Let's face it, rock stars don't always see
themselves as normal people. They travel from city to city, followed by
adoring crowds and laying out extravagant demands to practically everyone they meet. And some of these stars can be absolute nightmares. These are the very worst musicians to tour
with. To be fair, when the public accepts you as
a diva, that usually means you've kind of earned the right to act like one. And everyone knows that Mariah Carey is a
diva. She's such a diva, in fact, that she won't
say a word to anyone on the day of a performance, lest she damage her voice on a particularly
harsh consonant. She's also such a diva that she once demanded
that a record store redecorate their bathroom prior to hosting her for a one-hour performance,
and she smashed a tea set she'd been drinking from so no one could sell it afterwards. But nothing quite tops the demand she made
when Westfield Shopping Center in London invited her to switch on their holiday lights. During that performance, the singer wanted
to be surrounded by 100 white doves and 20 white kittens, according to Marie Claire,
a source said that the doves were a go, but they couldn't deliver on the kittens for health
and safety reasons. For the record, Carey later denied ever having
made such a request. She explained: "Twenty cats is an absolute lie. I'm not a cat lady." Chris Robinson is the lead singer of the Black
Crowes, and remember that information, because it might just save your life. In 1991, during a trip to a local 7-Eleven,
Robinson overheard a fellow customer point out to their friend that the lead singer of
the Black Crowes was in the store. The friend, confused, asked who the Black
Crowes were. Horrified, Robinson turned around, and told
the friend that she'd know who the Black Crowes were if she didn't eat so many Twinkies. The encounter ended with Robinson spitting
on her, followed later on by an assault charge. Robinson got off pretty easy, though: he paid
$53 in court costs, got six months of probation, and the assault charge was later dismissed. Coheed and Cambria are a pretty big name in
the world of rock, but not so big that their bass player doesn't have to go around robbing
pharmacies before a concert. In 2011, Coheed and Cambria's bassist Michael
Todd was arrested for demanding prescription painkillers from a Walgreens in Massachusetts. He showed the pharmacist a note he'd written
on his cell phone, which said he had a bomb and needed painkillers. The pharmacist gave Todd six bottles of OxyContin
because, even though he probably didn't actually have a bomb, because, well, you never know. After the robbery, Todd took a cab back to
the Comcast Center, where Coheed and Cambria was about to open for Soundgarden. Sadly for Todd and happily for Walgreens,
someone spotted him getting into the cab, and he was arrested shortly afterward. Coheed and Cambria immediately distanced themselves
from their bandmate's behavior, declaring their intention to continue the tour without
him and promising to "address the situation with Michael" at the end of the tour. The meaning behind those words soon became
clear, and Todd was kicked out of the band. But, as Coheed drummer Josh Eppard told Rock
the Walls: "I think anybody who got a call from a friend
that did something that crazy. You just worry. I'm just really worried about Mike." But his misfortunes didn't end there, and
the ex-bassist was also sentenced to one year of house arrest and three years of probation. Cardi B and her husband Offset are a knockout
duo onstage, and offstage, too, though that's more in the literal sense of the term. Because during their downtime, the couple
have a weird taste for getting into brawls at strip clubs. In early 2020, for example, the pair performed
at the Fontainebleau in Miami and afterward visited a strip club called "Booby Trap On
The River," where some fellow patrons were clearly in a festive mood. Unfortunately for those folks, Cardi B got
caught in the crossfire of a freshly opened champagne bottle. Naturally, Offset took a swing at the champagne-wielding
offender. The couple left before police arrived, which
was probably wise, because it wasn't the first strip club brawl Cardi B has been involved
in, she was indicted on 14 charges for a 2018 brawl, including two felony counts of attempted
assault with intent to cause serious physical injury. Video of that earlier brawl showed her tossing
an ice bucket at a bartender whom she suspected was having an affair with Offset. There were also some flying chairs involved. Standard stuff, mostly. The charges were upgraded from misdemeanors
to felonies after Cardi B refused a plea deal. As of 2020, the case is still ongoing, but
Cardi's defense attorney seems pretty sure it will never go to court, although, when
asked, he did dodge a question about whether or not his client might settle the case beforehand. In 2015, Afroman was performing in Mississippi,
when a female fan somehow managed to wander onto the stage. Now, she did kind of get into Afroman's personal
space, which is kind of a no-no to most people, but the singer's reaction was still way out
of line. Having come face-to-face with this on-stage
fan, Afroman decided to punch her. And he didn't hold back, either. The blow was a full-on haymaker, which knocked
the woman off her feet. It was so bad, in fact, that the police showed
up, escorted Afroman offstage, and charged him with assault. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to anger
management classes in lieu of jail time. He also reportedly settled a lawsuit out of
court. Aerosmith may not have invented the whole
idea of rock stars trashing hotels, but they definitely turned it into an art form. In fact, Aerosmith didn't even trash hotels
on a whim, they were premeditated hotel trashers. They knew they were going to destroy things
on tour, so they brought along tools to help make it more fun. For example, a chainsaw was standard tour
