Best band feud ever?

[underpants]

I am not offering a list to vote on since you all know WAY MORE about rock history than I do.

What band feud would you have loved to have been a co-member of the band and just sit back and watch (if that is possible)

The Beatles? (basically you are saying you want to be Ringo)
The Stones? (you know they have had some throw downs)

The coke fueled So.Cal. 70's spats in the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac?

A day in the life of Oasis?

[mikeytherat]

1. Nobody threw down, on stage or off, like The Kinks

Ah, brotherly love! Nothing like a fistfight, followed by a Nigel Tufnel-worthy slamming down of a guitar, during the first 15 minutes of a concert!

mikey_the_rat

[underpants]

2. Ooh good one

I saw them in '85 at U of R.

[Hugin]

13. Seconded.

:thumbsup:

[peekaloo]

3. I only saw the Ramones twice but left each show thinking maybe, just maybe

they really didn't like each other.

Once at a show in Tampa Dee Dee got repeatedly pissed that his bass kept shorting out and took it out on the drummer. Literally dove over the kit and punched the drummer smack in the face. Knocked him out cold. The other two just stood there while roadies attempted to revive him. Show was then cut short due to circling birdies and stars around the drummers' head.

Second time in Houston as the band was starting up their first song, Joey attempted to slam his mic stand into the stage but somehow missed and ended up doing a face plant. While the audience howled the other three KEPT PLAYING while he lay there. :rofl: At least once he got up they did play a full, LOUD set which left my right hear hurting for three days. :-)

[gr8dane_daddy]

4. Mini Kiss vs Mini Kiss

[Mad_Dem_X]

5. The Beatles or The Who

I've heard The Who could get into some nasty fights!

[opiate69]

6. Pink Floyd..

I really have no idea what the hell went down between Waters and Gilmour, but it must have been pretty bad since Waters still refuses to have anything to do with Gilmour 20+ years later.

[skygazer]

7. Well, they were never really friends in the usual sense of the word

A lot of bands are formed from a group of friends who get together to have fun and become famous. Gilmour joined the band after Syd went off his rocker (RIP Syd, I say it with affection) - essentially he was hired to fill a spot. So I think there were just personality issues that didn't mesh and I think they're both pretty strong personalities so in the end, it didn't work.

But neither of them go into any detail (which is actually rather rare and kinda cool) so who really knows?

[opiate69]

8. Yeah.. it's really kind of a shame

because, as incredible as they both are individually, their collaborations were astounding.. would love to see a reunion one of these days

[skygazer]

10. I think the tension contributed to how good they were together

They were both able to criticise each other's stuff which made it better because they'd tweak it and improve upon it and get it right. Now I doubt if either one of them has anyone around them that would feel comfortable being truly honest about their stuff - can you imagine telling Roger Waters, "Hey, dude, that lyric's really kinda lame"?

The thing is though (and for me Pink Floyd is kind of a religion), I don't know as the magic would still be there as far as new material. While it would be great to see them together, I think it would essentially be a kind of travelling Greatest Hits show which is really what both of them do already. So this way, we can see either of them when they come around, get two chances to see a great show and they're happy too. Everybody wins. :shrug:

[itsmesgd]

9. the post was about internal feuds, but what about external feuds with other bands.

My money would have to be on Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. Neil Young. It started over Neil Young writing about the South's racist tendancies in "Southern Man". Skynyrd's lead singer, Van Zant then went on to wear a Neil Young shirt to many concerts including "Free Bird the Motion Picture". It was rumored that he was even buried in a Neil Young shirt. The legend continued to grow to the extent that his grave was violated by "fans" in order to see if the legend was true. No one ever set the story straight.

[jobycom]

11. Oh, Van Halen was fun, in a pop-wrestling sort of way.

Eddie claimed David Lee Roth was holding the band back, and that adding Sammy Hagar was like replacing "a Volkswagon with a Porsche." David's reply was something like "That's Eddie's problem. He thinks more money means better."

[speedoo]

12. Longest running and most varied: Fleetwood Mac.

Goes back to the early 70's at least, when the self-identified "band manager" came to the US with bunch of imposters (I saw them in Baltimore, before I knew they were imposters) and were later sued by the real band.

Most recently the departure of Christine McVie, who apparantly realized how silly the whole pathetic scene with those characters had become. Good for her.

No violence as far as I know, however.

[noonwitch]

14. John and Paul's war

Because they attacked each other in songs.

[atomic-fly]

15. Clash bass player vs Stranglers bass player

There's some well documented run-ins with other bands at the time. Was it true you had a bit of incident with The Clash's bass player, Paul Simenon?
JJ: Yeah, by the middle of 1976 we had a couple of really good regular gigs, like residencies really. One was at The Hope and Anchor, one was at The Red Cow and we had another in The Nashville Rooms. There was definitely some changes going on at the time. People were starting to cut their hair shorter, jeans were getting tighter. Anyway, we all congregated in these kind of places. We were starting to get a bit of a name for ourselves on the London circuit and were invited to do the American Bi-centinary gig. After our set, we had a few drinks and snaked our way out into the audience. I passed by Paul Simenon while he was standing at the bar with Steve and Paul from the Sex Pistols. The Clash's Paul had a bit of a nervous spitting habit and he gobbed on the floor just in front of me. So I thumped him! He then fell against Steve and Paul, who dropped their pints, and all jumped in on top of me. The rest of the band and a few of our followers, called The Finchley Boys, joined in. Eventually, we were all thrown out into a courtyard, where there was a big stand-off. Chrissie Hinde and Dee Dee Ramone were there too, watching Paul and I just put our noses in one another's faces. It was real school kid stuff. Joe Strummer said to Hugh at the time as well, 'Oh I think my bass player's having a punch up with your bass player!'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/artists/s/stranglers/located/page2.shtml