at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards hair
metal band Poison was set to perform at
the show even though alternative music
was picking up steam poison was still
riding high off the success of their
latest release 1990s flesh and blood
with the success of singles like
unscanned Bob and it wasn't a surprise
that the band was going to perform at
the awards show but their performance
would be a disaster from start to finish
and there was warning signs of tensions
were growing in the group having been
touring and working together non-stop
for six years straight the tensions
between singer Bret Michaels and
guitarist c.c. deville were growing not
helping was si si de villes drug
addiction at the time and at one show in
New Orleans a few months before their
VMA performance the pair would come to
blows and in June of 1991 poison would
cancel subsequent tour dates for their
flesh and blood tour and rumors started
to swirl that poison was done fast
forward now to the MTV VMAs and the band
was set to perform on skinny Bop there
was even warning signs the awards show
that their performance was going to be a
disaster
here's a clip of c.c. deville prior to
poisons performance you can see he's
pretty much out of his mind at this
point
thank you my makeup artist sherry listen
this is your last chance what time today
is the last chance for the viewers
Choice Awards do it just as poison took
the stage I've heard a couple different
stories of what actually happened so one
story I've heard is that c.c. deville
didn't want to perform on skinny Bop
instead he wants to play talk dirty to
me another story I've heard is that Bret
Michaels asked the audience if they were
ready to talk dirty to me which confuse
c.c. Deville as the band transition from
playing on skinny Bob to talk dirty to
me CiCi's guitar will get unplugged even
host Arsenio Hall tries to save the
performance by reintroducing the band a
second time and after the performance
poison will get into a fistfight
backstage and that would pretty much be
the end of CC de Vil's time in the band
for almost half a decade here's part of
their MTV performance
Oh
[Applause]
well Axl eight actually they need no
introduction right I'll give him one
anyway boys go down to new better play
some of those like this CC give me
[Music]
banana
you're the moon
[Applause]
well I am using
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
following the performance CC Davila be
out of the band and replaced by richie
kotzen
while deville would cling to his drug
addiction and start a solo career the
band would release their follow-up
record native tongue that represented a
huge change in sound for the group and
while i was praised by critics the rise
of alternative rock overshadowed the
album and hurt sales and the band's new
sound was more blues oriented and their
new songs seemed to shed their party
image take on more serious subject
matter and while things seem to be
clicking for the group new guitarist
Richie Kotzen would end up having an
affair with Ricky Rockets fiance at the
time and his time and the band was over
poison began recording its sixth studio
album crack a smile in early 1994 but
the sessions came to an abrupt end in
May of that year when singer Brett
Michaels was involved in a horrific car
crash where he suffered a broken nose
ribs jaw and fingers and lost four teeth
and by 1995 the band was ready to finish
up work on the record but their label
had a different idea they wanted a
greatest hits compilation instead and it
would be a smart move is the greatest
his compilation album would be put out
in late 1996 and would hit double
platinum status during the same year
c.c. Deville was back in his band and
was able to patch up his differences
with singer Bret Michaels so that
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