slincire wrote:And some of the lyrical content just really turned me off. I remember he said something like, "This goes out to the living dead," something along those lines, real serious like, coming off sort of angry. And I just felt somewhat embarassed for him.

What are you some sort of zombie apologist? Must we accept the undead for the sake of PC diversity.....and watch America die while its brain gets eaten? You goddamn liberals.

charliedon'tsurf wrote:

slincire wrote:And some of the lyrical content just really turned me off. I remember he said something like, "This goes out to the living dead," something along those lines, real serious like, coming off sort of angry. And I just felt somewhat embarassed for him.

What are you some sort of zombie apologist? Must we accept the undead for the sake of PC diversity.....and watch America die while its brain gets eaten? You goddamn liberals.

First they came for the zombies, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a zombie....

slincire wrote:And some of the lyrical content just really turned me off. I remember he said something like, "This goes out to the living dead," something along those lines, real serious like, coming off sort of angry. And I just felt somewhat embarassed for him.

Ya know, I think I blocked that part of it out...and now it's flooding back. I will say that I didn't enjoy it enough to actually buy or download any of it, I just thought it was interesting. Antelope played before him, and I thought they were great.

Eating Noddemix wrote:Maybe they were just antsy perhaps but whatever the reason they really didn't take a shine at all to Todd's set that night. Personally I thought it was cool. I said this in defense of BLC after the show and one my friends at the time said it just wasn't good music to be playing in a huge room jampacked with people. Well, maybe it's just me, but that particular qualm seems patently petty when you've got Fugazi on deck.

BLC was well received at the Touch and Go festival, which had a huge crowd, although one that was probably full of Shellac fans and therefore was more acquainted with Todd Trainer.

I've seen them play a ton of times. Always great live. Never listen to the records, except when my wife listens to 13 songs, Repeater or In On The Killtaker.

Repeater holds a special place in my heart. I left "Lollapalooza 001" early because everything about the whole event pissed me off- from the Evian water @8 dollars per bottle to the mobile tattoo parlors. A good friend put on the new Fugazi cassette that night on the ride home from fucking Reston, Va. - mind blown. The politics hit home and the power of the record and anger was the perfect soundtrack.

Later, one of the funniest things I've seen was watching the goofazi play Ft. Reno park in DC. The electricity kept cutting out mid Ian and Guy stage freakout. Dudes are upside down, screaming into guitar pickups, falling down and the sound cuts out. All this aggression just STOPS. Then the sound comes back. Then it is gone again. Then back. Imagine this for half of an entire set. I think at some point the amps were turned down and they played the Charlie Brown theme song.

I met Ian once through a mutual friend and he ran into me in the elevator lift at a Shellac/Skull Kontrol show in Baltimore in the late 1990's and remembered meeting me. He's an exceptional person. Super nice-guy.

Not Crap.

great band. many overrated songs.

I just listened to End Hits yesterday. An old girlfriend gave me Red Medicine on cassette in 1995, but I didn't really "get" them until far later.

They're not my favorite band, and I don't put them on very often, but I admire what they've accomplished and enjoy their music. Those two records I mentioned are fantastic.

Not crap, obviously.

Back in high school my friends and I were setting up a backyard show, and we decided we'd try to get Fugazi to play. They didn't', but Ian called my friend's house at midnight one day and woke up his mom. Then he talked to my friend and apologized for not being able to make our show due to prior commitments. I always thought that was pretty cool of him.

so the Fugazi reunion is a hoax right?

Sebastian J. wrote:so the Fugazi reunion is a hoax right?

ain't happening