8. Guns N' Roses vs. Nirvana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihyxIMKA2zs In 1992 Guns N' Roses toured with Metallica on a collaborative US stadium tour that was billed as one of the biggest events to ever occur in popular music at that time. Realising that their fan bases were often made up of similar fans, or even the same fans, neither band wanted to risk clashing with each other in terms of preventing fans from seeing either band due to location or finance. Much speculation was given to who the opening band would be, a position that would eventually go to the equally talented Faith No More, who (having recently recruited vocalist Mike Patton) were themselves about to find superstar status in their own right. However, they were not the first choice, since Axl Rose had extended a personal invite to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in the hopes of getting the band to open for them. Cobain had refused on the basis that he felt Rose was homophobic and racist. This was due, in part, to the song 'One In A Million' from GNR Lies. He'd also refused because he simply didn't like Guns N' Roses music, in a commercial sense, feeling the tour would take them away from the kind of venues and audiences Cobain wished to play for. Rose took offence to this and made a few comments about Nirvana through his onstage 'rants' before attacking Cobain's wife Courtney Love. This led to arguments and altercations (in bars, mostly) between fans of both bands - a sort of Internet argument before blog sites and Facebook came along. The feud came to a head in 1992, at the MTV Video Music Awards, were both Kurt Cobain (and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic) both made comments about Rose onstage. This prompted Rose to go backstage, with a film crew, demanding to know what the band were attempting to imply. There was also some suggestion that Courtney Love had jokingly asked Rose to be godfather to the pair's newly born daughter. Love attempted to bring the feud up again, in the mid 90s, when her band Hole would perform 'Paradise City' as a 'tribute' to GNR. But just like her career, nobody cared once Cobain was gone.