Everything about this is perfect. The music, the crowd, how bitterly cold it looks, how the sound quality just randomly changes 50 seconds in. Beautiful.
They never faded into obscurity, just like they never sold out into the mainstream. They did their time, stayed true to their values and eventually individual members went on to do their own thing. They leave an untarnished legacy, which not many bands can claim.
Before mobile phones & social media we always found out about Fugazi shows the day of, and had to ride our freaking bikes downtown to Lafayette Sq or even worse; up to Fort Reno. My god the hills to get to Ft Reno were like a cruel joke to a kid on a BMX bicycle but at least the shows were free.
YES!!! I was at that show with my brother and our friends. I'm the dude wearing the dorky black bowler hat. You can see me at 0:45, 0:49, and 1:31. Just right of center stage about 1 person back from the front. What an amazing day! I was 17 and a huge Fugazi fan. I was also very much against the war and loved going to protests (I was afraid they would reinstate the draft and I was about to turn 18! Plus I knew the whole thing was about oil) Such an amazing show. The crowd was raging. The cold weather felt good in the sweaty mosh pit. The crowd was rocking so hard that the cheap wooden stage they built was starting to come apart, and we had pause the show and push the flats back together. Aw man... this show was one of the highlights of my teen years. So amazing.
+ebarnsey I literally had the Repeater cassette tape in my car for a whole semester my Junior year of HS. That was in 1992 and in Florida. Fugazi sound made it down there too!.
Totalmente de acuerdo, quien pudiera ir atrás en el tiempo, a los 80 y 90 donde el punk era mayoritario. Cuantos conciertos de grupos locales vascos, españoles pero también ingleses e estadounidenses!!. ✊✊💣💣
Got to see them 3 times in my youth. Got close enough to observe that they were not very nice to fans after their shows BUT they were fucking brilliant rock stars on the stage❤️
This was me, today. Heard of the band, never listened to them. This video got me hooked! I miss the raw energy of live performances in the early to mid-90s. I hope someday we can get back to that and stop worrying about making productions out of live performances. Just go out with your instruments and a crowd and rock some faces off.
I urge everyone to give a listen to all their albums. I miss the energy from this time period, too. When I'm down, fugazi and others always get my spirits back up!
So true. I was looking up some Mission of Burma stuff 10 years ago or so, and a referral check out 'Fugazzi" popped up. Oh shit, look what I had been missing! Their album, 'The Argument' is one of the best albums ever, seriously. Great band.
I was 15 years old jumping in that crowd somewhere. Growing up in the DC area was awesome! Fugazi used to play free shows in parks with what looked like 10,000 people.
This was an amazing show, but bittersweet. I was there. It all felt unreal because we knew it was all hopeless to protest; it wouldn't do anything to change the war, but it was a protest with every bit of heart because we knew as anti-war activists we had to be active. I remember being taunted by "counter-protesters" on the march down there as well. All wrapped up in the flag and chanting USA like a bunch of robots. All to protect our oil interests. I'd been at a few all-ages, sweaty and awesome church basement Fugazi shows before but this one felt so different, the crowd was not massive, ragged, but it didn't matter. Fugazi were defiant and brilliant as ever with the White House as the backdrop.
same as it ever was... I wasn’t around for these, but I remember the same at protests of the 2003 invasion that kicked off the second forever war. It’s aggravating that the people who threw trash at me during those protests now uniformly nod their heads that Iraq II was a pointless and bloodthirsty rush to war for oil and neoconservative pipe dreams. But of course, they still believe the people who were telling them that as it was unfolding were just a gang unpatriotic loons... When will the cycle break
fucking shit, that first line "Langour rises reaching" in unison does it for me every time. its so powerful, when yelled over those octave chords. the musicality of this band (and others from the scene) contained so much that we bands still do today. amazing shit
People never talk about how seamlessly Ian and Guy played together. Singing and guitars. It's so uncommon and shows their one vision. Whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
First time seeing this great footage and I've got to say, I'm proud of 21 year-old me's taste in music back in 1991. Their music has held up well over the years!
