A Rose Without Thorns? Please, nobody let Bret Michaels know.
Unbelievable news: A rose has been grown without any thorns. American scientists say the breakthrough could lead to new products in supermarkets.
Are Scientists Trying To Protect Us?
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Mad Scientists: The Monkees
Red roses first appeared in Greek Mythology when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white rose. And tell me, what poet has not used the thorn at once or another?
Thorns Have Been In Our Sides For Ages
It’s more than roses that have caused us pain for all these years. Many plants have dangerous spikes, technically known as prickles. Prickles have evolved independently in species across the plant kingdom, and their main function is to ward off Plant-eating animals and bugs.
How Did Scientists Fix The Problem?
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Roses With Thorns
The research team, whose findings were published in the Journal of Science, wondered if related genes are responsible for prickles on multiple plants over millions of years.
The team worked with the New York Botanical Garden to examine specimens with and without prickles.
Researchers at Cornell University used genome editing to eliminate prickles, which takes all the fun out of giving flowers to that special someone.
What Is Going To Happen When Bret Michaels Finds Out?
Released in 1988 a beautiful power ballad by Bret Michaels of Poison, “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn.”
It was released in October 1988 as the third single from Poison’s second album, Open Up and Say… Ahh! The band’s signature song, it is also their only number-one hit in the US, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks on December 24, 1988.
In an interview with VH1’s Behind the Music, Bret Michaels said the inspiration for the song came from a night when he was in a laundromat in Dallas waiting for his clothes to dry and called his girlfriend on a pay phone. Michaels said he heard a male voice in the background and was devastated; he said he went into the laundromat and wrote “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” as a result.
Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Editor’s Note: At press time, Bret Michales did not return our calls for comment.
8 Stunning Colors That Are Actually Song Titles
In honor of National Coloring Book Day and National Crayon Day, I asked our listeners for rock songs that make great crayon colors. The answers were above and beyond anything I could have thought of alone. What songs come to mind when you think of colors that are actually song titles?
My daughter and her husband recently bought a house. They’re going nuts with paint colors. I know that excitement. When my family was living in Maryland, we rented a condo for 11 years. WHITE WALLS.
I had enough of white walls after 11 years and I went color crazy when we moved back to Michigan. I had an orange kitchen and a yellow entryway. Every room was a color other than white.
Now our house is pretty neutral in color, but with my daughter’s living room being painted “Plumville,” it started me creatively thinking about cool colors that are actually song titles.
My first thought was “Purple Haze.” I love this color name but I would probably not paint any rooms in my house purple. I would, however, want it in my crayon box.
My son’s purple Nerf gun is the best example I could find of what the color “Purple Haze” looks like to me. It’s another example of colors that are actually song titles.
Picking Colors Was a Group Effort
I love asking opinions on social media. I recently asked, “What classic rock songs could also be a crayon color?” The answers were AMAZING. People didn’t just answer with song titles that had a color in them (not that I don’t love those answers too). They got CREATIVE.
One of my favorite submissions was “Night Moves.” I would 100% paint a room in “Night Moves.” What I loved about this response was that it didn’t technically have a color word in it… it was more about the FEELS. I picture a smokey gray, personally, but it’s totally open to your interpretation.
After a considerable amount of back and forth (these colors are serious business) here are the top 8 choices.
8 Stunning Colors That Are Actually Song Titles
Back In Black
No crayon box could be complete without “Back in Black.” I think it would also make for a wonderful paint color or nail polish name. “Back in black, I hit the sack. I’ve been too long, I’m glad to be back.” This color has attitude for days… and decades.  
Yellow Ledbetter
The name of the song has been the subject of numerous different theories. Some say the phrase come from Blues legend, Huddy Ledbetter and a spin-off an age-old tongue-twister, “Yellow better, red better.” Truth be known, Eddie Vedder named it after a friend, Tim Ledbetter. There is a deeper meaning behind the song that AmericanSongwriter.com covers. “Yellow Ledbetter” to me is a deep shade of yellow that matches the heartbreak lyrics of Eddie Vedder.
Red Rain
I love the name as a color, but in an interview with Mojo Magazine, Gabriel talked about the song originating from a dream. “The sea was being parted by two walls. There were these glass-like figures that would screw themselves into each wall, fill up with red blood and then be lowered across the sand, as it were to the next wall, where they’d unload the blood on the other side. I used to have these extremely vivid dreams that scared the hell out of me.”
I always thought the song was pretty soothing, but that dream… that’s not soothing.
Brown Sugar
This Rolling Stones classic pairing of extremely serious lyrics mixed with a snappy, happy upbeat arrangement makes Brown Sugar that crayon (or paint color) that has deep meaning but also likes to dance.
Midnight Blue
Midnight Blue definitely makes for a stunning color name. Lou Gramm explained the song in an interview with Songfacts. Cherry red is “everything going as best as it can,” while midnight blue is “dark and mysterious.”
Tangerine
Tangerine is a “real” color (and a fruit), but to have tangerine in my box of song crayons would be very special. A Led Zeppelin influenced “Tangerine” would make the color a cut above the rest. Also, I’m not ruling out Tangerine as a paint color on an accent wall… not my entire kitchen, but an accent wall, for sure.
White Rabbit
Grace Slick noticed a lot of children’s stories revolved around mind-altering substances and she decided to write a song about it. This shade of white should still have a touch of darkness to it.
Green River
John Fogerty has said of the song, “The actual specific reference, Green River, I got from a soda pop-syrup label. You used to be able to go into a soda fountain, and they had these bottles of flavored syrup. My flavor was called Green River. It was green, lime flavored, and they would empty some out over some ice and pour some of that soda water on it, and you had yourself a Green River.”
Born in Mt Clemens, Screamin’ Scott has been a part of the Detroit airwaves for 30-plus years. With 40 years of experience in radio. When he’s not out on the streets for WCSX, you can find him devoting time to local charities with his, “Screamin Angels”; and for 16 years with Rock 4 Tots charity. And last 10 years with his local band, "Chit!." Screamin Scott likes to write about nostalgic Detroit area memories, classic rock, and local metro Detroit topics.
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