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[Mr. Roboto]

The 26 Best Rock Feuds Ever!

http://www.metalhamm...ock-feuds-ever/

Here are 26 of the biggest rock and metal feuds in living memory, all based on rumour, internet hearsay and ’alleged’ ‘allegations’ people have ‘claimed’.

Robb Flynn (Machine Head) vs Kerry King (Slayer)
2001: King labeled Machine Head as “sell-outs” after the release of their 2001 album ‘Supercharger’, saying “They’re responsible for rap-metal”.
2002: Robert Flynn says Kerry King looks like a member of Right Said Fred…
2002: Kerry King: “I don’t remember us having bad blood… If somebody asks me if I like their last record, I say, ‘No, I don’t like the record.’ But that’s not slamming anybody. It’s my opinion. If he’s so fragile that that was painful, sorry dude, you’re in the wrong business.”
2004: Comment on MetalUnderground.co m: “If Rob and Kerry King can just put their shit behind them and do another rousing rendition of Venom’s ‘Witching Hour’, life would be grand.”
2005: Flynn: “I am issuing an apology to Kerry for the role I’ve played in our ongoing ‘feud.’ I can’t even remember why it started. With every barb we trade, I feel like I’m losing a part of my youth, and with it, a part of who I used to be, before Machine Head came into existence.”
2007: The guys bury the hatchet at Metal Hammer’s own Golden Gods. Asked ‘What do you really think of Kerry King, Robb?’ Mr Flynn replied: “He’s alright man, we’re cool again. The beef is squashed. It got out of hand but we’re all good now.”
2009: So, about that Venom cover…

Axl Rose vs Everyone ever
Axl fought everyone in the world. Then put it in a song. The end.

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) vs Metallica
1983: Dave Mustaine is kicked out of Metallica for ‘alcohol and substance abuse’.
At some point in the next 20 years Lars says – amongst other things – that Dave Mustaine keeps up the Metallica-hating to promote his own band.
2004: ‘Metallica: Some Kind of Monster’ comes out. Mustaine berates Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for kicking him out of the band instead of trying to help him deal with his addiction.
2004: Mustaine hates them for making him look like a crybaby.
2007: Mustaine says to Canadian Press: “After the documentary I hated them, but it took some time for this whole thing to kind of reveal itself. There are certain things that I miss in James, certain things that I’m glad are gone with Lars and just there’s no more sour grapes.” But does add: “I was the only guitar player and James just sang.”
2008: Ulrich told musicradar.com: “I don’t have a problem with him as much as I think he has a problem with me. I’ve always quite liked the guy. It has a tendency to depend on which mood he’s in.
“If he’s in happy-go-lucky mood, then it’s ‘Lars is OK, ha ha, the little Danish guy, we used to dig holes in the earth and smoke bongs’ or whatever, and if he’s in a particular type of mood then it’s, ‘Lars is a fuckin’ asshole.’ I can’t control that.
“I keep coming back to the statistics, which are interesting: he’s never played on a Metallica record, he was in the band for 10 months, 25 years ago! That’s an amazing statistic when you think about it, and still Metallica is such a prominent part of his existence. That’s just mind-blowing, because he has made some of the best heavy metal records of all time. It blows my mind.”

Terrorvision vs Queens of The Stone Age
1999: From Terrorvision’s MySpace: “Terrovision headlined a stage at the ‘Big Day Out’ at the Milton Keynes Bowl, and got into a dressing room brawl with Queens Of The Stone Age.” NME.com mention in a QOTSA review, that: “Nick Oliveri was in Seattle’s evil porno punks the Dwarves until he got thrown out for bad behaviour and was arrested at last year’s Big Day Out for attacking Terrorvision.”

Axl vs the world (ft: Izzy Sradlin, Motley Crue, Nirvana, Tommy Hilfiger)
http://en.wikipedia..../Axl_Rose#Feuds
1989: Vince Neil punched Izzy Stradlin over a girl. Axl wades in.
1992: Phew, real car crash this one. Kirk says Guns N’ Roses are “so obviously pathetic and untalented”. It all rolls along for years until now apparently the (ex)-GN’R crew are now pals again.
2006: Axl’s lawyers release some statement about stuff Slash told him. It’s all denied. Axl hates Velvet Revolver. Simple.
2006: Tommy Hilfiger swings at Axl for moving a drink or something. Wikipedia states that “Hilfiger - wearing a GN’R shirt – and Axl were seen “hugging” and “burying the hatchet” backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards” later.
2006: Rose refers to opening act the Eagles of Death Metal as the “Pigeons of Shit Metal. I’m sorry to say that this will be their last night with us.” And it was.
1987: Axls announces onstage that “Bon Jovi can suck my dick”. In 2006 Jon Bon Jovi said: “You know what pisses me off? …a story about Axl Rose and the $13m Guns N’ Roses record that was never made. That motherfucker hasn’t made a record in 13 years and he gets all that attention. You know what I’ve done in 13 years? A lot. But they have continued to write about the freak show aspect of him.” Poor old Jon, suffering, un-appreciated in the shadows.

