It seems like there's a new beef between musicians every single day.
And if the following bands and artists had to go to their rooms until they cooled off,
it would probably take so long that they would end up dead and buried there.
Singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash of Guns N' Roses have been estranged for almost 20
years, all because Slash wants to rock, and Axl wants to do whatever it is that he wants
to do.
Axl's near-psychotic perfectionism, plus his knack for regularly delaying shows for hours
and then storming off halfway through, caused the two to self-destruct in 1996.
"I think you've got a situation where nobody involved wants to revisit, its not just me
its the whole band."
With the exception of a reunion at Coachella in 2016, the pair have done nothing together
since, and it's apparently been because Axl just didn't want to.
Even when GNR was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, Axl didn't appear,
instead firing off an open letter publicly refusing the invite.
Things have been going pretty smoothly since Coachella and the pair may have even patched
things up permanently.
But if you're a fan of hearing new music, it probably doesn't matter, and chances are
you've long since sided with Slash anyway.
Since the last GNR album with both Axl and Slash, Slash has released three solo albums,
plus two more with Velvet Revolver.
As for Axl, he's dropped only one new album, in which he got overshadowed by a guy wearing
a KFC bucket on his head.
At first, the feud between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More was kind of cute.
The two bands were both members of the fledgling funk-metal genre, and at one time Faith No
More would occasionally open for the Peppers.
So everything was pretty amicable until Peppers lead singer Anthony Kiedis saw Faith No More's
video for "Epic."
He became convinced that Faith No More singer Mike Patton was stealing his moves, and he
worried fans would think the Peppers were the copycats.
But at the time, it didn't really escalate beyond the two men taking occasional verbal
jabs at each other.
But then in 1999, Faith No More went on hiatus and Patton returned to his other band, Mr.
Bungle.
That summer, Mr. Bungle received notice that they'd been cut from the lineup at several
festivals because the Peppers, specifically Kiedis, were threatening to pull out of shows
if Mr. Bungle didn't get the boot.
So in response, Mr. Bungle performed at a Halloween show dressed as the Peppers.
That was bad enough, but they then mocked the band by butchering all their songs and
even going so far as pretending to inject heroin, a drug that the Peppers have a troubled
history with.
Imagine if you achieved fame and thanked the guy who inspired you, but then that guy expressed
regret over that inspiration.
That's pretty much exactly what happened between Rage Against the Machine and Limp Bizkit.
It wasn't just a case of one band not appreciating the admiration of the other, either.
Rage got a kick in the metaphorical man parts when Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" beat out
Rage's "Sleep Now in the Fire" for Best Rock Video at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.
As Limp Bizkit accepted their award, Rage bassist Tim Commerford crashed the stage,
climbed a 20-foot fake palm tree, and refused to come down.
Even after that, Limp Bizkit regularly covered Rage songs, and sometimes even spoke enthusiastically
about the band that inspired them.
Frontman Fred Durst even told a crowd in 2014 that Rage's "Killing in the Name" had changed
his life.
Durst's childlike admiration only seemed to embarrass Rage Against the Machine, though.
As Commeford told Rolling Stone in 2015,
"I do apologize for Limp Bizkit.
I really do.
I feel really bad that we inspired such bullshit."
While there are exceptions, it's usually a good rule of thumb to never go into business
with your significant other.
Case in point: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who were a couple when they joined Fleetwood
Mac.
In 1977, the band released Rumours, one of the best-selling albums of all time, but everything
fell apart soon afterward.
The members barely spoke to each other in the studio and when it was over, everyone
broke up, including Nicks and Buckingham.
But the bad vibes had been brewing for a while.
The couple took out their frustrations with each other in the music itself.
"Landslide" and "Rhiannon" were allegedly about Nicks' relationship with Buckingham,
and Buckingham wrote the scathing "Go Your Own Way" about Nicks.
The feud between the exes went on for years, until 2018 when the band fired Buckingham
over a disagreement.
But according to the band's manager, it was actually because Buckingham smirked during
Nicks' speech at the MusiCares benefit show.
Buckingham responded by suing the whole band for breach of contract.
"She gave them an ultimatum.
Either Lindsey goes or I go."
Simon and Garfunkel's decades of acrimony started literally from the beginning.
After Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded their first album together, Simon ignored
it in favor of touring solo abroad, which makes us wonder why he agreed to team up in
the first place.
After the pair split in 1970, they didn't work together again for five years.
Once they finally recorded a new tune, they bickered so much over who "owned" it that
they both released it on their own solo albums.
It makes you wonder if they also draw a line in the middle of the studio so neither could
sully the other's "side."
Then came a historic free concert in Central Park in 1981 that was followed by an extended
tour, but this turned out to be a very temporary reconciliation.
A planned reunion album became a solo Simon album that nobody liked, and they divorced
yet again.
They've reunited for quickie money tours occasionally since then, but each time their differences
take over and they storm off before killing one another.
More recently, Simon has claimed that his resentment reached a fever pitch when Garfunkel
started pursuing an acting career in the early '70s, while Garfunkel has outright called
Simon an "idiot" who threw away duo potential over solo selfishness.
Furthermore, he blames himself, saying that his kindness toward Simon in high school,
quote, "created a monster."
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