TROUBLE BREWING – Rikki Rockett: “If Poison didn’t tour in 2025, what do you think the reason would be?”

**Poison** during the hey-day and happier times when the band was touring nearly every year.

“If Poison didn’t tour in 2025, what do you think the reason would be?”
— Rikki Rockett

“NOT HEALTH.“
— Rikki Rockett

Metal Sludge — Poison drummer and co-founder Rikki Rockett has just asked his social media followers and fans a simple question, and that was: “If Poison didn’t tour in 2025, what do you think the reason would be?”

Of course fans are jumping all over the post with their opinion and giving their 2-cents.

If there was a wager to be made, placing your money on that reason being Bret Michaels would likely provide you with a win.

Back in 2018 Rockett spoke out in a piece featured on Ultimate Classic Rock about their singer spending too much time away from Poison.

“I think we need to get away from each other and do other things, but at the same time, I think he spent a little too much time away,” Rockett told OC Weekly prior to the tour’s May 18 stop in Irvine. “There’s definitely some resentment, but not resentment like I want him to fail. I want him to do good. I just want Poison to be important too, and I would like [him] to put a little more energy into Poison.”

Rockett was quick to shoot down any possible health related issues regarding his August 7th 2024 post and even chimed in with a comment of his own that stated (in all caps no less): “NOT HEALTH.“

One fan posted the following in the comments section: “Bret Health and rest band may not want tour??”

Rockett replied to the fan with: “100% wrong.”

In a 2015 article on Blabbermouth, Rockett said the following about Michaels: “Bret has his own way of doing things and I’m getting the feeling that he’d prefer not to deal with the three of us if he can avoid it.”

It’s no secret that the Poison camp have had their fair share of challenges getting a tour schedule together, and often it seems that Michaels is the missing piece of the puzzle.

And that is not because the singer does not want to tour, it’s quite the opposite.

Michaels has been active, non-stop for years while Poison seems to be active every other year or three, and often it’s only a short run of 20-30 shows.

The band’s summer schedule of yesteryear has long been abandoned but Michaels is out there spring, summer, fall and winter with his solo band.

Fans are reading between the lines, and trying to understand Rockett‘s latest veiled question, which seems to insinuate Michaels is the party that just might be the reason why the band doesn’t hit the road again in 2025.

Poison last toured with Motley Crue, Def Leppard and Joan Jett during the 2022 The Stadium Tour.