I cant even count how many times I saw Fugazi live in DC. 89-90 were some good years. They were all ways doing shows for local charities. Awesome band inside and out!
The best INDEPENDENT band in the story of rock music. This is beyond any discussion. If you can use the ears you know why. They've had all the attributes to do the masterpieces such REPEATER - technical skills, strong personalities, the highest intellectual level of lyrics, songwritting and arragement talent. Saw them two times when I was a teenage boy- in 1990 & 1992. Great performances!
I realize this comment is 7 years ago, but if you like Fugazi; check out Drive Like Jehu. Incredible band, and super unique while still having energy and groove.
I was at this historic show. Fugazi played a great set inbetween raindrops. I had a cold and a fever but truly enjoyed this. Great video! Great sound, too, for an outside live gig.
When I was 14 years old this was the best band I had ever heard; on stage and off. Now I'm 35 and this is the best band I have ever heard; on stage and off. No one can match their tightness.
This video sums up so much about what Fugazi existed to be. They were as passionate and committed to politics (and essentially doing the right thing) as they were to creating incredible live music. I miss them. Thanks for posting.
Incredible capacity to combine music and lyrics and live attitude. Hardcore poetry. Strange, fascinating marriage of mind and passion - or rage. The live scenario is also at tune. No compromise with what you are criticizing.
I had all tipes of friends, hard-core punks, skaters, those called "AlternativIes," Some were quite wealthy and wore tasteful black, with Doc Mart, low-quarters of course. My mother became worried when my entire wardrobe became black and brown. I would grow my hair out, but underneath my head was shaved. The best part of the eighties, "Acid-House" sound of the underground! Everyone was smoking turkish clove cigarettes, and the drugs were everywhere! Parents treated us like "Waiting Room."
I once saw an interview with Ian (actually it's in the related videos on the right), and he said there that once a dude damaged his head really bad after falling from the stage, and since then they stopped playing every time someone from the crowd would start doing something dangerous in order to prevent accidents like that from happening again.
I was fortunate to grow up in Northern VA (just a 30 min drive to D.C.) and got to see Fugazi when they did free or $5 shows at places like Freedom Plaza, Fort Reno, and the Washington Monument. They absolutely had a massive impact on me and still do to this day.
Brendan Canty is an INCREDIBLY underrated drummer. He's probably the only drum i know with musically perfect drumming, just goes so well with each song.
Heck ya. That have such a unique take on punk. Groovy. Passionate. Musical. And heavy as hell. Nick Mason of PF is a very musical drummer too. “Echoes”
I remember seeing Fugazi's first live show ever at the Wilson Center in Mt Pleasant. I was there to see Marginal Man, but Fugazi sent a very loud message that night.
Fugazi got me in to hardcore and my band in the early 90‘s was reflecting so much of the NY hardcore age and our music was heavy influenced. Good old times. And it felt so damned right.
listen up to these guys, rock n rollers, n this comment is from a controlled substance enthusiast. do you hear this performance? do you hear the precision with which every nuance is executed? this is what happens when you have the discipline and self-respect and capacity for critical and independent thought, and when you exercise that ability. do you see how much the audience is enjoying themselves? do you notice how they're not all holding solo cups, with their eyes rolling in the back of their heads, inviting a bust up by local police and diverting the local medical resources? do you know how much thought and effort fugazi has put into keeping ticket prices as low as they possibly could? this band has as much integrity, and thus they have brought it out of the public, i'm guessing leading to the fans with the most integrity, and the fans probably getting the most bang for their buck, having the most fun, and having the least amount of hassle, as anyone in the history of punk to say the least.
i'm only a controlled substance enthusiast insofar as food of the gods by terence mckenna is a book full of enthusiasm for controlled substances. which is to say- very specific psychotropic drugs, under very specific, carefully planned, safe set and setting, for very specific, utilitarian purposes, which would equate to an even safer practice than either medical or shamanic use of controlled substances. so it's an idealist way of thinking you might say, but i like to think of it as a futurist way of thinking
I was about to be born when this video was taken. I don't know if that says something about me, but Fugazi's music and politics had such a huge impact on who I am today.
