I'm well aware of his background, yes. Most of the DC hardcore guys had middle-class upbringings. What of it? I don't think they pretended otherwise. The lyrics are generally about personal "politics" rather than politics in the general, naive, che guevara wearing sense.
True enough. A lot of the west coast hardcore started in places like Orange County California, and people thought how can someone be pissed and depressed in a beautiful place like Orange County. The point was you could grow up anywhere and be miserable.
Maybe you should listen to Joy Division. And make up your own mind.
hmm, well... I've liked Joy Division since I first heard Transmission in about 1993 so I think I've listened a fair bit... like, a lot. Like I own every album. And of Fugazi.
I still don't hear the similarity.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
My emusic quota for this month will be devoted to Fugazi. I just downloaded The Argument. Which one next?
13 Songs probably. Or Repeater. I'd go with 13 Songs. They're both amazing though. Going chronologically is really the way. I wouldn't have started with The Argument but I know some people who think that's their best album.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
It was Minor Threat that inspired many a punk. Ian was in that band too. He founded it. Go to Dischord.com and look at the DC history...as related to Ian and Henry.
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i started out listening to them just because ed said he liked them... then i realized how much i like them too! great fuckin band! in my top 10... minor threats great too
It was Minor Threat that inspired many a punk. Ian was in that band too. He founded it. Go to Dischord.com and look at the DC history...as related to Ian and Henry.
Probably the band I most wish I had been in, out of every band in history. I'm too young to have been there at the time but as the Minutemen said in History Lesson pt 2, "Our band could be your life". Minor Threat would have been mine.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
I personally like Red Medicine, but most folks would say "13 Songs". I also recommend "In on the Killtaker." You'll probably buy them all in the end if you liked "the Argument."
In addition to Minor Threat, I would also recommend Embrace (http://www.dischord.com/band/embrace). Ian also has a great band currently, the Evens, with drummer Amy Farina. I like their first album better than the second, but both are head and shoulder above what's out in commercial music land.
Also, buy direct from http://www.dischord.com, much cheaper and just so cool to get the hand-written address and the City Paper package stuffing. No, I don't own stock in the label, but I should for all the goods I've bought direct over the years.
There just aren't words enough to describe how remarkable Ian is, both as a person and as a musician. He and Amy have a new baby boy named Carmine, so maybe he and Ed can swap parenting tips :-)
Eddie just referenced them during the DC show with his "Mt. Pleasant" song dedication. Maybe you've heard of them, but never heard them. One of the most underrated punk/un-label-able bands of all time - if only because they purposely avoided major record contracts - that literally WAS what alternative music is and had a profound influence on Eddie, Pat Smear and Rage Against The Machine.
I'm willing to mail a cd of 25-30 songs (whatever will fit) to anyone interested, free of charge. That's how much I like Fugazi (as much as Pearl Jam). After that, you gotta buy their entire albums on your own. Email me.
Sorry for the double post, but I'd second that completely. Not to mention Conor Oberst was influenced as well: Saddle Creek records was modeled upon Dischord.
I've done the same thing about emailing songs to people on this board before. If you PM me, I'll throw in the live boot of the legendary Fort Reno show. Sound quality is a bit poor, because of the radio tower hum, but it contains the legendary "ice cream eating motherfucker" rant from Guy that was featured in the documentary Instrument.
I personally like Red Medicine, but most folks would say "13 Songs". I also recommend "In on the Killtaker." You'll probably buy them all in the end if you liked "the Argument."
In addition to Minor Threat, I would also recommend Embrace (http://www.dischord.com/band/embrace). Ian also has a great band currently, the Evens, with drummer Amy Farina. I like their first album better than the second, but both are head and shoulder above what's out in commercial music land.
Also, buy direct from http://www.dischord.com, much cheaper and just so cool to get the hand-written address and the City Paper package stuffing. No, I don't own stock in the label, but I should for all the goods I've bought direct over the years.
There just aren't words enough to describe how remarkable Ian is, both as a person and as a musician. He and Amy have a new baby boy named Carmine, so maybe he and Ed can swap parenting tips :-)
Yeah, Dischord is the best. Probably the most admirable record label still going.
