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Surely you are not implying that we would be better off without Billy Corgan? The guy has a huge ego, sure (I named my giant bong Billy Corgan's ego), but he is one of my favorite musicians.
 
When musicians fight, either in a war of worRAB or in some kind of physical altercation, it is known ('specially in the hip hop community) as a beef. A well known example is the infamous Biggie Smalls/2pac beef that ended in both of their deaths. Discuss some of the most interesting beefs here.

One that's always struck me was the

Mr. Bungle/Red Hot Chili Peppers BEEF

RHCP frontman Anthony Kiedis saw Mike Patton performing with Faith No More and somehow got it into his head that Patton was imitating his style (and anybody who knows Patton's work knows it that couldn't be farther from the truth)

There was further conflict when Patton's later band, Mr. Bungle, was scheduled to release their album California around the same time as the RHCP album Californication. This resulted in an angry Kiedis pulling Mr. Bungle from several shows in Europe, shows for which Bungle had been booked months in advance.

From my tone it may be obvious who i'm siding with here. I think Patton put it best with “Our agent was in the process of booking these festivals, and it was becoming apparent that we'd landed some pretty good ones—one in France, another one in Holland, some big-name festivals. Turns out someone's holding a grudge! We were booted off several bills, specifically because Anthony Kiedis did not want us on the bill. He threatened to pull the Chili Peppers if Mr. Bungle was on the bill. Now, rationalize that one! That's so ****ing pathetic! I mean, this guy's selling a million recorRAB! We are not even a speck of dust on this guy's ass! What's the f*cking problem?"

Mr. Bungle never really bit back, and disbanded shortly afterwarRAB.

Winner

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Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Loser (tragically)

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Mr. Bungle
 
Agreed. His ego drove The Smashing Pumpkins to be so great, and at the same time he's responsible for breaking them up. Are him and D'arcy still beefing?
 
funny how there's an almost exact replica of this story involving Axl Rose talking smack about Kurt Cobain's wife.

i suppose life imitates art that imitates life or something.
 
Have you seen this? :D I don't know if this came after the tour cancellations or not...but it's hilarious. Especially after the camera zooms in on Patton about halfway through. I'd venture to say this was probably direct retaliation for getting kicked off the tour.

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Well...only because I am listening to Smashing Pumpkins right now...

Billy Corgan vs. Kurt Cobain

Yep, fighting over a woman. Courtney Love, no less. Gross. A stain on one of my favorite musicians (Billy...I like Nirvana ok but I could care less about Kurt).

EDIT: Man, you really put some time into that one. I'll post the winner of my beef:

Winner: Billy Corgan

Because he didn't end up with Courtney Love, who would have killed his ass had he done so.
 
Ronan Keating and Thom Yorke:

Thom Yorke ignored him in a hotel and when Ronan was asked which celebrity he would like to throw off a mountain he said: “Thom Yorke from Radiohead. He’s a muppet. He was rude to us one day – he was rude to my face and I don’t have much time for rudeness". Pretty intense beef I think you will find.

Winner: ?
 
Yeah, Thom did the same thing to Miley Cyrus and Kanye West backstage at the Grammys.

I'd say Thom Yorke wins all three.
 
The Clash vs David Lee Roth vs Steve Wozniak

The Clash & Van Halen are due to headline the US Festival in 1983.
The Clash are to headline 'New Wave Saturday', Van Halen 'Heavy Metal Sunday'
In the run up to the gig David Lee Roth constantly slags off The Clash saying that they're miserable & depress people & people want to have fun and not be reminded of their problems.
The Clash then find out that Van Halen are being paid a record sum for a one off gig ($1.5), compared to their own $500,000. The Clash complain to the promoter (Apple's Steve Wozniak) and repeatedly threaten to no show the event... nothing happens.
On the day of the gig The Clash walk onstage, play for 30 minutes and then leave.
They march up to Wozniak's office & refuse to leave until he writes them a cheque for $1 million to be donated to a charity of their choice. After 45 minutes Wozniak relents writes out a cheque & the band play the rest of the gig, during which time the band starts having a fistfight onstage with the workers of the company organising the festival.
At the very end of the gig the DJ cuts the band off & starts playing music too early for Mick Jones's liking and he marches over & punches the DJ's lights out for his trouble.

The following day David Lee Roth performs drunk and slags off The Clash throughout the gig. And Mick Jones gets fired pretty much ending The Clash.

Winner ... Charity
 
There are two feuRAB, Johnny & Joey Ramone and John & Tom Fogerty that I always thought were unfortunate since each feud had one (Joey & Tom) die before making amenRAB. The Fogerty one is a little personal with me since I don't talk with my brother anymore and I probably should.

More obvious feuRAB like Neil Young vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Liam vs. Noel Gallagher are interesting since one spawned two awesome songs and the other makes for great entertainment.
 
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