Best gigs! Everybody a friend. All shows were all ages, folks looked after each other, danced and moshed litres of sweat, got lectured by Ian or Guy to calm down. Then back into it... many, many friends were made. Introduced my little sister to the world of Gigs and punk rock, first gig she ever saw when she was 15 (?), she dragged her whole year to the gig, in Sydney, Australia.
Langour rises reaching To turn off the alarm And there's never so much seething That it can't be disarmed You just Stop it up, Pass it on Shove it to shelf it, To leave it off and Turnover Lounging against your weapons, Until your muscles find lock In the ease of that position A residue of tremor passes As some cherie amour suggests That maybe it was time to smash things up But just Stop it up Pass it on Shove it to shelf it To leave it on and Turnover Stop, Turnover Stop, Turnover Stop it up, Pass it on Shove it to shelf it To leave it on and Turnover To just Stop it up Pass it on Shove it to shelf it To leave it on and Turnover I'm rolling I'm only I'm only sleeping
The banner was written "there will be 2 wars"..in fact, there were 2 wars on Irac & slaughters for the petro dollar..."im only sleeping, stop turnover" these guys were the real deal.. true sincerity..grateful to have been a kid during these days..sacred times
In the 1990's, I had the good fortune of seeing Fugazi in a crap city (Halifax) on the east coast of canada in a small venue and it was the most amazing, memorable show I ever saw. (next best thing to seeing Minor Threat)
Never got to see them live...especially love this clip...Piccioto has this amazing air-kick he does while moving backwards at about 2:57 in...love it...
such an amazing band. their albums are wonderfully recorded as well. i may be isolated in the music i listen to but i find there to be a lot more sonic depth in a fugazi album than in other "punk" style bands.
Yo compré un CD de Fugazzi en el que estaban muchas canciones, creo que fue allá por el 90, por fin he podido escuchar otras canciones aparte de la que siempre encuentras, que es la más famosa. Al menos aquí escucho otra canción y en directo. Un admirador vasco de Fugazzi 😎✊✊✊
Ian I met you with Grendle at Marley Station. My son is named Ian! I will always cherish those days and what straight edge ment to me!. Youre still legend!!!
Everyone wants to have lived during the 60s or 70s. I get it, but I would have loved to live in the US in the late 80s and early 90s. So many awesome, powerful and independent bands - Fugazi, Nirvana (early) Mudhoney, Mbv, Slowdive, REM to name only a few.
How fucking cool is this? Fugazi laying it down right in front of the white house. If this was filmed now, there would be such a controversy over it. These guys deserve insane amounts of respect
I love how the audience are actually listening to and enjoying the band, not just standing their with their phones up so they can show all their friends how emotionally vacant they were at the concert they claim to have attended.
+Kanhaiya Bheergoonath Yeah, Brendan and Joe Lally are just a crushing rhythm section. I'm from DC/Balto; from this time, and saw Fugazi play a number of times (as well as Threat and Rites). In my mind, one of the best, if not the best live band of the last 30 years.
Fugazi is rad. I got to see them at the Food Not Bombs 20th anniversary in Dolores Park (along with Sleater-Kinney). It was definitely worth the drive up from Santa Cruz. Historic. Oh yeah, we got to see my friend’s sister & her partner participating in the AIDS ride, riding their tandem south veil flowing & all. Beautiful. Happy memories!
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Everything about this is perfect. The music, the crowd, how bitterly cold it looks, how the sound quality just randomly changes 50 seconds in. Beautiful.
back when people was raw and legit.
ua-cam.com/video/XQOZMIhXzMc/v-deo.html
@@sofarsogod and not bots on the internet
today. there was massive police...
and junks..but no Band...
Lmao. True.
They never faded into obscurity, just like they never sold out into the mainstream. They did their time, stayed true to their values and eventually individual members went on to do their own thing. They leave an untarnished legacy, which not many bands can claim.
Yeah it's only Fugazi and Metallica :)
@@SxSxG666 metallica?
Trust me, they were mainstream. They were in Spin Magazine, a very mainstream college oriented magazine for music and Noise.
