In case you wonder what ever happened to Poison's Bret Michaels.

[Maddy McCall]

He's now a judge on the American Idol rip-off "Nashville Star." I watch it, because there's this one rockabilly contestant who's just awesome. Anyway...

Bret's a judge on the show, and it's just so funny to me how he morphed from hair-band frontman to country-show nobody judge. He wears a bandana with a cowboy hat on top of it, and tries to look like a country tough guy. What's even funnier than that is that, for some reason, the country music crowd seems to accept him...they must have never seen him perform in full make-up, big girlie hair, and spandex pants.

Bret now: Bret 1980s:

I wasn't a big Poison fan--saw them in concert, but thought their opener, Cinderella was much better--but it's fun to watch him grovel to the country crowd. If you haven't seen the show, you ought to just tune in tonight at 9:00 on USA for the finale. It's at least worth it to watch the rockabilly guy perform.

[coloradodem2005]

1. Every Rose has it's thorn.

It sounds like it was almost a country song.

[Maddy McCall]

2. I just thought of that as another cheesy rock-ballad slow-song from the...

1980s. There were SOOO many then.

[coloradodem2005]

8. Think about it though.

The more I listen to modern day "country" the more I think that it is the equivalent of 80's hair metal. And I think that some of those slower country ballads remind me of those hair-metal ballads.

[Deja Q]

3. Looks like a freak in either pic.

[flamingyouth]

4. He was on a couple of episodes of the Chris Isaak Show

What's even funnier, to me, is seeing Sebastian Bach of Skid Row on Gilmore Girls. :rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

5. You are kidding.

Sebastian Bach was the most handsome rocker of the 1980s to me (besides Anthony Kiedis).

And he's stooped to sit-coms. :cry: :D

[flamingyouth]

7. At least it's a well-written sitcom

Their scripts are an average of 30 pages longer than other hour-long programs because there's so much rapid-fire pop culture dialogue. :D

[Maddy McCall]

9. I've never watched it...

but my best guy friend, who's gay, LOVES it. I'll have to start watching, looks like.

:D

[RoyGBiv]

6. Not a fan myself, but ...

In the FWIW department ...

He's looked like that for a long time. The make-up and poofy hair thing was just another gimmick during a decade of gimmicks. They were trying to out-big-hair the big-hair bands and intentionally took the androgynous look to absurd levels.

As soon as they took off the make-up, Bret put on the hat. In fact, I think the one in this pic was the same one he wore in an interview several years ago.

[Maddy McCall]

10. It's the combination. Cowboy hat, country music show....

just seems to border on the ridiculous to me.


You should have seen him do "Don't Need Nothing But a Good Time" on the show last week with all of the country contestants. It was soooo pitiful.

He's sucking up bigtime to the Nashville crowd. I think it's funny.

(Oh, and as far as the 80s go, wasn't EVERYONE trying to out-glam everyone else?)