Bret Michaels tries to make comeback
Most of the people in my generation know Bret Michaels from the hit VH1 show Rock of Love. It aired for three seasons (that is about 60 women). And still
he never found his perfect woman.
In my mother’s generation, Michaels was known for his good looks and huge hair. “The bigger the hair the closer you are to God,” said Michaels on the VH1 show, I love the Eighties. He was the singer of the number one hair metal band, Poison.
The first time I saw Michaels was in the Poison music video, Talk Dirty to Me. I’m guessing I was around six or seven years old. My first impression of the band was I loved them. They liked to play dress-up and wear a lot of make-up just like me. I enjoyed going into my mother’s closet and dressing up in her heals and pearls (even though it was oversized) and trying to put make-up on. Plus their music was catchy and fun to dance to.
While going through my mother’s records I discovered the Look What the Cat Dragged In album. I was
Bobby Dall, Bret Michaels, C.C. DeVille, and Rikki Rockett
amazed by how perfect the make-up was. I wanted to wear double eye-liner and put a lot of glitter in my hair. This was how I pictured beautiful women. Then my dad had to spoil the fun. I remember running up to him with the album in my hand, “Daddy, which do you think is the prettiest?” Then my dad said, “Sweetheart, those are men.”
This was dramatizing for a little girl. Growing up I was brought up to believe that that real men should never wear makeup or dress up in girls’ clothing. But going against this, I wanted to learn more about this band. They grabbed my attention. Still to this day when I see a Poison video playing I have to stop and look. (It’s like a train-wreck).
Michaels is a part of the NBC hit show, Celebrity Apprentice. He really stands out because he does not dress professional. He shows up to the office wearing ripped up jeans and a bandanna around his head and sometimes he wears a cowboy hat. At least he wears a blazer.
I guess Michaels is done looking for love?
Just like all of the other old rockstars, he is just looking for other ways to get paid and to make his name still know to the popular generation.
Guns N’ Roses touring in United States?
A band that will always have a special place in my heart is Guns N’ Roses. At a very young age my mother educated me to the eighties rock music. First I fell in love with Welcome to the Jungle. Their look was so sleazy and trashy. Axl Rose was always wearing a bandanna around is head and Slash was wearing a black top hat. Their sound was so heavy and rebellious. This was a dramatic change from listening to Clay Walker and Garth Brooks.
What category does GN’R fall under? Glam rock? Hair Metal? Grunge? Some kind of rock n roll. GN’R is unquie because they took characteristics from each category and trashed what they hated and keep what they loved. They did not care what they looked liked. They did not spend hundreds of dollars on glamorous clothing like other Sunset Boulevard bands such as Motley Crue, Poison, and Ratt. They came out on stage wearing what ever they could find. This was very unusually in the eighties.
I wish Axl Rose and Slash would just kiss and make up. But that will never happen. Man does that band have problems. I waited so long for Chinese Democracy. Fourteen years. When I listened to for the first time I was not pleased. The first couple songs were good but the others were just crap. I do not mean to wine and complain but I want another Appetite for Destruction.
I still have faith in GN’R. DJ Ashba joined the band almost a year ago (March 2009) as their new guitarist. Ashba is famous for co-writing the Motley Crue album, Saints of Los Angeles, and playing guitar for Nikki Sixx’s band, Sixx AM. He is still young (which the rest of the band members lack) and he is good looking. I just hope Rose will realize that time is running out. (He is not getting any younger).
Cans of Hairspray 