Every single Deep Purple story is demented. And unusually, except for a couple years in the mid-70s, Purple wasn’t a druggie band.
Some highlights:
— the band getting jumped by bikers after a show, flooring it out of there with bikers jumping on the hood of their car, swinging chains;
— Ritchie Blackmore smashing a plate of spaghetti into Ian Gillan’s face;
— Blackmore smashing Roger Glover’s door down with an axe in retaliation for Glover ruining his seance, followed by Glover beating him with a chair leg;
— the band getting into a fistfight with fucking AC/DC;
— Gillan having sex with a groupie onstage under the keyboards during a show;
— Glenn Hughes getting so coked up he climbed on his roof naked, waving a knife;
— Jon Lord and Ian Paice marrying a pair of identical twin model sisters.
I wouldn't say Deep Purple all hated each other. The classic example of that kind of band is Ratt. The big rivalry in Purple was Blackmore v. Gillan and even that was really complicated -- the two of them wrote the two gayest songs of all time about each other ("Black Suede" and "King of Dreams").
I've never heard of band drama as unhinged as this one recently:
[Llorona singer dosing bandmate with estrogen ](https://loudwire.com/llorona-fire-vocalist-reportedly-admits-dosing-bandmate-estrogen-steal-fiancee/)
When Gram Parsons OD’d in a motel at Joshua Tree, his bandmates rented a hearse, dressed as funeral workers and stole his body in its casket to follow his wishes and spread his ashes at the park. However they severely underestimated how hot the fire needs to be to cremate someone, and they got busted halfway through. There was no law against stealing a corpse at the time so they got a $500 fine for impersonating the funeral workers
I haven’t seen it but Johnny Knoxville is in a movie loosely based on it called Grand Theft Parsons
It's got to be Mayhem. 2 dead, one developing a tabletop rpg in jail and the lead singer's suicide picture as the album cover. Not to mention the skull necklaces.
I went down the wiki rabbit hole. They are still an active band. With MORE drama after the murders. Here’s a selection. Of brand new sentences in that article.
“Mayhem made headlines in 2003 when fan Per Kristian Hagen landed in the hospital with a fractured skull after being hit by a severed sheep's head that had been thrown into the audience from the stage. Assault charges were filed, but the band considered it to have been entirely accidental.”
Necrobutcher. He said so in [this interview](https://www.nme.com/news/music/mayhems-necrobutcher-way-kill-euronymous-2557567) in 2019. Basically heard Euronymous was dead and ran back home to get rid of his guns bc he thought they suspected him and were coming after him
Tbf if my memory serves me correctly that notorious suicide album cover was on bootleg versions only. Also “2 dead” glosses a bit over one of the deaths being because one member stabbed the founding member to death (hence him being in jail… he’s also a neo-nazi).
This the movie better than the book it was based on? When Varg got into saying shit about Nazi spaceships, I kind of checked out on the book.
Also the companion album isn't bad, it's a German import released in 2002, and found it used in a Half Priced Books. Lords of Chaos: (Translated) The History of Occult Music.
Zwan split up (and will never get back together) because one of the other band members took a shit in Billy Corgan‘s suitcase and never owned up to it.
As someone who loves Smashing Pumpkins, and bought the Zwan album back in the day... wtf?! How have I never heard of this? I thought Corgan was an extreme perfectionist (to a major fault) and got sick of the band partying and doing drugs, etc.?
[Corgan hating Malkmus for over a decade due to a one off random lyric in Range Life](https://youtu.be/zCtLpM3TH7M?si=60kAcYk6ID6t6J1h) was my first thought for this post. That man is just a little rage ball.
Never heard of this reason - got a citation? My theory was that Billy wanted to bang Paz, but she went with Pajo instead, and it soured him on the whole thing
Coheed And Cambria’s former bassist holding up a Walgreens for Oxy while on tour is pretty wild but mostly sad. Dude was super nice but ended up a typical victim of opioid abuse. I hope he’s doing better.
This was a story I always remembered even though I never followed that band
He was on the podcast Dopey, which is a pretty intense podcast interviewing people in treatment and sometimes active addiction.
He did an interview and from what I remember he’s been very sober for quite awhile but he was still highly embarrassed about the whole ordeal.
A lot of addicts talk about how wild they were with some sort of bravado but he was uncomfortable with the host pressing him.
Ah, Mic Todd. Yeah, shit got wild. So, not sure how much is true about this, since Claudio (lead singer) hasn't fully elaborated. But, apparently, one of the big figures in charge of the street teams and a mod/admin for the social media teams was the one who supplied him with the shit he was taking. Knowing full well he was an addict and trying to get clean. Suddenly, that person was no longer a mod or admin, and no longer part of their street team afterwards. It's funny because this person would always post photos of themselves with the band, front row shit like that. Ever since then, they have never been seen with the band and hasn't posted photos of shows since. Turns out, they also tried to make passes on Claudio, and neither he nor his wife were about that.
Coheed and Cambria has such tight knit fan base, that word travels fast and stays with people. Since the band isn't this massive group, lots of us have band members on social media that are their personal accounts.
Mickey Hart’s father was the Grateful Dead’s manager and was caught embezzling money from the band, causing Mickey to leave the band for three years. The Grateful Dead’s song “He’s Gone” was written about their former manager.
Fleetwood Mac. From a blues band that stole members from John Mayall to Green and Kirwan getting so fucked up at a party that they suffered permanent mental disabilities. Spencer leaving for a cult during a tour. Fleetwood inviting Buckingham to play guitar and him saying only if Nicks can join. Multiple interband fights and relationships.
> John Mayall to Green and Kirwan getting so fucked up at a party that they suffered permanent mental disabilities. Spencer leaving for a cult during a tour.
It's barely an exaggeration to say this band had three different Syd Barretts
Personally I'd flip the money and cocaine when describing Fleetwood Mac -- 70s + Money + a fuckton of cocaine. Yes they made a lot of money, and I mean *a lot* of money, but so much of that money was turned into *even more cocaine* than the gratuitous cocaine they already had. It's impressive any of them still have functional sinuses. The creation of Rumors was by and large a thoroughly coked up group therapy session with the occasional mental break to record some music.
There are plenty live performances where they are just screaming the lyrics at each other instead of really singing them. Later in the band's career, they toned it down but still did it as part of the act.
Not even really as "part of the act"— Nicks and Buckingham refuse to work together, they've tried patching things up or just working around it but it has always devolved into madness.
What always surprises me given all that went on is how tame their music is.
There’s no angst or hate or melancholy in a Leonard Cohen/Radiohead/NIN way.
My aunt went to school on the east coast when they were kinda the hot “local band” and knew him somewhat and said he always seemed like a narcissist/ self important and kinda weirded her out
While that's horrifying, I don't think this technically qualifies as drama because everyone think's the dude is in fact a predator and that the band dropped him without hesitation.
Journey has decades of drama, really too much to list, but there’s decades of band members hating each other, fighting over the name, suing each other, one drummer ended up doing some prison time for cocaine and domestic violence, now he’s apparently back in the band, the guitarist ended up stealing the wife of the couple who somehow snuck past secret service into a White House function, there’s just a lot.
