Poison
Poison’s fashion style put them in the No.1 spot on Yahoo’s Top 25 worst hair metal bands list. Bret Michaels and his boys took the hair metal scene by storm. Guitarist CC DeVille said once that “Everyone would look at the image of the band and think we were posers.”
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“They wouldn’t even listen to the s**t, they’d just see the make-up and be turned off.” Michaels recalled how they moved from Pennsylvania to LA “to become rock stars – simple.” They worked hard, he said. “We had the hairspray and make-up even when we were handing out flyers. If you don’t have a gimmick, you get lost in the crowd.”