Eddie Van Halen isn’t about to heap praise on ex-band mate Michael Anthony. In fact, the acclaimed guitar slinger told Billboard magazine Anthony had to be taught every bass line Van Halen needed when they recorded the group’s classic songs.

Anthony didn’t return fire, saying Van Halen fans end up suffering from such skirmishes. It’s still a rock feud at the end of the day, as much a part of the genre as trashing guitars and stage diving.

The Eddie/Michael kerfuffle may eventually heat up, but for now it’s not nearly as toxic as the following five feuds:

Oasis
The press tried to paint them as the next Beatles. Instead, they became famous for their feudin’ and fussin’. Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher make great music together, but they no longer can stand to be in the same room at a given time. Their famous 2009 dust-up minutes before a major concert marked what appears to be the band’s demise. A recent flurry of tweets from Liam Gallagher suggests a mild thaw in their chilly relationship, but it’s hardly a sign that a reunion is in the works.

Simon and Garfunkel
The duo’s decades-long feud hasn’t stopped them from the occasional concert tour, but Art Garfunkel’s recent comments about his ex-band mate might. “I created a monster,” Garfunkel said of Paul Simon in a May Q&A when describing how he showed Simon kindness in their early years. Reportedly, the duo first split partially due to a casting kerfuffle. They were both set to appear in the war comedy “Catch 22” but Simon’s role got snipped. These days, Garfunkel is recuperating from a tricky vocal chord injury, but his voice was strong enough to dub his ex-mate a “monster,” apparently.

The Beach Boys
Their music is synonymous with the summer, but bad vibrations have dogged the group since the beginning. Brian Wilson and Mike Love, like most feuding rockers, occasionally reunite for some beautiful music. It didn’t help future reunions when Wilson accused Love of firing him at the end of their historic 2012 tour.

Pink Floyd
Just who is Pink Floyd? It depends who you ask, a battle that kept group co-founders David Gilmour and Roger Waters in court for years. Gilmour emerged triumphant, but the bad blood didn’t go away. They already had been battling for some time, refusing to speak even during some of the band’s commercial peaks.

Lennon-McCartney
How do you fight someone who is no longer among the living? This Beatles feud isn’t as heated as the aforementioned tiffs, but it’s lasted long after John Lennon’s death in 1980. The singers once did their sniping via their respective catalogues. Lennon wrote in the early 1970s about “The only thing you did was ‘Yesterday’ … The sound you make is Muzak to my ears…” McCartney, in turn, took aim at Lennon via “Too Many People,” with an audio swing at how Lennon’s relationship to Yoko Ono impacted the super group – “That was your first mistake / You took your lucky break and broke it in two.” Many years after Lennon’s death, McCartney arranged to have his name listed first on several Lennon-McCartney compositions.

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