Snobbery aside, if I wail, "Don't need nothin'! ... but a -" chances are you know the next two words of that lyric. And if I ask what the phrase "every night has its dawn" implies, almost anyone can extend that musical simile to cowboys and roses. Over a quarter-century after the release of Poison's second album, the one with the puerile name Open Up and Say...Ahh!, its singles are still radio fixtures. Since his first solo album in 1998, Poison lead singer Bret Michaels (born Bret Michael Sychak) has become something of a media luminary. His VH1 show Rock of Love led to a win on Celebrity Apprentice 3, earning $640,000 for diabetes research, and inclusion in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. More recently, he's toured with Def Leppard, recorded with Miley Cyrus, hosted a Travel Channel series and powered through the life-threatening double whammy of a brain hemorrhage and unrelated TIA. Man, ya gotta respect a survivor. "But I guess that's why they say. ..." Oh, you know the rest.

BRET MICHAELS, 8 p.m. Lucky Eagle Casino, 12888 188th Ave. SW, Rochester, $35-$70, 800.720.1788