Rikki Rockett is finally telling the whole story!
You’ll be able to get your hands on the Poison drummer’s long-awaited memoir, Ghost Notes: My Life In Poison, this summer via Rare Bird Books.
Looking back wasn’t easy.
“Scary,” Rockett admits. “Of course I have regrets… there’s certain things I look back on like, ‘Why’d I do it that way?’ But I did, and here I am.”
And this book doesn’t dodge the heavy moments. “The painful stuff isn’t fun to look at… the cancer battle… being falsely accused… that sucked. But it’s my story.”
The title Ghost Notes says everything. Those are the subtle hits between the big beats… the stuff most people missed.
“Instead of just the highlights… these are all the stuff in between. The ghost notes between all the big things you’ve heard about.”
And that includes the part most bands skip.
Before the Sunset Strip, there was the real grind. Pennsylvania. Small gigs. No money. No guarantees.
“That was really the meat of our struggle,” he says… not just the Strip stories everyone’s already heard.
Poison went on to sell over 50 million records and dominate the late ’80s.
But this book isn’t about the headlines. It’s about everything in between.
