After lengthy legal battles, informal contact between Fish and the other four band members apparently did not resume until 1999 ; Fish would later disclose in the liner notes to the 2-CD reiussue of Clutching at Straws that he and his former bandmates had met up and discussed the demise of the band and renewed their friendship, and had come to the consensus that an excessive touring schedule and too much pressure from the band's management led to the rift.

Watts later claimed that he was actually asked to leave by the band's manager Steve Atherton at a meeting with the band's accountants, on behalf of the band, because they did not approve of the drummer's excessive behaviour on tour, and felt he did not fit in with the desired image for the band.

Former Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine also appears briefly in a scene in which, as part of Lars Ulrich's therapy, he confronts the guitarist regarding the decision to fire him early in the band's career for his excessive drinking.

He was present on the band's debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip, but left the band prior to the recording of their second album, Machine, citing personal problems due to excessive touring.

Byrdmaniax had suffered from excessive and inappropriate orchestration, which producer Terry Melcher had applied to the album, allegedly without the band's consent.

Though the band's drug use included cocaine, heroin, LSD and many others, Cris ' use of heroin and crack cocaine became so bad he rarely left his house except to obtain more drugs.

According to the band's biography, the drug was prescribed to him as a teenager during his parents ' divorce but he was never withdrawn from the drug and became dependent on it.

The band's drug habits have often been discussed in print.

Other lyrics were inspired by the band's past experiences with drug abuse.

The band's evolution throughout the 1990s and early 2000s involved several tumultuous periods of commercial highs and lows, brought about in part by Weiland's well-publicized struggles with drug addiction.

Exhaustion was partly to blame, from the band's heavy touring schedule and increasingly heavy drug use.

The lyrical content of Down III: Over the Under covers subjects such as the breakup of Pantera, the murder of ex-Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell, the band's anger at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and Anselmo's recovery from back surgery and drug addiction.

Brett discussed his drug use in an interview on the band's Suffer Tour documentary, Along the Way, and is now clean and sober.

Strong album sales and large-scale tours propelled the band's increasing fame in the 1990s, while Chamberlin's drug problems escalated until he had to be fired.

* In 1983, English-American rock group The Pretenders, released their song " Back on the Chain Gang ", featuring the lyrics " The phone, TV and the News of the World got into the house like a pigeon from hell ..." Written by the group's singer, Chrissie Hynde, the song was about the band's experience of losing their guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, to a drug overdose, and these lines were in reference to the surviving members ' inability to escape the story at the time.

In a 2006 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ferguson revealed that both frustrations with the band's image and personal drug problems led her to leave Wild Orchid.

Other troubles include the drug use by the Happy Mondays ' Shaun Ryder ( Danny Cunningham ), who holds the master tapes for the band's troubled fourth studio album hostage until Wilson gives him some money.

However, Poland and Samuelson's relations with Mustaine and Ellefson worsened, due in part to the former's increasing drug dependencies which led to the pair pawning the band's equipment to fund their drug habits.

Brent Mydland died of an accidental drug overdose at his home on " My Road " in Lafayette, California, on July 26, 1990, shortly after completing the band's summer tour.

At that point Stacy Ferguson left Wild Orchid, and in a 2006 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Stacy ( then known as Fergie ) revealed that both frustrations with the band's image and personal drug problems led her to leave the group.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tyler had a heavy drug and alcohol addiction, and the band's popularity waned.

" Besides the weight of their debt in producing their previous album, Aoxomoxoa, the band was also dealing with the stress of a recent drug bust in New Orleans — which could have possibly resulted in jail time — and their manager Lenny Hart ( father of drummer Mickey Hart ) skipping town with a sizable chunk of the band's wealth.

In response, the Eraserheads denied the allegation, saying that it was just a misinterpretation, and that the song was the band's " ode to freedom ", not an " ode to drug abuse ".

The band's members and image were widely associated with drug use, specifically heroin.

