i really liked this quote from Ian about his "hectoring" and "humorless" stage banter:
I remember one time we did a show at Virginia Beach in '88 or '89, and there was this really scary skinhead crew there. This one guy had a swastika earring and before the show he came up to me and was like, "I've got a fucking hit on you." And I was like "Hit? Wow! What did I do?" "You betrayed the scene." Apparently, I betrayed the scene by being in a band like Fugazi that played, at the time, what people thought was reggae music. The problem with that is, as absurd as it is, I saw those people do very serious damage. And until people have played on a stage and have like 15 big dudes with shaved heads Sieg Heil-ing and screaming "white power" before running into the audience and just beating the crap out of people, then I'm not really interested in whether or not they think it's appropriate for me to speak out against that kind of thing.
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think people forget sometimes how charged and ugly the atmosphere was in some corners of the scene they came out of
― Mr. Stevensome #dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 5 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/12/02/nothing-but-a-number-a-live-history-of-fugazis-song-repeater/
Ian and Guy talking about "Repeater" with various versions of the song over the years
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 5 December 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
This list seems like a fair starting point. http://www.spin.com/articles/suggestion-dive-fugazis-live-archive-now?page=0,2
This is my personal favorite so far -- devastating takes on "Reprovisional" and "Shut the Door"http://www.dischord.com/fugazi_live_series/washington-dc-usa-40392
― summervillain, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link