The Black Crowes Blues Traveler Ugly Feud Between John Popper & Chris Robinson, Steve Gorman

The infamous Blues Traveler and The Black Crowes feud between John Popper and Chris Robinson

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It’s rare that a feud gets to play out on live radio, but that’s exactly what happened in 2001 when both members of Blues Traveler and The Black Crowes were booked as separate guests and were set to appear the same morning on Howard Stern’s radio show. Blues Traveler had an album out at the time called Bridge, while the Black Crowes released their album Lions the same week. The morning started with Blues Traveler frontman John Popper coming on the show and being told The Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson wouldn’t enter the studio until Popper left. Today let’s explore how the beef started, what happened on stern’s show and the aftermath.
The Black Crowes and Blues Traveler would perform with each other at the Horde Feistval, which stood for (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere). It was a rock festival that was the brainchild of Blues Traveler and it would run from 1992 to 1998 and it would be inspired by Janes Addiction frontman Perry Farrell’s Lollapalooza festival which started in 1991. The 1995 version of the festival saw the black crowes headline the festival with Blues traveler . Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers, Wilco, and Morphine playing support. The Black Crowes Chris Robinson would tell the LA Times in 1995 why he preferred the horde festival over lollapalooza saying “Lollapalooza just didn’t translate to me as a musical thing as much as an MTV thing. It just seemed more fabricated, more manufactured. It’s like McDonald’s counterculture. You’re not going to get much culture hanging around the mall, and Lollapalooza seems like a big mall — but with more piercing stands.” John Popper and Chris Robinson would join each other on stage on that year’s festival. The festival was even notable for promoting bootlegging with the morning call newspaper interviewing drummer Steve Gorman who said"Every night you come out, and whenever I can look out, it seems like the first thing I see is a big tree out there with a couple of mikes hanging off it. People are bringing pretty sophisticated equipment, actually."
It would turn out that between 1995 and 2001 there was a beef brewing between both bands with it coming out in the open In 2001. In may of that year chris robinson and his bandmate steve gorman were booked for the howard stern show. The same morning John Popper was booked as well. They were booked independently so they wouldn’t appear on the air at the same time, but whenever stern would have guests on the same morning it would be common for htem to meet in the green room or hte hallway and chat it up. That didn’t happen that morning Popper would appear first on Stern’s show. A lot of the interview dealt with Popper’s recent weight loss after undergoing a stomach stapling operation. Towards the end of Popper’s appearance Stern mentioned that the Black Crowes were coming on next and asked Popper about the reported feud between the two parties. Popper would claim he didn’t know why Chris Robinson hated him and brought up an incident where they were both sitting in with warren haynes at the fillmore and haynes would take popper to the side and tell him Robinson was in and i quote “a real mood” and told Popper he won’t come on stage until he leaves. Popper would go on to say that Chris Robinson was and i quote “the only real dick he’s ever met in rock n ‘roll.” band. Stern’s producer Baba Booey would shuffle back and forth between the green room where the Black Crowes were waiting and the studio where Popper was talking to Sterng, Robinson would tell Howard’s producer baba booey that Blues Traveler were and i quote “a novelty act.” and then Popper started to throw some insults Robinson’s way as you can see here.

Once Popper left the studio the Black Crowes came on the air and talked to Stern and gave their side of the feud as you can see here. .
I did find a review from the HORDE Festival’s stop in Hartford in 1995 that gave a pretty bad review to the black crowes and glowing review to Blues Traveler. The headline would read H.O.R.D.E. TOUR GIVES WRONG BAND TOP BILLING. T

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