Just incase someone posts it here as it's all over other message boards.
the bullshit text is
Ian Mackaye, lead singer of influential hardcore band Minor Threat as well as Fugazi passed away today in a Baltimore hospital room. Outside a Fugazi show in New Jersey last night, the singer was struck by a car passing by the front of the Ventura Theatre. Brunswick police say that the driver allegedly stopped, but then fled the scene. There is now a police investigation underway.
Mackaye was rushed to St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, where he was pronounced dead this morning at 6am. This is a tragedy for the underground music as a whole and we need to stand together at this time of loss.
Apart from the fact that Fugazi dont even play live anymore, the geography is apparently all wrong here too.
Dom , you should've done better ! ;)
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago)
Lol, hit in Jersey and "rushed" to a Blatimore hospital.
― Lolpez, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago)
B-b-b-but the geography makes perfect sense? There are no hospitals in that part of New Jersey!
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago)
they also made him half dead or something a few years ago,if i recall..
― Zeno, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago)
would've been a funnier/nastier hoax if he was drunk
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago)
Is it a hoax or not? Bookmakers are saying: Evens.
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago)
groan
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago)
I hear Minor Threat are reuniting for Warped this summer. Vans has BIIIIG pockets.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago)
RIP
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.debbiedoesdallasagain.com/images/eon1smal.jpg
Shitty alt.porn director Eon McKai RIP, heaven needed someone to point a camera at some tattoed bints
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago)
Ian will be donating his fourth of the check to the Washington Free Clinic. "We rehearsed fo a laugh, and it was really fun. I was surprised how much I enjoyed going through the old stuff. I saw Sonic Youth do Daydream and it seemed like that would be a cool summer vacation. We're not gonna make new songs or anything, just figured this would be a good chance to bring a positive message to kids and make a lot of money for the clinic."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago)
there's an interview about it on makeoutclub
― da croupier, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacKaye
― djmartian, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago)
hoax:
The Baltimore Sun http://tinyurl.com/2hhmu9
Ian MacKaye is alive. Elvis is still dead
A phone rings at 6:08 p.m. in Arlington, Va. A 45-year-old man picks up. The caller doesn't even have the chance to offer a greeting.
"I am still alive," reports Ian MacKaye, the frontman of such punk acts as Minor Threat and Fugazi, and the founder of Washington's Dischord Records.
This would not be news except that The Sun and apparently many other organizations had been told that MacKaye was, in fact, dead. We were told that he died Monday night at Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital. A call to the hospital found no evidence of such a patient. We followed up with calls to Dischord (left a message) and to MacKaye's home.
"I am happy to report that I am not dead," says MacKaye. He and the record company had been blasted with calls, he says, after premature reports of his death were posted on MySpace and Wikipedia. He says he hasn't been able to find the MySpace reference, but had the Wikipedia posting removed -- and then re-removed, once someone reinserted the false news.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago)
ive heard being dead in music business means more money, and a legend status forever. he should have waited with the denial maybe..
― Zeno, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago)
I wonder what numptie started this rumour.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago)
"I am happy to report that I am not dead," says MacKaye.
Better than unhappy to report, I guess.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:20 (seventeen years ago)
Enjoying reading messageboard crocodile tears from people who are such avid fans they didn't notice that Fugazi haven't played live for about five years and probably never will again
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago)
lol
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago)
Imagine if he really died today!
― StanM, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago)
Has it been so long since I saw'em? I remember I saw'em way back at the AB (in Belgium) and then rushed to see the rest of the dEUS show. Shit, I am sad to report I am getting senile.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 12:21 (seventeen years ago)