They’ve absent from fighting in a moshpit to fighting in a courtroom.
A founder of hardcore New York punk band Cro-Mags sued his ex-bandmate in Manhattan federal court Monday for allegedly ripping off the group’s trademark title to publicize a display.
Former lead singer John Joseph McGowan made use of the name “Cro-Mags Jam” to encourage an April 23 gain concert in the East Village’s Tompkins Sq. Park — causing confusion about who was really performing, in accordance to the filing.
The match, submitted by a business managed by founding bassist Harley Flanagan, alleges the use of the phrase violated a 2019 settlement settlement that stated he managed the legal rights to the Cro-Mags identify.
McGowan and an additional previous member of the group, meanwhile, have been authorized to use the identify “Cro-Mags JM” below the terms of the offer.
“The impermissible phrase Cro-Mags JAM indicates that Mr. Flanagan, the unique member of Cro-Mags, would be conducting a jam session with other musicians—which is obviously not the situation,” the go well with states.
“This evidently constitutes unfair competitors, trademark infringement, and a content breach of the Settlement Settlement, as it is an impermissible use of Plaintiff’s CROMAGS Mark,” the submitting adds.
The lawsuit is the hottest salvo in a lengthy, bitter and in some cases violent beef that’s played out in recent years amid the band’s founding associates.
Flanagan has claimed that Cro-Mags was only his concept when he formed the band in 1981. He filed a federal trademark infringement versus other customers, like McGowen, in 2018, proclaiming they took above the band in 2002 and employed the Cro-Mags title without having authorization.
In 2012, Flanagan allegedly stabbed two other users of the group in the backstage place at the “CBGB Festival” at Webster Corridor.
“They feel they’re likely to engage in my f–-king tunes that I helped produce?” Flanagan allegedly seethed ahead of the fight, The Submit described at the time.
Afterwards that calendar year, Flanagan explained in an interview that the costs ended up dismissed and he’d been acting in self-protection.
Right after the backstage dustup, McGowan explained to The Post that Flanagan experienced been telling men and women he planned to assault his former bandmates even though maintaining he was the sole founder of the Cro-Mags.
“He tells everybody he launched the band,” McGowan mentioned. “We founded the band.”
In advance of the April exhibit in Tompkins Square Park, Flanagan’s spouse, Laura Flanagan, wrote a stop-and-desist letter requesting McGowan not use the identify to endorse the concert.
“We would like you achievements with your profit. If there was at any time any curiosity in Mr. McGowan accomplishing in a charitable profit with the Registrant and Cro-Mags, that is an opportunity that we would be delighted to go over the give has been extended several times in the the latest previous,” the letter states.
An attorney for Flanagan did not return a request for comment.
McGowan could not instantly be attained.
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