After deliberation and the brief notion of promoting the b-side instead (" Brainbox Pollution ", which dealt with the effects of drug misuse ), the band's management opted to withdraw the single stating that " Although the record was selling very well, we didn't want to feel that any sales might be gained by association with recent events-even though the song was written by Bob Calvert two years ago as a satirical comment, and was recorded three months ago.

In the late 1980s, Hüsker Dü broke up acrimoniously amid members ' drug abuse, personal problems, disputes over songwriting credits, musical direction, and the suicide of the band's manager, David Savoy.

It also deals with the iconic status of Duran Duran in the time of early MTV and the band's issues with drug and alcohol.

They were still committed to several concerts in Scandinavia, so drummer Jim McCarty and vocalist Keith Relf authorised Page and bassist Chris Dreja to use " The Yardbirds " name to fulfill the band's obligations.

The album contained Rush's only U. S. top-40 pop hit, " New World Man ", while other more experimental songs such as " Digital Man ", " The Weapon ", and " Chemistry " expanded the band's use of ska, reggae, and funk.

Musically, although Lee's use of sequencers and synthesizers remained the band's cornerstone, his focus on new technology was complemented by Peart's adaptation of Simmons electronic drums and percussion.

This period included the band's most extensive use of instruments such as synthesizers, sequencers, and electronic percussion.

The history of the band's use of the internet is described by Michael Lewis in the book Next: The Future Just Happened as an example of how the internet is shifting power away from established elites, such as record producers.

Keyboards have been a component of the band's sound since Seventeen Seconds, and their importance increased with the instrument's extensive use on Disintegration.

In a documentary programme about that album ( as part of the Classic Albums TV series ), lead singer Bruce Dickinson wanders through the avenues of Portmeirion and describes how the song was written and how the band's manager obtained permission from Patrick McGoohan to use dialogue from the show in the song's introduction.

When they learned about EMI's 8-track recorder, they insisted on using it, and engineers Ken Scott and Dave Harries took the machine ( without authorisation from the studio chiefs ) into the Number 2 recording studio at Abbey Road for the band's use.

In the tour Hagar wanted to minimize the use of pre-Hagar Van Halen songs in the set, other than the band's best known classics.

" on the album " EXPERIMENT ZERO " released a song titled " Evil Plans from Planet Spectra ", appearing to use the band's music to destroy Earth.

Their allegations stemmed from Escalante's licensing of some of the band's early-1980s songs for use in films and commercials.

Because of the separate existence of Yes ( part of the band's name still being owned by Anderson ), this alternate incarnation were forced to use their surnames as the band's name ( after Chris Squire threatened legal action ).

The band's name was developed from a suggestion by drummer John Ike Walton to use the name " Elevators " and Clementine Hall added " 13th Floor ".

However, shortly before work began on Easter Everywhere, Walton and Leatherman left the band, due not only to disputes over mismanagement of the band's career by International Artists, but also due to a fundamental disagreement between Walton and Hall over the latter's overzealous advocacy of the use of LSD in the pursuit of achieving a higher state of human consciousness.

Bruce Eder, writing for Allmusic, rates the band's 1967 album Groovin ' as their best, noting the record's soulful core and innovative use of jazz and Latin instrumental arrangements.

This led to a legal dispute with Griffin over use of the band's name, of which Griffin was co-owner.

However, in an interview with WBER radio in Rochester, New York, on November 23, 1999, Jian explained the band's name origin by saying that they were " trying to think of a name that wasn't easy to remember and didn't mean anything ," satirically going against two conventions most bands might use in determining a band name.

Lisher's distinctive psychedelic lead guitar playing is arguably the album's most distinctive instrumental feature, although the band's use of violin also has a great influence on the sound of the record.

In 2000, several of the band's songs were scheduled for use during the production of a film entitled Standing at the Edge of the Earth by Fizzle Freak Productions.

Despite their Beatlesque image, the band's use of minor chords, haunting harmonies, and folky acoustic guitar playing — as heard on their debut single " Laugh, Laugh "— was stylistically very similar to the later folk rock of The Byrds.