Poison needed to pull out of their June 30 Stadium Tour cease in Nashville after singer Bret Michaels was hospitalized.
In response to Blabbermouth, guitarist C.C. Deville addressed the group at Nissan Stadium and knowledgeable them that Michaels was rushed to the hospital “due to an allergic response to medicine.”
Additional particulars, together with what medicine precipitated the response, has not but been made public. Michaels has endured a number of notable well being battles up to now, together with a coronary heart situation, mind hemorrhage and diabetes.
The Stadium Tour — which additionally options Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Def Leppard and Motley Crue — launched on June 16 in Atlanta. Although the extremely anticipated trek has been celebrated by followers, it has been removed from clean crusing because the much-delayed tour lastly began.
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee broke 4 ribs previous to the tour — the results of a nasty fall on a flight of stairs — and was initially restricted in consequence. On early stops, Lee solely performed just a few songs earlier than handing issues over to fill-in drummer Tommy Clufetos. Lee performed his first full set of tour on June 29 in Charlotte, N.C. In the meantime, a extreme thunderstorm engulfed a lot of Def Leppard’s efficiency on opening evening. “We’ve simply completed the wettest gig we’ve executed since Mannheim in 1986,” singer Joe Elliott declared after the set.
The Stadium Tour’s subsequent scheduled cease is July 2 in Jacksonville, Fla. The trek will wrap its approach throughout America over the following few months, concluding Sept. 9 in Las Vegas.
