Apes came out of a standing get together of friends back on the early nineties in my home studio. We wrote and recorded music one or two times a week. At one point were thinking in terms of a bigger project. Tom suggested we do something around a movie. I suggested Planet of the Apes.

This was 1994, long before references in The Simpsons, and long before the remake. Over the next year, Tom and I used some of the more compelling ideas and imagery from the movie to write an albums’ worth of songs.

We started with the finale, Lamp. Thirteen years later it seems the strongest and most relevant.

700 Years
Crash
This World
Round Up
Wrong Species
Brain Surgery
Orangutan’s Orders
Trouble
Climb Down
The Trial
Beach Fight
Dr. Zaius’s Confession
Lamp

(Just AAC for now).

Tom Dube’: bass, vocals
Keith Lundberg: drums
Me: guitar, vocals