Wax Trax! 031: Pailhead (Ministry’s Al Jorgenson + Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye)
Listen: I Will Refuse, No Bunny
"Seeing Fugazi was life changing for me. The bleak landscape I was trodding through (BF- before fugazi) suddenly turned into color, and dare I say it, they made me feel hopeful. Guy Picciotto is hands down the best front man since Freddie Mercury and when I watched him perform it always felt like destiny brought him to that particular stage on that particular night. He always struck me as a character from a twisted fairytale more than just some guy who happened into a band..not so much larger than life, more like a person who was born to be onstage. And Ian MacKaye is not only a great songwriter but also funny as shit. The guy has a kind of impossible charm and also the ability to say what he means so precisely in one one phrase . It can’t be easy to be the canvas every American punk boy projects himself onto. Suffice it to say I love this band. They are putting up an archive of all their concerts soon. Thank god for punk rock archivists!!!"
Kathleen Hanna (http://www.kathleenhanna.com/slam-dunk/)
FUGAZI!!!!
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I was there. Great show! It was recorded on DAT, but it’s not yet available for purchase.
Merchandise
Coincidence!
Was listening to Fugazi as this post came up. If you’d like to listen to Merchandise and hear Ian MacKaye screaming You Are Not What You Own, check out my A Steady Diet of Fugazi Spotify playlist.
Merchandise…it keeps us in line.
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Some Spotify Playlists For You
- A Steady Diet of Fugazi
- Pigface: Welcome To Spotify…Asshole
- The Fractured M-adness of Genesis P-Orridge
- ITSTHEMUSIC.TV Featured Artists
- /ruptured Music
- Ani DiFranco: Prolific & Misunderstood
- Elisabeth Esselink Is The One and Only Solex
- Ween: A Mellower Shade of Brown
- The Other Faith No More: Gospel, Country, Ballads & Lionel Richie
- Suzanne Vega: Samplers & Synthesizers. Distortion & Drum Machines.
“Never mind what’s been selling. It’s what you’re buying.”
Fugazi: Instrument | A Documentary by Jem Cohen
This unpredictable and fluid musical film by Jem Cohen is less a documentary about the punk band Fugazi and more a visual interpretation of the group’s artistic efforts. Energetically charged live performances, studio sessions and atypical fan interviews combine for a one-of-a-kind, mixed format piece.
The film dives right in and effectively captures the spirit, if not the story, of the band from minute one.
I’m not sure if this will appeal to strangers, but those familiar with Fugazi will probably love it. I did.
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Just got Instrument from Netflix. Planning to watch it tonight.
More Fugazi @ blog.worshiptheglitch.com/fugazi
Fugazi - Shut the Door (live clip from the Instrument documentary)
One of the things that I like about this clip is how, after getting used to seeing things in black and white film and home video for a large part of the film, suddenly the viewer is forced out of looking at the bashful faces of those in line waiting to see the band into a frame of richly filmed reds and yellows for the propulsive onslaught of the introduction to “Shut the Door”.
And then there’s the middle, where Guy and Ian lean hard into their amps and Joe stands stoically as Brendan explodes in spurts underneath the roar until hypnotizing the audience as well as the band with the toll of the bell. Guy and Ian attack each other figuratively as the clip purposely fades without bothering to let the band finish the song, but this is fine. You have just witnessed one of the best American bands of all time (and I am serious about the all time part). If you think this performance to be rehearsed in anyway, you don’t know Fugazi.
Yes.
sanewell turned me onto Fugazi in high school. We took in a Fugazi show (w/ The Warmers and Dub Narcotic Sound System), at what I now recall was Grind Skate Park in Sacramento, that might just qualify as the best show I’ve ever seen.
Fugazi - Suggestion
That’s Amy Pickering, Fire Party vocalist and veteran Dischord Records employee, on vocals.
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Fugazi - Waiting Room
Fugazi Auto-Reblog
This reminded me to add their film “Instrument” to my Netflix queue.
Waiting Room by Fugazi
I saw these guys play at a skate park in Sacramento in what must have been ‘94 or ‘95. The show is burned into my brain as if it just happened yesterday. Their energy and sincerity was palpable in a way I’ve only encountered once since.
"Well, the band hasn’t broken up. It’s one of those weird things where we never could agree amongst the four of us what the nomenclature should be for what was going on. It’s not one of those situations for us where we got together, formed a band, then played a few shows, released a couple records, and then decided to call it a day. We had been friends since even before the band started. I mean, I’ve known Brendan, the drummer, since I was like 14 years old. Up to this point I had only ever been in bands with him; I’ve been in like 6 groups with him. That’s a friendship that predates the band and will go to the grave with me, and the same with Joe and Ian. There’s a bond there that goes beyond whether or not we have a gig booked next week or we have a studio date booked, it’s just different than that. Initially I was kinda like, “Well, maybe we should say we broke up just so we can stop the phone from ringing and take a break.” But nobody felt right about it because it seemed kind of false. The band may do something again; we don’t know. We see each other all the time. We certainly always have work to do concerning the band, and we’re still working on projects within the band—like right now we’re trying to get every live tape that we have from the group archived on the Internet so people can listen to 1200 Fugazi shows! [Laughter] If they want to! You know, shit like that. We’re always dealing with stuff, there’s always an outside chance that we may decide to do something."
Guy Picciotto, Fugazi - Gothamist
This interview with Guy is mostly about his current work as a sideman for Vic Chestnut, but this is him explaining that Fugazi is in some way still something that exists. Though I hold out hope for those guys to make more music or tour again, I mostly just want to hear new music from Guy. He’s one of the great rock and roll vocalists of all time as far as I’m concerned, and it’s a shame that he’s not out there with new material of his own.
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