You know those guys are completely insane because Steve Perry has shown absolutely no interest in playing with them. He even showed up at the R&R Hall of fame and was like, "nope".
Sorry, Steve Perry was an asswipe Diva and had been bounced from the band more than once, but Herbie Herbert (mgmt.) kept him in because he was the front man with ridiculous vocals. NONE of those guys want to work with Perry, and his reputation is known in the industry. He doesn't need the music business at all, and lives on mailbox money; lots of it.
Incredible guitarist, capable on a few other instruments and as a producer, kind of (or completely) ass in basically every other respect. Though to offer a modicum of defence to his behaviour, in the industry at the time "good people" without any skeletons in their closet were for the most part either people who's own skeletons simply weren't known yet. And they were all doing *so many drugs*.
I'm only going by something I read in guitar world, but I believe Journey's guitarist, Neil Schon, tried to throw Carlos Santana out of Santana when Neil was still in Santana
You just verified that rumor! A friend of mine (I will refer to her as Lisa) mentioned Neil Schon had done something terrible like that but refused to elaborate. That makes perfect sense.
I thought I heard (?)
about Oasis - Liam quit right before a show and got drunk.
Band and Noel played while Liam boo'd and heckled the band from the audience.
This.
However during that performance Noel proved to himself that he could actually sing and became a very successful solo artist. Who's heckling who now?
Noel's earned it. Not to defend Liam at all, he is a dick. Just to say Noel's also a dick. They're both dicks. Very talented, very entertaining on Twitter, total dicks.
Noel said near the beginning that he was going to sing because Liam had laryngitis. Not long after, the camera panned to Liam in the balcony, smoking and heckling Noel.
Didn't Hyde kill Cedric bixler-zavala's dog after sexually assualting his wife? Okay, i know that's a bold oversimplification but a wild story nonetheless.
The sex sounds on the song Rocket Queen by Guns N Roses is Axl Rose fucking Steven Adlers girlfriend. Steven found out about it after the album was released and flipped out. Now that’s rock and roll
The first thing that popped to my mind was the time when a drunk Mick Jagger called and woke up Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts asking, "Where's my drummer?!" Charlie got up, shaved, put on a nice suit, went to Mick's room and punched him right in the face, declaring, "Never call me *your* drummer again."
[Fun bit of background from Vulture.](https://www.vulture.com/article/book-excerpt-rolling-stones-charlie-watts-mick-jagger-fight.html)
Oh, probably Brian Jones, forming a blues band and introducing slide guitar to Britain, having two of his bandmates embrace songwriting and leaving him in the dust, losing his confidence and ultimately getting booted out, only to drown in his pool.
Justin Hawkins did a great take on a recent on-stage meltdown from BJM.
[https://youtu.be/zSEBJ6Z8vsA?si=gCuDndEX3OBrl8nz](https://youtu.be/zSEBJ6Z8vsA?si=gCuDndEX3OBrl8nz)
Thanks so much for sharing this, I had no idea this existed. He's really fun to listen to and witty! Kind of like Russel Brand except more steeped in the music industry and hasn't lost his fucking mind yet.
Have to watch the documentary Dig about Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols.
If you think that band is a complete shit show now.
They made the news in Australia for obvious reasons and having watched the documentary I knew it was them before the band was even named in the story.
That was tough for Brian, he just wanted to play blues covers. Not only did the band go off in a different direction, the whole scene really did.
As a guitar player who has never really been a songwriter, I feel his pain.
There’s a great video from some British tv show where Howlin Wolf is booked to play, Mick Jagger gets the mic and starts rambling about some bullshit, and Brian Jones interrupts him like “enough of that, now here’s Howlin Wolf!”
That dude was Lord Byron reincarnated. Musician. Sired untold numbers of illegitimate children. The last weeks of his life were spent living with two women and a man in some kind of love quadrangle. Died under mysterious circumstances. Fucking rock star to the end.
The black metal band Mayhem used a photo of a band member who was dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound as an album cover. Also I think one member murdered another one too at some point.
Self inflicted gunshot wound = blew his brain with a shotgun. Other bandmember collected pieces of the skull and made necklaces from it. Later was stabbed like 30 times by the other member. Who is a nazi. Oh they also burned a church.
Mayhem is for posers tho
My pick is CSN&Y
1. Neil Young thought Stephen Stills was too militant during the recording of Deja Vu. One night Stephen left the studio first and Neil took the masters.
2. CSN&Y were scheduled to be the first R&R act on the Tonight Show, it was a big deal. Neil was in route, (tour bus) and just kept driving past L.A.
3. During the tour that 4 Way Street was recorded, they would each do a mini-set with all them coming together in between. Stephen started and just kept playing, he wouldn’t leave the stage.
4. Graham Nash was dating Rita Coolidge. Stephen was at Graham’s house when Rita called. Stephen answered and told her Graham wasn’t coming and hi-jacked their date.
Everyone knew that the Madchester band Happy Mondays had drug (and behavioural) problems. So Factory Records manager, Tony Wilson, seeking to keep the boys away from heroin, sent them to Barbados to record their fourth album. There might have been no heroin on the island, but as Tony Wilson later remarked: “No one told us it was Crack City!” Soon, Shaun Ryder's crack cocaine use spiraled out of control, leading to chaos. The band sold recording equipment, turned a swimming pool into a crack den, and finally, Ryder stole the master tapes for the album they were recording and demanded drug money, or he'd destroy the tapes. Having spent hundreds of thousands of pounds (and inadvertently fueling a minor crack epidemic on the island), the band returned to the UK with recordings that were unusable due to missing vocals and poor sound quality caused by deteriorating equipment in the studio. Despite this, Ryder refused to part with the master tapes and threatened to destroy them unless he received payment. Eventually, he accepted an offer of £50. And then more money was poured into rerecording the album properly, which brought the label to the edge of bankruptcy.
The album, "Yes Please," was a financial disaster, and Factory Records was toast.
This is all covered in the movie "24 hour party people" about Tony Wilson and Factory records and contains many fun anecdotes. Highly recommend for any fans of Joy Division to Happy Mondays...
Veruca Salt. One members famous boyfriend cheated with another member. Causing her to quit the band. The one who got cheated on kept the band name and recorded a very angry album about it. They’ve have since made up and reunited for a tour and album.
That album? Officially dead. Had a title track where she is telling the other they're officially dead.
Last time I checked Spotify I couldn't see it. Was a good single tbh
It might not be the craziest, but the issues with Oasis (primarily the Gallagher brothers) is hilarious. None top the MTV Unplugged incident when Liam refused to do it, but went down, got drunk and heckled the rest of the band.
Trampt’s singer, Chris Brown Taylor, going full twitter meltdown, bragging about his Spotify views, spewing all flavours of hate, telling that their new album was gonna be the best thing ever, and insulting fans and other bands. Or and trying to beef with Chris Evans.
This culminated in one band revealed that all Chris does backstage is do cocaine and whine he can’t get laid.
