Poison's Rikki Rockett Arrested on Rape Warrant

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poison's Rikki Rockett Arrested on Rape Warrant



The drummer for everyone's fave 80's hair band, Poison, was arrested Monday on a rape warrant out of Mississippi as he got off a flight from New Zealand at LAX.

46-year-old Rikki Rockett was busted by the Airport Division of the LAPD at the airport as he was going through customs. As the LA Daily News first reported, Rockett, a former hairdresser whose real name is Richard Ream, was transported to the L.A. County Jail, where he was booked on a felony fugitive sexual assault warrant out of Neshoba County, Mississippi. Where Rockett is exactly right now is unknown.

Information about the warrant and specific charges was not immediately available.

Rockett and singer Bret Michaels -- high school classmates -- founded Poison together. He was in New Zealand to reunite and perform with other original members of the band at Rock2Wellington, a huge heavy metal show.

Story developing ...

http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/27/poisons-rikki-rockett-arrested-on-rape-warrant/

[Frank Cannon]

1. "Everyone's fave 80's hair band"

Is that sort of like "everyone's fave staph infection"?

[DarkTirade]

2. My favorate is the one that didn't actually exist...

Steel Dragon. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evL2sPk8eeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8nL_fmDCo

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Yep, and they're about a million times better than Poison...

...of course, so are THESE guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk8Yo4pzhWs

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

8. Gaaah!

I've been Bop'rolled... :puke:

[asthmaticeog]

3. The copycat thread writes itself, practically.

[HughBeaumont]

7. That was one of the bands that drove me to thrash.

Ecccch. "How can I resist"? Let me count the ways, Bret.

[rocktivity]

5. Let's see if I can remember my review of Poison's first album Look What the Cat Dragged In

"The bassist should change his last name to Dull, and I've heard better drumming on Romper Room...This album gives what cats drag in a bad name."

But my proudest musical journalistic accomplishment of that era was predicting that Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet would become "rock's answer to Thriller."

:headbang:
rocknation

[flvegan]

6. Why, Rikki? Why?

I hope the charges aren't true as alleged. Rape? Totally going to change my opinion of him.

See, I admit...I loved Poison in the day. Fond memory of my teen years. However, today, Rikki Rockett is a big animal rights advocate and vegan, and I guess I expect more from folks like him to also not hurt/commit crimes against people, too.

[Efilroft Sul]

9. Don't mean nothing but a good time.

A good time for those of us who like to be snarky.

[Bluebear]

10. His own "Rock of Love" show!

[GOPisEvil]

11. Accused rapist - Richard Ream?

Jokes write themselves sometimes.