Murderdolls vs Dani Filth
2003: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth keeps walking into the Murderdolls area at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. He was ejected from the area, and then the party and only left when security punched him on the sternum, knocking him over. (Dani Filth famously trashed a rock magazines offices after a bad review).

Fred Durst vs Dino Cazares
2002: From www.rockdirt.com - Limp Bizkit attempted to offer former Fear Factory guitarist, Dino Cazares, for an audition to fill the band’s vacant guitarist role following last year’s departure of Wes Borland. Dino immediately turned down the offer saying joining Limp Bizkit would be “career suicide.” Ta.

Maiden vs Sharon Osbourne
Here’s what ‘apparently’ happened at the 2005 Ozzfest:
Bruce cussed Ozzy, something about being an old duffer. Sharon calls him a prick and on the last day instigates an onstage egging of Maiden during their set and fucks with their sound. In the aftermath Sharon shoots her mouth off dissing Maiden further, Maiden stay sctum. Ish. If you really want to know, there are about ten million ‘eye witness accounts’ – start here: http://www.google.co... osbourne&meta=
(Sharon also recently got into a scrap on Charm School http://www.metalhamm...-charm-school/)

Dillinger vs Disturbed
2008: Dillinger guitarist Ben Weinman told Australian magazine Beat that he saw the guys choreographing every one of their moves during a soundcheck, saying “[they were] practicing where they were going to walk and when they were going to put their leg up on the monitor and pose… That was weird for us. There are times [during live shows] where I don’t even know where I am.”
Disturbed frontman David Draiman responded: “Let me give you a little bit of education: This is what the big boys do who play stadium shows”.

Brent Hinds (Mastodon) vs Shavo Odadjian (System Of A Down) and others.
2007: An inebriated Hinds left the Mandalay Bay after the MTV VMAs around 3am and met Shavo and musician William Hudson at the hotel’s west valet area. Hinds took his shirt off and hit Shavo with it before hitting Hudson in both the face and then chest. The police report says both Shavo and Hudson punched Hinds in the face, knocking him to the ground.
2008: There was an alleged altercation between garage rocker King Khan and Hinds: “He said ‘Do you know who I am? I am the greatest guitar player around,’ and punched me in the face.”
There are also reports that the band got into a fight while on tour in the northern UK.

Vivian Campbell vs Ronnie James Dio
2003: Vivian Campbell: “[Playing in Dio] never mattered to me — and still doesn’t… He’s an incredible talent, but he’s an awful businessman and way more importantly, one of the vilest people in the industry.”
2007: Ronnie James Dio says: “I hope he fucking dies. He’s a fucking asshole. He’s got two fucking chances. He’s a piece of shit. He called me the most despicable human being that ever lived. I went, ‘I thought I gave you a chance and made you somebody. And now you’re playing with who? Def fucking who?’ There’s a fucking rock band for you to fucking have diarrhoea with.” Video: http://uk.youtube.co...re=channel_page
He later said: “OK, I get the point — you really don’t like me at all! Well, tell me what the problem is, Vivian. Tell everybody what the problem is, because at the moment everyone is kind of scratching their heads over this one.”

David Coverdale vs The Quireboys
2004: www.chroniclelive.c o.uk reported: Spike: “We were 45 seconds late going on stage one night and a minute-and-a-half late coming off another night.”
“On both occasions we were given a dressing-down - one for getting the crowd out of their seats! I asked whether this was a rock’n’roll tour or a bingo night?” Then Spike discovered The Quireboys’ merchandise had gone missing. Then the final blow: “They told us we were off the tour but it was hardly a surprise.” So the ‘Boys didn’t get to play their hometown gig in Newcastle: “It was going to be a very special night for everyone,” admitted Spike. “And we want to stress that we haven’t pulled out. We were told we weren’t wanted and that’s that.”
James Gill vs Angela Gossow
2005: Gill quotes Angela as saying: “People think that because you bought a ticket to the show that they own you. No, you see the show and go home, I don’t owe you anything.”
Angela says she’s been misquoted.
2006: Angela says in a MH Spanish Inquisition: “If I ever see that little cunt Gill again I am going to kick his teeth so far down his throat that he can never do another interview ever again.”
Gill shits himself.
2006: Angela confronts Gill at the MH Golden God Awards. Angela opens up and they agree to do another interview to straighten things out.
2007: They do. She admitted that: “I thought I’ve got to meet that cunt again and knock the shit out of him.”

