I’ve done a lot of stories about feuds in regards to the howard stern show. The so called shock
jock has feuded with many people over the years including Bon Jovi, Tool, members of the Who,
david lee roth and scott stapp. I’ve done videos on all these topics. The link is down
below. Back in the day two of the most frequent guests on Stern's show included Ozzy Osbourne
and and the members of ICP or insane clown posse. Osbourne would even appear in Stern’s 1997 movie
private parts. In 1999, ICP made at least two appearance on Stern’s show. One was on August 19th
and the other was the following day, the 20th. During their August 19th appearance the members of
Slipknot pretended to have a feud with the group and were able to crash the show and promote their
new self-titled debut album which came out a month and a half earlier. It was during that same August
19th appearance where the members of ICP made some disparaging remarks about Sharon Osbourne,
Ozzy Osbourne’s wife and manager. It culminated with ICP returning to the show the following day
and squaring off in the studio with Sharon. Shaggy 2 Dope of ICP would tell Loudwire
during their fact or fiction segment in 2020 “Every time we would go on Howard Stern,
they’d always put someone on there to antagonize us,” “They like seeing us get riled up. I guess
we do ill shit when we get riled up. [Slipknot] told them that we had mad beef and this and that,
So they let ‘em up in there. I thought it was funny as hell and smart on Slipknot’s part.”
It was during ICP's August 19th appearance on the Stern show that they made disparaging remarks
about Sharon Osbourne’s character and physical appearance Following the interview that day,
Sharon left a voicemail for the Stern show saying she was upset with ICP’s comments
and wanted to confront them on the air the next
day. It would mark the first time Sharon would be on the Stern Show.
The whole feud between ICP and Sharon Osbourne according to Rolling Stone & MTVstemmed from the
fact that Osbourne was not just managing her husband’s career but the nu-metal group Coal
Chamber. Osbourne struck up a relationship with the band after seeing them on the 1996 edition
of the annual Ozzfest tour. .It had turned out that Coal Chamber was touring with headliner ICP
and other opener Biohazard on the Amazing Jeckel Brothers Tour, but after several shows
Coal Chamber was off the tour. Initially it was claimed that production difficulties were to blame
but it soon came out that money was another. Osbourne would claim on the stern show that coal
chamber had negotiated a rate of $12,500 per show for what would have been a 2 month long tour. MTV
reported though that the band was supposed to be paid $9,000 per show for a 27 date tour that saw
the band earn almost ¼ of a million. Due to poor ticket sales though, ICP scaled down the tour
to play smaller venues and allegedly fired Coal Chamber, just two shows in. But Violent J would
push back telling Stern that Coal Chamber wasn’t a good fit fo the tour and that only around a
dozen or so people asked for refunds following the announcement that coal chamber was off the bill.
During ICP’s and Sharon Osbourne’s August 20th, appearance on the Stern show,
both camps pointed fingers at each other with Osbourne claiming Coal chamber would
be filing a lawsuit against ICP for breach of contract. The fight would last for almost 30
minutes on air and here’s a snippet of what went down between ICP and Sharon.
Straight up!. All the threatening remarks she said she said you guys are going to burn
bridges by messing with me. What bridges do we take. What are they going to do?
There going to cut some of are, she's going to pull some strings and get us yanked off some
radio stations? What stations? You're not even on any stations.That's what i am going to say. She's
gonna get MTV to turn against us. We have no MTV. There's no threatening you guys. There is none.
We have no help anywhere. Right. What's going on today? Alright Sharon Osbourne I guess is a little
upset at you guys for your comments you made yesterday. Yeah. Sharon Osbourne is the wife
of Ozzy Osbourne, but more importantly she's a big manager of rock bands. She's a big women
and ugh I was shocked yesterday when she called up and said she wanted to get a hold of you two guys.
Did she did they hear the tape? Did you hear the tape of Sharon. Let me play it for you so you can
hear it. This is what Sharon said, she's sitting in the other room she wants to talk to you. Hi
it's Sharon Osbourne calling so those two clowns want to that's fine I'll go into the studio let em
try let me tell you something i weight 224 pounds. I'm bigger than the pair of them i'll beat the
out of the pair of them and my old man will come with me. Oh don't bring him ok give us a call.
Her husband is ozzy osbourne he can put the devil on you. He can curse you. Ok let's let's
meet Sharon osbourne. I was going to sit you guys on the couch with her but I can see it could turn
into violence so I'm going to ask Sharon. What was that. She wouldn't fit on here with us anyway. Oh.
And i was just really upset because it's really demeaning for my reputation in this
industry because I'm not a bitch, I'm a ball buster. Im going to rip your balls off and
I'm going to shove them in your mouth. Could I just one thing about wrecking your career.
I don't need to do that because you've done a very good job yourself. Your album stiffed,
you had to cancel dates on your tour you did 59% according to Pollstar overall on your tour.
You're over. your yesterday's news. If it wasn't for Howard your career would be
over. Listen you London crumpet loving. I can tell that you were a harvard graduate.
It would turn out that coal chamber would in fact file a lawsuit against ICP. The lawsuit alleged
that by the second show of the tour ICP cut Coal Chamber’s pay from $9,000 a show to $3,000 and
offered it as a take ir or leave it proposition. Coal Chamber claimed that in addition to a pay cut
they also had production issues dealing with their lighting and soundcheck and they opted to leave
the tour. Coal Chamber claims the proposed pay cut, as well as other production-related concerns,
amounted to a breach of contract, and the band was seeking $225,000 in compensatory damages as
well as additional punitive damages. The lawsuit would go onto claim that the band were looking for
additional damages due to slander and libel and pointed to the august 20th stern show appearance.
Following Coal Chamber leaving the ICP tour,
they hooked up with Slipknot and Machinehead & hit the road.
Now perhaps the most infamous part of the interview happened when Sharon called ICP
“Has beens” and bet bet Violent J $50,000 that ICP’s next album wouldn’t sell more
than 200,000 copies and that they’d lose their recording contract with Island records.
Violent J though shot back at Sharon telling her they would sell 500,000 copies of their
next record, while poking fun at her appearance and accent and as well as her husband Ozzy.
It would turn out that their next record, their double album Bizzar / Bizaar
would go gold selling over half a million units. & according to the member of ICP,
Shaaron Osbourne never paid up. During the wikipedia fact or fiction on Loudwire
Violent J would reveal “She lost that bet super hard.
That record went gold. She, without question, owes us that money. We said, ‘You ain’t gotta
pay us. Just pay it to a charity in our name.’ Because if it would’ve went the other way around,
I bet you they would’ve been calling us out saying when are we gonna pay?”
Shaggy 2 Dope added “What do you expect from someone who’s a liar anyhow?”
In March of 2000 it was announced that coal chamber and sharon osbourne would be partying
ways with each other but there wasn’t any war of words, but rather a statement claiming the
decision was mutual. That does it for today's video guys be sure to hit the like button and
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