FWIW, the CCR article on Wikipedia contains several quotes from Fogerty, from the past few years, in which he’s suggested that he might be open to a reunion (though it sounds like it’s been couched as “yeah, I might be open to it,” not “I’d like to do a reunion”). It also quotes interviews with Cook and Clifford from recent years stating that they’d have no interest in it anymore, and their opinion that Fogerty’s recent, mellower statements are just an attempt to improve his image.
Her second album, Haunted, is a bit strange but great. It’s at least one of my top 10 favorite albums all-time.
Bob Daisley is going to have to keep suing Ozzy Osbourne to get the money that he’s owed.
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You can’t get much more ugly than a family feud, and that’s what happened to the Cowsills. The kids were managed by their father, and when he discovered that eldest son and lead singer Bill was smoking pot, he fired Bill from the group. The next oldest, Bob, took over as lead singer, but at various points the other members of the family quit, and even Bill’s return a few years later couldn’t get the whole band back together.
Susan Cowsill took family unity the other way. At one point in the 1990s she was in a band with both her current and future husbands.
“I have here in my hand lyrics that prove these four are communists”.
I think the grandaddy of all these types of legal issues has to be by UK band called Badfinger - you will likely know them by the Nilsson cover of Without You.
Papa Cowsill also stole the kids’ money but didn’t pay the IRS. So the kids were stuck paying taxes on money they never got! Their debt to the IRS lasted quite a long time.
I think the Beach Boys have had the longest span of various spats. Starting with the troubles with the father Wilson and still having disputes as to who is or is not in the group for touring and other purposes.
Speaking of Ozzy, what about bands/artists that get sued for alleged controversial lyrical content that “inspires” bad behavior in listeners, like the kid that killed himself and his parents sued over the lyrics to the song “Suicide Solution”, a song about the slow death involved with alcohol, not “Hey, I want you to kill yourself!”. Good grief.
Judas Priest were involved in a similar lawsuit many years ago. Turned out the two young men who shot themselves (one died immediately, the other years later after being horribly disfigured) both came from incredibly dysfunctional backgrounds.
Boston has been a moveable lawsuit, most of it associated with Tom Scholz, since at least the late 1970s.
The Jefferson Starship were locked in some very ugly legal battles. According to the book “Gotta Revolution”, the band had legal wrangles going all the way back to the early days of the Jefferson Airplane, but things got very nasty just prior to turning into Starship.
Around about '84, Paul Kantner, the last remaining original member and supposed band leader, told the rest of the band he couldn’t stand what the band turned into, he was quitting the band, and that he wanted the band to disband. When the rest of the band disagreed, he sued claiming ownership of the name “Jefferson Starship” and demanded they change their name. THEN things got ugly. Kantner apparently had something of a nervous breakdown and went completely off the deep end. At one point, he phoned lead singer Mickey Thomas’s mother and told her he’d been killed in a car crash.
Also for your consideration, Hogdson vs Davies which broke up Supertramp. Similar to CCR, it was essentially Hodgson wanting nothing anymore to do with the band and the feuding commenced. Somewhat recently, Hodgson mentioned that he was finally open to a reunion but Davies, author of Goodbye Stranger, said thanks but no thanks.
I pulled Hello out of the vault yesterday and gave it a listen. Still sounds pretty good. I’ll look for* Haunted.*
Anyone who has heard of the Cowsills probably already knows this but they were the inspiration for The Partridge Family.
It was uglier than that. The band got together in a meeting and fired their manager and the head of the fan club. Tate was not at the meeting. The two that were fired were his wife and step-daughter. That lead to a physical fight before a show in Brazil. It was rumored that Tate pulled a knife but he denies that. Soon after he was kicked out of the band.
When Tate put out his album under the Queensrÿche name it featured remakes of all their biggest songs with the new band. The album was called Frequency Unknown but the most prominent letters on the cover artwork were “F” and “U”.
The ugly feud that immediately came to mind was the one between Bruce Springsteen and producer Mike Appel, which led to Springsteen not recording new music for a year (just when he’d reached a peak of national fame) and festered in court for a long time.
Motley Crue and Elektra records.
Didn’t Vince Neil kill someone drunk driving?
Oh, I know. But I didn’t want to give away the juiciest parts of the story. The best part was when Tate spent a lot of time at the last show spitting on the rest of them.
Oh yeah.
The warfare between Frank Zappa’s children is pretty sad. Perhaps not that surprising considering how emotionally ugly both parents were.