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Fuel Orders Toyota To Cease Using Tour Name.
02-14-02
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We received the following press release
from Sony Music. It appears the band Fuel is trying to get Toyota to change
the name of the tour there are sponsoring… read on..
Multi-platinum rock group FUEL have requested
that the corporate sponsors of a rock concert tour that is causing confusion
among fans “cease and desist” from using the FUEL trademark. The
group—whose two albums SUNBURN and SOMETHING LIKE HUMAN have sold over
four million copies worldwide—have asked Toyota to refrain from using the
“Fuel The Music Tour” moniker in conjunction with a rock concert tour that
the car manufacturer is sponsoring.
The Pennsylvania-based quartet—whose hits
include the #1 rock tracks “Shimmer” and “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” as
well as “Bad Day,” “Last Time,” “Jesus Or A Gun” and “Innocent”—have been
known as FUEL since 1995.
Songwriter/guitarist CARL BELL says, “We
want to clarify any confusion among our fans, and just feel this is an
unfortunate oversight by the organizers of this tour. We wish the
tour well, but we’ve fought long and hard to make a name for ourselves
and don’t want to mislead music fans in any way. Music and touring
are what we do, so we have to protect our name.”
The group became aware of the problem when
an ad for the “Fuel The Music Tour” ran in the February issue of a major
music magazine on the same page as a photo of the band FUEL. Fans
of FUEL--who are off the road after touring for 18 months--began emailing
their website and inquiring about the group’s participation in the “Fuel
The Music Tour.”
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