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===''Poison'd!'' and ''Live, Raw & Uncut'' (2007β2009)=== On January 3, 2007, Poison announced on their official [[MySpace]] page that they would like their fans to help pick favorite classic rock songs for the new studio album that they are to record. The fans replied with suggestions like [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s "[[Free Bird|Freebird]]", [[The Sweet|Sweet's]] "[[The Ballroom Blitz]]", and [[AC/DC]]'s "[[You Shook Me All Night Long]]", along with [[Alice Cooper]]'s "[[Poison (Alice Cooper song)|Poison]]". During 2007, Poison went on a summer tour with [[Ratt]]. They released their covers album, now named ''[[Poison'd!]]'', on June 5, 2007, through Capitol Records. The album entered the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart at No. 32 and charted at No. 12 on the [[Top Rock Albums]], selling 21,000 copies in its first week. The first single, "[[What I Like About You (The Romantics song)|What I Like About You]]", featured a music video from the band. [[White Lion]] was removed from the tour due to legal issues, and [[Vains of Jenna]] took their place. The August 2 sold-out show in at the [[Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre St. Louis]], Missouri was taped for a live concert DVD and for a HDNet Concert special called: ''Poison: Live, Raw & Uncut'' that aired on October 26, 2007, as part of Heavy Metal Halloween. The band also appeared that night on the channel's Sound Off with [[Matt Pinfield]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.kshe95.com/concerts/Details.aspx?ID=7151|publisher = KSHE95.com|title = Poison| work=KSHE 95 }}</ref> The band played at the [[Rock2Wgtn]] rock festival in [[Wellington]], New Zealand, on the weekend of March 22β23, 2008. The festival also included fellow legendary rockers Kiss, [[Ozzy Osbourne]], Alice Cooper, [[Whitesnake]], and Finnish hard rock act [[Lordi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzlive.com/en/nzlivecom/rock2wgtn |publisher=NZLive.com |title=Poisson |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410080239/http://www.nzlive.com/en/nzlivecom/rock2wgtn |archive-date=April 10, 2009 }}</ref> Poison played at the [[Sweden Rock Festival]] 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swedenrock.com/frameset.cfm?pageID=1&newLanguage=2 |publisher=swedenrock.com |title=Sweden Rock Festival 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601182452/http://www.swedenrock.com/frameset.cfm?pageID=1&newLanguage=2 |archive-date=June 1, 2013 }}</ref> The band then went on tour in the summer of 2008 with [[Sebastian Bach]] and [[Dokken]].<ref>{{cite web |title=POISON, DOKKEN, SEBASTIAN BACH: 'Live, Raw & Uncut Summer Tour 2008' Dates Announced |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/poison-dokken-sebastian-bach-live-raw-uncut-summer-tour-2008-dates-announced/ |website=Blabbermouth |date=April 7, 2008 |access-date=June 26, 2020}}</ref> Poison live in concert DVD titled ''[[Live, Raw & Uncut]]'' was released on July 15, 2008, which was filmed in [[St. Louis]], during the Poison'd tour in 2007. This DVD/CD set was initially exclusive to Best Buy stores and includes behind-the-scenes footage as a bonus feature and as a live audio CD with selections from the concert. It sold around 2,400 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on Billboard's Top Music Videos chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://poisononline.com/2008/07/27/new-poison-dvd-debuts-at-8-on-billboard-chart/|title=New Poison DVD Debuts at 8 on Billboard Chart|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721060214/http://poisononline.com/2008/07/27/new-poison-dvd-debuts-at-8-on-billboard-chart/|archive-date=July 21, 2010}}</ref> Also in 2008 a live CD version of the Poison DVD [[Seven Days Live]] was released.<ref>{{cite web |title=Seven Days Live - Poison |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/seven-days-live-mw0000793737 |website=Allmusic |access-date=June 25, 2020}}</ref> On June 7, 2009, Poison made a special appearance at the [[63rd Tony Awards]], performing "Nothin' But a Good Time" with the cast of [[Rock of Ages (musical)|''Rock of Ages'']], which features "Nothin' But a Good Time" as a song in the show. As Michaels was exiting the stage, he was struck in the head by a descending set piece and knocked to the ground. He suffered a fractured nose and a split lip requiring three stitches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/awards/bret-michaels-injured-at-the-tony-awards/|title=Bret Michaels Injured at the Tony Awards|author=Stephen M. Silverman|author-link=Stephen M. Silverman|work=People}}</ref>
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