And the Embrace album is BRILLIANT. Money, Dance of Days, Give me Back, Do Not Consider Yourself Free, all amazing songs.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
Yeah, Dischord is the best. Probably the most admirable record label still going.
And the Embrace album is BRILLIANT. Money, Dance of Days, Give me Back, Do Not Consider Yourself Free, all amazing songs.
Money could just be my favorite Ian MacKaye-penned song, on the odd Monday when I am battling DC traffic to get to work. Speaking of Dance of Days, there is an intrepid book by that name written by Mark Jenkins and Mark Andersen if you want a really lengthy bookish account of the era. The Instrument DVD documentary is a much more entertaining and visceral window into what Fugazi is all about. A better book that captures the early DC hardcore scene is Punk Love (http://www.punklovebook.com/photos.htm) by Susie J. Horgan. Susie worked with Ian and Henry Rollins at an ice cream store, and the book has some great photos and quotes. She took the iconoclastic picture for Minor Threat's cover art that Nike tried to rip off. It is actually not Ian, but his brother, Alec.
"There's a guy who has this image tattooed on his leg. When he showed it to Ian, Ian said, 'Hey that's a great tattoo of my brother.'" - Alec MacKaye
Money could just be my favorite Ian MacKaye-penned song, on the odd Monday when I am battling DC traffic to get to work. Speaking of Dance of Days, there is an intrepid book by that name written by Mark Jenkins and Mark Andersen if you want a really lengthy bookish account of the era. The Instrument DVD documentary is a much more entertaining and visceral window into what Fugazi is all about. A better book that captures the early DC hardcore scene is Punk Love (http://www.punklovebook.com/photos.htm) by Susie J. Horgan. Susie worked with Ian and Henry Rollins at an ice cream store, and the book has some great photos and quotes. She took the iconoclastic picture for Minor Threat's cover art that Nike tried to rip off. It is actually not Ian, but his brother, Alec.
"There's a guy who has this image tattooed on his leg. When he showed it to Ian, Ian said, 'Hey that's a great tattoo of my brother.'" - Alec MacKaye
I have Punk Love A very good friend of mine brought it back from America for me, for which I will love her forever. It is SO cool to see those shots of Ian and Henry just goofing around at Haagen Dazs etc. The bit about the photo of Alec is great Speaking of which, have you heard any of Alec's bands? The Faith's split LP with Void is one of the best hardcore albums ever.
I've yet to read Dance of Days but the sections on Minor Threat and Fugazi in Michael Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life are excellent. Well worth a read for anyone who is interested in the scene.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
I have Punk Love A very good friend of mine brought it back from America for me, for which I will love her forever. It is SO cool to see those shots of Ian and Henry just goofing around at Haagen Dazs etc. The bit about the photo of Alec is great Speaking of which, have you heard any of Alec's bands? The Faith's split LP with Void is one of the best hardcore albums ever.
I've yet to read Dance of Days but the sections on Minor Threat and Fugazi in Michael Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life are excellent. Well worth a read for anyone who is interested in the scene.
This is cool, we may be a fanbase of two (no one has asked for the boot which kind of makes me sad), but at least we are bumping this to the top. Dance of Days is a bit of a disappointment to me. I did a few things for Positive Force in the mid-90's, and Mark Andersen is a true positive force in the world. It just fails to capture the times. It feels like 400 pages of name dropping, and I know that is not what was intended. I'll have to check out Azzerad's book.
I'm from DC, so yeah, have heard the Faith's music, but never seen that particular lineup live (bands are so fluid here). A fellow 10C member and I actually went so far as to go on this weird cell phone text message based tour of DC hardcore. The people who put it together were from Sweden, it was really odd. We gave up midway and just went to brunch next to the Black Cat.
This is cool, we may be a fanbase of two (no one has asked for the boot which kind of makes me sad), but at least we are bumping this to the top. Dance of Days is a bit of a disappointment to me. I did a few things for Positive Force in the mid-90's, and Mark Andersen is a true positive force in the world. It just fails to capture the times. It feels like 400 pages of name dropping, and I know that is not what was intended. I'll have to check out Azzerad's book.