Great Post Punk scene too.
@@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811 There is a difference between popular and mainstream.
It's freezing cold and wet outside and of course Fugazi doesn't care and is playing free in a park
January 12, 1991 Lafayette Park Washington DC
that was a brown comment
Ween brothers
Is that a ween reference
@Pedro Va It was a protest against the coming war with Iraq. The first one. Desert Storm. That's in front of the White House.
Before mobile phones & social media we always found out about Fugazi shows the day of, and had to ride our freaking bikes downtown to Lafayette Sq or even worse; up to Fort Reno. My god the hills to get to Ft Reno were like a cruel joke to a kid on a BMX bicycle but at least the shows were free.
+John Koehler nothing more rad than a kid on a BMX bike rolling to a Fugazi show. The Radness!
i would give everything for a Fugazi show
yes me too Shiro!
Amen to that.
fuck. so jealous!
That drummer is fucking incredible
All the musicians in Fugazi are phenomenal. Special shout out to Joe Lally! Super talented bassist.
My sentiments exactly. Thank you!
Yeah, but if you've been in a band, probably your drummer is not so talented as you think.
Joan Saag agreed
FupaGravy yeppers
YES!!! I was at that show with my brother and our friends. I'm the dude wearing the dorky black bowler hat. You can see me at 0:45, 0:49, and 1:31. Just right of center stage about 1 person back from the front.
What an amazing day! I was 17 and a huge Fugazi fan. I was also very much against the war and loved going to protests (I was afraid they would reinstate the draft and I was about to turn 18! Plus I knew the whole thing was about oil)
Such an amazing show. The crowd was raging. The cold weather felt good in the sweaty mosh pit. The crowd was rocking so hard that the cheap wooden stage they built was starting to come apart, and we had pause the show and push the flats back together. Aw man... this show was one of the highlights of my teen years. So amazing.
+ebarnsey I literally had the Repeater cassette tape in my car for a whole semester my Junior year of HS. That was in 1992 and in Florida. Fugazi sound made it down there too!.
+ebarnsey i wish i was one of you lucky people!
i love reading comments like these on youtube...you made my night :)
Where is this show?
Jeallouuuss! So rad!
Moments like this in history makes me wish time travel was possible
If only I could revisit this... Fugazi was such a milestone
No need to wish! The camera is a time travel device! You did it!
Every time I saw Doctor Who I have the same tought. Save the universe? Nah lets go to some epic historyc shows XD
Totalmente de acuerdo, quien pudiera ir atrás en el tiempo, a los 80 y 90 donde el punk era mayoritario. Cuantos conciertos de grupos locales vascos, españoles pero también ingleses e estadounidenses!!. ✊✊💣💣
saw them in Paris in the 90's just before ''Afghan Whigs"". Amazing!
I would give anything to see this band live.
nayzany Me too my friend!
Sameee
Got to see them 3 times in my youth. Got close enough to observe that they were not very nice to fans after their shows BUT they were fucking brilliant rock stars on the stage❤️
w/The Make-up & Branch Manager '94.
One of the top 3 shows on my all-time list. Fucked my shit up.
Usually you would've needed just ten dollars. Saw them 4x. and it was worth EVERYTHING.
i used to listen to fugazi all the time and yesterday i put them on and was transcended to my early 20's and forgot how much i love this band
Me today
Don’t forget ....💕
@@elsbethsteele9285 me too. Being listening to them all week. They changed my life a thousand years ago and they still do.
wow who gives a crap
@@Tina-ul1ii you have daddy issues huh?
I opened for Fugazi in DC in 1990. I knew Ian's mom back in the day. They are all awesome folks.
3:19 though that was a dude being catapulted
сначала я тоже так подумал! но это просто куртка...
it's a jacket xD
I did too
same lol had to watch it back the first time
😂
Can you imagine someone who's never knew Fugazi, walking down the street and stumbling on this? Instant fan convert I would bet. Such a powerful band.
