Poison - Seven Days Live

"Seven Days Live" catures Poison (Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall, Rikki Rockett and Richie Kotzen) at the height of their international success with a full show recorded at London's Hammersmith Apollo in 1993. Featuring classic tracks like Unskinny Bop, Talk Dirty To Me, Every Rose Has It's Thorn, Nothin' But A Good Time and more, "Seven Days Live" is a rare live recording of the Richie Kotzen-era of the band, shortly after he replaced original guitarist C.C. DeVille. Album Description

This DVD shows Poison at their musical best!!!!!!!!

Lets say theres a lot more blues going on here than grunge(thank God)!!
Native tongue actually showed growth by Poison.unfortunatly rock in general was slipping in popularity at the time.If it were a new release today It would do much better.
This video just rocks and has a cool blues funk as my wife says!
The sound is mixed perfectly!! and the video mix is what all concert videos should look like!!
After watching Swallow This Live and Live Raw And Uncut I have to say this is their best video!
I think they need to revisit the blues rock vane they were digging on with this!!!
The proof is in C.C.`s "blues" guitar solo in Live and Raw. Now if he would just stand still and concentrate on his playing and let Bret show everyone why he is one of the best front men in the world.
If you want to see and here Poison the way they should be seen and heard this is the video to get.
Live and raw is great but this is better less guitar wails and fighting for the spot light!!
July 11, 2008

Not what you might expect...

It took me a long time to open up to a new Poison lineup after C.C. Deville left the band, and once I did start to like the Native Tongue album, the more I started to love it. I found Richie Kotzen brought an intensity to the band that wasn't there before. If you listen to the way Bobby, Bret and Rikki play off of each other with Richie in the band, it's undeniable. He brought out the best in everyone. It's a shame how it ended, but onto the review of this dvd.

I had my suspicions that this dvd would suck, and I was half right. Richie Kotzen live is an animal to say the least. He has some great presence, and some great licks. However, I found a few things lacking with this performance. I found Bobby and Rikki were the ones holding things together, or at least trying to background vocal wise. Richie seemed too occupied with his guitar playing to hold down any kind of background vocals, except on a few songs. You'd think with a great voice like Richie has, he'd want to utilize it live, but think again. This concert was well performed by Bret, Rikki and Bobby, but Richie only really soared on the Native Tongue tracks, which he cowrote. It seemed like he didn't care about doing any justice to any of the classic Poison songs.

So now I'll do a track by track analysis, and give some thoughts on each.

The Scream-Great opening number from the Native Tongue record. They really slam with this one. I think this is one of the best performances on the dvd.

Strike Up The Band-Another great performance by all. It seems the Native Tongue stuff sounds really awesome live judging by the first 2 performances.

Ride The Wind-Man, I can't stress how awful this sounds. Bret, Bobby and Rikki do their parts fine, but Richie massacres this one. He can't even play the main riff right. It's so bad that the riff barely even sounds like the same song.

Good Love-This one kind of gets screwed up. Bret starts singing the second verse first, and then when he's supposed to sing the second verse, he repeats it again! Weird stuff. Overall though a pretty good performance, but I can't get past the vocal screwup.

Body Talk-Another great song. Richie does change some solos on the Native Tongue songs, but they're his songs, so who cares really, cuz they still sound decent.

Something To Believe In-I find Richie does a pretty good job in tapping into what the song is about. He changes the solo on this song, but for once I think he did a good job with it.

Stand-This actually sounds pretty cool live. I was surprised. Without the choir vocals it still sounds good.

Fallen Angel-I've always loved this song, but this performance is probably one of the least impressive tracks on here. Strong performance by Bret, Bobby and Rikki, though.

Look What The Cat Dragged In-Finally a song that Kotzen didn't screw up. This one slams from start to finish.

Until You Suffer Some-Another great performance. I liked that they included a good chunk from Native Tongue instead of relying heavily on the hits.

7 Days Over You-This was a great addition. I never thought they'd play this one live, but it came off well, and sounded great.

Unskinny Bop-This is probably one of the sleeper tracks. I don't remember much about this performance, so it must not have been all that great, and it's not one of my favourite songs anyway, so who cares right?

Talk Dirty To Me-This performance was okay, but again nothing special.

Every Rose Has It's Thorn-Richie again taps into the soul of this song, and also screws it up at the same time. I think it was solo #1 sounded amazong, and then solo #2 completely sucked! It goes to show you, if you try too hard you end up ruining the song.

Nothing But A Good Time-Same Ol' Same Ol' as it says in the song. I wasn't at all impressed with any of the classic hits, and I think Kotzen is to blame. They didn't have that fire that they had with C.C. and it really shows with these live performances.

I would recommend this dvd if you really love the Native Tongue album, but if you are in love with the classic lineup this dvd isn't for you. To hear Kotzen butcher the classic tunes is a bloody shame. I for one love the classic lineup, but also love the Native era lineup. I find their 2 best cd's are tied with Flesh & Blood and Native Tongue. So if you want something different check this out, but don't buy it expecting the classic songs to be played to perfection.

I give them a 4 for effort because Bret, Bobby and Rikki play their hearts out on this. It's too bad it gets ruined by Kotzen. It wouldn't be so bad if he played the hits the way they're supposed to be played, rather than putting his own stamp on them.
February 25, 2008

all the classics!... just a little dull

If you were like me and were too young to see poison live, then of course you have dreamt of it! now maybe my expectations were too high but there were no crazy stage moves, and no spandex, which is what I had really wanted to see. and also a shocking lack of CC De'ville and the guy taking over is just a little weird and not charismatic.

But on the upside... the songs were spot on Brett's voice is still amazing the chemistry is still there and they still rock they still make you wanna get up and dance or ones like "every rose" makes you wanna break down and cry..

I have watched it 3 times already and taken to my dad's for him to enjoy also, so although not quite what I had expected it is still a high quality DVD that I am glad is in my collection. February 8, 2008

NATIVE TONGUE

A Poison music dvd from the Naive Tongue album which featured Richie Kotzen on Lead guitar, it's a live concert from the Native Tongue world tour in 1993. Great concert, Poison are awesome live and it's great they finally released a Native Tongue dvd.
Also released as 'Poison Live In Concert' with a different cover but it's the same dvd. October 9, 2007

Seven Days DVD

Since your not going to find much on Poison DVD I say get it(If you love Poison). When I first watched the show I thought it sucked. The quality is low but over time you get use to it. I like CC and I'm glad he's been working on getting clean. You get to see the other side of him on Surreal Life and he is a cool guy but he is not on this DVD. Kotzen tried to fill CC's part but that didn't last long for many reasons. Richie is very good in this show but his ego is very apparent. I love Stand,Until you suffer and 7 days over you. Because of Kotzen and these songs I have ordered Native Tongue. Just got the 20 years of rock CD/DVD because I need more Poison on DVD. The new song American Band is good but I wish they had put Lay your body down on there too. That song rocks. Under $20.00 so get the DVD. January 25, 2007

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