Are there rivalries between prog bands?

There is certainly rivalry in the Norwegian prog rock scene. Several musicians has tried to kill each other after the botched up Ludo tournament backstage at the Alone In The Field '04 festival.
I think the vocalist in WOBBLER threw an elk at Pete Best in ANTI-DEPRESSIVE DELIVERY and almost killed him. They have exchanged insults on a daily basis since that incident.

Very nasty.

That's a shame. It'd be awesome if that elk-throwing incident not only happened, but got immortalized a la Smoke on the Water. 

Edited by Toaster Mantis - November 14 2008 at 10:38

What about the current Yes?  Is there a budding rivalry between Jon Anderson and Benoit David?

 

Tapfret wrote: Isengard wrote: What about the current Yes?  Is there a budding rivalry between Jon Anderson and Benoit David?   Yeah, I suspect Jon Anderson may go as far as withholding  a hug.

 how about dream theater polls vs the rest of us

martinprog77 wrote:   or pink floyd  vs sex pistols

Eh, there never was such a feud, AFAIK. Yeah, Johnny Rotten wore that shirt of his, but it was a joke, he really liked Pink Floyd. Years later he told Gilmour about it and Gilmour laughed his head off.

Zappa and Beefheart had a long-standing feud, didn't they?

Chuck Schuldiner of Death had a feud with Patrick Mameli from the Dutch band Pestilence. But it all ended when Schuldiner fell ill and Mameli did his best to raise money for a therapy.

One of the guys from Mastodon said Dream Theater sucked. An apology from Brann Dailor (Mastodon's drummer) followed.

Then there was the time when one of the Genesis guys stabbed one of the Yes guys to death. One of the folks from ELP burned down a church. Another Yes musician blew his brain out and their drummer made soup out of it and ate it...

... wait, that's not right...


And that Patton-Kiedis thing is hysterical.

 

Well, we could say that Schuldiner had a feud with half of the death metal scence, from the bands to the labels and promoters. Yet, it was nothing compared to the Cannibal Corpse / Anal c**t feud (not to mention the bomb-mails sent to Glen Benton by some black metal extremists!)

But if talking about progressive rock... I hardly can imagine the rise of gangsta-prog, with musicians shooting other musicians for some reasons (money, drugs, things like that). It seems that the progressive musicians rather accumulate jealousies, issues about royalties or artistical divergences. Nothing to drive you mad at each other and being "at war" for years.

Dean wrote: Prog musicians are a bunch of peace-loving hippies, they don't appear to get involved with that much in-fighting. David Gilmour was once very dismissive of The Moody Blues 'poets-corner' style, but it was never a feud as such. And even the disagreements within bands like Pink Floyd are more for public amusement than pistols at dawn, as there appears to be one member of the band (ie Nick Mason) who is prepared to broker a tenuous peace between rivals.

Dean wrote: el dingo wrote: Finally a genuine, if slightly obscure feud. If a member of one band goes out with a member of another and they split up, the 'bad vibes' can degenerate into a genuine dislike that spreads across all parties. hahaha, if Wikipedia is to be believed, there is a tale to tell about the barbed look John Cale is giving Kevin Ayers in this pre-gig photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1,_1974

ha ha ha, bemused look? I know I probably would have reacted a little stronger than that. I guess rock stars are different than us regular folks. I'll never foget that album though, somehow it made it to our record store in hicksville USA. It was my introduction to a whole new musical world as well as the 'decadence' that went with it.

As far as fueds go, I understand that Bill Bruford was a jerk towards the Genesis guys during his tour with them, Bruford being from the more modernized, urban and updated King Crimson, and Genesis still being ... um ... Genesis. He later apologized to all of them. Later Fripp and Bruford exchanged some nastiness via their websites or something like that.

BaldFriede wrote: I don't know about feuds between bands, but when it comes to feuds within a band no-one can beat Amon Düül 2. Threats with revolvers and knives were quite common in their heyday."My song gets on the album, or else.." or something like that.