Fugazi : Classic or Dud ?

It's worth seeing. Most of the live footage is from the band's earlier years though

Brooklyn sold out June 6 screening, then Philadelphia June 11 - A third and final screening has been added for 10:00 PM on Sunday, June 11, tickets are available below, the 4:00 and 7:00 screenings are completely sold out

Joe Lally (Fugazi),
Pete Stahl (Scream),
Guy Picciotto (Fugazi),
Don Zientara,
Antonia Tricarico
'The Inner Ear of Don Zientara' Book Talk @
Rough Trade NYC
All Ages / Free Sat June 24 today

4pm

Saw an interesting panel on the studio last night but with Joe Lally, Alec Mackaye, Don Zientara, Antonia and Ian M added a few anecdotes from the audience

The Inner Ear book by Antonia Tricarica ( photographer and Joe Lally’s wife) was discussed briefly. She has more events ahead . Guy was part of discussion panel at Rough Trade in NY , and there are more coming in Charlottesville and elsewhere

The Inner Ear book by Antonia Tricarica ( photographer and Joe Lally’s wife) was discussed briefly. She has more events ahead . Guy was part of discussion panel at Rough Trade in NY , and there are more coming in Charlottesville and elsewhere

anyone know if there will be any west coast screenings of the concert footage doc?

My buddy who is one of the folks who put the movie together says:

Future screenings will have proceeds going to a charity selected in that city.

Look for a San Francisco screening this summer, and current interest from Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Durham, Calgary, Nashville, Las Vegas, Austin, Lancaster PA and Yellow Springs, Ohio. Plus more certain to come.

September 14 in Los Angeles two screenings of We are Fugazi movie via Trust Records at Brain Dead Studios on 611 N . Fairfax

Wither Chicago?

It seems like they are only showing it in places where a theatre or a record store or a festival actively reaches out to the makers of the movie ( rather than the other way around). Yeah , doc would be of interest in many places

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icpovfg5EaM

Super cool!

Damn, Brendan Canty is so good. Love the giant bell too.

Most bands with a giant gong barely hit the gong, but Canty's got a bell and he uses it, dammit.

Can I just say what a wonder it is to exist in a time when within seconds I can watch complete and great sounding Fugazi shows?

That YT channel is insane, I've been scrolling for 20 mins and haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet. I was thinking it would be a nice idea to have a thread for well-curated, deep archive YT channels.

Dude sounds like he's on a mission to upload 1000+ shows.

WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON, DC screens Sunday, October 8 in Yellow Springs, OH. That's , at 145pm.

Jeff Krulik who worked on this Fugazi doc will be there . He had also directed Heavy Metal Parking Lot—MPLS FESTIVAL FILM | WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON D.C.

Saturday, November 11, 2023
4:00 PM 6:00 PM
Parkway Theater
4814 Chicago Avenue Minneapolis,

charming little fugazi (but really more nation of ulysses) doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuHwmqb2asA

Yes , I like that Dc barber video too

Would have been a funny video if it was just a feature on the clippers they all used to buzz their hair down to the scalp.

We are Fugazi doc is gonna be shown in Austin Texas in December at Unseen Film and Music Fest

And per earlier mention, We are Fugazi concert doc showing Saturday November 11 in Minneapolis.

Last night Ian, Joe, and Brendan from the band were in the audience for Rwandan duo The Good Ones in DC . The producer of that duo once promoted a Fugazi gig in the Bay Area .

> The producer of that duo once promoted a Fugazi gig in the Bay Area.

A *free* daytime show at Dolores Park with Sleater Kinney and Vic Chestnutt opening to celebrate/raise awareness of 20 years of Food Not Bombs.

Also this (non-Fugazi) show that I raved about at least once in the ILX archives:

bardo pond

I mean, seriously.

Tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis's Eye of I, my most played album of current days, ends with this track feat. The Mezzthetics, who are Lally and Canty and guitarist Anthony Pirog---goes pretty well with the other tracks---then the guitar comes in:
https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/track/fear-not-feat-the-messthetics-2

No Mezz albs posted on Bandcamp since 2019, but a couple of those, and some upcoming shows:

Brendan Canty and Joe Lally were the rhythm section of the band Fugazi from its inception in 1987 to its period of hiatus in 2002. This is the first band they’ve had together since then. Anthony Pirog is a jazz and experimental guitarist based in Washington, D.C. One half of the duo Janel & Anthony, he has emerged as a primary figure in the city’s out-music community.