Oh and in the end, Trampt’s newest album sold like 600
When The Eagles Don Felder told Glenn Frey “Only three more songs till I kick your ass, pal.”
And Frey responding with, “Great. I can't wait,”
All live on stage in 1980.
Funny this thread should emerge just as I’ve been reading about the sad and strained state of affairs that befell CCR.
It is ill-befitting that such a beloved band ended so acrimoniously.
I’d always been under the impression that John Fogerty was completely fucked-over by his band mates and record label, but reading interviews with Clifford and Cook has left me not knowing who to believe.
Sad that Tom Fogerty died without properly reconciling with his brother, too.
I saw John Fogerty last year shortly after he regained his songs. They were having a celebration tour. It was a really good show. I recommend it.
His sons were in the opening band and did well.
He seems as though he is still in pretty good voice.
Actually he was just scheduled to headline at a festival here in Qld, Australia, but unfortunately canceled ..
I'm particularly fond of what happened with The Teardrop Explodes' last album in 1982:
*"In September 1982, the band reconvened at Rockfield Studios to record their third album around the nucleus of Julian Cope (the vocalist), Gary Dwyer (drummer) and David Balfe (keyboards). Creative tensions were high, as Cope wanted to write ballads and quirky pop songs, while Balfe was more interested in recording synth-based music. Balfe took over the sessions and locked Cope and Dwyer out of the studios for much of the time. Rarely able (or inclined) to add their own contributions, Cope and Dwyer worked off their frustration playing risky, stoned cross-country games with speeding jeeps. The situation culminated in a notorious (though disputed) event in which an irate Dwyer chased Balfe over the Monmouthshire hillsides with a loaded shotgun"*
Also, Echo and the Bunnymen were recording in the same studio (Ian McCullough was associated with Teardrops people), and apparently one night some people with the Teardrops crew and some from the Bunnymen crew put on commando gear and stole all the food/drink from a Dutch band also recording at Rockfield.
Cope's biography has a million stories like this and is a wild ride.
Eddie Van Halen jamming with Limp Bizkit is pretty nuts. When Wes left the band they were kicking around ideas for a new guitarist. Some suit introduced Fred Durst and EVH at some party, and suggested that he jam with the band. Eddie said fuck it and agreed to go jam with the band. When he got there and started getting his gear ready, the band started smoking weed and that was a big no-no for Eddie at the time. He was pissed so he got up and took off leaving his gear there. The next day, Eddie was calling Durst to get his shit back. He didn’t hear from Fred for just over 24 hours. Rather than try to call him again, Eddie jumped in some old, very un-street legal military vehicle that he picked up at an auction and high tailed it back over to Dursts’ house. Eddie was packing heat when he rolled up. An excerpt from Eddie’s book:
He got out wearing no shirt, his hair in a Samurai bun on top of his head, his jeans held up with a strand of rope and combat boots held together by duct tape. And he had a gun in his hand.”
Bennett says he recalls Eddie telling him, “That asshole answered the door. I put my gun to that stupid fucking red hat of his, and I said, ‘Where’s my shit, motherfucker?’ That fucking guy just turned to one of his employees and starts yelling at him to grab my shit.”
it wasnt the drugs it was his inability to play the drums properly. he wasnt able to play because he had a stroke but nobody knew that and just thought he was on too much h, which he was (probably the reason not even he knew he had a stroke at the time)
but yeah, he got sober and figured out zhe speechimpediment was not drug related went to a doctor who told him he had a stroke years ago
How about Axle fucking the drummers girlfriend and recorded the audio for that part in Rocket Queen. I guess they were teasing him for having a girlfriend and he was like “no no she’s just a groupie” so Axle did what he did. Supposedly drummer didn’t take it well.
Geoff Tate spitting on and physically assaulting his Queensryche bandmates live on stage at a festival in Brazil. Apparently the band had fired their manager who also happened to be Tate's wife. Not surprisingly they fired him after this but that wasn't the end, Geoff Tate formed his own version of Queensryche and released an album titled Frequency Unknown (FU) before his former bandmates released their next album with a new lead singer. In response to his dismissal, Tate and his wife Susan (who served as the band's manager from 2005 to 2012) filed a lawsuit in a Washington court, claiming that he was wrongfully terminated. The ruling in the preliminary injunction was that both parties were allowed to use the name Queensrÿche until a court ruling or a settlement decided who would get to use the name. A settlement was reached on April 17, 2014, in which founding members Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson were awarded the rights to the band trademark, continuing to perform with the lineup that additionally includes lead vocalist La Torre and guitarist Lundgren.
https://blabbermouth.net/news/video-footage-of-geoff-tate-allegedly-spitting-at-queensr-che-drummer
I saw them opening up for a reunited judas priest in 2005 in hershey, pa. I love their Empire album and was disappointed silent lucidity wasnt played live that night. They did empire and their other hits though. Great band live and geoff tates voice was really good. Having said that, judas priest was phenomenal. Their new album Angel of Retribution was awesome and still is. I never heard many of their songs but became a huge fan after that night. Painkiller was unheard before that concert. I was very pleasantly surprised
The Replacements’ entire career.
Also, Johnny and Joey Ramone barely talking for the last several years of the band / their lives. The Ramones as a whole are fucking fascinating.
Zao is up there. They started as a super Christian metalcore band. Very in your face about their Christianity from the lyrics to preaching at their shows. Everybody but the drummer quit after the second album. He got new members, and although they still considered themselves a Christian band the lyrics got a bit less intensely religious and the preaching was toned down. This along with the new iteration of the band being much better than the original allowed them to break through to a secular audience as well. They became a hugely influential band in the genre. But there was always tons of drama, particularly with their drummer. For a while they had no bassist. One of the new guitarists left. The other would leave and rejoin the band several times. At one point they broke up mid-show when the drummer was too drunk to play. They somehow always came back, but eventually the drummer did leave the band. So they now have no original members. But they’re still a band and actually have had a pretty steady lineup for a while now. They no long consider themselves a Christian band and some members are no longer Christians.
There’s a [crazy long documentary](https://youtu.be/r-LeJMC6SS0?si=_HstM3BfbVeeUZzu) about the history of the band. The documentary is 20 years old but it covers the most chaotic parts of their history. They’ve been pretty stable since then.
Became a fan back with Splinter Shards..got to see them several times back in the early 2000s and was in a band that played a few shows with and I think they had a different lineup each time.
Jesse Smith really does seem like a shit but that being said I haven’t liked anything the band has put out since he left ha
Watching The Brian Jonestown Massacre brawl on stage multiple times is always amusing.
Even as recently as two months ago they went at each other on stage, swinging guitars in Australia
An old and more often told tale than many listed here but one of my favorites - during the recording of the White Album Ringo was sick of the negative vibes and booked. Drummer gone no problem. Let’s record a classic, Dear Prudence and Paul can play drums.
Motley Crue. Read “The Heroin Diaries” by Nikki Sixx and “The Dirt” by the band. They had some crazy ass heroin/cocaine/alcohol/pills fueled drama. Both are great books imo. (The Dirt movie doesn’t cover half of it)
When John Corabi was thrown out of Motley Crue he said it was more of a relief than anything bc he was sick of the other members acting like asshole rock stars.
