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POISON Drummer Hopes To Begin Work On New Music After 25th-Anniversary Tour

June 22, 2011

Scott Kiefer of the Belleville News-Democrat recently conducted an interview with POISON drummer Rikki Rockett. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On the band's longevity:

"Twenty-five years is a long time for any relationship, but especially a rock 'n' roll band. We've been through a lot together, but honestly, I think we are all playing better than we ever have."

"We were in rehearsals for this 25th-anniversary tour, and we sound really, really good. I know that I am playing better, and I think every one of us is getting better as we go along."

On the possibility of POISON releasing new music in the not-too-distant future:

"When you take a band like us, we all live separate lives when we're not together. Getting it all together to record an album is a daunting task. It's just a hard thing to do. We finished our last tour after nearly a year and a half on the road, and we needed a break."

"We are going to finish this tour, take a little time off and then, hopefully, we can begin writing and recording new material. We have been tossing things around, for sure."

On POISON's garage-band-like approach to writing music:

"We really still are like a garage band in a sense, because that's how we come up with new music. In rehearsals for this tour, we started jamming and playing around, coming up with cool riffs and grooves. It got to the point where we had to stop ourselves and get back to the business of putting our show together for this tour. But there is new music just waiting to burst out of us, and we know that's what has to be next for us."

On touring with MTLEY CRE this summer, a pairing that many fans thought would never happen:

"It's taken a long time to get together, for one reason or another, but we finally pulled it off, and it's the biggest, most-awaited rock 'n' roll tour of the year that's out there.

"We are having a great time with Motley on the road. No one is taking the 'rock star' attitude, and everybody is getting along fine. The audience is the real winner in this deal ... they get hit after hit after hit in this show."

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