/r/Fugazi
The subreddit dedicated to the American post-hardcore band Fugazi
Fugazi is an American post-hardcore band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band consists of guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty. They have performed numerous worldwide tours, produced six studio albums, a film and a comprehensive live series, gaining the band critical acclaim and success around the world. Fugazi has been on an indefinite hiatus since 2003.
/r/Fugazi
i really want to see a cover of repeater any drummers played this and could post or dm me a video i really want to see one but can’t find it online 😁😁
I wanna get a print made to have on a poster. Or if anyone has a link to a poster, that would be sick too.
I grew up on Neil Peart and I still find her percussive skills phenomenal. Matched with a voice that can raise the heavens. Ian is lucky AF to land this gem.
Here's our deep dive into The Argument for the Flex Your Head podcast
https://screamtherapyhq.com/podcast/episode18-fugazi-the-argument
Hi - for all of the older (specifically in the 40-50+ age range) Fugazi fans, I want to ask a couple of questions:
What was it like to see Fugazi live? Any cool stories from those shows, and how often did you guys get to see Fugazi?
Also - how did you guys get into Fugazi? Which aspects of their music do you guys like the most?
And did you guys get into Unwound, Drive Like Jehu & the Jesus Lizard?
(I’m 28 by the way)
I just saw the band Idles for the first time in NYC at Forest Hills Stadium last week and couldn't help thinking how much they reminded me of Fugazi. The drum & bass grooves, chanty lyrics, outspoken leftist politics. and the chaotic intensity of the performance. Made me yearn for a Fugazi reunion . . . Idles is close but nobody has done it better than Fugazi before or since. Then I was thinking about the one time I saw Fugazi live, which was this show at Holyoke Mass, April 18th 2002. I was a freshman in college and drove up from NY to meet a friend who was going to school in Amherst. Didn't know it at the time, but Fugazi would go on hiatus later that year in November and I caught one of the last shows they would ever play. Hope they do a reunion some day . . . The world needs some Fugazi right now.
The movie itself was just a thrill, so great I whooped and clapped at times. But something else caught my eye as I watched, and it was stunning.
I've wondered if Suggestion would or could trigger someone who experienced a similar trauma and I'm pretty certain I saw it in this documentary. It was cathartic to see.
So in one scene there are people all around and on the stage watching the band and dancing. The camera from the front of the stage shows people standing behind the band and it was here something caught my eye. During Suggestion, with Ian in the forefront, I noticed a young woman wearing a white long sleeve shirt and had shoulder-length brown hair. I noticed her because she was holding her arms in front, against her chest in an awkward way and her face started to contort, to shrink into an obvious crying face. A woman standing next to her pulled her aside and hugged her. Camera change.
I'm stunned, not quite believing what I thought I just saw and then the camera comes back to the same shot of Ian, the same people standing behind him. Some few seconds later, the song gets intense and both women mentioned are back, holding each other, dancing. The woman in the white shirt still has a crying face.
My eyes got watery, it was pretty intense to see-but liberating as well. I don't wonder about Suggestion anymore.
Some art I made last year I figured some of y'all would get a kick out of
I’m submitting an application to do a show for my college radio station. I’m from DC and Fugazi is my favorite band so I want to pay homage! What song titles, lyrics, or other references do you suggest for the title?
My show would primarily focus on alternative rock, both old and new.
This show was amazing.
The verse part of liberation frequency by refused sounds alot like its being sung by Guy picciotto lmao
Recently, there has been an influx of people making posts showcasing bootleg merch. While I personally see no major issues with people simply showing off their own personal designs, I would like to make it clear that attempting to distribute and sell bootleg merch is not allowed here as it obviously goes against the bands ethos.
Anybody attempting to profit off of the bands image will be banned and have their posts removed.
Hey everybody.
I have been looking for a specific live performance of Fugazi for a long time. It involves Guy Picciotto being bitten on the neck and the band letting somebody do a very safe stage dive into the crowd which I thought was really cool.
So the long story: A while ago, 5 or 6+ years ago, I saw a recording of a live Fugazi performance where a stage diver went on stage and Guy Picciotto started slow dancing with him. This continued for a second, but the guy bit Picciotto on the neck, prompting Ian Mackaye to grab the guy by the back of the neck: where you could hear Ian yelling in the guy's ear "What are you doing?".
They made the guy sit by some amplifiers on the side of the stage to finish the song. But eventually Ian talked to the guy, then turned to address the crowd. I don't remember everything he said, but it went something like:
"We don't like when people stage dive, because people can get hurt. But he said 'its all of our stage', and he's right. But please: Do not bite the performers!"
They let the guy do a controlled stage dive, and people seemed to have a good time.
I think the rest of the show was pretty chill apart from that one instance, I don't think Ian would have let that happen if the crowd was wild or violent so hopefully that helps.
If anyone can help me identify this show, please let me know. I don't know if Dischord has a recording of that performance, but if they don't I'd like to find it and link it to them so they can do what they can to archive that as well.
Thanks for reading.
(I’m pretty sure I once saw a photo of Jeff Ament with a fugazi sticker on his bass. I’m not sure, though. Maybe.)
I, personally, hear a lot of musical and sonic similarities between the albums VS. (by Pearl Jam) and early fugazi albums like Repeater, Diet, and Kill Taker.
Some easy examples are Blood, Go, Animal, W.M.A. and even Rearview Mirror.
Curious if anyone else hears similar. In my opinion, take any of those PJ songs and I could hear fugazi playing them instead.
Was thrifting and came across this Fugazi shirt, completely took me by surprise. Anyone knows the history behind this or if it's legit? Can't find any info online, store owner said in that concert, they opened for Minor Threat? Not sure how that works but that's all I know about this
My favorite song is all of them
When people are catching
What bombers release
I'm on a mission
To never agree
It feels like these words only get more and more applicable and more and more prescient-seeming every day. Every time I hear people talk about how their version of violence is acceptable because it's against "the right people" this song just plays in my head. Anyone else feel the same?