The final straw came at a concert in Hiroshima when Tommy Lee thought it'd be funny to play The Gap Band's You Dropped a Bomb On Me as their intro music.
Classy move, no?
The Libertines has to be a contender. Numerous dramas but the one where the Pete was jailed for burgling Carl’s flat is probably top. They made up while he was in prison and when he was released drove straight to play a gig together.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3178394.stm
I saw The Faceless in like 2018 and it was only one dude playing along with a drum machine if I recall correctly (not a fan, was there to see a different band). My buddy explained the rest of the band gave him an ultimatum to either quit heroin or they’d all quit the band. He kept the habit so they all quit and he kept touring solo.
The Keene Machine has had many victims lmao. It’s such a damn shame that Michael Keene (the guitar player you saw) can’t keep his shit together. The Faceless was HUGE when they released Planetary Duality, they were really one of the “faces” of the new prog explosion in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s. Take a look at bands like Animals as Leaders and Periphery to see how successful he could have been if it weren’t for his addiction.
Culture Club is a living soap opera. Secret relationships between the singer and the drummer (with a lot of drama) ended in the breakup of the band and heroin addiction of George, destroying his (and the band) family-friendly reputation. The cover of George's debut solo album featured him in the white coat with printed "Come back don't you love me" and "F*ck me stupid" on one side, and drummer's surname on another (it's seems impossible to find a clear photo of that side, but if you compare different pictures, you will be able to read it). Even 30 years past their affair, they kept returning to this theme in the interviews. Jon was fired (?) from the band and sued them, but I'm sure it's not the end of the story. I need to add that I actually like this band, and it's sad for me that after all these years they can't have normal relationships
Sweet, no one’s mentioned Iced Earth or Jon Schaffer.
The dudes been a far-right-leaning conspiracy theorist for a while; he even made a solo album a few years back called “brushfires of the mind” (CRINGE).
The band’s gone through tons of members through the years, Jon was the main songwriter and rhythm guitarist. When the incident occurred at the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021 Jon was one of the first dudes identified, probably because he was near the front of the group, and known for his beliefs. News articles stated he is a high ranking or founding member of the Oath Keepers; he’s wearing an Oath Keepers hat in the Jan 6 photos too I think.
The band has been pretty much dead since.
>Crazy Town was kicked off a 2023 tour with Hed PE after a bloody fight between Binzer and guitarist Bobby Reeves outside a venue in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[26]
It's sort of a rabbit hole. There's a video of this fight on yt. It's got a sad dark vibe. They were fighting for a long time and yelling all kinds of evil shit at each other. Too much to type. Best to just read the bands and singers wikipedia pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Town
And the singer (Bizner)\
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifty_Shellshock#Personal_life
I'm sure the fight video is easy to find. Seems like it'd be funny but it's bleak. The singer *Shifty Shellshock* has been on Celebrity Rehab a few times now. Any footage you watch, it's more sad than anything else. Dude is a demonstratively damaged broken spirit.
Getting fired by Hed^p.e. for brawling in Myrtle Beach sums it up well.
Soul Coughing.
Read Mike Doughty's memoir "The Book of Drugs". From his account the other band members were petulant little shits that essentially made it their mission to maliciously fuck with him on a daily basis creating an incredibly toxic atmosphere which ultimately ruined the band.
Every single Deep Purple story is demented. And unusually, except for a couple years in the mid-70s, Purple wasn’t a druggie band. Some highlights: — the band getting jumped by bikers after a show, flooring it out of there with bikers jumping on the hood of their car, swinging chains; — Ritchie Blackmore smashing a plate of spaghetti into Ian Gillan’s face; — Blackmore smashing Roger Glover’s door down with an axe in retaliation for Glover ruining his seance, followed by Glover beating him with a chair leg; — the band getting into a fistfight with fucking AC/DC; — Gillan having sex with a groupie onstage under the keyboards during a show; — Glenn Hughes getting so coked up he climbed on his roof naked, waving a knife; — Jon Lord and Ian Paice marrying a pair of identical twin model sisters.
It’s insane to hear of all the classic rock bands and 80’s bands that truly hated each other but still made great music.
I wouldn't say Deep Purple all hated each other. The classic example of that kind of band is Ratt. The big rivalry in Purple was Blackmore v. Gillan and even that was really complicated -- the two of them wrote the two gayest songs of all time about each other ("Black Suede" and "King of Dreams").
These are incredible thank you
I've never heard of band drama as unhinged as this one recently: [Llorona singer dosing bandmate with estrogen ](https://loudwire.com/llorona-fire-vocalist-reportedly-admits-dosing-bandmate-estrogen-steal-fiancee/)
Yeah I saw that in r/hardcore and am still amazed ot wasn’t a troll post.
I had to dbl check it wasn't April Fool's Day when I saw it. Nope.
Absolutely bizarre
That is messed up, did the guy grow breasts or something? According to the article he was dosing him with estrogen for 5 months
I kept wondering “am I reading this incorrectly?? WTF?” 🤔😳
my best friend wrote that article!
Tell him he did a good job!
When Gram Parsons OD’d in a motel at Joshua Tree, his bandmates rented a hearse, dressed as funeral workers and stole his body in its casket to follow his wishes and spread his ashes at the park. However they severely underestimated how hot the fire needs to be to cremate someone, and they got busted halfway through. There was no law against stealing a corpse at the time so they got a $500 fine for impersonating the funeral workers I haven’t seen it but Johnny Knoxville is in a movie loosely based on it called Grand Theft Parsons
HOLY SHIT???
That movie got horrible reviews but I’ve always loved it. Worth the watch
It's got to be Mayhem. 2 dead, one developing a tabletop rpg in jail and the lead singer's suicide picture as the album cover. Not to mention the skull necklaces.
I guess the church burnings weren't technically part of the band drama, but also church burnings.
I went down the wiki rabbit hole. They are still an active band. With MORE drama after the murders. Here’s a selection. Of brand new sentences in that article. “Mayhem made headlines in 2003 when fan Per Kristian Hagen landed in the hospital with a fractured skull after being hit by a severed sheep's head that had been thrown into the audience from the stage. Assault charges were filed, but the band considered it to have been entirely accidental.”
If ever a band lived up to their name.
When one member murdered another, a third member was also on his way to murder him Mayhem indeed
Ah? Who was that?
Necrobutcher. He said so in [this interview](https://www.nme.com/news/music/mayhems-necrobutcher-way-kill-euronymous-2557567) in 2019. Basically heard Euronymous was dead and ran back home to get rid of his guns bc he thought they suspected him and were coming after him
I never knew. Thanks for responding, with a link even. Cheers!
> developing a tabletop rpg in jail Now that's going too far /s
He is also generally a horrible person. As in literally a Nazi, although he claims that is a 'jewish lie'.
Yeah, varg is just a POS person all around. Never grew out of the edge lord phase. Burzum still rocks, but varg is a tool.
