10 Worst Performances In Rock Music History

10. Poison at MTV Awards

In the grand history of the MTV era of music, it's easy to just say that there was nothing good to come out of hair metal. While that's certainly not true, there was more than a few bands that rose to the top that were more concerned about the product that they could put in their hair rather than the actual music they were playing. And if there was any indication that music was taking a back seat, just look at what Poison did when they rolled into the MTV Awards.

Up to this point, Poison had always been an amazing stage act, with Bret Michaels acting as the de facto parent of the group making sure everything was in check. This was around the time that CC Deville was hitting the bottle pretty hard though, which led to him being absolutely out of his mind by the time they were expected to go on.

As the dress rehearsal was already pretty shaky, CC went into his own world when the cameras started to roll, launching into Talk Dirty to Me when they were supposed to play Unskinny Bop. You can really see the anxiety on Bret Michaels' face throughout the whole broadcast, which eventually came to a head with him and CC fighting backstage and Deville sent packing a few weeks later. They may have tried to make it amid the changing times, but the classic era of Poison pretty much died on the stage that night.