This was me, today. Heard of the band, never listened to them. This video got me hooked! I miss the raw energy of live performances in the early to mid-90s. I hope someday we can get back to that and stop worrying about making productions out of live performances. Just go out with your instruments and a crowd and rock some faces off.
I urge everyone to give a listen to all their albums. I miss the energy from this time period, too. When I'm down, fugazi and others always get my spirits back up!
So true. I was looking up some Mission of Burma stuff 10 years ago or so, and a referral check out 'Fugazzi" popped up. Oh shit, look what I had been missing! Their album, 'The Argument' is one of the best albums ever, seriously. Great band.
Guy is awesome. the one of the best vocalist in hardcore.
Yeah!
Hardcore?
@@llm4187 Post-Hardcore
I wonder what haircut does guy picciotto has
@@Necoarcchaos205 looks like a lack of one to me
I was 15 years old jumping in that crowd somewhere. Growing up in the DC area was awesome! Fugazi used to play free shows in parks with what looked like 10,000 people.
never been more jealous of someone
If there ever was a band that needed to make more music, it's these guys.
no, they left at the right time
Fugazi are one of those rare bands that come along every once in awhile that pour as much passion into their music as possible.
This was an amazing show, but bittersweet. I was there. It all felt unreal because we knew it was all hopeless to protest; it wouldn't do anything to change the war, but it was a protest with every bit of heart because we knew as anti-war activists we had to be active. I remember being taunted by "counter-protesters" on the march down there as well. All wrapped up in the flag and chanting USA like a bunch of robots. All to protect our oil interests.
I'd been at a few all-ages, sweaty and awesome church basement Fugazi shows before but this one felt so different, the crowd was not massive, ragged, but it didn't matter. Fugazi were defiant and brilliant as ever with the White House as the backdrop.
same as it ever was... I wasn’t around for these, but I remember the same at protests of the 2003 invasion that kicked off the second forever war. It’s aggravating that the people who threw trash at me during those protests now uniformly nod their heads that Iraq II was a pointless and bloodthirsty rush to war for oil and neoconservative pipe dreams. But of course, they still believe the people who were telling them that as it was unfolding were just a gang unpatriotic loons...
When will the cycle break
I love to find these comments of people present in the videos!
I was on a Navy cruiser in the Persian Gulf in ‘91.
Oil is king
Oil is too important to be left to the Arabs. - Henry Kissinger
fucking shit, that first line "Langour rises reaching" in unison does it for me every time. its so powerful, when yelled over those octave chords. the musicality of this band (and others from the scene) contained so much that we bands still do today. amazing shit
Darrien Day 😉
Fugazi is everything.
Gabriela Sousa exactly, they care of everything.
People never talk about how seamlessly Ian and Guy played together. Singing and guitars. It's so uncommon and shows their one vision. Whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Nirvana may have sold more records but FVGZI will always be in my eyes (& ears) the most important band of the 1990’s. They were incredible.
I have watched this video more times than anything else on youtube. a perfect example of four humans connecting on a whole different level.
heh. here i am seven years later putting this on again after a shitty day.
I'm really digging that bassline.
A truly great bassist, as Rockette Morton. Fast and Bulbous
Joe Lally is criminally underrated
It starts and ends sounding like an after school special!
I saw Fugazi in Melbourne, Australia 1991, I was 17. I still remember it clearly.
Pure art... Simply the best!!! Thank you fugazi for your existence.
i've been watching this video for 7 years now, and i can still say, one of the best videos on youtube
This. Is. INCREDIBLE footage. Way to put it together. Literally brings tears to my eyes remembering bands like this once walked the Earth...
I love this clip so much. Dual vocals at their best. Guy's shirt and v neck jumper is perfect and Ian in his hat! Oh my. It warms my heart.
Real Post-Hardcore!!
Roberto Martinez real punkrock
Real music with faith in its power of touching people's heart
Real.... Music?
Real emo
tbf they kind of invented post-hardcore so yea about as real as it gets
Thanks UA-cam algorithm, didn’t even knew Fugazi and i got recommended this. Just awesome.
