Poison 20th Anniversary Tour To Play Show At St. Pete Times Forum In Tampa, FL With Special Guests Cinderella And Endeverafter On August 19, 2006 Tickets Now On Sale

Who: Poison 20th Anniversary Tour
Special Guests Cinderella & Endeverafter

When: Saturday, August 19th, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.

Where: St. Pete Times Forum
Tampa, FL

What: Celebrating their 20th anniversary, Poison, with special guests Cinderella announced they will be on the road together all summer long for Poison's "20 Years of Rock Tour."

Original Poison band members: vocals and guitarist Bret Michaels, lead guitarist C.C. Deville, drummer Rikki Rockett and bassist Bobby Dall will be coming to rock Tampa loaded with 20 years of hits. Both of these bands, popular in the 1980's and 1990's, will crank up the volume and rock out your favorite hits at the St. Pete Times Forum on Saturday, August 19th at 7:30 p.m. So get ready to
rock - hair band style!

The two glam metal-era bands, both of which have been together for 20 years, will launch the 52-date tour on June 13th in Mankato, MN. The packed itinerary includes one Canadian date in Toronto and stretches through August 25, 2006, when they'll wrap things up at Atlanta's HiFi Buys Amphitheatre.

Rock's new bad boys Endeverafter, a Sacramento-based rock quartet, which recently signed a recording contract with Sony Music, will open for most of the shows. Voted Most Popular Band two years in a row by Music Connection Magazine, Poison's unheard of mix of rock, Americana, pop and punk musical styles, their over-the-top stage show and blue-collar, hard-working mentality shot the band into Billboard's Top 5 with the 1986 independent release of Look What the Cat Dragged In. The singles "Talk Dirty To Me," "I Want Action," and "I Won't Forget You" all launched into the Top 40, and the and watched their debut album's sales climb to more than three million copies. 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the release. Poison's most popular hits include: acoustic-influenced power ballad, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and the raucous party anthem, "Nothin' But A Good Time" and "Open Up and Say... Ahh!"

With the band's most recent studio album, Hollyweird, along with Poison Greatest Hits, which just reached double Platinum, and their Gold-certified Greatest Video Hits DVD, Poison continues on with a do-it-yourself attitude, also touring to sold-out venues around the world. Poison's 20th anniversary world tour will take the band to major concert venues around the globe this summer. Throughout Poison's career, the band's members have enjoyed collaborative and solo successes that have taken them from the stage to the screen and to many points in between. 2006 promises to be a busy 20th anniversary year for the dynamic members of Poison.

Philadelphia-based Cinderella singer Tom Keifer, drummer Fred Coury, bassist Eric Brittingham and guitarist Jeff LaBar, made a name for itself in the '80s with its triple-platinum albums "Night Songs" and "Long Cold Winter," which spawned hits such as "Shake Me," "Nobody's Fool," "Somebody Save Me," "Gypsy Road" and "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)." Cinderella recently released Cinderella: Gold, a two-disc best-of set that highlights the strength of the band's three multi-platinum albums.

Tickets: Tickets for this event go on sale Saturday, May 6th at 10am at the McDonald's Box Office at the St. Pete Times Forum and all Ticketmaster outlets including FYE and Spec's Music. To order tickets by phone, call Ticketmaster at (813) 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100 or log onto ticketmaster.com. Tickets are priced
at $36.75 and $26.75. A limited number of Gold Circle seats are available for $76.75. Prices do not include service charges. For more information please call (813) 301-2500 or visit www.stpetetimesforum.com.

For dinner reservations at Medallions Restaurant on the night of the event please call (813) 301-6926.