Taste of Poison on a Sunday night
Even though fans of power ballads are fewer and farther between than they were in the 1980s, Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille has not forgotten how to party like a rock star. After wrapping up his set at Virginia’s Nissan Pavilion on Sunday night, the crazily coiffed rocker dropped by Steve’s Bar Room off Dupont Circle. And what an entrance he made, what with his tour bus parked out front and Joy Glass on his arm (she would be the Spotsylvania, Va., native who appeared as the ‘Employee of the Month’ in the July issue of Playboy).
Sponsored by “Late Night with Erik Haase,” the local TV show that airs on Channel 50, the entire night was something of a time machine screaming strippers, flowing booze, you know, all the usual staples of Reagan-era excess. Even D.C. Bikini Team member Vanessa Andrade made an appearance (we have a bikini team?). But DeVille has made a few changes from back in the day, one of which is cleaning up.
“I can’t drink, I’m on the wagon,” DeVille said to the swarms of scantily clad groupies surrounding him and his entourage at the crowded lounge on Sunday night. “I’ll get an ankle bracelet. Is that hip?” With all the female attention and the rock-star lifestyle, we had to ask him how he kept clean and sober.
“See, that first drink is OK to loosen up,” DeVille, who pleaded no contest to a DWI in 2005, told us as we caught up to him at the party. “But after that, I turn into that guy you don’t wanna be with that’s all over the place.”
Every rose has its thorn, C.C.