Fugazi are fantastic. Hopefully you heard some more of them in the last three years. 😊
@@wildmanmountainjack3725 well they came up sometimes in shuffle and i enjoyed their stuff, but tbh i discovered kyuss and grunge and i went that way.
First time seeing this great footage and I've got to say, I'm proud of 21 year-old me's taste in music back in 1991. Their music has held up well over the years!
I cant even count how many times I saw Fugazi live in DC. 89-90 were some good years. They were all ways doing shows for local charities. Awesome band inside and out!
One of the greatest bands in the history of humanity. Glad I got to see them in this era.
Guy Picciotto inspired my whole fashion sense with this one performance!
Minor threat and then Fugazi. I use to watch them in my lunchroom at school dances at HB Woodlawn. Never Surrender!!!!
One of the best videos I have ever watched.
1991 to 1998 was an incredible time for music!! Whenever New METAL started was the beginning of the end!!
It was the beginning of something bad, but it’s not the end.
X
1995 1996 ish was when all the Normies turned up
Incredible band in every way. Great songs, incredible musicians, great messages and they sound incredible live. One of my favorite bands.
Blessed to have known them and listened in my small town in Tuscany, one of my best memories of that period ever. Long life to fugazi
Wonderful. Saw them in Manchester UK about 30 years ago (god it makes me feel so old!). One of the best gigs of my life
The best INDEPENDENT band in the story of rock music. This is beyond any discussion. If you can use the ears you know why. They've had all the attributes to do the masterpieces such REPEATER - technical skills, strong personalities, the highest intellectual level of lyrics, songwritting and arragement talent. Saw them two times when I was a teenage boy- in 1990 & 1992. Great performances!
I realize this comment is 7 years ago, but if you like Fugazi; check out Drive Like Jehu. Incredible band, and super unique while still having energy and groove.
I was at this historic show. Fugazi played a great set inbetween raindrops. I had a cold and a fever but truly enjoyed this. Great video! Great sound, too, for an outside live gig.
warmed my heart to see this has over 1mil views.
I listen to Fugazi at least once a day like a good vitamin! Along with Op-Ivy and The Descendants! All no more!!!
Milo thanks you!
Daniel Mcadoo I thank Milo!
I had the great pleasure of not only growing up in DC but seeing these guys on a weekly basis. I was nice!!
When I was 14 years old this was the best band I had ever heard; on stage and off. Now I'm 35 and this is the best band I have ever heard; on stage and off. No one can match their tightness.
This video sums up so much about what Fugazi existed to be. They were as passionate and committed to politics (and essentially doing the right thing) as they were to creating incredible live music. I miss them. Thanks for posting.
I miss this energy. No one can replicate that now.
That Rickenbacker is beautiful....
One of the reasons why I own one today.
The other reasons were Tom Petty and Paul Weller.
Haha thats the first thing i thought
@@hborgonjon8252 mmm dude totally, ive been FIENDING for one with a harmonica bridge like ians
Yeys.
A truly remarkable moment in music history. There’s a reason this performance has nearly 3 million views.
Incredible capacity to combine music and lyrics and live attitude. Hardcore poetry. Strange, fascinating marriage of mind and passion - or rage. The live scenario is also at tune. No compromise with what you are criticizing.
looks cold
looks NY
It's DC, in front of the White House.
The energy given by Picciotto voice it's as insane as the hype of the crowd
I had all tipes of friends, hard-core punks, skaters, those called "AlternativIes," Some were quite wealthy and wore tasteful black, with Doc Mart, low-quarters of course. My mother became worried when my entire wardrobe became black and brown. I would grow my hair out, but underneath my head was shaved. The best part of the eighties, "Acid-House" sound of the underground! Everyone was smoking turkish clove cigarettes, and the drugs were everywhere! Parents treated us like "Waiting Room."
This should be broadcast in MOMA. It's perfect. In every detail.
Fugazi goes so hard, one of those rare bands that have never released a bad album. Ian is a genius.
Grandissima band. Non se ne fanno più di gruppi come questi.
I once saw an interview with Ian (actually it's in the related videos on the right), and he said there that once a dude damaged his head really bad after falling from the stage, and since then they stopped playing every time someone from the crowd would start doing something dangerous in order to prevent accidents like that from happening again.
