Rikki Rockett delayed writing his memoir because he didn’t want to embarrass his parents when they were alive. The legendary Poison co-founder and drummer, born Richard Alan Ream, opened up about his upcoming book, Ghost Notes, in a new interview and explained why he waited to publish his life story.
“I think this is the funny answer, but it’s kind of the truth,” Rockett, 65, told the This Day in Metal podcast. “I didn’t want to embarrass my parents when they were alive by telling some of these stories.”
“And then I was, like, ‘Oh, now I’ve got kids…’” he continued. “But I’m always going to have kids, and in a normal life they’re going to outlive me. So at some point, I got to do this. And they’re old enough now that I can say, ‘Well, let me explain this…’ So I feel like that’s okay now.”
Even with his parents gone, Rockett noted that there were some stories he kept out of the book because he didn’t “feel good” about sharing certain things.
“I don’t feel like I ever threw anybody under the bus,” he added. “If somebody feels that way, it’ll be interesting to find out why they feel that way.”
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A synopsis for Ghost Notes reads, “From the suburbs of Mechanicsburg [Pennsylvania] to the neon glare of Los Angeles — the raw, relentless story of one of glam metal’s defining drummers, and everything he saw between the beats.”
Rockett told Talkin’ Rock With Meltdown that the book will include all of his “footnotes of different things, throughout Poison’s career” and some of the more “poignant moments” from his life.
‘It’s not like a tell- all book,” he explained. “I’m not out trying to bash anybody or do any of that kind of stuff, but I think people will find it interesting because there’s a lot of personal triumphs, a lot of personal struggles, and filling in the blanks with some of those questionable Poison moments.”
Rockett noted that he and Poison bandmates Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall, and C.C. DeVille had been approached to do a group tell-all, ala Motley Crue’s The Dirt.
“We’ve always been afraid to do a book together, I think, because we…I don’t know,” he shared. “You know, Poison has been… well, we did have a really good offer, but they wanted just dirt. And I just remember saying, my parents at the time, I remember saying, ‘My parents are still alive. I don’t want to embarrass my parents.'”
Ghost Notes is out on September 15.
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