Just because musicians have good chemistry
together doesn't mean they have to like each other. In fact, some of the most successful bands
of all time have been fraught with tension. These are some of the bandmates who just can't
stand one another. Various members of Smashing Pumpkins have
been fighting with each other for almost as long as the band has been around. According to a 1995 Us Weekly article about
the band, there had been strife for years even then, starting with guitarist James Iha
and bassist D'arcy Wretzky becoming a couple, before breaking up during the recording of
their debut album, Gish. "I don't know what's the big deal. You were, like, not a good sidekick to have." Then there's Billy Corgan's knack for seeing
the band as a glorified solo project. For their second album, Siamese Dream, he
did most of the interviews and played most of the guitar and bass, despite having both
a guitarist and bassist. By 2000, after a good deal of squabbling and
a number of roster changes, the Pumpkins had disbanded. According to E! News, Corgan tried to paint
the band in a different light, saying: Of course, plenty of other bands survived
the fight against pop music just fine, so it seems more than likely that Corgan wasn't
being entirely truthful. In 2015, Corgan reunited with long-time drummer
Jimmy Chamberlin for a few shows, but that only lasted about as long as any collab with
Corgan possibly could. In February 2018, the band announced a reunion
tour without D'arcy Wretzky. Sadly, ticket sales for the tour weren't exactly
great. Maybe everyone just got tired of the fighting. Steve Perry has always had his own issues
with Journey, which were largely behind his departure from the band in the '80s. "I was still singing good, but I wasn't connecting
with it? And as a result of that, I kept getting more
empty and empty in my heart." In recent years, however, Journey's remaining
members haven't fared much better. As documented by Ultimate Classic Rock, guitarist
Neal Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain have recently been feuding over the band's artistic
direction. According to Cain, Schon wanted to do a hard
rock record, and the result, 2011's Eclipse, didn't do all that well. Cain feels they should never go that route
again, but since Schon feels like he's the main member of the band, he believes Cain
should quit undermining him. In 2017, he wrote on Instagram: As if that weren't enough, Cain has also been
performing religious music on the side ever since marrying a minister. Schon has issues with that as well, fearing
religious and political slants could compromise the band. Considering Cain's wife spoke at Donald Trump's
inauguration, that's probably not an irrational fear. New Order was basically the soundtrack for
an entire decade, famous for their kick drums and distinctive bass lines, but in everyday
life the group was pretty much the opposite of the cohesive, music-making machine they
were on stage. In an interview with Getintothis, former bassist
Peter Hook said the band was pretty good at putting aside their differences to make music. He explained: Unfortunately, those negative feelings went
all the way to court, when Hook accused his former bandmates of quote, "clandestinely"
controlling not just the trademark for the name "New Order", but also the trademark for
their previous band, Joy Division. Hook also said the band, which he'd left in
2008, owed him "millions of pounds" in unpaid royalties. Hook's former bandmates, however, said the
dispute was about Hook's royalties from the work the band had done after his departure. The lawsuit was settled in 2017, but the animosity
never went away. "And somebody's to say to you, 'Would you all get back together again, you and him?' At that moment you would say, 'I would rather die.'" Singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner told The
Guardian: You'd never know it, what will all those carefree
and optimistic lyrics, but the Beach Boys weren't all about the good vibrations. In fact, according to Brain Sharper, the band
was afflicted by insurmountable creative differences, mostly between Brian Wilson and Mike Love. The former thought the band's sound needed
upgrading, while the latter thought there was no reason to mess with what had made them
successful. But like all epic feuds, there was more to
the rift between Wilson and Love than just creative differences. Love also disagreed with the fact that Wilson
pretty much commandeered all the band's vocals, even though Love was a perfectly capable singer. There was also a pretty big difference in
lifestyles between the two, Love once recalled a time when the Wilsons wanted the whole band
to try heroin together, an activity that didn't appeal to him or the other members of the
group. And there was the usual disagreement over
royalties, of course…but that, at least, is pretty much par for the course for any
famous band. You don't use the word "surviving" in the
title of the documentary about your life unless you really think you lived through something. Andy Summers' biographical film Can't Stand
Losing You: Surviving the Police documents the "mind-warping few years" he spent as the
guitarist for The Police. And yet, despite the rather melodramatic title,
Summers insists that the band's breakup was more about burnout than about the personal
relationships between its members. During a Q&A screening of the film in Pasadena,
Summers told the audience: That's a pretty diplomatic way of saying that
bandmates fought, a lot. By the time they started working on Synchronicity,
their fifth LP, things were pretty rough. Producer Hugh Padgham told Sound on Sound: Sparky chemistry, indeed. Check out one of our newest videos right here! Plus, even more Grunge videos about your favorite
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