APE Clarifies Their Name and Stance on A.P.E.'s Use of the Name
Toronto hard rock/metal band APE has posted a statement about another Toronto band, A Primitive Evolution, using the acronym "A.P.E." Here's the statement and warning to fans:
"We think it is necessary to clear something up. APE and A.P.E. are in fact two different bands. Understandably this is very confusing. Two rock bands from Toronto with the same name. To add to the confusion, our name is derived from an acronym as well, however now we now simply go by APE. We assure everyone that this confusion is entirely not our fault. Another band called A Primitive Evolution is playing under the name A.P.E. A few months ago we contacted the band A Primitive Evolution to let them know that APE is already taken and suggested that they go by their full name since their acronym is our band name. But our emails have been ignored. We think there is a simple solution to this. They should go by their full name A Primitive Evolution and we should continue with our name APE that we have been playing under since 2001. After all, if you are an original band don’t you want to have your own identity? We don’t believe A Primitive Evolution purposely stole our name, we think it was an accident. We even think the skull in their logo that we also use in our logo is just a coincidence. It seems that the problem now is that they are in too deep to change or start over. A Primitive Evolution just did and album that is called A.P.E. (our debut album is also called APE released in 2007) and they probably have our name all over their merchandise as well. So rather than update their name to one that is original, it seems as if their plan is to ignore us and hope we go away without making a stink. Not going to happen. Regardless of which band you are a fan of we want all of you to know that we had the name first and that putting periods between each letter of our band name doesn’t make it original. Anyone who sees their posters can see that A.P.E. is always in big letters and you have to squint to see that it actually stands for something. We felt the need to post this after receiving countless emails and phone calls of disappointed APE fans paying a cover charge to see the wrong band. We wouldn’t have posted this unless we believed we are 100 percent in the right. To all you independent bands out there, protect what is yours."
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19 Comments on "APE Clarifies Their Name and Stance on A.P.E."
2. writes:
Any artist who takes their work and life's ambition seriously should care. We've put in too much work for too many years to let some punks come out of nowhere and sabotage our reputation while cannibalizing the local independent music scene. That's why we're threatening legal action and setting the record straight to the public. Protecting what’s ours hardly seems unnecessary to me.
3. writes:
Honestly,
I think the two bands play
completely different genres
...terribly
But I do believe that a band should
never assimilate anothers name.
Whether made in error or not,
the name should be dropped
Additionally another thought here,
are Carruthers and Matthew
Von Wagner so ignorant that
the don't check for possible name
issues on google or something?
My sh**ty band made sure to figure
that sh** out!
4. writes:
I don't think we're some punks coming out of nowhere... and by no means are we cannibalizing the local music scene.
We'll be talking soon, I didn't realize you had sent so many messages, or that this was upsetting you guys so much.
There are a lot of bands out there that are called APE and or use A.P.E. as an acronym. I realize this is a more immediate problem since we are both from Toronto, but I imagine you guys are going to run into a lot of other people using APE as a name across the board.
Anyhow, like I said we'll be in touch once I talk to everyone else involved in the project and we'll resolve this junk.
Also, we're not trying to sabotage your reputation, or ruin your career, we've all put our time in to the music scene. This has nothing to do with any of that.
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5. writes:
Brett: You'd probably do better to reply to one of the emails they sent to you instead of posting a comment on the mighty MU. Clearly you fellows aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer and by using the same skull in your logo as APE, i'd have to say that you and your mates have shown bad form and a general lack of origionality. Just one musicians opinion.
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8. writes:
Ha ha ha, oz and hammer are funny.
It's hard with band names, I've been in a lot bands and always had name problems.
We honestly didn't realize the band Ape existed when we created A Primitive Evolution.
And the logo isn't ripped either, you know how many rock and metal bands have skulls in their logo???
It's probably one of the most popular icons associated with the genre, or the culture or whatever.
Anyway, they have been emailed. I just thought it would be fun to be a part of the MU community for once.
Bye!
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18. writes:
RTB: Yep, we're going to burn that fvcker down tonight. We actually got some pretty talented support acts lined up for this one too, so we're looking forward to it. Let me know if you ever want to see us. You're money is no good if you can make it. \m/\m/!!!
Whoore: Get off my jock ya little pickle sniffer.
19. writes:
Bg gotcha, but the bar tab for the band is on me....my work schedule im off sun/mon so i d would have to request off to drive out there next time which i wont mind doing at all, but fahq ya im down, i ll keep checking your band page, iwas planning a AZ trip anyways....again have a good show bro..
Brett lol....to quote bg " welcome to the might MU, and again good luck to you and your band, look forward to your posts here as well...cheers guys
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1. Miguel writes:
Who cares?