The band reunited with Neil in 1997, after their current manager, Allen Kovac, and Neil's manager, Bert Stein, set up a meeting between Neil, Lee, and Sixx.

Stein was Vince Neil's personal manager and also, according to the band and rival manager Allen Kovac, served as the band's manager at one time.

After getting tired of being backed by different backing bands, in 1972 he switched from acoustic guitar to bass and formed his own band, Ted Mulry Gang, with guitarist Les Hall & drummer Herman Kovac.

The band then hired Allen Kovac as their new manager and started looking for another producer to work with for their next record which was originally titled Personality # 9.

Neil, like Sixx and Lee, was against the idea of working with the band again, but Kovac had planted the idea of a reunion in Neil's head that eventually changed his mind.

Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.

The band refused to negotiate, and sued Lewis in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking a declaratory judgment stating Lewis had no rights to the name or theory of De-evolution.

Greif subsequently sued all parties in a Los Angeles Superior Court action that dragged on for several years, and coincidentally later re-surfaced as manager of Sixx's former band, London.

Coffman himself was sued by several investors to whom he had sold " stock in the band ", including Michigan-based Bill Larson.

The three sued him for contracting for Lee to appear on two unsuccessful reality shows the band claim hurt its image.

Stein sued the same day in Nashville's federal court, saying he was entitled to 1. 875 percent of what the band makes.

In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band.

Member of a 1970s band called Poll, and a friend of Vangelis at the time, Logarides sued Vangelis for plagiarism in 1987.

Soon afterwards, the band fell apart amid much legal wrangling ; McQuickly sued Nasty and O ' Hara, Wom sued McQuickly, Nasty sued O ' Hara and Wom and-in all the confusion-O ' Hara ended up accidentally suing himself.

Knight sued for breach of contract, which resulted in a protracted legal battle and the band dropping the word " Railroad " from their name ( in his 2001 autobiography, " From Grand Funk to Grace ", Farner stated that the shortening of the band's name was done after most of their fans began to refer to them as Grand Funk ).

The British rock band Oasis were sued after their recording " Shakermaker " borrowed its melody and some lyrics directly ; they were forced to change their composition.

Trauma sued for US $ 100 million for breach of contract, fraud, and extortion and sought to have its joint venture agreement ended, claiming that Interscope had reneged on its contract after the band had become more successful than expected.

In early September 2010, original band members Harold Brown, Lee Oskar Levitin, HoLowriderd Scott, and Morris Dickerson, as well as Laurian Miller, daughter of original band member Charles Miller, collectively sued Pepsi Co. for more than $ 10 million.

Nick LaRocca and the band sued Nunez for $ 10, 000.

Oasis have been successfully sued for plagiarism by Neil Innes, ironically himself a member of Beatles-parody band The Rutles sued by McCartney over plagiarism of The Beatles ' songs, as Noel Gallagher's 1994 song Whatever directly lifted parts of its melody from Innes's 1973 song How Sweet to Be an Idiot.

EMI then sued the band, claiming that Spirit of Eden was not " commercially satisfactory ", but the case was thrown out of court.

The band sued EMI for releasing the remixed material without their permission.

Following the popularity of Resurrection, Common Sense was sued by an Orange County-based reggae band with the same name, and was forced to shorten his moniker to simply Common.

This new beak was drawn showing a small rubber band holding it in place until the threat of being sued was withdrawn.

Also in 1998, they sued the Norwegian black metal / Industrial metal band The Kovenant ( then known as Covenant ) for the rights to the name " Covenant ", arguing that they had the name first.

Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles.

The band has been mentioned or featured in various newspapers and magazines: the Vancouver Sun, Northshore News ( Vancouver, Canada newspaper ), New Times ( Los Angeles weekly entertainment newspaper ), BLU Magazine ( underground hip hop magazine ), BAM Magazine ( Southern California ), La Banda Elastica Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Calendar section.

* A. i. ( band ), a Los Angeles-based rock band

Monday through Friday the band broadcast from 12: 01 to 1: 00 p. m. PT over KMTR-AM ( now KLAC ) in Los Angeles.

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards ; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion ; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass ; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums ; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

Joe Walsh, famed musician who was part of the United States rock band the Eagles, sang the National Anthem of Chile at a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game in 2003.

Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989 with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson.

In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and moved to Los Angeles, where she placed an ad in Flipside, reading: " I want to start a band.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

The band claims on their website that they still pay close attention to an anti-corporate ideology, despite performing on September 5, 2003 at a festival in Turkey that was sponsored by Coca-Cola, noting that they have since pulled out of a show in Los Angeles when they found that it was being sponsored by Coors.

" Kaye was often invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.

* Hex, a 2003 album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Bigelf

After Little Richard left Macon for Los Angeles after the release of " Tutti Frutti ", Brantley included the band at every venue Richard had performed, leading to the growth of the group's success.

Before the year was over, Brown, who had immediately returned to work with his band following his release, organized a pay-per-view concert following a show at Los Angeles ' Wiltern Theatre, that was well received.

She acquired a love of rock music during the 1970s, having been introduced by a babysitter to the music of the Los Angeles punk rock band X, which proved a life-changing experience.

Yukiko Matsuyama leads her KotoYuki band in Los Angeles.

Mötley Crüe is a Californian heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981.

In addition to performing a set featuring material from Saints of Los Angeles, the band also celebrated the 20th anniversary of Dr. Feelgood by performing the album in its entirety on each night of the tour and re-releasing the album as a special 20th anniversary deluxe edition.

" In February 1973, Terry Atkinson of the Los Angeles Times, reviewing the debut album by a hard rock band, Aerosmith, declared that it " achieves all that punk-rock bands strive for but most miss.