"Talk Dirty To Me" - Poison

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My friend Christian suggested I write about this song, and the fact that he suggested it brings up one particular memory that he was a part of.

This particular memory takes place on November 25, 2006.  My 28th birthday, the last one I would spend in Kansas City before moving to Texas.  At this point, I already knew that I would be moving after the beginning of 2007, so I knew this birthday would be bittersweet.

My friend Randy was at the time playing bass in a Poison tribute band called Talk Dirty, and they had a gig at Danny's Tavern on my birthday.  So, I made it a point to call their gig my unofficial birthday party, and invited everyone I knew.  It seems like everyone I knew DID show up, including a bunch of friends that normally wouldn't be caught dead at a Poison tribute band's gig.  Christian and his wife were there as well.  I believe on that night or shortly after that night, he and his wife found out that they were expecting their daughter Liberty, so I'm sure that's pretty memorable for him.

Anyway, the memory of this night is wrapped in what I don't remember.  Lots of friends bought me drinks, and I was pretty plowed.  It was pretty cool to have a bunch of people I love in one place, backed by the music of a band I literally grew up listening to (and being played by a band that did a pretty convincing imitation!).  It was definitely a top-five birthday of my life so far.

Another memory attached to this song is from when I was first getting into Poison.  In 1987, I was changing tastes from more juvenile pop bands to some of the harder bands that were popular at the time. I didn't have MTV, so my exposure to what was currently popular was pretty limited, and I "discovered" Poison around a year after they broke big.

Christmas 1987, I was 9 years old and had outgrown toys for the most part, so I got mostly money from relatives that year.  A few days after Christmas, my dad took my brother and I to Bannister Mall so we could spend our money.  I had only two things on my agenda:  a portable cassette player, and the Poison "Look What The Cat Dragged In" cassette to go in it.  I walked out of the mall with both of those purchases, and spent the next few months listening to that tape until it was worn out.  Though I'm not as much of a fan of Poison as I once was, that tape definitely helped point my musical tastes in a direction that they still follow today.