There are moments in life that feel too strange to be real — the kind you replay just to make sure they actually happened. This is one of those stories.

On Saturday, June 17, 2000, during Poison’s Power to the People tour at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ, I went from the crowd… to on stage with Poison.

One minute I’m watching a rock concert. The next, I’ve got Bret Michaels’ microphone in my hand, singing KISS’ “Rock and Roll All Nite” in front of thousands of people.

It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t staged. It wasn’t something I ever thought I’d experience at a Poison con ...