Who woulda' thought we'd actually have follow-up news on our Mission: Man Band post from a couple weeks back? But it seems that despite being largely ignored by the station itself (have you any promos?), the VH1 reality series has raised the ire of one Georgia hip hop act claiming ownership of the name.
An "official" press release from the real Man Band:
"The Man Band, a Los Angeles based rap group is gearing up to take on VH1 over the rights to their name. "We copyrighted 'The Man Band' precisely for this reason," says Man o' War. "I mean with this show coming out we can't play a venue in LA without people expecting those assclowns from 'Sureshot' to be playing... They should be expecting THESE assclowns." Man o' War spreads his arms indicating his band, The Man Band."
"The VH1 series in question, titled "Mission: Man Band", takes four former boy band members (Chris Kirkpatrick of N*SYNC, Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees, Rich Cronin of LFO, and Bryan Abrams of Color Me Badd) and puts them together to create a 'Man Band'. The real Man Band is composed of lyricists Man Lee and Man o' War, hype man Manchester, and DJ Manoptimis. They were formed in Samannah, GA on a "drunken dare" and have been based in Los Mangeles since 2004. They're currently garnering attention for their spoof of the VH1 series and a song written about a "Mission: Man Band" cast member's girlfriend."
"The Man Band's plight has been featured on VH1's own "Best Week Ever" website and Bravo among others: Best Week Ever, BravoTV
They're even receiving some attention from the LA/OC's Indie 103.1 radio station."
They claim to have won over at least one "fake" Man Band member in Rich Cronin of one-hit-wonders LFO:
"You ever hear of LFO? They did that 'girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch' song. Well, that guy's girlfriend loves us. She's awesome," explains Man o' War. "So we wrote her a song in the key of Rick Springfield. She loves it. There are comments all over our myspace. Myspace.com/manband."
The message in its entirety from Rich Cronin of LFO and VH1's "Mission: Man Band" reads: "The Man Band is the only real manband. We are not the manband and it should be known that we bow down to the Man Band. We are Man fans. Rich Cronin (Mission Manband) aka ( The Fake Man Band)"
Considering how hard the guys are pimping their own legal troubles to the media, it's hard to take all of this too seriously, and surely we all can agree that the real man band's chances out fame have done nothing but increase since the fake man band co-opted the name, well, I think we can take this all with tongue firmly placed in cheek...But the below video is funny either way. (And a hellluva lot more entertaining than Chris Kirkpatrick."
Check out more videos at Man Band's Youtube page, and help fight the good fight at MySpace.
"Regardless, we want to let you know that we will fight this with the vigilance and tenacity of Forest Whitaker. Godspeed."
Sincerely,
The Man Band
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Posted by: Greento | Saturday, 05 December 2009 at 02:27 PM