Ailing Bret Michaels performs on 'Idol' finale!

[Newsbot]

LOS ANGELES – Though he has suffered from life-threatening health problems in recent weeks, Bret Michaels appeared in fine form on the "American Idol" stage.

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The ailing 47-year-old rocker and reality TV star sang and played guitar on Wednesday's star-studded season finale. The Poison frontman joined "Idol" finalist Casey James on one of the band's biggest hits, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."

Michaels, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., won this season's "Celebrity Apprentice" show last Sunday, weeks after suffering a brain hemorrhage in April. He was hospitalized again May 20 for what doctors called a "warning stroke" and diagnosed with a hole in his heart.

Wednesday's American Idol marked the first time in Michaels' career that he appeared in anything even resembling "fine form." The news media is busy jerking this loser off, and this reporter will have no part of it. He was in Poison. POISON! For fuck's sake, people, it sucks for him that he's got health problems, but he was a washed-up has-been before he released his first album, his voice is shot to hell, and nothing will ever change the fact that Poison was actually a step down from Winger because they didn't have Reb Beach.

Dio is laughing at you from heaven, Brett Michaels. (Yeah, I know most people assume Dio went to hell, but, really, if you were God, would you send the opposition one of the best musicians? I think not.) \m/

[Ran]

Well, this news may be the shot that sinks my "Ignore it and it will go away" theory. It works on occasion. But I've been trying to ignore Poison since the 80s, yet here they are still making headlines.

[Sleazer]

I've seen Poison in concert 3 times and enjoyed it each time...also got a signed 8x10 from Brett at a local bar at an after-concert-party they threw 2 years ago...while we watched the sleazy guitar player for Sebastian Bach hit on skanks.

Anywyay, Poison's a guilty pleasure of mine but this Rock of Love, Rock of Love 2, Rock of Love Bus, Celebrity Apprentice, and American Idol nonsense is entirely WAY out of line, I can't handle it.

[vynsane]

at least celebrity apprentice is all about charity - the rest, meh. the missus watched CA and i ended up catching some of it. it's not as bad as most reality tv out there. that is not to say it's good, mind you, just not as bad.

[anarky]

Poison's first two albums can be seen as guilty pleasures, and maybe a scattered song or two. Or maybe jerking off to the cover of Look What the Cat Dragged In while fantasizing about the hot women's bodies that should be attached to those heads.

[Sleazer]

'Nark, I liked Power to the People when it came out in Y2K...it's basically an EP of 5 new studio tracks and the rest is all live cuts of old songs. That was the first tour I saw them on and it was a fun time.

[anarky]

I don't believe I ever heard that. I actually have Native Tongue, which is probably the closest to "legit" Poison ever came. Some decent music on that one.

Funny story--a radio station did some sort of promo at my dad's store in 1993, and, as a thank you, gave him two CDs and a tape. He gave them to me. The CD's were Native Tongue and a CD by Tora Tora that's not bad, but not really good, either. It took me a couple of weeks to listen to the tape, by some dreadlocked black dude I'd never heard of. Imagine my surprise when I heard not some shitty R&B, as I expected, but the opening chords of "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" (I'd heard "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" before, but never paid attention to the name, so I didn't know this was one of the few guys out there who remembered that rock & roll was invented by black guys and excelled at reminding white guys of that fact.)