Fugazi: C or D?

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.

PRE-ORDER VIA DISCHORD

HEAR "CLEAN KILL" / PRE-ORDER VIA BANDCAMP

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...

contact: disch✧✧✧@disch✧✧✧.c✧✧

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."

took a little while to click w me but the coriky album is really good! huge step up from the evens stuff, joe lally is essential here imo

Agree. It's similar to the Evens but much stronger.

for me one of those rare cases where the better singer is the less interesting to listen to. good album tho

My heart leaps every time I see this bumped. You know why ;)

Both prospects (reunion/RIP) make my heart skip.

The next project is going to be Ugifaz, and will feature either Ian, Joe and Brendan or Guy, Joe and Brendan on each song but never all four, because they are not reuniting

Finally watched Instrument (it's on Amazon Prime - in the UK, at least). Fantastic film and what a fucking band. They're obviously a unit (Lally as the still centre) but fair to say it's Picciotto's film? I only saw them in (relatively) large venues so his dervish thing wasn't as pronounced. I didn't see any wine, fwiw.

FWIW, I don't think Guy ever identified himself as straight edge. Well, I mean, to some extent none of them ever identified as that, per se. But I think Ian is the only one who didn't eat meat, didn't drink, etc., at least at the start, but none of them are fundamentalists, afaict. I found this good 1995 interview in some Swedish zine:

Petter: Ok, over to another subject. I’ve thought about leaving the straight edge phenomenon out of the interview because I think you’re probably fed up with talking about it. Last time I read someting about it I think you said something about you getting shit for drinking tea, or something like that. You feel ok to talk about this?

Ian: Well, yeah…. I don’t know what you’ve read… I think I might have said that I think there are parts, elements, of the straight edge movement that are too fundamental. And when someone gives me shit about drinking tea, I think, “Mind your fucking business!” It’s my point of view. When I wrote this song, Straight Edge, I was not trying to create a set of rules. I was trying to talk about my own decisions and my own life and the right to live my life however I want to. Cause I’m the one that’s in this body. So, it’s only about my right to live however I damn well please. People interpreted it as, like, a code of behaviour. If you adhere to that you belong to like this mass of like, some kind of, whatever… Union of young men! For the most part. Ahm, I’m just not interested in that. Because, in the beginning, I was straight in a world full of kids who smoked pot, did drugs or whatever. So I felt very alone and I wanted to talk about, like, my validity as a human being, even if I didn’t do what everybody else said. Ten years later I see… Or fifteen years later now… It’s not such of a problem now, maybe in the late eighties it was more of a problem… I see kids who are trying to inflict their opinions on other people, and their opinions are… You shouldn’t be doing this, you shouldn’t be doing this, you shouldn’t be doing this… It’s sort of the opposite of what I intended. On the other hand, I’ve met plenty of people who were straight that were totally cool. And the other hand, I should say is that, I know that when you are a teenager, that when you’re growing up, it’s hard man. I mean, you’re faced with a lot of decisions… You have to make a lot of decisions about a lot of things and I understand why people want to belong to something! And, if that’s like… If that’s my fault, if I created something that kids want to belong to, I’m glad that it was something that doesn't… You know, fucked them up.

Petter: What about these “hardline” assholes then, who object women’s rights, talking about killing women who’ve had an abortion and hate on people with addiction problems…

Ian: I know these kids you’re talking about but you’re talking about a minority and even to discuss them as any kind of… To discuss them in any, like, sort of connection with what you call the straight edge movement, I think is a disservice to straight edge kids. It’s a french… Man, you’re talking about maybe 25 people! Maybe a hundred. But out of like five billion, that’s not a lot of people. And I think that, you know… On radio in America, I hear about these white power skinheads… On the national radio, they talk about white power skinheads! And it’s not that many white power skinheads. There is some, and they’re extreme, and they’re fucked up and they’re dangerous, but when you talk about them on the radio, suddenly there’s a thousand, or there’s a million, because people hear about it and then they start saying like, “They’re there, they’re there!”, and then kids go like, that’s what I wanna be… I mean, I think you have to be very careful when you talk about stuff like this.

Martin: Even if you might disagree with some things in the straight edge movement, do you still think it could turn out to be something positive?

Ian: No. And that’s because I don’t recognize it as a movement. I’m interested in human beings. I’ve met people who were part of that who I think are good people. I’ve also met people who I don’t think are good people. But my point is, is that I don’t condemn everybody who says they’re straight edge, I try to see them as individuals, that’s all. I don’t want to say that, “all straight edge is all this or all that”. It’s a tough thing for me to talk about, because you know…
Petter: I’m sure you’ve heard a lot of it.

Ian: I’ve heard a lot and I also think that a lot of ways… Ahm… I’m in no position to comment about it because I don’t hang out with kids who are part of that. Because for me, like I said, we’re on a whole different… My community is in a different place. And I think it always has been.

Meanwhile:

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tons-of-80s-dc-hardcore-live-videos-unearthed-fugazi-dag-nasty-govt-issue-descendents-more/

Plus

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-a-just-released-full-fugazi-concert-video-from-1999/

Nice high quality gig here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjwPGh4Zw0

I don’t condemn everybody who says they’re straight edge, I try to see them as individuals, that’s all. I don’t want to say that, “all straight edge is all this or all that”

hmmm

I thought that comment about the Touch&Go scene being the guys who “smoke cigars and eat ribs” (I assume this was a contemporaneous interview from the Azerrad book) was a kind of unnecessarily shitty thing to say and an example of the kind of cliched hardcore gatekeeping purity the lazier critics dismiss him/Dischord for

Or seeing that Ian is friends with Albini & Corey Rusk you could see it as a cutting joke at the expense of people you know. I mean Pegboy has pretty thick skin I think.

"Smoke cigars and eat ribs" is pretty mild as far as vicious scene attacks go.