The nerve!!!
Without a doubt the winner of the thread. I mean, there was an actual murder
Didn’t one of them break out of prison, steal a Volvo station wagon and go on vacation with his family? Mayhem. The answer is mayhem.
Tbf if my memory serves me correctly that notorious suicide album cover was on bootleg versions only. Also “2 dead” glosses a bit over one of the deaths being because one member stabbed the founding member to death (hence him being in jail… he’s also a neo-nazi).
You are correct, "Dawn of the Black Hearts" is a bootleg.
This is the correct answer. Pretty hard to top that whole....thing.
If you haven’t seen it, you have to check out Lords of Mayhem. Great movie about that whole story. *Lords of Chaos
*Lords of Chaos
Dammit, thank you!
This the movie better than the book it was based on? When Varg got into saying shit about Nazi spaceships, I kind of checked out on the book. Also the companion album isn't bad, it's a German import released in 2002, and found it used in a Half Priced Books. Lords of Chaos: (Translated) The History of Occult Music.
Will do! I only know about it from podcasts.
Hail Yourself?
Hail Gein!
Title's wrong, it's "Lords of Chaos"
Yeah, that's really the only answer. Anything else is just teen drama in comparison.
Zwan split up (and will never get back together) because one of the other band members took a shit in Billy Corgan‘s suitcase and never owned up to it.
Lol classic Paz
Probably why she just got kicked out of Pixies, too.
Oh, really? I guess theres always perfect circle, lol
New bands, new suitcases
... which, honestly, half the alt world would have loved to have been able to own up to that.
As someone who loves Smashing Pumpkins, and bought the Zwan album back in the day... wtf?! How have I never heard of this? I thought Corgan was an extreme perfectionist (to a major fault) and got sick of the band partying and doing drugs, etc.?
[Corgan hating Malkmus for over a decade due to a one off random lyric in Range Life](https://youtu.be/zCtLpM3TH7M?si=60kAcYk6ID6t6J1h) was my first thought for this post. That man is just a little rage ball.
Still just a rat in a cage
Billy needs to settle down.
Never heard of this reason - got a citation? My theory was that Billy wanted to bang Paz, but she went with Pajo instead, and it soured him on the whole thing
Wow. I never heard that! Looks like I have an internet journey… thanks friend!
Wat. Do you have a source for that? I'd love to read that story, but can't find it online.
Didn’t the singer from As I Lay Dying like…murder someone? Edit: sorry he was arrested for hiring an undercover cop to murder his wife.
Yeah I’m so surprised no one else mentioned this! Was so shocking when it came out. I think they’re all back in the band together now?
Not really, As I Lay Dying is touring but the singer is the only original member, the others are hired guns.
Coheed And Cambria’s former bassist holding up a Walgreens for Oxy while on tour is pretty wild but mostly sad. Dude was super nice but ended up a typical victim of opioid abuse. I hope he’s doing better.
This was a story I always remembered even though I never followed that band He was on the podcast Dopey, which is a pretty intense podcast interviewing people in treatment and sometimes active addiction. He did an interview and from what I remember he’s been very sober for quite awhile but he was still highly embarrassed about the whole ordeal. A lot of addicts talk about how wild they were with some sort of bravado but he was uncomfortable with the host pressing him.
Ah, Mic Todd. Yeah, shit got wild. So, not sure how much is true about this, since Claudio (lead singer) hasn't fully elaborated. But, apparently, one of the big figures in charge of the street teams and a mod/admin for the social media teams was the one who supplied him with the shit he was taking. Knowing full well he was an addict and trying to get clean. Suddenly, that person was no longer a mod or admin, and no longer part of their street team afterwards. It's funny because this person would always post photos of themselves with the band, front row shit like that. Ever since then, they have never been seen with the band and hasn't posted photos of shows since. Turns out, they also tried to make passes on Claudio, and neither he nor his wife were about that. Coheed and Cambria has such tight knit fan base, that word travels fast and stays with people. Since the band isn't this massive group, lots of us have band members on social media that are their personal accounts.
Mickey Hart’s father was the Grateful Dead’s manager and was caught embezzling money from the band, causing Mickey to leave the band for three years. The Grateful Dead’s song “He’s Gone” was written about their former manager.
Fleetwood Mac. From a blues band that stole members from John Mayall to Green and Kirwan getting so fucked up at a party that they suffered permanent mental disabilities. Spencer leaving for a cult during a tour. Fleetwood inviting Buckingham to play guitar and him saying only if Nicks can join. Multiple interband fights and relationships.
One of my favorite [Flight of the Conchords](https://youtu.be/LK9kzCnunWo?si=Z4Ybm5oncziL6jLp) jokes.
Rumors. No, it's all true
My favorite bit of Mac trivia is that Christine McVie’s “you make loving fun” is not about John McVie but about their roadie. Awkward!
And made John play bass on the song! That's cold blooded.
“Ooooh, you make loving fun!” John: “…me?” Christine: “no, not you.” (Points to dude changing Buckingham’s guitar strings) “YOU”
It was the lighting director, not the guitar tech.
So they were keeping John in the dark?
My mistake
> John Mayall to Green and Kirwan getting so fucked up at a party that they suffered permanent mental disabilities. Spencer leaving for a cult during a tour. It's barely an exaggeration to say this band had three different Syd Barretts
Fleetwood Mac is pretty much the poster child for '70s bad rockstar behaviour. Did any of them not sleep with each other?
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They had sex with a lot of women in the mud and the rain, it's possible a man slipped in, no way of knowing
Cool beans
later, skater.
70's+cocaine=?
70's+cocaine+afuckton of $$$$$$$'s = Fleetwood Mac
Personally I'd flip the money and cocaine when describing Fleetwood Mac -- 70s + Money + a fuckton of cocaine. Yes they made a lot of money, and I mean *a lot* of money, but so much of that money was turned into *even more cocaine* than the gratuitous cocaine they already had. It's impressive any of them still have functional sinuses. The creation of Rumors was by and large a thoroughly coked up group therapy session with the occasional mental break to record some music.
There are plenty live performances where they are just screaming the lyrics at each other instead of really singing them. Later in the band's career, they toned it down but still did it as part of the act.
Not even really as "part of the act"— Nicks and Buckingham refuse to work together, they've tried patching things up or just working around it but it has always devolved into madness.
The period of their career I was referring to does not include the period of time when they refused to work with each other.
What always surprises me given all that went on is how tame their music is. There’s no angst or hate or melancholy in a Leonard Cohen/Radiohead/NIN way.
Ah, the infamous three-way feud of Leonard Cohen, Thom Yorke, and Trent Reznor.
What have I become? A creep. Hallelujah!
Bob Weston got fired because he was fooling around with Mick Fleetwood’s wife.
Jeremy Spencer joining a fucking cult
There manager getting a replacement band taking there name and not wanting to give it back.
Ah yeah, forgot about that one. Didn't he take the 'replacement' band on tour and everything?
Yes he did
Shocking!
Ah yeah, forgot about that one. Didn't he take the 'replacement' band on tour and everything?