I'm from DC, so yeah, have heard the Faith's music, but never seen that particular lineup live (bands are so fluid here). A fellow 10C member and I actually went so far as to go on this weird cell phone text message based tour of DC hardcore. The people who put it together were from Sweden, it was really odd. We gave up midway and just went to brunch next to the Black Cat.
I would kill to have been around the DC scene at its peak, although even if I lived there, I'm too young to have seen any of the early days. The whole hardcore/Revolution Summer era of DC punk is pretty much my favourite music ever. Even the lesser known bands that only recorded a few songs like Rain and One Last Wish are totally brilliant. Every time I pick up a Dischord record I feel like I'm buying into something that actually MEANT something, more than just the music, and that's pretty rare.
I think you should go to Dischord House and beg Ian to get the guys together and pull Fugazi off hiatus I never got to see them live and it would really be something to finally get that chance.
And yeah, definitely check out Azerrad's book. It's not strictly focused on DC, it deals with Black Flag, Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Big Black and so on as well but it's well worth a read.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
I would kill to have been around the DC scene at its peak, although even if I lived there, I'm too young to have seen any of the early days. The whole hardcore/Revolution Summer era of DC punk is pretty much my favourite music ever. Even the lesser known bands that only recorded a few songs like Rain and One Last Wish are totally brilliant. Every time I pick up a Dischord record I feel like I'm buying into something that actually MEANT something, more than just the music, and that's pretty rare.
I think you should go to Dischord House and beg Ian to get the guys together and pull Fugazi off hiatus I never got to see them live and it would really be something to finally get that chance.
And yeah, definitely check out Azerrad's book. It's not strictly focused on DC, it deals with Black Flag, Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Big Black and so on as well but it's well worth a read.
It's so cool to see some other people who really appreciate 80s hardcore on here! I would kill to have seen any of the bands in the DC area back in the day, seriously. Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains... Anyway I'm getting carried away.
Yeah, Fugazi are amazing too. So much integrity in that band. I really wish they'd start touring again, I've never seen them.
Oh yeah, and I definitely agree with the part in bold!
"We get these pills to swallow... how they stick in your throat... Tastes like gold..."
I would kill to have been around the DC scene at its peak, although even if I lived there, I'm too young to have seen any of the early days. The whole hardcore/Revolution Summer era of DC punk is pretty much my favourite music ever. Even the lesser known bands that only recorded a few songs like Rain and One Last Wish are totally brilliant. Every time I pick up a Dischord record I feel like I'm buying into something that actually MEANT something, more than just the music, and that's pretty rare.
I think you should go to Dischord House and beg Ian to get the guys together and pull Fugazi off hiatus I never got to see them live and it would really be something to finally get that chance.
And yeah, definitely check out Azerrad's book. It's not strictly focused on DC, it deals with Black Flag, Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Big Black and so on as well but it's well worth a read.
Laughing, there are rumors, and they are just that, rumors, that there is a rift between some of the band members that prevents this from happening. Too bad, because they are so fantastic live. The Evens are still fun to see, but nothing is like Fugazi.
I'm old enough to have gone to the Revolution Summer shows and events, most of the Fugazi members are my, uhm, contemporaries. It sounds so much better saying it that way than just plain I'm old.
I was in Summer school in Blacksburg VA that year. Normally, I wouldn't complain because the Tech music scene was thriving in that era, but I will always regret not marching around banging on plastic drums with Scream and Positive Force. :-)
13 Songs probably. Or Repeater. I'd go with 13 Songs. They're both amazing though. Going chronologically is really the way. I wouldn't have started with The Argument but I know some people who think that's their best album.
I got everything and started at the beginning. I want to let it absorb some more before I comment. Loving it all so far. I also have the DVD to watch.
Thanks for pushing me to try!
I got everything and started at the beginning. I want to let it absorb some more before I comment. Loving it all so far. I also have the DVD to watch.
Thanks for pushing me to try!
Wow, you are going to have your head full after all of that, too cool, enjoy. I love that DVD, my kids watch it but I have to fast forward through Guy's blue rant. It's funny my kids have been to see Fugazi and the Evens at Fort Reno. Ian always trys to not go on a blue rant because of the little kids, but he always fails, LOL.
Laughing, there are rumors, and they are just that, rumors, that there is a rift between some of the band members that prevents this from happening. Too bad, because they are so fantastic live. The Evens are still fun to see, but nothing is like Fugazi.
