Fugazi: C or D?

Was there not a quote in a fairly recent interview with one of Fugazi along the lines that they get together and play for fun every now and then? I’m all for that, playing music together when they get a chance but without it having to Be Something.

Yeah, they have all said at various times that they get together to jam and what not. I might have posted earlier that I know someone who knows Guy, and he is always teasing Guy about not reuniting Fugazi, and Guy always, maybe with false modesty maybe who knows, claims that no one is really that interested, and if they did it would have to be pretty much all new material, but the amount of effort it would take to drum up all the material and be up to snuff musically might be too much. Having seen Joe and Brendan play in that lark recently, they seem pretty up to snuff.

I think Guy lives in NYC these days, while the rest are in the DC area.

Saw the unnamed Ian, Amy, and Joe band in DC (free show though donations encourage to a church's feed the homeless program). They were just ok-- a mix of Evens like vocals, some Fugazi like vocals from Ian, and fugazi style dub reggae influenced bass and drum rhythms. I was kinda hoping they'd go off in different directions than their prior outfits, but that mostly didn't happen. Most of the comments on Facebook and twitter I saw were more positive than mine about their sound btw (although a few folks i spoke to agreed with me). I liked Fugazi back in the day, but this is just kinda there. Oh Guy came down from NY to watch. Lotsa of other Dischord and DC punk folks there too -- from Bratmobile, Fire Party, Priests, Kingface...

This made my day. #minorthreat #saladdays #dischordrecords. pic.twitter.com/CAdF854uB2

— bernie (@bernie) November 17, 2018

Aww

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Messthetics record is good! they're supporting Michael Rother in london in a few weeks, should be a good night.

I had a hilariously mundane dream about these guys a week or so ago, that I missed a one-off reunion show and was reading really good things about it on the internet.

What a band.

weird

Let us all work to get Fugazi to reunite, play at our Arena, we will compensate the band, and make a major donation to local charities in their names, it has been too long. They resonate well with all generations, we miss them. Check this out. https://t.co/c7HcqHWY4l

— Ted Leonsis (@TedLeonsis) May 13, 2019

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"Hope they play Glue Man. No slam-dancing in the pit!"

Billionaire Caps & Wizards owner Leonsis is clueless and cheap. While his predecessor the late Abe Pollin built the Capital One Arena largely with his own money, Leonsis is always hitting up DC taxpayers for $ to upgrade the arena, and to pay for the SE Mystics WNBA Arena. The Se Fort Dupont recreation arena needs big bucks to be refurbished & Leonis gave just 100,000 as part of a go fund me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Ce5kgPWOY

LOL, Alice Donut. My friend got his shoulder dislocated at one of their shows.

https://coriky.bandcamp.com/

Ian & Joe from Fugazi plus Amy Farina ( who was in Evens with Ian). A hybrid of those 2 groups. 1 song out now, album coming. At DC area gigs they were requesting no video.

Formed in 2015, Coriky did not play their first show until 2018. They have recorded one album. They hope to tour.

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TRACK LIST
1. Clean Kill
2. Hard to Explain
3. Say Yes
4. Have a Cup of Tea
5. Too Many Husbands
6. BQM
7. Last Thing
8. Jack Says
9. Shedileebop
10. Inauguration Day
11. Woulda Coulda

coriky will play some shows...

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the drumming on that could be better imo, but I like it better than the Evens based on that track.

I like the drumming! though it is closer to Fugazi than the Evens so might start drawing comparisons to one of the great rhythm sections in rock history which isn't totally fair imo

the drumming is great

vocal harmonies on the chorus are great

Haven’t listened to the recorded stuff, but I saw Coricky a few months ago and her drumming was probably the most interesting element.

They hope to tour.

They have a few gigs coming up in DC, VA, Pa.

Ian’s guitar chords and vocals are too drawn from Fugazi for me. Glad Farina’s vocals are there

I am loving this

Amy's a great drummer, with incredible touch. I thought the first two Evens records were really fresh. Last one was a bit of a bummer and I worried that it was all over. Very psyched to check this out.

yeah I liked the Evens first record a lot

School of Rock Headliners & Junior Headliners Rocky River, Ohio perform at Whiskey Island in Cleveland, Ohio on August 4th 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZD9WFpWZo

That's awesome. Cleared my Covid right up.