I liked the fact they raised the lights to make us all equally lit 🔥💡💓
I was fortunate to grow up in Northern VA (just a 30 min drive to D.C.) and got to see Fugazi when they did free or $5 shows at places like Freedom Plaza, Fort Reno, and the Washington Monument. They absolutely had a massive impact on me and still do to this day.
One of those classic shows
I'm in the crowd somewhere. Damn, so long ago. In front of the White House no less before they closed that part of Pennsylvania Ave.
I LOVE FUGAZI!!!! Wish I could've been there. Half a world away I'm afraid I was.
Brendan Canty is an INCREDIBLY underrated drummer. He's probably the only drum i know with musically perfect drumming, just goes so well with each song.
and a genuinely great guy too.
Heck ya. That have such a unique take on punk. Groovy. Passionate. Musical. And heavy as hell.
Nick Mason of PF is a very musical drummer too. “Echoes”
Wtf does that mean musically perfect drumming?
I remember seeing Fugazi's first live show ever at the Wilson Center in Mt Pleasant. I was there to see Marginal Man, but Fugazi sent a very loud message that night.
Fugazi got me in to hardcore and my band in the early 90‘s was reflecting so much of the NY hardcore age and our music was heavy influenced. Good old times. And it felt so damned right.
Twenty years old and holds up as strong as ever. I'd expect nothing less from Fugazi.
listen up to these guys, rock n rollers, n this comment is from a controlled substance enthusiast. do you hear this performance? do you hear the precision with which every nuance is executed? this is what happens when you have the discipline and self-respect and capacity for critical and independent thought, and when you exercise that ability. do you see how much the audience is enjoying themselves? do you notice how they're not all holding solo cups, with their eyes rolling in the back of their heads, inviting a bust up by local police and diverting the local medical resources? do you know how much thought and effort fugazi has put into keeping ticket prices as low as they possibly could? this band has as much integrity, and thus they have brought it out of the public, i'm guessing leading to the fans with the most integrity, and the fans probably getting the most bang for their buck, having the most fun, and having the least amount of hassle, as anyone in the history of punk to say the least.
i'm only a controlled substance enthusiast insofar as food of the gods by terence mckenna is a book full of enthusiasm for controlled substances. which is to say- very specific psychotropic drugs, under very specific, carefully planned, safe set and setting, for very specific, utilitarian purposes, which would equate to an even safer practice than either medical or shamanic use of controlled substances. so it's an idealist way of thinking you might say, but i like to think of it as a futurist way of thinking
Dan Whitehead
this is unreal, this is something after perfect
Dan Whitehead Very Good Mr. Whitehead. I think I do agree with that way of thinking.
crowd is boring.
Boring song give me The Doors any day
The reason most fugazi videos on UA-cam are live because their better live than studio
Holy kino.
This is what we’ve lost.
It hurts knowing I was around then. We need this back
I was about to be born when this video was taken. I don't know if that says something about me, but Fugazi's music and politics had such a huge impact on who I am today.
Awesome stage presence, awesome vocal synchronization, awesome sound, awesome vid!
so powerful, as powerful as any moment in rock history
Lmao, I was at this show. I’m fucking old. My 22 year old is just now starting to appreciate some east coast punk 👆🏻
Best gigs! Everybody a friend. All shows were all ages, folks looked after each other, danced and moshed litres of sweat, got lectured by Ian or Guy to calm down. Then back into it... many, many friends were made. Introduced my little sister to the world of Gigs and punk rock, first gig she ever saw when she was 15 (?), she dragged her whole year to the gig, in Sydney, Australia.
Underrated band. I thought they deserved so much more recognition.
