Just because bands get onstage and jam together
doesn't mean everything about their relationship
rocks.
In fact, some of the biggest, greatest, most
popular musical acts in the world spend just
as much time squabbling among themselves as
they do shredding solos and pounding on drums.
KISS
Currently, two original members of KISS — Ace
Frehley and Peter Criss — are on the outs
with the group.
Frehley and Criss left in the early '80s and,
apart from a brief nostalgia-fueled reunion
in the late '90s, have stayed away ever since.
In response, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
have disparaged both their estranged bandmates,
with Stanley saying that they don't deserve
to be in the band and that he didn't want
to perform with them during their Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame induction.
Stanley went one step further in his 2014
autobiography, -
claiming that Frehley and Criss were anti- and collected stuff
Frehley fired back in a 2014 Vice interview,
saying that the anti-Semitic claims are bogus
and that Paul and Gene hate him because he
was a drug addict — even though he's now
been clean for years.
Although they got along real well when entering
the Hall of Fame, it looks like that was just
as much of an act as wearing face paint and
calling yourself "Starchild."
Blink-182
Blink-182 has a reputation as a fun band,
but apparently there's some real turmoil behind
the scenes which isn't likely to go away anytime
soon.
According to guitarist Tom DeLonge in a 2015
Facebook post, his relationship with Blink
is "poisoned."
DeLonge left Blink in 2005 and returned in
2009, but by 2015 the old feelings of animosity
were back.
The band's, quote, "squabbling and politics"
forced them to shelve plans a new EP, which
apparently devastated DeLonge.
Drummer Travis Barker, meanwhile, told Rolling
Stone that DeLonge was "disrespectful and
ungrateful" and wouldn't even tell the band
that he was leaving in person.
Kings of Leon
They may not have been around as long as some
of the other bands here, but Kings of Leon
can apparently in-fight with the best of them.
As reported by The Telegraph, most of the
trouble stems from frontman Caleb Followill's
drinking — in 2010, he claimed to be sober
"for the first 30 minutes of every day" and
nothing more.
According to Rolling Stone, Followill told
an audience in 2011: "I'm gonna go backstage
and I'm gonna vomit, I'm gonna drink a beer
and I'm gonna come back out and play three
more songs."
He managed everything on that list — except
the songs.
The band canceled the rest of the tour.
After a brief hiatus, the band was back with
a new album in 2013.
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses' epic problems began in the
early '90s, but for a while, nobody knew for
sure why Axl Rose and Slash hated each other
so much.
According to the band's old road manager,
the feud can be boiled down to Michael Jackson,
of all people.
In an interview with Rolling Stone Brazil,
Doug Goldstein revealed that Axl, who was
allegedly molested as a child, hit the roof
after Slash agreed to play guitar on Jackson's
new song "Black or White."
Axl and Slash only buried the hatchet recently,
with a reunion tour that kicked off in 2016.
Chances are these two aren't drinking beers
together after shows — but as long as they
can bang out "Paradise City" night after night,
fans will happily pay.
Aerosmith
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith rock
best when they're together, even though they're
almost certainly happier apart.
In his autobiography, Rocks: My Life In and
Out of Aerosmith, Perry details several incidents
where Tyler's antics have driven him up a
wall.
The basic issue, according to Perry, is that
he and the band are in it for the music, while
Tyler's in it for fame and women.
Tyler, meanwhile, isn't a huge fan of Perry
either.
In his own autobiography, Does the Noise In
My Head Bother You?
Tyler claims Perry is aloof and almost completely
lacking in that sweet emotion.
As he claims Perry once told him, "Just because
we're in a band together doesn't mean we have
to be friends."
So basically, Perry and Tyler are two Employees
of the Month who keep the company thriving,
even though they avoid each other in the break
room every day.
Van Halen
Don't worry — there's no issue between Eddie
and Alex Van Halen.
They're brothers, best friends, and love each
other.
But Eddie and longtime lead singer David Lee
Roth have more than a few issues.
As Eddie told Billboard, "Roth's perception
of himself is different than who he is in
reality.
We're not in our 20s anymore.
We're in our 60s.
Act like you're 60."
So basically, Eddie sees Roth as a giant man-child,
and embarrassing stunts like his camera-hogging
and mugging at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards
didn't help matters.
Eddie has even worse things to say about ex-bassist
Michael Anthony, whom he claims can't play
bass, saying: "Every note Mike ever played,
I had to show him…He'd come over with a
video camera and I'd have to show him how
to play all the parts."
Simon and Garfunkel
Since splitting in 1970, Paul Simon and Art
Garfunkel have reunited a handful of times,
and it never lasts because the two can barely
stand one another.
The tiffs began almost immediately, when the
pair recorded an album and Simon jetted off
to England to record his own solo material
instead of promoting the album.
Then there was the time both men vetoed each
others' suggestion for the 12th song on Bridge
Over Troubled Water — the album was released
with 11 songs.
After that, the duo called it quits.
Since then, clashes between the iconic duo
have popped up over the years.
For his part, Garfunkel has admitted to being
open to recording a new album, although when
asked if it was going to happen, he couldn't
resist a jab at Simon, saying: "You’ll have
to ask him, it takes two to tango.
I like to tango, so count me in.
You’ll just have to bring a psychiatrist
in as the third member."
It doesn't sound like anyone's building a
bridge over these troubled waters.
Oasis
Few bands are defined by their squabbling
more than Oasis.
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher were seemingly
always spatting with each other — as Noel
told ABC in 2000, "It was just drunken, f**king
nonsense.
… It's just two brothers in a band who have
strong opinions about how things within that
band should be."
Apparently, those drunken opinions got stronger
and stronger, until the band combusted entirely
in 2009.
As Noel described it during a 2011 press conference,
Liam missed a gig because he was hungover.
Soon, things escalated — to fruit throwing.
"And on the way out he picked up a plum.
And he threw it across the dressing room.
And it smashed against the wall."
The brothers have yet to make up, by all accounts.
At the 2010 BRIT Awards, Liam Gallagher accepted
Oasis's award for Best Album of the Last 30
Years and thanked everyone except Noel.
He also keeps calling his brother a "potato"
on Twitter — because why not?
Hopefully Mama Gallagher is used to family
dinners without the entire family around.
The Kinks
Oasis may have perfected sibling rivalry,
but the Kinks did it first.
Ray and Dave Davies have been at each others'
throats for decades now and, by this point,
it'll probably never get better.
The two have been going at it since childhood
— as Dave said in a Telegraph interview,
"I think Ray has only been happy for three
years of his life … the three before I was
born."
Years of back-and-forth arguments did their
best to overshadow the band's amazing catalog
of songs, until it killed the band in 1996.
Over 20 years later, the band has yet to reform,
and the brothers' relationship is stone cold
at best.
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