19 years after they split in 2002, the members of Eraserheads still aren't chummy.
And many of their fans aren't happy about it.
The band's chief songwriter, Ely Buendia, earned criticism recently for candidly admitting on "Wake up with Jim and Saab" that he and the rest of the band “were never close” and that they were “never tight friends.”
“That’s why we broke up," he said. "I mean we weren’t Itchyworms. We weren’t Parokya ni Edgar..."
Some fans were quick to react to his statement.
Said one, "Bakit ka ganyan Ely?"
This prompted Ely to respond, "Big deal still? Why hate on people who want to tell the truth?"
He would go on to add, "Lol it’s also weird that I have more Ehead fans who hate me than DDS. Priorities, I guess."
Note that it wasn't Ely who first admitted to the great divide among them.
Prior, the band's drummer, Raimund Marasigan, intimated they just can't get along.
"I know a lot of people are asking why we can't get the four of us here, and the honest answer is, we can't get along," Raimund said in a live jam session aired on Facebook last year.
"Some years we get along, some years we don't get along. This is one of the years we don't get along," he added.