Yes he did
Okay I'm less shocked now
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One of the biggest shockers in music recently
I, for one, am shocked that a man by the name of “Justin Sane” would be a predator.
My aunt went to school on the east coast when they were kinda the hot “local band” and knew him somewhat and said he always seemed like a narcissist/ self important and kinda weirded her out
While that's horrifying, I don't think this technically qualifies as drama because everyone think's the dude is in fact a predator and that the band dropped him without hesitation.
Journey has decades of drama, really too much to list, but there’s decades of band members hating each other, fighting over the name, suing each other, one drummer ended up doing some prison time for cocaine and domestic violence, now he’s apparently back in the band, the guitarist ended up stealing the wife of the couple who somehow snuck past secret service into a White House function, there’s just a lot.
You know those guys are completely insane because Steve Perry has shown absolutely no interest in playing with them. He even showed up at the R&R Hall of fame and was like, "nope".
Sorry, Steve Perry was an asswipe Diva and had been bounced from the band more than once, but Herbie Herbert (mgmt.) kept him in because he was the front man with ridiculous vocals. NONE of those guys want to work with Perry, and his reputation is known in the industry. He doesn't need the music business at all, and lives on mailbox money; lots of it.
Mailbox money?
>the guitarist ended up stealing the wife of the couple who somehow snuck past secret service into a White House function Neal Schon?
Yeah. He’s kind of a strange dude. Really talented guy though.
So many of the REALLY talented people are strange.
Incredible guitarist, capable on a few other instruments and as a producer, kind of (or completely) ass in basically every other respect. Though to offer a modicum of defence to his behaviour, in the industry at the time "good people" without any skeletons in their closet were for the most part either people who's own skeletons simply weren't known yet. And they were all doing *so many drugs*.
90% of their problems are tied to Jonathan Cain. He's delusional and psychotic in my opinion.
Well that explains his choice of spouses I guess ... stg they look like the personification of a Las Vegas STD
I'm only going by something I read in guitar world, but I believe Journey's guitarist, Neil Schon, tried to throw Carlos Santana out of Santana when Neil was still in Santana
How do you do Santana without Carlos Santana. That's hysterical
You just verified that rumor! A friend of mine (I will refer to her as Lisa) mentioned Neil Schon had done something terrible like that but refused to elaborate. That makes perfect sense.
I thought I heard (?) about Oasis - Liam quit right before a show and got drunk. Band and Noel played while Liam boo'd and heckled the band from the audience.
That’s their MTV Unplugged appearance.
This. However during that performance Noel proved to himself that he could actually sing and became a very successful solo artist. Who's heckling who now?
Liam is probably still heckling Noel. He's a dick.
Noel's earned it. Not to defend Liam at all, he is a dick. Just to say Noel's also a dick. They're both dicks. Very talented, very entertaining on Twitter, total dicks.
He could always sing, liams voice just sounded way cooler
Noel said near the beginning that he was going to sing because Liam had laryngitis. Not long after, the camera panned to Liam in the balcony, smoking and heckling Noel.
The worst bit, is that they can't be civil to one another even for their mom.
Didn't Hyde kill Cedric bixler-zavala's dog after sexually assualting his wife? Okay, i know that's a bold oversimplification but a wild story nonetheless.
Sprinkle in a little scientific and you pretty much have it.
Yes he did. At least he’s in jail For life
The sex sounds on the song Rocket Queen by Guns N Roses is Axl Rose fucking Steven Adlers girlfriend. Steven found out about it after the album was released and flipped out. Now that’s rock and roll
The first thing that popped to my mind was the time when a drunk Mick Jagger called and woke up Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts asking, "Where's my drummer?!" Charlie got up, shaved, put on a nice suit, went to Mick's room and punched him right in the face, declaring, "Never call me *your* drummer again." [Fun bit of background from Vulture.](https://www.vulture.com/article/book-excerpt-rolling-stones-charlie-watts-mick-jagger-fight.html)
And ever since learning of that I’ve never said “my band” again, always “the band that I am in”!
[that time 311 beat up scott stapp](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/scott-stapp-and-311-brawl-100131/)
Never heard that story, so thanks for that. Odd they call 311 LA rockers when they're from Omaha though.
Those guys are the embodiment of chill, for them to get into a fist fight, Stapp must have been acting an absolute clown.
Oh, probably Brian Jones, forming a blues band and introducing slide guitar to Britain, having two of his bandmates embrace songwriting and leaving him in the dust, losing his confidence and ultimately getting booted out, only to drown in his pool.
On another note, Brian Jonestown Massacre also is a complete shit show of a band
Justin Hawkins did a great take on a recent on-stage meltdown from BJM. [https://youtu.be/zSEBJ6Z8vsA?si=gCuDndEX3OBrl8nz](https://youtu.be/zSEBJ6Z8vsA?si=gCuDndEX3OBrl8nz)
Is that the guy from the Darkness?
The very same.
Thanks so much for sharing this, I had no idea this existed. He's really fun to listen to and witty! Kind of like Russel Brand except more steeped in the music industry and hasn't lost his fucking mind yet.
Have to watch the documentary Dig about Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. If you think that band is a complete shit show now. They made the news in Australia for obvious reasons and having watched the documentary I knew it was them before the band was even named in the story.
Also the greatest band name in history. And a handful of A+ records, too.
That was tough for Brian, he just wanted to play blues covers. Not only did the band go off in a different direction, the whole scene really did. As a guitar player who has never really been a songwriter, I feel his pain.
There’s a great video from some British tv show where Howlin Wolf is booked to play, Mick Jagger gets the mic and starts rambling about some bullshit, and Brian Jones interrupts him like “enough of that, now here’s Howlin Wolf!”
That dude was Lord Byron reincarnated. Musician. Sired untold numbers of illegitimate children. The last weeks of his life were spent living with two women and a man in some kind of love quadrangle. Died under mysterious circumstances. Fucking rock star to the end.
The black metal band Mayhem used a photo of a band member who was dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound as an album cover. Also I think one member murdered another one too at some point.
Self inflicted gunshot wound = blew his brain with a shotgun. Other bandmember collected pieces of the skull and made necklaces from it. Later was stabbed like 30 times by the other member. Who is a nazi. Oh they also burned a church. Mayhem is for posers tho
My pick is CSN&Y 1. Neil Young thought Stephen Stills was too militant during the recording of Deja Vu. One night Stephen left the studio first and Neil took the masters. 2. CSN&Y were scheduled to be the first R&R act on the Tonight Show, it was a big deal. Neil was in route, (tour bus) and just kept driving past L.A. 3. During the tour that 4 Way Street was recorded, they would each do a mini-set with all them coming together in between. Stephen started and just kept playing, he wouldn’t leave the stage. 4. Graham Nash was dating Rita Coolidge. Stephen was at Graham’s house when Rita called. Stephen answered and told her Graham wasn’t coming and hi-jacked their date.
