POISON Suing Record Label
June 19, 2008TMZ.com reports that '80s hard rockers POISON have filed a lawsuit against their record label for breach of contract.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed today in L.A. Superior Court, the band claims Capitol Records underpaid them royalties for years. They also claim they were shortchanged by EMI Music Marketing over a deal they made in 2005 for their greatest-hits album, "The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock", which featured a new cover of GRAND FUNK RAILROAD's "We're an American Band".
They're seeking damages in excess of $25,000.
Check out the court documents at this location (PDF file).
In a recent interview with The Morning Call, POISON frontman Bret Michaels revealed that he was against the making of POISON's 2007 album of cover tunes, "Poison'd". "I literally gave in to the band," he explained. "They had wanted to do a cover record, and I got outvoted and I lived with it. But I was a man and I stood up there and I took it and I did the best performances I could. I said 'Guys, didn't we get into this to make our own music?' And no offense, I love doing one cover song on an album. I don't want to do albums of cover material. No offense, but I got into this to write music. That's what I do."
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