I really hope they're just rumors... I always thought they put Fugazi on hiatus because of families and things of that nature.
The Evens are cool though, definitely catching them if they decide to cross the Atlantic.
"We get these pills to swallow... how they stick in your throat... Tastes like gold..."
I really hope they're just rumors... I always thought they put Fugazi on hiatus because of families and things of that nature.
The Evens are cool though, definitely catching them if they decide to cross the Atlantic.
Family is often cited as a reason, but then Brendan tours with Bob Mould, the Evens tour, Joe Lally tours.
This is exciting though, from Brendan Canty:
"I see the Seattle Burn to Shine is coming out soon. How did the filming of that go?"
"One of my favorite parts of the day was Jesy Fortino, you know, Tiny Vipers. We shot it up in the center of Seattle by the zoo...Eddie Vedder played a great song on his ukulele."....
There was a rumor over the summer that Fugazi would reunite to play a Fort Reno show again, which seemed to me immediately bogus. My impression is that you guys aren’t getting back together, and definitely not for just one show. Yeah. [Laughs] I mean, we might do it for a benefit kind of thing. But everybody is doing something different. Almost all of us have kids now. Fugazi was a real full time activity and the reason we stopped a few years ago was because it didn’t feel like Fugazi when we only did it twenty percent of the time.
But you’re right, I don’t see us putting it all back together, which would be a lot of work. We still see each other all the time, except for Joe, who’s moved to Rome. If there was a burning desire for us to get back together and do it, we would do it. There’s nothing necessarily stopping us. But I don’t see it happening. I’ve got to say, it doesn’t feel like things are pointing in that direction. It just doesn’t seem like that would necessarily be a step forward for any of us. It doesn’t really make sense, you know?
I love the guys. Everybody continues to make music and everybody is plenty stimulated in their lives. I don’t see us going back to Fugazi. I think everybody was pretty much ready for a break by the time it was done. Then again, we never put it out of our heads, really. A lot of the reasons why we stopped were logistical because of kids and things like that. It was mostly kids and death. Kids were being born and almost all our parents were dying at the same time. Everybody was like, “Okay, we need to take a break.” I’m not saying all our parents are dead but everybody in the band lost somebody.
One night in Rome in 1995, Fugazi was playing at a giant squat called Forte Prenestino, where Lally met Antonia Tricarico, a photographer who was working the sound system. (“I was more familiar with Minor Threat than Fugazi,” Tricarico writes in an e-mail.) Tricarico eventually moved to the United States, and the two married in 1998. They sold the Virginia house and bought a place in Columbia Heights. In 2001, they had a daughter. Then the floor fell out.
After some shows in Britain, Fugazi had a band meeting at the end of 2002 and decided to stop playing. Neither Lally nor Picciotto will discuss the reasons why on record; MacKaye maintains the band is on “indefinite hiatus” and keeps a mailbox for Fugazi on his answering machine. Canty didn’t return my phone calls. The group hasn’t played a show in four years or released a record in five. And for Lally, the end of the band, however temporary it seemed in 2002, was devastating. “It was horrible...horrible to even think about,” Lally says. “t was like going through an earthquake,” Tricarico writes.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
Yeah, that really is too bad.
Well, there is always a little hope that they might change their minds, and in the meantime... Well, there's always all the great music.
"We get these pills to swallow... how they stick in your throat... Tastes like gold..."
I was able to appreciate the awesomeness of Brendan playing with Eddie in DC on Sunday. I also know that the film will be terrific!
I missed out on the awesomeness because I went to Saturday's show. I did manage to snag the performance off of YouTube before it got yanked. I watched Burn to Shine Seattle again last night, and I just know this film is going to be amazing.
Here's a good DC link for a bit more Fugazi content: http://dissonance.libsyn.com/. The Amanda MacKaye (Ian's sister, Routineers, Fort Reno) podcast is well worth the listen. She runs Girls Rock camp, which showcased the 930 club event that Ian took Ed to on Saturday.
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True enough. A lot of the west coast hardcore started in places like Orange County California, and people thought how can someone be pissed and depressed in a beautiful place like Orange County. The point was you could grow up anywhere and be miserable.