That's great! I thought the revive was gonna be about Jenny Lee Lindberg's cover of I'm So Tired.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/warpaint-jennylee-cover-fugazi-classic-im-so-tired-2621797

on the side, i have never seen an apple music “inspired” list that makes me want to listen less than theirs, which has a beauty sequence of rhcp/rage against the machine/pearl jam/foo fighters/rapture. when i’m thinking of my fugazi love, i dont want to touch that shit, i hope that doesn’t make me shallow.

otoh, their influences list has a sequence of zep/publicenemt/mc5/wire and more that, fuck, i def can get with that, tho it doesnt feel that fugazi all the time.

yeah, I know i know it’s Apple Music.

There’s a bit more to the tale of Fugazi & the ice cream eater at their free show at Fort Reno Park in DC in 1993. Here’s my little blurb

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21125759/city-lights-revisit-the-fort-reno-ice-cream-eater-and-read-rian-johnsons-screenplays

on the side, i have never seen an apple music “inspired” list that makes me want to listen less than theirs, which has a beauty sequence of rhcp/rage against the machine/pearl jam/foo fighters/rapture. when i’m thinking of my fugazi love, i dont want to touch that shit, i hope that doesn’t make me shallow.

i bought my first Fugazi CD because the review I read of Killtaker referenced RATM and Eddie Vedder was a big fan.

I once knew someone who worked on a Fugazi-related gig. Forgot what he did (I think he was a staff member at some place they were using), but it was just him and the band one night, and at the end, one of them asked him where he was headed. He said he was going to check out some B-movie that he really wanted to see, and to his surprise, the whole band was interested and asked to join. So he wound up going to the movies with them, just like that - just awesome.

curmudgeon's piece had me checking out clips from Instrument on YouTube - my DVD is somewhere in the loft - and my god that's some of the most captivating live footage ever filmed

aw those are both very sweet stories, thanks

this band was so transformative and positive for so many people in the post-hardcore era

My tiny Fugazi story, I happened to be recording at Southern Studios the day after they played at the Rex in London in '99, on a table downstairs was a load of fresh fruit and drinks and stuff, obviously the remains of last night's rider, with a post-it note saying 'From Fugazi', thoughtful dudes.

as the years go by, seeing one of those last tour shows in London still stands out as one of my top 5 shows of all time. the anticipation was crazy as it had been a few years since they'd hit the UK at that point i think, travelled up from southampton for it (which always felt like a big event) - and they played something from pretty much every record (as if they knew this was the last run).... and fuck that was 2002. I was 18. half my life ago! show was:

Ex-Spectator
Do You Like Me
Facet Squared
Public Witness Program
Long Division
Oh
Cashout
Target
Furniture
Life and Limb
Promises
Burning
Song #1
Give Me the Cure
Bad Mouth
Recap Modotti
The Kill
Turnover
Back to Base
Number 5
Nightshop
Epic Problem
Latin Roots
Break
Place Position
Argument
Full Disclosure

and yeah, by the time i saw this show i had probably watched Instrument 20 times easily. its probably the perfect gig of actual reality matching my huge teenage expectations.

Missed the London shows on that final tour but reviewed the Brighton show, it was unforgettable. My snapper Nick got an amazing photo of Guy doing the splits.

Okay not exactly the splits, but... The members of excellent support band Cat On Form just out of focus sitting onstage in the background. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickstevens/4010684125

Great pic!

If my family wasn't all working from home within a few feet of the stereo I would be blasting Fugazi right now.

I went to a screening of Over the Edge in October last year and Guy and Kathi sat in the same row as me. Guy had a real stay-at-home-dad vibe to him. Comfortable cardigan, sensible shoes. Looked like life was treating him well. I didn't bother them.

Some time around I want to say 1999 my friends and I threw a party in D.C., and Guy showed up. From memory he was wearing sunglasses and faux leather pants, though that may have been Ian Svenonius. Or maybe it was both of them dressed like that? Anyway, I remember Guy walking around for a few minutes and then just leaving, which was the right decision.

The Jazz Band Rejects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3wGLfEKxNY

the Chicago one also rules

Was gonna say I already posted that upthread (March 8), but this is a different performance.

Coriky (Ian, Amy, Joe) album is out today. Also saw on FB that Joe Lally is giving private online bass lessons

possibly the last, closest thing we will ever get to new fugazi

unless of course they announce "btw, all those private sessions we did that were just for us? we actually filmed and recorded allllll of 'em."