• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

POISON's C.C. DEVILLE Shaves Off His Beard In Time For 'The Stadium Tour' Launch

June 8, 2022

POISON has shared a short video from the rehearsals for the band's upcoming "The Stadium Tour". The clip, which can be seen below, notably features a clean-shaven C.C. DeVille, less than a week after the 60-year-old POISON guitarist posted a photo of him sporting a full beard.

The members of POISON were once synonymous with androgynous, glammed-out hair rock, including such fashion choices as hair spray, lipstick and spandex. "It was a statement," bassist Bobby Dall explained to Miami New Times in a 2018 interview. "Back then, [the '80s] album covers were a huge ad. The cover of 'Look What The Cat Dragged In' made people stop and ask, 'Are they boys or girls?'

"We were glam from the start," he said. "People used to throw rocks at us, but we didn't give a shit. We had a vision. We didn't care what people thought of us."

In a 2000 interview with Orlando Weekly, DeVille said that he "always loved" POISON's image. "I always loved that pageantry of it all," he explained. "But you had to poke fun at yourself a little bit, because you didn't want to come off too strong, then they might be thrown off…. That whole androgynous thing was very cool, I always thought. But the thing is that if you're growing up in Montana and you have a tractor, I'm not too sure that they're gonna get it. But if you show a lot of boobs in the video — you make sure that you show a lot of girls in the video, so that the guys that are chewing tobacco don't feel alienated."

"The Stadium Tour", featuring POISON alongside headliners MÖTLEY CRÜE and DEF LEPPARD plus guests JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, will kick off on June 16 in Atlanta, Georgia. The 36-date trek, which is due to wrap September 9 in Las Vegas, was originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020 but ended up being pushed back to 2021, and then to 2022, due to the coronavirus crisis.

Find more on Poison
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).