Stone Temple Pilots In Music's Latest Feud

March 1, 2013— -- intro: The music business provides a perfect brew for animosity: talent, competition, outsized egos and loads of money at stake.

Perhaps that's why there are so many feuds between music's biggest artist, sometimes even within the same group. Latest case in point: the public feud between members of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.

On Wednesday morning, Stone Temple Pilots released a one-sentence statement saying that they had "officially terminated" founding member Scott Weiland as their frontman. Later that same day, Weiland released a statement of his own, claiming that he had no idea that he was being dismissed from the band.

"I learned of my supposed 'termination' from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press," Weiland said. "Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out."

For those keeping score, Weiland first left the group, which also consisted of brothers Robert and Dean DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz in 2002, following reports of an altercation between Weiland and Dean. He then joined with some former Guns N' Roses members, including Slash, to form Velvet Revolver. That group broke up six years later and Weiland reunited with STP in 2008.

While STP's future is uncertain, Weiland has said that he plans to release a solo album with his new side band, The Wildabouts, sometime in the near future. He's already scheduled a number of tour dates with his new group.

As for his yet-to-be-resolved feud with Stone Temple Pilots, Weiland is hardly alone. Click through to see seven other music feuds.

quicklist:title: Elton John vs. Madonnatext: The feud between Elton John and Madonna stretches back more than 10 years, after John bashed Madonna's 2002 song for the 007 film, "Die Another Day," as "the worst Bond tune ever."

Over the years, he has publicly swiped at Madonna for allegedly lip-synching on stage, his partner David Furnish has dissed her on Facebook after she beat John for best original song at the 2012 Golden Globes and last August, he made perhaps his harshest remarks about the Material Girl. Speaking on Australian TV, John declared Madonna's career "over" and said she looked like a "fairground stripper."

Surprisingly, Madonna has mostly kept her cool, even dedicating a song to him during a concert tour stop in France last August.media: 15371894

quicklist: title: Madonna vs. Gagatext: Madonna may have kept cool in her feud with John, but not so with Lady Gaga.

At a May 2012 concert in Tel Aviv, Madonna performed a mash-up of her 1980s hit "Express Yourself" and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." "I'm on the right track, baby, I was born this way. Express yourself," Madonna sang.

Gaga responded to Madonna for stirring up the "haterade" at a concert in New Zealand: "It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work, and that doesn't make me feel good at all."

The feud began in January when Madonna dissed Lady Gaga's sort of-sound-alike track and described it as "reductive" to ABC News' Cynthia McFadden. Before that, the two pop goddesses joked while sharing the "Saturday Night Live" stage, but now the two seem to be waging in a worldwide cold war of epic proportions.

Elton John also complained about Madonna's treatment of Gaga. "She's been so horrible to Gaga," he said referring to his son's godmother.media: 14465155

quicklist: title: Tupac vs. Biggie Smallstext: In the annals of music history, there is perhaps no bigger feud than that of West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur and East Cost rapper Biggie Smalls.

The two rivals traded disses in their music while their label mates stoked the hate, touching off the infamous West Coast-East Coast rivalry. The animosity reached its peak in the mid 90s, when hip hop music was populated by images of guns, gangs and violence, and culminated in the still unsolved murders of Shakur in September 1996 and Biggie in March 1997.media: 16940747

quicklist: title: Paul McCartney vs. Michael Jacksontext: Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson once recorded the 80s hit songs "Say, Say, Say" and "The Girl Is Mine."

But their close relationship ended when the King of Pop bought the publishing rights to the Beatles' songs for $47.5 million in 1985. Afterward, McCartney often complained publicly of "having to pay" every time he performed songs such as 'Hey Jude.'

Then, rumors circulated before Jackson's untimely death in June 2009 that the singer had left the catalog to McCartney in his will. But after Jackson's death, McCartney set the record straight: "The report is that I am devastated to find that he didn't leave the songs to me," McCartney wrote on his website. "This is completely untrue. I had not thought for one minute that the original report [about the will] was true, and therefore the report that I'm devastated is also totally false."

McCartney said in the posting that he and Jackson may have "drifted apart," but "we never really fell out."media: 16940196

quicklist: title: Katy Perry vs. Lily Allentext: When Katy Perry described herself in 2008 as the "fatter version of Amy Winehouse and the skinnier version of Lily Allen," it wasn't surprising that Allen didn't see it as much of a joke.

Allen responded by slamming Perry for not writing her own songs and then threatened to post Perry's phone number on Facebook. Perry then called a truce to the feud, but not before both sides basked in the publicity the feud generated.media: 16940297

quicklist: title: Eminem vs. Mobytext: In 2002, DJ/musician Moby called rapper Eminem "misogynistic" and "homophobic."

Eminem struck back, calling Moby a "36-year-old bald-headed fag," then went on to parody the artist in his video, "Without Me."

The tension continued when Moby was seated behind Eminem at that year's MTV Video Music Awards. Em denounced Moby from the stage amid boos from the crowd.

Then, in 2005 after the feud appeared to have died down, Moby accused Eminem of having "blood on his hands" after an Eminem fan and impersonator was convicted of murdering a woman and stuffing her in a suitcase, much like the rapper does in his video "Stan," in which he pretends to murder a woman he put in the trunk of a car.media: 16940685

quicklist: title: Courtney Love vs. Dave Grohltext: Soon after Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide, his widow Courtney Love and former Nirvana band mates appeared to be working out the details of his estate until the relationship collapsed amid lawsuits and public sniping.

Love claimed that drummer Grohl, now of the Foo Fighters, used to hit on her and that Cobain never liked him anyway. Grohl cracked on Love's well-known drug use and slammed her in Foo Fighter songs, "I'll Stick Around" and "Let It Die."

Their war of the words doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon. As recently as April 2012, Love accused Grohl of hitting on her daughter with Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain. Grohl dismissed the accusation as "another hateful twitter rant" by Love, and even Love's 19-year-old daughter denied that Grohl had ever approached her in anything other than a platonic way.media: 16940572