TRASHING HOTEL ROOMS WITH RIKKI ROCKETT of POISON
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Jared Polin
4.4 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A few months back I sat down via Zoom with Rikki Rockett the Drummer of Poison to discuss what it was like touring in the 80's.
I dove more into the business of 80's music because i've always been curious about how it worked. How did you get signed, how much did you get, did you get screwed???
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| 0:00.0 | Jared Polenfronos photo.com and what you're about to see or listen to right now is a podcast that I did with Mr. Ricky Rocket. |
| 0:10.1 | If you don't know who Ricky Rocket is, he is the drummer of poison. This is my hair metal drumming. |
| 0:17.6 | It's not exactly hair metal, but it's 80s, glam rock, whatever you want to call it. |
| 0:22.0 | But I got to interview Ricky Rocket. He's into photography. He has a YouTube channel. Just look |
| 0:26.2 | it up. It's under Ricky Rocket. You can check that out, see what he's up to. But this is an |
| 0:30.7 | interesting discussion because I wanted to get into the business side of, you know, how many |
| 0:36.6 | albums were sold. What do you make on stuff like this? |
| 0:39.1 | Did you ever throw anything out a window in a hotel room? Did you trash a hotel room? We got into |
| 0:44.4 | some stuff. I didn't sensationalize anything. I wanted to get into the business aspect of it. |
| 0:48.7 | So now let's get into the interview with Ricky Rocket. Jared Paulin. |
| 0:55.4 | Froono's photo. |
| 0:57.7 | There you go. |
| 0:58.6 | Dot com. |
| 1:00.4 | Well, there's my intro. |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.1 | We're here with Mr. Ricky Rocket. |
| 1:06.8 | How you doing today? |
| 1:07.9 | And you know what? |
| 1:08.6 | I'm wearing my glasses because you are. |
| 1:10.6 | So I fear I can get away with it, you know? |
| 1:13.2 | Oh, if I can be cool enough to do it, you can totally do it. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, that's it right there in a nutshell. |
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