That's the first one, self-titled:

The trio’s debut includes nine songs recorded at Canty’s practice space throughout 2017, live and mostly without overdubs. It’s a snapshot of a band dedicated to the live ideal, where structure gives birth to improvisation.

Pirog’s guitar sound with Messthetics is sometimes too prog rock jazz fusion for me. I saw him recently with a different dc area band of his that rarely plays live these days - the EL Reys. They do surf and 50s rock and have a blaring sax and a farfisa organ .

Have also seen Pirog do “Sleepwalk” with roots bands.

I saw them play here once, and my impression was that it sounded like Fugazi's rhythm section with a guitarist I didn't like.

Never saw them live but yeah that was my impression of them too.

Haven't listened to the Mezzthetics albums yet, but Pirog doesn't progfuse that xxxpost James Brandon Lewis track, "Fear Not." It starts with his fluid accompaniment to Lewis's statement of the theme on tenor sax, then drone ov bass & drums drone quickly kicks in, and he steps back into it, sometimes providing punctuation and/or tiny ornaments, best detectable on headphones, as Lewis restates the theme, slightly twisting it, 'til Pirog chops a few chords and twangbar comments---then back into the hunkered-down caveman groove, while brave target Lewis sails overhead: so it's like Neil Young and Crazy Horse backing jazzman, and not a progfuse jazzman.
Thread-relevant only if you've been wondering what Canty and Lally have been up to lately.

Although any good track is relevant to any thread on ILM.

Saw JBL & The Messthetics at Le Poisson Rouge the other night. Closest I'll ever get to seeing Fugazi. A great rhythm section, super tight with JBL and Pirog. I've not always been into Pirog's playing, but he was fantastic live - he reins it in little on the album, but was blazing here.

That’s good. Although the short IG video clip of Jbl & messthetics there in an IG story I saw , his “blazing “ was too busy and math rock meets jazzy prog rock for me.

Honestly, when I saw the show is was kind of like when I saw a Trey Anastasio solo band show. I liked the band, more than I expected (because I don't like Phish), but every time I started kinda enjoying myself he would come back in and my engagement would just fade. Messthetics wasn't quite like that, but Canty/Lally are such a great team, and while he wasn't bad, he still detracted/distracted from them. Or maybe I was just primed to hear Guy and Ian's playing. Probably, lol.

Well we will see if Pirog can restrain his excesses on that upcoming JBL & Messthetics album on Impulse.

Ian isn’t in any active group now, and I don’t think Guy is either.

When I saw the MC50 thing Wayne Kramer's MC5 tribute/reunion thing it had Canty on drums & Billy Gould of FNM on bass and while I didn't always love the show I did come away thinking I would watch any band with Canty playing drums.

Is Coriky no longer a thing? Guy seems more into producing lately.

fwiw Ian is 62 years old and Guy isn't that far behind. So I wouldn't really expect either to still be in active bands if they have absolutely anything else going on in their lives that does not require them to go on tour.

The impression I get from Mackaye's interviews and podcast appearances is that he's kept busy these days curating and preserving not only Dischord's legacy and archive but some of the wider punk/hardcore culture, collecting fanzines/letters/photos and ephemera.

nice, good for him

the short IG video clip of Jbl & messthetics there in an IG story I saw , his “blazing “ was too busy and math rock meets jazzy prog rock for me.

Although, in the DC axis context, if he wanted to take these Fugazi guys in a Don Callero and/or early Battles direction, that would be okay too, I would hope (I like all three of those bands, however you tag them).

listen with juice, not prejudice.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2Lx9F_t_rk/?igsh=dzc1d3R6a3R2dWEx

Eww

guy played instruments on the new jim white solo album so he's still playing

pirog with short hair still flummoxes me

The impression I get from Mackaye's interviews and podcast appearances is that he's kept busy these days curating and preserving not only Dischord's legacy and archive but some of the wider punk/hardcore culture, collecting fanzines/letters/photos and ephemera.

Yes to this. I found some old Minor Threat photos my brother took (plus some negatives of other bands he took pics of back then - DC band Doulbe O, Cramps , others) at our late parents home cleaning up , and my brother and I visited the Dischord house and warehouse and Ian as he is going to digitize them and such. He says he still plays guitar everyday but has put Coriky on hold. He has so much stuff archived -- both physical items, diaries from tours, tapes in multiple formats of practices and gigs.

that insta clip sounded like something that SST would've put out in 1989 (i didn't hate it)