10 Great Bands Almost Ruined By Their Frontmen
All it takes is a dodgy front car to derail the whole train.
WikipediaRock 'n' roll is a funny game. Those of us not fortunate enough to be paid bucket-loads of cash to travel around the world and play songs to adoring fans are left to simply try and appreciate said rock 'n' rollers, but it's not always that easy. If a band is just comprised of just a few of your average 'blokes' (The Enemy, Ocean Colour Scene, Kings of Leon), then they tend to be frightfully boring and rather square, and who wants to go and watch a bunch of squares? But on the flip-side, if the band is full of hell-raising, anti-establishment prima donnas (remember Towers of London?), most people will think of them as idiots anyway. It's a fine line between humdrum and douchebagery, and unfortunately some have a hard job recognising that, resulting in some pretty childish and petulant behaviour at times. Remember when Liam Gallagher skipped Oasis' MTV Unplugged gig in 1996, only to sit up in the rafters whilst heckling his own bandmates? Or when Billie Joe Armstrong complained about his own show running over its allotted time in 2012? Whether it's turning up late, foul-mouthed rants, preaching religion, drug-addled unreliability, egotistical arrogance, or just the sheer act of being rubbish, there are some pretty poor frontmen out there, and they unfortunately tend to ruin it for the rest of their bandmates (the guys who nobody remembers as it is). Here are ten of the finest idiots in rock today.