Poison with Lita Ford and Grimsley Rose
Appalachian Wi-fi Area
Pikesville, KY
July 9, 2022
Evaluate by James Stamper / Pictures by Tom Biggs TRB Pictures
July 9, 2022, was an evening Jap Kentucky will always remember! Pikeville, KY acquired a “dose” of Poison, together with Lita Ford and Kentucky’s personal, Grimsley Rose. If this super lineup doesn’t catch your consideration, I don’t know what is going to! In case you’re into the 80’s arduous rock scene, driving quick automobiles, partying all night time till the solar comes up, with two bottles of alcohol in a single hand, a lady within the different, and a Marlboro purple in your mouth, then this present was for you! Pikeville acquired a crash course on how the Eighties partied and let me be the primary to let you know, everybody completely cherished it! The Appalachian Wi-fi Area was not quiet for one break up second! There have been factors it was so loud, you couldn’t even hear your self assume!! However that’s what concert events are all about! Nice music, tremendous drinks, and an incredible rock n roll household gathered to bang heads!
Let’s dive into the main points of this splendid rock n roll present!
First on the invoice is Grimsley Rose. Hailing from the Lexington/Richmond space of Kentucky, I anticipated nothing greater than a heavy, hard-hitting rock n roll band, and that’s precisely what I acquired! Beginning out the set, was “Save Your Soul”. Routinely, I felt the electrical energy undergo my physique. Metallica has a tune titled “Experience The Lighting”, which was what I used to be doing all through Grimsley Rose’s set! Then comes “Tomorrow Wakes A Idiot”. I’m in awe! How have I by no means listened to this band earlier than? “My gosh”, I used to be considering to myself! How can a band be this good?
However wait, simply once I thought it couldn’t get any higher, right here comes the monitor, “Losing My Time”. This one stood out to me personally. Shoutout to Sirius XM’s Octane, it is a tune it’s essential choose up!! The melody is flawless, together with the face-melting guitar taking part in, the heaviness of the bass, and lastly, the thunderous drums! An all-around good tune and one which I hope Grimsley Rose by no means stops taking part in dwell! All through the entire present, my eyes saved gravitating in the direction of a sure particular person in Grimsley Rose. One man who I’m very accustomed to and who I’ve seen play many instances dwell. That particular person is not any aside from “The Beast”, Trey Bledsoe! Good grief! The quantity of fury Trey places into these skins! I’m fairly certain I noticed a few drumheads go flying!! However to wrap it up, Grimsley Rose is value seeing and I might extremely advocate that you just do see them! I assure you 100% that you just’ll depart a fan! Trey, Todd, Keith, and Bo all know learn how to rock!
Subsequent up on the invoice, is none aside from Lita Ford. Lita has had a shocking profession being with the Runaways within the Seventies after which, a really profitable solo profession within the Eighties and onward. I noticed Lita as soon as in Corbin, KY in 2016, however I wanted a refresher on simply how a lot she will be able to rock! Opening with “Gotta Let Go” I instantly went loopy! That is one in every of my favourite Lita Ford songs, so if this was the beginning, I knew I used to be going to be in for a curler coaster of rock n roll! Pikeville cherished Lita and wasn’t afraid to indicate it!
Lita wasn’t going to come back flippantly, bringing a supergroup along with her to blow the roof off the Appalachian Wi-fi Area! Lita Ford – guitar, vocals, Patrick Kennison – guitar, vocals, Marten Andersson – bass, and the legendary Bobby Rock on drums (search for Vinnie Vincent Invasion and Nelson)! Lita determined to blast out her huge hit “Hungry” and Pikeville actually loved that! I felt like and imagined I had time traveled to the Eighties. I might solely think about what it was wish to be a teen then, seeing this for the primary time!
Switching out guitars usually, Lita Ford has fairly the gathering of B.C. Wealthy guitars. She introduced out the massive double neck and right here got here the tune everybody was ready to listen to, “Shut My Eyes Eternally”. I give props to Patrick for doing an impressive job on Ozzy Osbourne’s half! In case you closed your eyes and listened, I promise you wouldn’t know the distinction! It was that shut! Lita closed her set with what I contemplate to be one, if not her largest hit, “Kiss Me Lethal”. As many instances as I’ve heard that tune, I by no means get bored with it. It’s a stone-cold traditional and at all times shall be! So completely happy I acquired to see Lita Ford once more and I hope it gained’t be the final! You rock, Lita!
Now, the primary attraction, Poison, was able to deliver the stage all the way down to the bottom! Hailing from Mechanicsburg, PA, Poison match proper in with the scene occurring in Los Angeles, CA on Sundown Boulevard. Hanging with bands equivalent to Motley Crue, Ratt, L.A. Weapons, W.A.S.P., and Weapons N Roses, Poison could be referred to as one of many biggest 1980’s arduous rock bands of all time.
Beginning out their set with “Look What The Cat Dragged In”, Pikeville actually blew up! Nobody was sitting down! The entire area was leaping up and down! Everybody was so excited to see this band carry out!! To not point out, Poison is all unique, in order that made it even higher! Bret Michaels, CC Deville, Bobby Dall, and Rikki Rockett have been about to indicate Pikeville what rock n roll was all about, Poison model!! Afterward, they jumped into “Experience the Wind”, which I’m an enormous fan of! Now, once I heard a drum intro and the bass going, I knew I used to be about to listen to “Unskinny Bop”. Oh wow, did that get the group roaring!
I used to be nonetheless in awe after Grimsley Rose and Lita Ford, however gee oh, what a present Poison was placing on! On this subsequent half, I give a whole lot of respect to Bret Michaels for doing what he did. He requested everybody to mild up the sector with their cell telephones or lighters and devoted the tune “One thing to Imagine In” to all of the veterans within the area and world wide. Very cool! I used to be impressed. Poison hadn’t misplaced their contact. They gave the impression of they did again within the Eighties. It’s such as you put one in every of Poison’s data on the sound system of the Area and hit play! That’s how superb they sounded!
CC Deville gave a guitar solo, and Rikki Rockett gave a drum solo, each sounding distinguished! We’re coming into the ultimate levels of the live performance and right here it’s, the tune Pikeville had been ready to listen to… the tune that made Poison, Poison. Bret grabs an acoustic guitar and begins strumming “Each Rose Has Its Thorn”. In previous opinions, I’ve talked about how loud crowds have been. Neglect I even said about that, this was the loudest crowd I’ve ever heard in all my instances going to concert events. The women screaming, goodness! Nevertheless, I do love the tune and love the way in which they carried out it! Poison gave an encore with “Nothin’ However a Good Time” and left Pikeville with melted flesh laying in all places! That’s how Poison does a present. They arrive in, steal your coronary heart, soften your face and depart. Wonderful. Hope to see them once more! Get out and see Poison or any dwell present for that matter! Let’s maintain dwell reveals going!!
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