Langour rises reaching
To turn off the alarm
And there's never so much seething
That it can't be disarmed
You just
Stop it up,
Pass it on
Shove it to shelf it,
To leave it off and
Turnover
Lounging against your weapons,
Until your muscles find lock
In the ease of that position
A residue of tremor passes
As some cherie amour suggests
That maybe it was time to smash things up
But just
Stop it up
Pass it on
Shove it to shelf it
To leave it on and
Turnover
Stop, Turnover
Stop, Turnover
Stop it up,
Pass it on
Shove it to shelf it
To leave it on and
Turnover
To just
Stop it up
Pass it on
Shove it to shelf it
To leave it on and
Turnover
I'm rolling
I'm only
I'm only sleeping
Fugazi are so great, a new album would be awesome. They always have such a beautiful guitar sound.
Everyone should watch this video.. Amazing band and this captures the whole experience well.
The banner was written "there will be 2 wars"..in fact, there were 2 wars on Irac & slaughters for the petro dollar..."im only sleeping, stop turnover" these guys were the real deal.. true sincerity..grateful to have been a kid during these days..sacred times
In the 1990's, I had the good fortune of seeing Fugazi in a crap city (Halifax) on the east coast of canada in a small venue and it was the most amazing, memorable show I ever saw. (next best thing to seeing Minor Threat)
Never got to see them live...especially love this clip...Piccioto has this amazing air-kick he does while moving backwards at about 2:57 in...love it...
such an amazing band. their albums are wonderfully recorded as well. i may be isolated in the music i listen to but i find there to be a lot more sonic depth in a fugazi album than in other "punk" style bands.
Yo compré un CD de Fugazzi en el que estaban muchas canciones, creo que fue allá por el 90, por fin he podido escuchar otras canciones aparte de la que siempre encuentras, que es la más famosa. Al menos aquí escucho otra canción y en directo. Un admirador vasco de Fugazzi 😎✊✊✊
Saw them play at the old soma san diego in 99. Greatest show I've ever seen. Please get back together and go on one more tour!
Ian I met you with Grendle at Marley Station. My son is named Ian! I will always cherish those days and what straight edge ment to me!. Youre still legend!!!
Everyone wants to have lived during the 60s or 70s. I get it, but I would have loved to live in the US in the late 80s and early 90s. So many awesome, powerful and independent bands - Fugazi, Nirvana (early) Mudhoney, Mbv, Slowdive, REM to name only a few.
Fugazi's rhythm section was the absolute best. Incredible. Now they're the Messthetics!
173 people weren't happy with the sound quality of the recording or the 240p only option.. Relax people, just be happy there's even footage of it!
It’s very high quality footage for the time and for a DIY punk band. At least one of those cameras had to have been an actual film camera.
How fucking cool is this? Fugazi laying it down right in front of the white house. If this was filmed now, there would be such a controversy over it. These guys deserve insane amounts of respect
I love how the audience are actually listening to and enjoying the band, not just standing their with their phones up so they can show all their friends how emotionally vacant they were at the concert they claim to have attended.
well no shit it was 1991 there were no mobile phones lmao
@@valeriexvegan Of course there wasn't, and concert attendance was much more enjoyable because of it.
Wow, how time passes. One of the best bands ever.
One of the few bands that are better live than in the studio.
Joe Lally one of the Best Bass Player. My dear friend
Hf
Yes, yes, yes. Andy Rourke from The Smiths is another one. My two top influences on bass playing. Creative and melodic!
best punk rock band of all time i'll tell you that much
I was there . Then said goodbye from the Asylum Portland Maine .. Best US Punk ever
3:19 love the flying jacket
Twenty years later and it's still amazing.
Thirty, now...
That bass! Holy fuck, it's like porn to the ears.
+Kanhaiya Bheergoonath Yeah, Brendan and Joe Lally are just a crushing rhythm section. I'm from DC/Balto; from this time, and saw Fugazi play a number of times (as well as Threat and Rites). In my mind, one of the best, if not the best live band of the last 30 years.
DC and Chicago are some of the most ignored yet most influential scenes in modern music.
Ignored?!?
Fugazi is rad. I got to see them at the Food Not Bombs 20th anniversary in Dolores Park (along with Sleater-Kinney). It was definitely worth the drive up from Santa Cruz. Historic. Oh yeah, we got to see my friend’s sister & her partner participating in the AIDS ride, riding their tandem south veil flowing & all. Beautiful. Happy memories!