greater than every of his bandmates, in accordance with Web page Six.

Rockett continued, "Actually what it got here to was C.C. [DeVille], Bobby [Dall], and I have been all in, and I believed Bret was. However he wished the lion’s share of the cash, to the purpose the place it makes it not attainable to even do it. It’s like $6 to each one in all our greenbacks. You simply can’t work that means."

He added, “I don’t do that only for the cash. I do have a love for this, completely. However on the identical time, you don’t wish to exit and work actually arduous simply to make any person else a bunch of cash.”

Representatives for Michaels and Rockett didn’t instantly reply to Leisure Weekly's request for remark.

Whereas the tour was by no means formally introduced, followers have been anticipating dates ever since Michaels floated the thought in a 2024 Fb publish, calling 2026 "the proper" time to mark 40 years since Look What the Cat Dragged In. Although he said that nothing was set in stone, he additionally wrote {that a} restricted run of exhibits appealed to him.

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However no official announcement ever arrived, and in late 2025, Rockett hinted that plans for a tour had already imploded. Throughout a dialog with Anthony Bryant on The Hair Metal Guru podcast, the drummer mentioned there was an "superior supply" on the desk that was handed from him to DeVille to Dall, however that negotiations paused after the supply was handed to Michaels.

"We're at some extent most likely the place I don't assume we are able to get that tour to occur now," Rockett mentioned within the November interview. "If by October you're not shifting on a tour of that dimension [for the following summer], it's actually, actually arduous to shoehorn that factor in and get it to occur. It's not unimaginable, but it surely's tremendous, tremendous arduous."

Requested if he may personally attain out to Michaels to get a solution concerning the reunion tour, Rockett replied, "I have thrown out a textual content to all 4 members and mentioned, 'Hey, let's determine this out. Let's do it.' And it was tumbleweeds. That's the form of factor that’s a lot greater than simply me throwing it on the market on a textual content, 'trigger there's some huge cash concerned and stuff."

Rockett then clarified that issues usually are not tense, however "cordial" between the previous bandmates.

"There's not all this hate going round Poison, it's not that. It's frustration," he mentioned. "'Hey, we wanna do that.' 'You wanna do that then.' 'You wanna this now.' It's that form of stuff."

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Poison, which fashioned in Pennsylvania in 1983, famously discovered success as one of many period's hottest rock bands. The band celebrated their first No. 1 hit single with "Each Rose Has Its Thorn," and gained popularity of songs reminiscent of "Speak Soiled to Me," "I Gained't Neglect You," "Fallen Angel," and "One thing to Imagine In."

Chatting with the band's future, Rockett expressed hope that the group can work out the cash situation by subsequent yr, joking that it will be "an ideal Poison folly to do a forty first anniversary tour."

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