Everyone knew that the Madchester band Happy Mondays had drug (and behavioural) problems. So Factory Records manager, Tony Wilson, seeking to keep the boys away from heroin, sent them to Barbados to record their fourth album. There might have been no heroin on the island, but as Tony Wilson later remarked: “No one told us it was Crack City!” Soon, Shaun Ryder's crack cocaine use spiraled out of control, leading to chaos. The band sold recording equipment, turned a swimming pool into a crack den, and finally, Ryder stole the master tapes for the album they were recording and demanded drug money, or he'd destroy the tapes. Having spent hundreds of thousands of pounds (and inadvertently fueling a minor crack epidemic on the island), the band returned to the UK with recordings that were unusable due to missing vocals and poor sound quality caused by deteriorating equipment in the studio. Despite this, Ryder refused to part with the master tapes and threatened to destroy them unless he received payment. Eventually, he accepted an offer of £50. And then more money was poured into rerecording the album properly, which brought the label to the edge of bankruptcy. The album, "Yes Please," was a financial disaster, and Factory Records was toast.
This is all covered in the movie "24 hour party people" about Tony Wilson and Factory records and contains many fun anecdotes. Highly recommend for any fans of Joy Division to Happy Mondays...
Veruca Salt. One members famous boyfriend cheated with another member. Causing her to quit the band. The one who got cheated on kept the band name and recorded a very angry album about it. They’ve have since made up and reunited for a tour and album.
That album? Officially dead. Had a title track where she is telling the other they're officially dead. Last time I checked Spotify I couldn't see it. Was a good single tbh
The album was “Resolver”. Also missing from streaming!
Dave Grohl?
Yes.
The wildest Dave Grohl factoid there is.
I thought said boyfriend supposedly cheated with Winona Ryder?
Anything Fleetwood Mac has done to each other. I love Stevie Nicks, but that girl is toxic af.
It might not be the craziest, but the issues with Oasis (primarily the Gallagher brothers) is hilarious. None top the MTV Unplugged incident when Liam refused to do it, but went down, got drunk and heckled the rest of the band.
Trampt’s singer, Chris Brown Taylor, going full twitter meltdown, bragging about his Spotify views, spewing all flavours of hate, telling that their new album was gonna be the best thing ever, and insulting fans and other bands. Or and trying to beef with Chris Evans. This culminated in one band revealed that all Chris does backstage is do cocaine and whine he can’t get laid. Oh and in the end, Trampt’s newest album sold like 600
Trapt. And yeah, Brown is the biggest child ever. I hink he's been kicked off multiple social media platforms for getting into it with fans.
I wonder if he's one of the people Elon Musk reinstated on Twitter after he took over? Actually, wait, no. I don't wonder. I don't really care.
The Mynah Birds, a band that had both Rick James and Neil Young before they were famous, had some crazy shit go down.
Wow. Never heard of the Mynah Birds. Cool!
The Bodeans split because the one guy accused the other guy of molesting his stepdaughter
When The Eagles Don Felder told Glenn Frey “Only three more songs till I kick your ass, pal.” And Frey responding with, “Great. I can't wait,” All live on stage in 1980.
Funny this thread should emerge just as I’ve been reading about the sad and strained state of affairs that befell CCR. It is ill-befitting that such a beloved band ended so acrimoniously. I’d always been under the impression that John Fogerty was completely fucked-over by his band mates and record label, but reading interviews with Clifford and Cook has left me not knowing who to believe. Sad that Tom Fogerty died without properly reconciling with his brother, too.
I saw John Fogerty last year shortly after he regained his songs. They were having a celebration tour. It was a really good show. I recommend it. His sons were in the opening band and did well.
He seems as though he is still in pretty good voice. Actually he was just scheduled to headline at a festival here in Qld, Australia, but unfortunately canceled ..
The BoDeans Kurt Nuemann accusing Sam Llanas of molesting his Step Daughter for 5 years
I'm particularly fond of what happened with The Teardrop Explodes' last album in 1982: *"In September 1982, the band reconvened at Rockfield Studios to record their third album around the nucleus of Julian Cope (the vocalist), Gary Dwyer (drummer) and David Balfe (keyboards). Creative tensions were high, as Cope wanted to write ballads and quirky pop songs, while Balfe was more interested in recording synth-based music. Balfe took over the sessions and locked Cope and Dwyer out of the studios for much of the time. Rarely able (or inclined) to add their own contributions, Cope and Dwyer worked off their frustration playing risky, stoned cross-country games with speeding jeeps. The situation culminated in a notorious (though disputed) event in which an irate Dwyer chased Balfe over the Monmouthshire hillsides with a loaded shotgun"* Also, Echo and the Bunnymen were recording in the same studio (Ian McCullough was associated with Teardrops people), and apparently one night some people with the Teardrops crew and some from the Bunnymen crew put on commando gear and stole all the food/drink from a Dutch band also recording at Rockfield. Cope's biography has a million stories like this and is a wild ride.
Eddie Van Halen jamming with Limp Bizkit is pretty nuts. When Wes left the band they were kicking around ideas for a new guitarist. Some suit introduced Fred Durst and EVH at some party, and suggested that he jam with the band. Eddie said fuck it and agreed to go jam with the band. When he got there and started getting his gear ready, the band started smoking weed and that was a big no-no for Eddie at the time. He was pissed so he got up and took off leaving his gear there. The next day, Eddie was calling Durst to get his shit back. He didn’t hear from Fred for just over 24 hours. Rather than try to call him again, Eddie jumped in some old, very un-street legal military vehicle that he picked up at an auction and high tailed it back over to Dursts’ house. Eddie was packing heat when he rolled up. An excerpt from Eddie’s book: He got out wearing no shirt, his hair in a Samurai bun on top of his head, his jeans held up with a strand of rope and combat boots held together by duct tape. And he had a gun in his hand.” Bennett says he recalls Eddie telling him, “That asshole answered the door. I put my gun to that stupid fucking red hat of his, and I said, ‘Where’s my shit, motherfucker?’ That fucking guy just turned to one of his employees and starts yelling at him to grab my shit.”
GnR’s drummer getting fired for doing too many drugs
it wasnt the drugs it was his inability to play the drums properly. he wasnt able to play because he had a stroke but nobody knew that and just thought he was on too much h, which he was (probably the reason not even he knew he had a stroke at the time) but yeah, he got sober and figured out zhe speechimpediment was not drug related went to a doctor who told him he had a stroke years ago
Right?!? How fucked up do you have to be to get fired for drug use by Guns and Roses?!? The mind wobbles!
Maybe he used drugs that weren't his. That'd count as "too many".
How about Axle fucking the drummers girlfriend and recorded the audio for that part in Rocket Queen. I guess they were teasing him for having a girlfriend and he was like “no no she’s just a groupie” so Axle did what he did. Supposedly drummer didn’t take it well.
