It only takes a few minutes on the phone with Bret Michaels before he's talking like an old friend, remembering one of Poison's first major shows, opening for Ratt in a hockey arena in Michigan. Of course, it wasn't called The Dow Event Center back then, but I remember the show, too, just as "Talk Dirty To Me" was putting the glam-metal band on the map. "We'd played shows before then but that was our first real tour, going out for four or five months at a time," he said. " 'Look What the Cat Dragged In' was out, and people were starting to know who we were. "I am telling you, honestly, some of my best memories from those days came from shows in Michigan. We played Charlevoix, it was like a big party every night. We'd find out the show started early in the day and we'd be out there from the start and come back to close it out."
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