The “no, YOU are” back-and-forth between former Van Halen bandmates Van Halen and Michael Anthony is picking up — bass player Anthony is giving the verbal eye-roll to the guitar great’s claims he quit the band.

Anthony has formed the band Chickenfoot with another Halen alum, Sammy Hagar, but he hasn’t moved on emotionally; he’s angry at comments Van Halen made about replacing Anthony with his son Wolfgang, just 15 at the time.

Van Halen told Rolling Stone that Anthony left Van Halen of his own accord; when he asked to participate in the band’s recent reunion, he wasn’t welcome.  Van Halen remarked, “Everyone who quits the band always claims they got fired by me.  Hey, I’m not the bad guy here.  When Hagar left the band, Mike went with him.

“Then, when we get back together… all of a sudden, he wants back in. It’s like, ‘No, dude, you quit the band.’”

There’s two sides to every story, and then there’s the jump.

Anthony remembers his departure differently, telling MusicRadar.com, “I never quit. I never once said, ‘I’m out of here.’ It never happened.

“That’s the weird thing right now, for Eddie to be trying to paint himself as ‘not the bad guy’… Why would I have quit Van Halen?”

Good point — it’s not like Chickenfoot is tearing up the Billboard charts as far as we know.  And we saw the Halen reunion tour, and Wolfgang did just fine up there.  With that said, it doesn’t seem like anyone’s ever left Van Halen and felt good about it; it seems like there’s always the estrangement and the bitter remarks and then the eventual rapprochement.  Ironic that a band considered legendarily bad-ass has this kind of girls’-school catfighting problem.

…That was in poor taste, even for us.  On to the actual story, namely that A League of Their Own’s Lori Petty apparently took a collar for felony DUI in Los Angeles on Saturday.

According to TMZ, Petty — pictured above at an Independent Spirit Awards party in February with a glass of what appears to be her frenemy champagne — was arrested after allegedly hitting a skateboarder with her car.  Both Petty and the boarder were treated for minor injuries, though neither was taken to the hospital; Petty posted $100,000 bail and left jail Sunday morning.

Luke Perry, formerly Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills 90210 and recently seen (or…not) in no-budget schlock like Silent Venom, appears not to have gotten the memo that the ’90s are over.  He appeared on the green carpet for the Global Green USA 13th Annual Millennium Awards Saturday night in Santa Monica wearing a too-large sportcoat, pale jeans, and…a Taz tie?  And the guy thinks he’s too good to reprise the role of Dylan for the 90210 reboot?

From our news wire:

Music producer Phil Spector has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

Spector was convicted of killing the actress last month. Clarkson was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in the foyer of the music mogul’s Alhambra, California mansion in 2003.

His lawyers are planning to appeal his conviction.

Spector’s benighted wife leaves court, after the jump.

Why is this woman smiling?  Her husband just got two decades in the hoosegow.  Although the kind of person who would marry a tiny murderer with horrible fake hair is probably also the kind of person who’s happy to keep spending his record-royalties money while he’s making license plates in the state pen.

Friends Courteney Cox Arquette and Jennifer Aniston, along with David Arquette and some dude, left the Staples Center in L.A. on Thursday night after taking in the Fleetwood Mac show.  Last week’s rumors regarding Aniston driving a wedge between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie seem to have been just that (unless Pitt just couldn’t get babysitting in time for the Fleetwood Mac gig).