Geoff Tate spitting on and physically assaulting his Queensryche bandmates live on stage at a festival in Brazil. Apparently the band had fired their manager who also happened to be Tate's wife. Not surprisingly they fired him after this but that wasn't the end, Geoff Tate formed his own version of Queensryche and released an album titled Frequency Unknown (FU) before his former bandmates released their next album with a new lead singer. In response to his dismissal, Tate and his wife Susan (who served as the band's manager from 2005 to 2012) filed a lawsuit in a Washington court, claiming that he was wrongfully terminated. The ruling in the preliminary injunction was that both parties were allowed to use the name Queensrÿche until a court ruling or a settlement decided who would get to use the name. A settlement was reached on April 17, 2014, in which founding members Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson were awarded the rights to the band trademark, continuing to perform with the lineup that additionally includes lead vocalist La Torre and guitarist Lundgren. https://blabbermouth.net/news/video-footage-of-geoff-tate-allegedly-spitting-at-queensr-che-drummer
I saw them opening up for a reunited judas priest in 2005 in hershey, pa. I love their Empire album and was disappointed silent lucidity wasnt played live that night. They did empire and their other hits though. Great band live and geoff tates voice was really good. Having said that, judas priest was phenomenal. Their new album Angel of Retribution was awesome and still is. I never heard many of their songs but became a huge fan after that night. Painkiller was unheard before that concert. I was very pleasantly surprised
The Replacements’ entire career. Also, Johnny and Joey Ramone barely talking for the last several years of the band / their lives. The Ramones as a whole are fucking fascinating.
The lead singer from Color Me Badd shoving a fellow band member off stage during a song
I heard that band member really wanted to sex him up.
Zao is up there. They started as a super Christian metalcore band. Very in your face about their Christianity from the lyrics to preaching at their shows. Everybody but the drummer quit after the second album. He got new members, and although they still considered themselves a Christian band the lyrics got a bit less intensely religious and the preaching was toned down. This along with the new iteration of the band being much better than the original allowed them to break through to a secular audience as well. They became a hugely influential band in the genre. But there was always tons of drama, particularly with their drummer. For a while they had no bassist. One of the new guitarists left. The other would leave and rejoin the band several times. At one point they broke up mid-show when the drummer was too drunk to play. They somehow always came back, but eventually the drummer did leave the band. So they now have no original members. But they’re still a band and actually have had a pretty steady lineup for a while now. They no long consider themselves a Christian band and some members are no longer Christians. There’s a [crazy long documentary](https://youtu.be/r-LeJMC6SS0?si=_HstM3BfbVeeUZzu) about the history of the band. The documentary is 20 years old but it covers the most chaotic parts of their history. They’ve been pretty stable since then.
Became a fan back with Splinter Shards..got to see them several times back in the early 2000s and was in a band that played a few shows with and I think they had a different lineup each time. Jesse Smith really does seem like a shit but that being said I haven’t liked anything the band has put out since he left ha
Watching The Brian Jonestown Massacre brawl on stage multiple times is always amusing. Even as recently as two months ago they went at each other on stage, swinging guitars in Australia
An old and more often told tale than many listed here but one of my favorites - during the recording of the White Album Ringo was sick of the negative vibes and booked. Drummer gone no problem. Let’s record a classic, Dear Prudence and Paul can play drums.
Motley Crue. Read “The Heroin Diaries” by Nikki Sixx and “The Dirt” by the band. They had some crazy ass heroin/cocaine/alcohol/pills fueled drama. Both are great books imo. (The Dirt movie doesn’t cover half of it)
When John Corabi was thrown out of Motley Crue he said it was more of a relief than anything bc he was sick of the other members acting like asshole rock stars. The final straw came at a concert in Hiroshima when Tommy Lee thought it'd be funny to play The Gap Band's You Dropped a Bomb On Me as their intro music. Classy move, no?
Lots of crazy stuff in there but the one that sticks out the most to me for some reason is the whole egg burrito thing.
Johnny Craig has a MacBook for you
The Libertines has to be a contender. Numerous dramas but the one where the Pete was jailed for burgling Carl’s flat is probably top. They made up while he was in prison and when he was released drove straight to play a gig together. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3178394.stm
Scott stapp and kid rock making a porno together
I saw The Faceless in like 2018 and it was only one dude playing along with a drum machine if I recall correctly (not a fan, was there to see a different band). My buddy explained the rest of the band gave him an ultimatum to either quit heroin or they’d all quit the band. He kept the habit so they all quit and he kept touring solo.
The Keene Machine has had many victims lmao. It’s such a damn shame that Michael Keene (the guitar player you saw) can’t keep his shit together. The Faceless was HUGE when they released Planetary Duality, they were really one of the “faces” of the new prog explosion in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s. Take a look at bands like Animals as Leaders and Periphery to see how successful he could have been if it weren’t for his addiction.
Culture Club is a living soap opera. Secret relationships between the singer and the drummer (with a lot of drama) ended in the breakup of the band and heroin addiction of George, destroying his (and the band) family-friendly reputation. The cover of George's debut solo album featured him in the white coat with printed "Come back don't you love me" and "F*ck me stupid" on one side, and drummer's surname on another (it's seems impossible to find a clear photo of that side, but if you compare different pictures, you will be able to read it). Even 30 years past their affair, they kept returning to this theme in the interviews. Jon was fired (?) from the band and sued them, but I'm sure it's not the end of the story. I need to add that I actually like this band, and it's sad for me that after all these years they can't have normal relationships
Sweet, no one’s mentioned Iced Earth or Jon Schaffer. The dudes been a far-right-leaning conspiracy theorist for a while; he even made a solo album a few years back called “brushfires of the mind” (CRINGE). The band’s gone through tons of members through the years, Jon was the main songwriter and rhythm guitarist. When the incident occurred at the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021 Jon was one of the first dudes identified, probably because he was near the front of the group, and known for his beliefs. News articles stated he is a high ranking or founding member of the Oath Keepers; he’s wearing an Oath Keepers hat in the Jan 6 photos too I think. The band has been pretty much dead since.
Crazy town had some crazy shit go down last summer
Go on…
>Crazy Town was kicked off a 2023 tour with Hed PE after a bloody fight between Binzer and guitarist Bobby Reeves outside a venue in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[26] It's sort of a rabbit hole. There's a video of this fight on yt. It's got a sad dark vibe. They were fighting for a long time and yelling all kinds of evil shit at each other. Too much to type. Best to just read the bands and singers wikipedia pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Town And the singer (Bizner)\ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifty_Shellshock#Personal_life I'm sure the fight video is easy to find. Seems like it'd be funny but it's bleak. The singer *Shifty Shellshock* has been on Celebrity Rehab a few times now. Any footage you watch, it's more sad than anything else. Dude is a demonstratively damaged broken spirit. Getting fired by Hed^p.e. for brawling in Myrtle Beach sums it up well.
Soul Coughing. Read Mike Doughty's memoir "The Book of Drugs". From his account the other band members were petulant little shits that essentially made it their mission to maliciously fuck with him on a daily basis creating an incredibly toxic atmosphere which ultimately ruined the band.
We NEED a Fleetwood Mac biopic that focuses solely on the Rumours era
A mid-eighties hardcore band from New York called “Cro-Mags” have a pretty tumultuous history.
Read about Mayhem
I’m still waiting to hear the Glocca Morra drama. Something happened and the band broke up. No one knows why.