BRET MICHAELS’ EXCLUSIVE PERSONAL PHOTO JOURNAL FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE STADIUM TOUR

August 10, 2022 BMAdmin Auto-Scrap-Ography, Photo Journal, The Stadium Tour

It has been two long years since we announced The Stadium Tour to start in the summer of 2020 and it’s finally here. I cannot express enough my gratitude and undying love for the fans, the bands, the crews, the catering personnel, the production staff as well as all of the management teams, publicists, all the promoters at Live Nation and the entire village that have helped to make this the number one tour in North America.

I want to take this moment to express how awesome it is to share the stage with bands that I love; Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Classless Act and especially my band and friends in Poison.

The truth is from the moment I hit that stage till the last note I cannot stop smiling but the real truth is all day long I am ready to rock and after we are done stay and watch the others and I said this at the very beginning of this tour when we did our whole press campaign if I was not on the stage with these bands would’ve bought a ticket immediately for this concert…I doubt you will ever see this lineup again in the stadiums… Every band on this stadium tour brings something unique in their style and performance but the one thing we all share in common is our desire to be out there and most importantly bringing all of our best songs to that stage… There is no doubt that each band wants to bring their best show forward and all the combined great years of hits but I need every fan out there to know this… none of us in any of these bands got here without you…thank you for all the great years I hope you all enjoyed these 10 or so photos and defining moments from my personal picture collection from the first half of the stadium tour giving you a little All-access pass and hope you as the fans have enjoyed this as much as I have you rock my world… Here is a toast to the rest of this summer and wait till you see what I got for 2023…

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It all starts in a small rehearsal room in Los Angeles. Truly working on the music, the vocals and the set list.

The most heartbreaking moment of the tour was being extremely dehydrated and sick mixed with the complications from my Type 1 Diabetes and being hospitalized and physically unable to perform in Nashville… The very city and stadium I had been talking about wanting to return to play in for years, after last performing with Hank Williams Jr. and Gretchen Wilson at the very same stadium a few years prior…My sincerest and deepest apologies to the fans and I am forever grateful for all their well wishes, prayers and understanding.

As sports fanatic I was honored to be able to pitch off the mound, meet the Mets through my friend Peter Cassano and throw ball at every baseball stadium on the tour.

Flying back to Miami after my solo Bret Michaels Band performance with Eric Church and Dustin Lynch to rejoin the Stadium Tour.

It was big air and a big smile on my face basically air jaws vs air Michaels. The energy was high and it was game on as the Stadium Tour kicks off day one in Atlanta .

Charging out on the stage straight to the fans at the very opening of Look What the Cat Dragged In

This photo captures my traditional Every Rose Has Its Thorn GOOD LUCK fan jam guitar strum not to mention I had just been inducted into the central Pennsylvania music hall of fame that morning and playing to all of my friends and family at sold out Hershey stadium… this was a great day

Catching full on air in Philly. It was good to be in my home state of Pennsylvania.

I can feel the fire, excitement and positive energy pulsating through my veins.

Bret Michaels Band –Sold Out -Moondance Jam

You never know who I am going to invite to the Parti-Gras.

My good friend Eric Stonestreet (Cam) from Modern Family, Born and raised in Kansas joined me in Kansas City sporting his Bret Michaels red bandana and rocked the crowd into a frenzy.

My good friends Q and Murr from Impractical Jokers joined me and the band in Cincinnati where the crowd went crazy. Now I will return the favor on their new season of Impractical Jokers with a punishment that will rock and possibly be too crazy for tv.

Having such a great time hanging with all the other bands. I love getting along with everybody and having fun. Honored to share the stage with bands I admire…Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Classless Act and of course Poison.

My family rocks the road, loves music and always brings a smile to my face.

A Candid moment … I had the no idea this photo was being taken. I’m always cheering on my bandmates on or off stage

Jacksonville Florida in the pouring rain. I loved it.

This was my text as I slowly recovered from my medical setback.

The look on my face in these four photos says it all. Laughing, singing, smiling and partying with the fans.

This picture says it all… my undying love and connection to the fans… forever grateful.

Floridayou know I love you. Miami, Jacksonville and here in Orlando sold out in the pouring rain nothing…was stopping this high energy party.

Solo shows between the Stadium dates in front of incredible, record-breaking crowds crossing three generations of rock, pop and country fans.

I joined Eric Church at the Barefoot Country Festival in Wildwood New Jersey and as the son of a veteran, honored the men and women of our armed forces, first responders, frontline workers, teachers and utility workers in front of the record-breaking crowd. It was awesome.