Fugazi : Classic or Dud ?

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)

lololol I can't deny that

it's not really for me

I feel like Ian would have good tips for the digital music collection thread.
But maybe it would be vice versa?

"What if Alan Holdsworth joined Saccharine Trust?"

Folk-artist and performer Lonnie Holley will be backed by Lee Bains, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage tonight from 6 to 7 pm Eastern US time. The show is free but ticketed. It will also be streamed on the Millennium Stage Youtube & Facebook page

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/millennium-stage/2024/february/lonnie-holley/

Alabaman guitarist and backing vocalist Lee Bains is kinda prominent there behind Holley, but Lally and Canty are of course there and sound strong.

Canty has been filling in Hammered Hulls on bass , and has a gig coming up with Johnny Temple ( Girls against Boys, new wet kojak)

what a fucking band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Gy7TAkQW8

Yep. Old guy me was at that Washington Monument show . Well, I was around Ian’s age then .

It's been eight years since they were mentioned and the link's dead so a re-up for the immense Torso Butter by Happy Go Licky.

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

Thanks. You can hear what Guy and Brendan later brought to Fugazi. I was a big fan of Eddie Janney in this group and Rites of Spring.

I’m sure it’s nothing, but the official Locrian band twitter account posted, then quickly deleted, a tweet that essentially said, “I was watching this old video of Ire opening for Fugazi and remembered there’s a new Fugazi album coming. Stoked.”

Disappeared when I went back to screencap it.

https://i.ibb.co/j8fz6jy/IMG-5431.jpg

what, no way

Nope

Also, this other Fugazi thread has been used lately too.

Fugazi: C or D?

Now this Fugazi doc is getting more screenings

https://cinemadfilm.com/project/we-are-fugazi/

no fucking way

reunion/new album i mean

like I said, I'm sure it's nothing and I wouldn't have bothered posting it if it had come from most other places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WRVnR3wEWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R94Otr-jZ1w

Now that Messthetics have finished 2024 US and Europe tours I see that Joe Lally is posting on his Instagram and Facebook that he is giving bass lessons through the holidays. I know he was doing them by zoom I think during the pandemic. So that may be still how he is doing them now or is an option.

Cool!

Liked that Canty mini doc. (Someone should make a second documentary just about his bell.) Neat to learn (at least I think it's news to me) how much he contributed bass and guitar ideas, too. The Bill Berry stealth method.

He wrote Arpeggiator!

That Canty mini-doc is good and yes to another one on his bell

Canty doc is great - i've never spent time investing into the reasoning of their hiatus but life outside the band doesn't really surprise me.

Kurt Sayenga who did a late 80s early 90s zine in DC called Greed has been putting interviews from then on his substack. He also just posted a Joe Lally interview from back then tht he never put in Greed. It looks like only some of the interview is available on the link for free (you may have to get a subscription to read it all)

https://substack.com/@greedzine/note/p-150000215?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2ck8a

https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/we-are-fugazi-from-washington-d-c/

We are Fugazi doc showing in Ireland and UK in February 2025

Profits from each event will be donated to a local charity in each town its screened in ***

We are Fugazi doc is showing at Big Ears Fest Fri March 28 at 1 pm

I am a patient boy, but I just know when this doc finally comes to Chicago I will be out of town or otherwise busy.

If you're traveling in the UK in March or April it is showing there. I encouraged my buddy who was one of the producers to get the distributor to show it in Chicago. Nothing has has happened yet. Do you think the Music Box Theatre or the Gene Siskel Center would show it ?

The distributor guy wants Chicago theatres or someone who can organize a showing in a Chicago theatre to reach out to him

Cinemad Distributor contact email to send them theatre contact info is

Filmplante at gmail dot com

https://cinemadfilm.com/project/we-are-fugazi

There’s also a contact form email on the link

Incredibly, as far as coincidences go, I actually will be in the UK at the end of March, but it's not where I'll be.

I brought it to the attention of the guys that book Thalia Hall here, which is usually a concert venue but which often hosts screenings. No idea why the Music Box hasn't bitten yet, this seems like their jam.

Yeah, Music Box seems primed for this.