Gaahl (Gorgoroth) and King ov Hell vs Infernus (Gorgoroth)
2008: Who has the rights to the name Gorgoroth? The legal battle continues. Probably in a forest near Oslo.

David Lee Roth vs Sammy Hagar vs Eddie Van Halen
The two Van Halen singers have been at it since 1985.
Sammy Hagar: All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That’s kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
DLR: I left and I said “I really want to make music and I’ll take a cut if that’s necessary to be an artist”. But listen to this. The last album sold a million and a half, theirs sold a little more than that, but I don’t break it up five ways.
Sammy Hagar: Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it’s sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
everything that comes out of his mouth is word-barf. It’s the lowest common denominator. It’s meant for children. Jimi Hendrix never made music for children. Children may have loved it, but he never made music like “Hey, the 14-year-olds will love this”. The guys in Led Zeppelin and the Beatles never said “I’m gonna aim this at the 12-year-olds”.
Sammy Hagar: Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
DLR: [Sammy’s] my bitch, and when he says my name we just sell that many more records.
Sammy Hagar: If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That’s how petty the situation had become.
DLR: Sammy is a mindless little bridge-troll drone.
Sammy Hagar: It’s a good thing I don’t read everything Eddie says, or I’d be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
DLR: he was a complete failure till he got with the Van Halen bunch.
Sammy Hagar: It’s hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he’s really limited to a style and they’re locked into it.
DLR: You’ve got someone who’s enfeebled himself with dope and alcohol who’s gonna go along with the situation.
Sammy Hagar: Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn’t do any solo records, I couldn’t write for other people, I couldn’t do this and I couldn’t do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
DLR: Sammy would sell the property rights to his butthole to get fame.
Sammy Hagar: When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn’t go along with that too well.
DLR: Sammy Hagar, who at best is a mediocre talent…
Sammy Hagar: When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
DLR: I left and I said “I really want to make music and I’ll take a cut if that’s necessary to be an artist”. But listen to this. The last album sold a million and a half, theirs sold a little more than that, but I don’t break it up five ways.

Lynyrd Skynyrd vs Neil Young
Neil Young’s ‘Southern Man’ is a biting rant about Confederate racism that drew the ire of proud rednecks Lynyrd Skynyrd and prompted their musical response in the track ‘Sweet Home Alabama “Well I hope Neil Young will remember/ A southern man don’t need him around anyhow”

Marilyn Manson vs USA (& My Chemical Romance)
2007: Manson wrote ‘Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of about Gerard Way’s outfit, and features the lyrics, “Fuck you, fuck you”. He said: “I’m embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I’ve done.”
My Chemical Romance’s Frank Ieror said “The funny thing is that he seems to have lashed out at us about the make-up. That’s weird to me, because I had heard of Alice Cooper before I heard of Marilyn Manson. I don’t know how he could be mad at us. We never came out and said we were going to call ourselves by a girl’s name and then a serial killer’s name. I’m really sorry if he feels we ripped him off. Maybe he’s doing it for the press.” Gerard Way added: “If Elvis Costello said we sucked we would think about it a bit… We still haven’t found someone that has knocked us down that we need to take seriously.”

Euronymous (Mayhem) vs Varg Vikernes (Burzum)
E: “I invented black metal.”
VV: “You’ve gone soft.” [stab stab stab] “See?”
The end.

Red Hot Chili Peppers vs Mr. Bungle
Spinner.com reported that Mr. Bungle’s Trevor Dunn said Chilis were: “That stupid white band that do horrible cover versions of black musicians.” RHCP’s Anthony Kiedis took exception to Mike Patton’s stage presence in Faith No More, which he thought ripped off his own. When Patton later fronted Mr. Bungle, the bands were set to release albums (’California’ and ‘Californication’) on the same day and label. Bungle’s was pushed back. Kiedis insisted that they be removed from Chilis-headlined festivals. A miffed Patton said, “We are not even a speck of dust on this guy’s ass!” Bungle later put on a Peppers parody, mocking several songs.