I still don't hear the similarity.
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they havent sold out in ANY WAY!
In addition to Minor Threat, I would also recommend Embrace (http://www.dischord.com/band/embrace). Ian also has a great band currently, the Evens, with drummer Amy Farina. I like their first album better than the second, but both are head and shoulder above what's out in commercial music land.
Also, buy direct from http://www.dischord.com, much cheaper and just so cool to get the hand-written address and the City Paper package stuffing. No, I don't own stock in the label, but I should for all the goods I've bought direct over the years.
There just aren't words enough to describe how remarkable Ian is, both as a person and as a musician. He and Amy have a new baby boy named Carmine, so maybe he and Ed can swap parenting tips :-)
Sorry for the double post, but I'd second that completely. Not to mention Conor Oberst was influenced as well: Saddle Creek records was modeled upon Dischord.
I've done the same thing about emailing songs to people on this board before. If you PM me, I'll throw in the live boot of the legendary Fort Reno show. Sound quality is a bit poor, because of the radio tower hum, but it contains the legendary "ice cream eating motherfucker" rant from Guy that was featured in the documentary Instrument.
And the Embrace album is BRILLIANT. Money, Dance of Days, Give me Back, Do Not Consider Yourself Free, all amazing songs.
Money could just be my favorite Ian MacKaye-penned song, on the odd Monday when I am battling DC traffic to get to work. Speaking of Dance of Days, there is an intrepid book by that name written by Mark Jenkins and Mark Andersen if you want a really lengthy bookish account of the era. The Instrument DVD documentary is a much more entertaining and visceral window into what Fugazi is all about. A better book that captures the early DC hardcore scene is Punk Love (http://www.punklovebook.com/photos.htm) by Susie J. Horgan. Susie worked with Ian and Henry Rollins at an ice cream store, and the book has some great photos and quotes. She took the iconoclastic picture for Minor Threat's cover art that Nike tried to rip off. It is actually not Ian, but his brother, Alec.
"There's a guy who has this image tattooed on his leg. When he showed it to Ian, Ian said, 'Hey that's a great tattoo of my brother.'" - Alec MacKaye
I've yet to read Dance of Days but the sections on Minor Threat and Fugazi in Michael Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life are excellent. Well worth a read for anyone who is interested in the scene.
This is cool, we may be a fanbase of two (no one has asked for the boot which kind of makes me sad), but at least we are bumping this to the top. Dance of Days is a bit of a disappointment to me. I did a few things for Positive Force in the mid-90's, and Mark Andersen is a true positive force in the world. It just fails to capture the times. It feels like 400 pages of name dropping, and I know that is not what was intended. I'll have to check out Azzerad's book.
I'm from DC, so yeah, have heard the Faith's music, but never seen that particular lineup live (bands are so fluid here). A fellow 10C member and I actually went so far as to go on this weird cell phone text message based tour of DC hardcore. The people who put it together were from Sweden, it was really odd. We gave up midway and just went to brunch next to the Black Cat.
I think you should go to Dischord House and beg Ian to get the guys together and pull Fugazi off hiatus
And yeah, definitely check out Azerrad's book. It's not strictly focused on DC, it deals with Black Flag, Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Big Black and so on as well but it's well worth a read.
It's so cool to see some other people who really appreciate 80s hardcore on here! I would kill to have seen any of the bands in the DC area back in the day, seriously. Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains... Anyway I'm getting carried away.
Yeah, Fugazi are amazing too. So much integrity in that band. I really wish they'd start touring again, I've never seen them.
Oh yeah, and I definitely agree with the part in bold!
Also the documentary - 'Instrument - Ten years with the band Fugazi'
Laughing, there are rumors, and they are just that, rumors, that there is a rift between some of the band members that prevents this from happening. Too bad, because they are so fantastic live. The Evens are still fun to see, but nothing is like Fugazi.
I'm old enough to have gone to the Revolution Summer shows and events, most of the Fugazi members are my, uhm, contemporaries. It sounds so much better saying it that way than just plain I'm old.
I was in Summer school in Blacksburg VA that year. Normally, I wouldn't complain because the Tech music scene was thriving in that era, but I will always regret not marching around banging on plastic drums with Scream and Positive Force. :-)
I got everything and started at the beginning. I want to let it absorb some more before I comment. Loving it all so far. I also have the DVD to watch.
