I was a huge fan of many of the leading prog-rock bands of the Seventies.
And Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer often seemed to LOATHE each other. Indeed, the 1977 Works Volume I album looked like an effort to keep them separated ; it was a double album, and 3/4 of it consisted of solo material. They only performed together on 2 songs.
Individually, all seemed like fairly nice guys. I never quite understood whether the bad blood was due to personal differences or musical differences.
At different times, the Everly Brothers hated each other.
There was a famous concert at Knotts Berry Farm where Phil Everly smashed his guitar to pieces and walked off stage, leaving Don to admit that they hadn’t been close in a long time.
Didn’t Vince Neil and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue have some sort of feud?
I recall one day flipping through channels and landing on some show following the bass player around as he tried to get them together for a reunion tour and being frustrated because they couldn’t put aside their bickering long enough for the essentially free money that a reunion tour would give them.
Was it really that bad? I know that politics eventually drove them apart but I didn’t think they didn’t speak to each other for 20 years.
David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar, although they weren’t in Van Halen at the same time, toured together in 2002. They really didn’t get along and both have blasted one another in the press. Sammy really doesn’t get along with anyone in Van Halen anymore, except with ex-bassist Michael Anthony, who is in the band Chickenfoot with Sammy.
More than friends, they were performing as a duo by age fifteen. I’d say S&G were similar to Lennon & McCartney, loving and “hating” each other at the same time, like brothers. Which both pairs effectively were.
I speak with the authority of someone who’s never met any of these people.
I am not sure about the 20 years, but It was Johnny stealing and then marrying Joey’s ex-GF Linda that drove the wedge between them. The politics thing just let Joey keep jabbing at Johnny.
Can someone PLEASE find a link to this???
I remember when Metallica played in my town when I was in college, and ALL the crazy stories were about Lars. Apparently, he’s also the source of the bulk of the band’s interpersonal conflicts over the years too.
My favorite was that he went, by himself, to a really scummy strip club, and brought back several of the ugliest, skankiest, most diseased looking women back to the hotel with him. :eek: Some people were, like, “Dude, you’re Lars from Metallica! At least choose pretty ones.”
Meanwhile, other band members were spotted in places like bookstores and a movie theater, doing absolutely nothing to draw attention to themselves and nobody was bothering them - and this was in the early 1990s at the height of their fame.
Re: Cream. From my readings, I get the impression that Bruce and Baker hated each other and eventually, Clapton got tired of being the middleman/peace maker. As for Blind Faith, they took on Baker on the condition that he’d stay off heroin. And after they recorded and began to tour, Baker started using again.
Kind of ironic, I know, but Clapton didn’t start until after he played the Derek & The Dominoes acetate for Pattie Harrison.
Stone Temple Pilots finally got tired of Scott Weiland being a douchebag and a drug addict and kicked him out of the band. Which totally sucks. I mean, I can understand why they did it, and but I always loved STP and it’s not the same without Scott. Too bad he can’t pull his head out of his ass. Chester Bennington is okay, but…
Journey kicked Steve Perry out when he was reluctant to have hip replacement surgery, and they didn’t want to postpone a tour any longer.
Yes, I also thought it was due to Johnny stealing Joey’s GF.
I’m not sure, but I seem to recall some members of Zeppelin not getting along too well at one point or another.
IIRC Wyman himself has reported that, being several years older, having actually embarked on a conventional career (at a bank or some other City-type business), and already being married with a small child led to some friction with the others, and at times feeling like he wasn’t really one of the inner circle.
When the band put out its first single, he thought of it as likely amounting to nothing more than something he’d one day be able to tell his kid about.
Amazing! I saw them many times at the Whiskey, while Randy Rhoads was still with them, and just before Rhoads joined Ozzy Osbourne. The way they played together you’d never have thought there was a problem.
You’ve inspired me to dig up the book and DVD 
Book: “Don Henley’s gonna tell people how to feel about the environment? I don’t think so. A former member of the Eagles? I don’t think so. I’ve go two words for Don Henley: Joe Walsh. Okay? Take off your ponytail and prepare to die. All right, Donny boy?”
DVD is as Casey1505 posted upthread.
So we’re both right. Sing Kumbaya!
Funny, I was watching a Stewart Copeland interview for his Police documentary “Everyone Stares” today. The reporter asked him what surprised him the most about watching hours and hours of Police history. He said it was debunking the myth that they hated each other. Stewart and Sting were very much like brothers with severe sibling rivalry, and Andy was the older responsible one. The water splashing incident was horseplay, as was the cracked rib Sting suffered during an interview courtesy of Stew.
It should be noted that all of The Police appeared on each other’s albums after 1986, and Sting retained Miles Copeland as manager. Andy and Stewart were briefly in a band called Animal Logic with Stanley Clarke and Deborah Holland.
I don’t think Sting and Stewart have played together outside of The Police.
I think the only hate in The Smiths radiates from Morrissey to Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke. He gets along well enough with Marr; he gave his blessing for the Smiths remasters a few years back.
Keith - I think we should do more serious music!
Greg - We need to do more pop stuff to survive!
Carl - MORE DRUM SOLOS!
In fact, he was having severe respiratory problems – and nearly died.
But he didn’t die (thankfully ) but didn’t return to the band either. Instead he returned to solo touring while he expected the rest of the band to wait around indefinitely. After several years of respectful waiting, the rest of Yes decided to pick up a new singer and get on with their lives.
Yes is full of genius musicians and is very … complicated…
I am no authority of course, but from everything I’ve read about the group, Michelle is a total ho. Although I think I remember reading that she took care of her daughter after Cass died.
Now John, John was a first-class prick.
As for Denny being the dad, he gave an interview alluding to just that. He phrased it along the lines of “that train pulled in and out and no one will ever know what happened that night etc. etc.” Rather inelegant analogy but very sweet. I think it would be wonderful if he was her father.