Kid Rock vs Tommy Lee
2007: Ok, so they’re all at the VMAs (fave fight venue) Tommy Lee says something to/about Kid Rock as he walks towards P Diddy. Kid Rock then slaps the drummer. Tommy tries to fight back but before he can twat him, Rock chins him. Kid Rock was heard saying the following triple negative clusterfuck: “I never hit nobody for nothing before.” Sooo… he did or he didn’t?

Def Leppard vs Poison
Apparently it wasn’t serious. Shit feud.

Glenn Danzig vs Northside Kings
Watch what happened here first.
Glenn Danzig gets in an argument with North Side Kings singer and frequent Soulfly collaborator Danny Marianinho after a Danzig show. Danny said: “He threw me pretty hard and I reacted like anyone on this site would have. The guy is out of control. The video shows it all — and it was very uncalled for on his end. He caught me off guard when he attacked me — but I caught him with a good jab. That’s it in a nutshell. To this day he has not tried to contact me to apologize for being a mental case…” I wouldn’t hold your breath, mate.

Avenged Sevenfold vs Atreyu
2005: A7X’s M Shadows: “Atreyu are leading the scene that we want to get out of. I wouldn’t say we are fucking friends.” He adds that they ripped off a song intro too.
Atreyu’s Alex Varkatzas said: “I guess if you’re not down with Atreyu, you can go fuck yourself.”
At the time of the feud Atreyu had sold over 410,000 albums while Avenged Sevenfold had only sold 231,421.

Marilyn Manson vs Trent Reznor vs Courtney Love vs Tori Amos
1996: Trent executive produces Manson’s amazing ‘Anti-Christ Superstar’ album. They do tons of blow.
90s (at some point): Trent dates Courtney Love.
1996: Tori Amos allegedly writes ‘Professional Widow’ about Love.
1997-ish: Tori and Trent are allegedly dating.
1998-ish: Trent later said of his falling out with Manson: “. He and I are two strong personalities that could coexist for a while, but things changed. I think fame and power distort people’s personalities.” And Manson later said: “If I were the kind of person to be insulted by petty things, I would be insulted by the way Trent Reznor has acted since I moved from Nothing Records [Reznor's label] on to Interscope.”
1999: Trent allegedly writes ‘Starfuckers Inc’ about Love and Manson.
1999: Trent and Manson make friends.
00s: Courtney still blogs about Trent. She mean 

[lynn]

Axl Rose vs Everyone ever Axl fought everyone in the world. Then put it in a song. The end. Told ya'.

[LISA]

hahah^ I never heard of half of those!

[One Way Ticket]

I wish Axl would have beat Cobains ass after the shit that Kurt talked....Axl is a million times more talented than Kurt could have ever dreamed of being.....Kurt knew that & the only thing he could do was talk shit!!! ( Oh & play the only 3 chords he knew on guitar on every fuckin album!!!)

[cousin it]

... but he bent the shit out of strings on those three cords.

[Mr. Roboto]

Axl Rose vs Everyone ever
Axl fought everyone in the world. Then put it in a song. The end.

Told ya'.

My personal fav ^^

[Mr. Roboto]

I wish Axl would have beat Cobains ass after the shit that Kurt talked....Axl is a million times more talented than Kurt could have ever dreamed of being.....Kurt knew that & the only thing he could do was talk shit!!! ( Oh & play the only 3 chords he knew on guitar on every fuckin album!!!)

Funny, I remember how much I LOVED Nirvana when they came out. The sound was so new compared to what was going on at the time. To me, it didn't hold up hardly as all. Today GnR still sounds kick ass, and Nirvana sounds dated and just so-so.

[freedom78]

I wish Axl would have beat Cobains ass after the shit that Kurt talked....Axl is a million times more talented than Kurt could have ever dreamed of being.....Kurt knew that & the only thing he could do was talk shit!!! ( Oh & play the only 3 chords he knew on guitar on every fuckin album!!!)

Funny, I remember how much I LOVED Nirvana when they came out. The sound was so new compared to what was going on at the time. To me, it didn't hold up hardly as all. Today GnR still sounds kick ass, and Nirvana sounds dated and just so-so.

That pretty much sums it up.

[lynn]

Well, yeah, I'll agree with that. I'm so sick of hearing anything by Nirvana I could puke.

[LISA]

^ count me in as well...two buckets please!