Thanks for pushing me to try!
Wow, you are going to have your head full after all of that, too cool, enjoy. I love that DVD, my kids watch it but I have to fast forward through Guy's blue rant. It's funny my kids have been to see Fugazi and the Evens at Fort Reno. Ian always trys to not go on a blue rant because of the little kids, but he always fails, LOL.
I really hope they're just rumors... I always thought they put Fugazi on hiatus because of families and things of that nature.
The Evens are cool though, definitely catching them if they decide to cross the Atlantic.
Family is often cited as a reason, but then Brendan tours with Bob Mould, the Evens tour, Joe Lally tours.
This is exciting though, from Brendan Canty:
"I see the Seattle Burn to Shine is coming out soon. How did the filming of that go?"
"One of my favorite parts of the day was Jesy Fortino, you know, Tiny Vipers. We shot it up in the center of Seattle by the zoo...Eddie Vedder played a great song on his ukulele."....
There was a rumor over the summer that Fugazi would reunite to play a Fort Reno show again, which seemed to me immediately bogus. My impression is that you guys aren’t getting back together, and definitely not for just one show. Yeah. [Laughs] I mean, we might do it for a benefit kind of thing. But everybody is doing something different. Almost all of us have kids now. Fugazi was a real full time activity and the reason we stopped a few years ago was because it didn’t feel like Fugazi when we only did it twenty percent of the time.
But you’re right, I don’t see us putting it all back together, which would be a lot of work. We still see each other all the time, except for Joe, who’s moved to Rome. If there was a burning desire for us to get back together and do it, we would do it. There’s nothing necessarily stopping us. But I don’t see it happening. I’ve got to say, it doesn’t feel like things are pointing in that direction. It just doesn’t seem like that would necessarily be a step forward for any of us. It doesn’t really make sense, you know?
I love the guys. Everybody continues to make music and everybody is plenty stimulated in their lives. I don’t see us going back to Fugazi. I think everybody was pretty much ready for a break by the time it was done. Then again, we never put it out of our heads, really. A lot of the reasons why we stopped were logistical because of kids and things like that. It was mostly kids and death. Kids were being born and almost all our parents were dying at the same time. Everybody was like, “Okay, we need to take a break.” I’m not saying all our parents are dead but everybody in the band lost somebody.
from http://gothamist.com/2008/02/11/brendan_canty_m.php
From Joe Lally article in 2006 (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=282)
One night in Rome in 1995, Fugazi was playing at a giant squat called Forte Prenestino, where Lally met Antonia Tricarico, a photographer who was working the sound system. (“I was more familiar with Minor Threat than Fugazi,” Tricarico writes in an e-mail.) Tricarico eventually moved to the United States, and the two married in 1998. They sold the Virginia house and bought a place in Columbia Heights. In 2001, they had a daughter. Then the floor fell out.
After some shows in Britain, Fugazi had a band meeting at the end of 2002 and decided to stop playing. Neither Lally nor Picciotto will discuss the reasons why on record; MacKaye maintains the band is on “indefinite hiatus” and keeps a mailbox for Fugazi on his answering machine. Canty didn’t return my phone calls. The group hasn’t played a show in four years or released a record in five. And for Lally, the end of the band, however temporary it seemed in 2002, was devastating. “It was horrible...horrible to even think about,” Lally says. “t was like going through an earthquake,” Tricarico writes.
Well, there is always a little hope that they might change their minds, and in the meantime... Well, there's always all the great music.
What I meant to say, the Ed on the Burn to Shine CD is exciting, but yeah, lack of Fugazi in future seems a done deal.
I missed out on the awesomeness because I went to Saturday's show. I did manage to snag the performance off of YouTube before it got yanked. I watched Burn to Shine Seattle again last night, and I just know this film is going to be amazing.
Here's a good DC link for a bit more Fugazi content: http://dissonance.libsyn.com/. The Amanda MacKaye (Ian's sister, Routineers, Fort Reno) podcast is well worth the listen. She runs Girls Rock camp, which showcased the 930 club event that Ian took Ed to on Saturday.