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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
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
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Reminds me of a situation Bobby Gillespie was in a while back. Not really a beef but entertaining all the same:
Bobby Gillespie v. Glastonbury
Primal Scream were drafted at the last minute to take the spot of Kylie Minogue at the Glastonbury music festival in 2005. They went on stage to a lukewarm reception, and Bobby started the show by giving all Kylie's fans a resounding "f
uck you." In a drugged-out rage, believing this to be some NME-fueled nonchalance, he challenged the crowd and started doing the strong arm salute. After calling them "a bunch of f
ucking hippies" he closed the show with a simple question:
"Do you want to hear the Stone Roses?"
"Well you should have been here 15 years ago, you fu
cking lazy bas
tards."
Winner: National Socialism