equipment for the band, while extra-long extension cords weren't just for the stage, they were
nice to have on hand in case the band wanted the television to explode when it hit the
pool. But as bad as chucking live TVs in pools is,
it doesn't come close to the incident in June 1976 when Steven Tyler and Joey Kramer set
off fireworks in their hotel room in Nebraska. It appears they had been trying to launch
the fireworks out of the window, though that's not really much better. Honestly, it's pretty surprising that any
hotels were still taking the band in by the time the end of the '70s rolled around. The Ramones' hatred for each other was well-known,
and there's just no way they would have ever gotten as far as they did if they hadn't learned
how to work together onstage. Offstage, however, things were a whole lot
worse. "If you apologise then I'll drop the whole
thing." "I'll do it, but you say it first." "Well, we'll both say it at the count of four." "We did that already and it didn't work." "So we'll do it again." The Ramones were always fighting, and if they
weren't, they usually refused to speak to each other at all. In fact, Joey and Johnny Ramone didn't talk
to each other for most of the 22 years the band performed together. And when Johnny was speaking, he was shouting. Johnny liked to be in control, to the point
where he'd fine his bandmates if they showed up late to practice. Far worse, however, was that Johnny was abusive
to his girlfriend, and his bandmates could often hear him throwing her into the wall
of their hotel room. Johnny's abusive streak also reached the band
itself. Band manager Danny Fields once said: "Dee Dee [Ramone] was terrified of Johnny,
because Johnny would punch him in the face...it would always be after the show, about something
like, 'You did a B-major when you should have done a C-minor.' I'd stand outside the dressing room. Inside you'd hear glass shattering and bodies
slamming into walls." Tragically, all this went on for decades. Justin Bieber became a star at the tender
age of way-too-young, and quickly cemented his reputation as a self-centered brat. And not much has changed, either. In fact, Bieber's on-tour behavior is so consistently
appalling that he's been banned from performing anywhere in China. The official reason was, apparently, "to maintain
order in the Chinese market and purify the Chinese performance environment," which the
Chinese government believed was marred by badly behaved entertainers entering the country. Although the exact reasons behind Bieber's
ban from China aren't clear, the government probably weren't impressed by the time he
had his bodyguards carry him up the Great Wall of China. In a similar vein, on a visit to Tokyo, he
once took selfies in front of the Yasukuni Shrine, which exists to honor the war dead,
and constitutes hallowed ground in Japan. He also filmed a video in Iceland in 2015,
in which he ran around doing a whole bunch of things you really shouldn't do in Iceland,
such as rolling on protected moss and swimming in dangerous lagoons. And then there was the thing with the monkey,
in 2013, the singer tried to bring a young capuchin monkey into Germany, but failed to
produce proof that the animal had been vaccinated. Customs officials seized the monkey and told
Bieber he'd have to pay to retrieve it, but Bieber decided he didn't actually want the
monkey anymore. It was eventually sent to live in a zoo. Talk about dodging a bullet. Even before the Chili Peppers were big, they
were treating women the way generations of misogynistic rock stars have always treated
women, like roadside attractions, only less deserving of respect. In 2016, Julie Farman, who worked for Epic
Records back when the Chili Peppers were rising stars, blogged about how she'd once been cornered
in a storage room by two band members who declared their intention to make her the filling
in a, quote, "sexy sandwich." That's just one of their offenses, though. In 1990, singer Anthony Kiedis was convicted
of sexual battery and indecent exposure for his behavior after a show in Washington DC. Jurors recommended a $1,000 fine for each
charge, which, frankly, isn't going to be much trouble for a world-famous rock star. Then, during a 1990 taping of Club MTV Dance,
the Red Hot Chili Peppers trashed the stage and groped a bikini-clad audience member. After that incident, police arrested bassist
Flea and drummer Chad Smith and charged them with lascivious behavior, battery, and disorderly
conduct. They were found guilty, and their fines were
donated to a crisis fund. Flea later whined that authorities had tried
to make an example of him. As if that's a bad thing, somehow. A very easy-to-define line exists between
good dog owners and bad dog owners, and that line is whether they're willing to clean up
after their pets or not. Britney Spears falls very much into the latter
category. Now, if Britney Spears really didn't want
to potty train her lap dogs, and really, really didn't want to clean up after them, it seems
like she could have just hired someone to do it for her. But it takes a special kind of diva to let
your dogs go to the bathroom all over your hotel room, and then expect housekeeping to
clean it up, after. And that's exactly what happened with Spears,
and it's not the only reason why the Los Angeles Four Seasons Hotel isn't super-fond of the
singer, since she also flagrantly defied their "no smoking" rule. She evidently takes her star privilege pretty
seriously, even to the point of harassing fellow hotel patrons. In 2007, Spears was kicked out of the Chateau
Marmont because of her behavior in the hotel restaurant. Did she send her steak back 27 times? No. Did she loudly berate her server because there
was too much ice in her drink? Nope. Instead, she, uh...smeared food all over her
face, much to the shock and disgust of the restaurant's other patrons. The Rolling Stones were at their peak during
