Metal Anarchy

Poison drummer Rikki Rockett has revealed that his new memoir, “Ghost Notes,” will now be released on October 21 via Rare Bird Books. The book, which the musician wrote with Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson, was previously expected to be released this month.

Rockett told TribLive the following:

“It was supposed to come out in July. Now they [Rare Bird Books] pushed it back to October, mainly because we couldn’t get the cover done on time, and they have to have a cover to go to all the outlets and sell it through and all that kind of stuff. So I’m shooting a cover in the next couple of weeks. And it’ll be out sometime in October.”

He continued when asked how it felt looking back at his life:

“Scary. And a lot of people go, do you have any regrets? Of course I do. There’s lots of things I regret. But not regret to the point where, yeah, did I learn from them. Yeah, sure. You can say all those things, but there’s certain things I look back on, like, eh, why’d I do it that way? But I did and here I am, and I adjusted and moved on. It’s kind of interesting to see that. The painful stuff isn’t fun to look at, obviously the cancer battle and all that sort of stuff isn’t fun. [Being] falsely accused of rape, that sucked. There were certain things that are not fun to live through again, but it’s my story and people need to know about it. Sometimes people just brush the headlines or there’s a lot of news and a lot of things that are out there all at once, and sometimes we’re not paying attention. I read the Joey Kramer book, for example, from Aerosmith, and I’m a huge, huge Aerosmith fan, but there’s been times in my life where there’s other things going on and I’m not paying attention to what Joey Kramer was doing right then. Now it’s nice to look back and go, wow, I missed all these things or I heard a little something about it, and now I’m seeing it and reading it and kind of digesting it again and understanding more from his perspective what really happened, that kind of stuff.”