the golden years of hotel trashing, so you won't be surprised to hear that they played
along with people's expectations of them to a tee. The band's after-hours antics were so depraved,
in fact, that Robert Frank's tour documentary covering their 1972 trip to the United States
was actually suppressed by the Rolling Stones themselves, who evidently realized they'd
crossed so far over the line that maybe they shouldn't actually broadcast it to the public. Among other things, the film shows groupies
stripping on an airplane, various band members engaging in drug use, and, of course, the
destruction of at least one hotel room. And although the band all had a part in this,
it's Keith Richards who is most known for his love of mayhem. "Do you live very much at night? I mean, it's almost midnight now." "Yeah. Seems to work out that way." Still, but by the time the band was well into
their third decade, he'd mellowed a bit from drugs and girls...to shepherd's pie. When Richards showed up before a show on the
1989 Steel Wheels tour, he discovered that someone else had eaten the shepherd's pie
that had been laid out for the band, alongside some other standard British pub fare. Richards was so upset that the concert had
to be delayed until someone could procure another one. Delinquent to diva: that's the Keith Richards
trajectory. Like Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez before her,
Demi Lovato got her start with Disney. But Lovato may have let fame go to her head
at way too young an age, because only a few years after the release of Disney's Camp Rock,
she made the news for punching one of her backup dancers in the face. Lovato had been on tour with the Jonas Brothers
when the dancer, named Alex Welch, says the star became suspicious that one of her many
dancers had, quote, "told on" her. Evidently, Lovato had gotten in trouble with
her managers for her bad offstage behavior. Lovato called all of her dancers together,
threatened them, and then seemed to independently conclude that it was Welch. Welch remembers: "And she walks up and punches me and literally
walked away." Lovato later admitted she'd been partying
a little too hard, and she was already in trouble for trashing a hotel room. Someone in her entourage had then told hotel
management that Lovato was taking Adderall, and Lovato was so enraged that she got one
of the tour managers to tell her who had ratted her out, by convincing him that she just wanted
to thank the kind soul who had clearly only talked out of love and concern. Fortunately, the incident ended after the
first punch. Courtney Love spent many of her days surrounded
by her own messes, years after she sort of fell out of the spotlight, her daughter said
she was pretty much existing on drugs like Xanax, Adderall, and Abilify, and that her
house was such a disaster that a family cat died after getting trapped in a mountain of
junk. But Love didn't willfully trash hotels the
way other rock stars did. Rather, she just didn't care what kind of
state she left them in. According to Everybody Loves Our Town: An
Oral History of Grunge: "The Courtney Love hotel room was a particular
kind of disaster. She brings like two or three giant suitcases
full of clothes, and somehow all those suitcases would get opened and everything would get
spread out all over the hotel room. And then it's all coated in cosmetics and
baby powder, it's just a tornado of clothes and makeup." Other accounts of Love's hotel rooms paint
an even grosser picture. In 2009, staff at the Inn at Irving Place
in Manhattan found used hypodermic needles and feminine products basically everywhere,
except the trash can, that is. A source said at the time: "She caused so much damage in eight hours
and wreaked so much havoc. It was actually kind of funny." Most band's problems can be distilled down
to one common denominator: ego. And while not every musician is a superstar,
a lot of them think they are, which was exactly the problem with Swiss rock band Krokus back
in the '80s, when they were touring with Def Leppard. Reports say that the band members were so
arrogant that they repeatedly ignored basic instructions from Def Leppard's people about
seemingly insignificant things, like what part of the stage the band should set up on. The tension got so bad that Krokus' manager
punched Def Leppard's drummer, which is not usually something you do when you're interested
in preserving a professional relationship. Unsurprisingly, Krokus got booted from the
tour after that one. On top of that, the band also had a feud going
with AC/DC. In 1981, they were left out of the UK's Monsters
of Rock festival, and though the reason was never made explicit, the rumor was that AC/DC
asked for their exclusion. We may never know why, exactly, but there's
some speculation that AC/DC were insulted that Krokus frontman Marc Storace didn't want
to try out for the band after the death of Bon Scott. Maybe it was just because AC/DC just didn't
want those arrogant wannabes getting in their way. Either/or. Poor Megadeth must have been pretty excited
about landing the opportunity to go on the road with Aerosmith in 1993, until they were
dumped ceremoniously from the tour. So what happened? Well, it seems that Megadeth were just too
whiny for Aerosmith to handle. Just three shows into the 24-date tour, Aerosmith
announced that Megadeth was out, and the metal band Jackyl was in. Megadeth's official statement on the subject
was that they'd left the tour because of "artistic restrictions," but the word from Aerosmith
was a little different. An unnamed spokesperson said that Dave Mustaine,
lead singer of Megadeth, was annoying as hell. The source said: "He would piss and moan and whine. What he was really upset about was [Aerosmith]
weren't hanging out with him." And that was the end of that. Check out one of our newest videos right here! Plus, even more Grunge videos about your favorite
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