That drummer is fucking incredible

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.

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.

It's freezing cold and wet outside and of course Fugazi doesn't care and is playing free in a park

Moments like this in history makes me wish time travel was possible

3:19 though that was a dude being catapulted

I would give anything to see this band live.

I opened for Fugazi in DC in 1990. I knew Ian's mom back in the day. They are all awesome folks.

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.

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.

Fugazi is everything.

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

Fugazi are one of those rare bands that come along every once in awhile that pour as much passion into their music as possible.

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.

Guy Picciotto inspired my whole fashion sense with this one performance!

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.

Guy is awesome. the one of the best vocalist in hardcore.

I miss this energy. No one can replicate that now.

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

If there ever was a band that needed to make more music, it's these guys.

Real Post-Hardcore!!

I'm really digging that bassline.

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 LOVE FUGAZI!!!! Wish I could've been there. Half a world away I'm afraid I was.

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.

warmed my heart to see this has over 1mil views.

1991 to 1998 was an incredible time for music!! Whenever New METAL started was the beginning of the end!!

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.

That Rickenbacker is beautiful....

Twenty years old and holds up as strong as ever. I'd expect nothing less from Fugazi.

The energy given by Picciotto voice it's as insane as the hype of the crowd

This. Is. INCREDIBLE footage. Way to put it together. Literally brings tears to my eyes remembering bands like this once walked the Earth...

looks cold

I have watched this video more times than anything else on youtube. a perfect example of four humans connecting on a whole different level.

Grandissima band. Non se ne fanno più di gruppi come questi.

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!

A truly remarkable moment in music history. There’s a reason this performance has nearly 3 million views.

One of the greatest bands in the history of humanity. Glad I got to see them in this era.

Incredible band in every way. Great songs, incredible musicians, great messages and they sound incredible live. One of my favorite bands.

Thanks KZfaq algorithm, didn’t even knew Fugazi and i got recommended this. Just awesome.

One of the best videos I have ever watched.

3:19 love the flying jacket

Post-hardcore roots bring Fugazi role model of generations

Man Fugazi's so good at getting great audiences!!!

so powerful, as powerful as any moment in rock history

That bass! Holy fuck, it's like porn to the ears.

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.

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.

Fugazi are so great, a new album would be awesome. They always have such a beautiful guitar sound.

Fugazi goes so hard, one of those rare bands that have never released a bad album. Ian is a genius.

some of the best live music footage. EVER. Period.

i've been watching this video for 7 years now, and i can still say, one of the best videos on youtube

Everyone should watch this video.. Amazing band and this captures the whole experience well.

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.

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.

God, I miss this band on stage!

GREAT SONG!! WE LOVE IT!! FROM BRAZIL!

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

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.

The reason most fugazi videos on KZfaq are live because their better live than studio

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 had the great pleasure of not only growing up in DC but seeing these guys on a weekly basis. I was nice!!

Awesome stage presence, awesome vocal synchronization, awesome sound, awesome vid!

Wow, how time passes. One of the best bands ever.

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.

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 😎✊✊✊

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.

This song is like an apple turnover in my heart

One of the few bands that are better live than in the studio.

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.

one of the best bands I ever got to see live. they were great.

So awesome!!! One of my favorite Fugazi songs. For a minute I thought that was Steve Albini on the drums!

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...

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!

Lmao, I was at this show. I’m fucking old. My 22 year old is just now starting to appreciate some east coast punk 👆🏻

Guy Picciotto is seriously the fucking best.

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.

Thank you for posting this. Memories!

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

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.

Qué grandes! Y tremendo público, la gente todavía sabía cómo comportarse en un concierto de rock

Great Fugazi!!! I saw them at Milano (Italy) : great concert!!!

Wow what a great sound for a live show!

Thank you

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.

2024 is missing a Fugazi type band

Every few months I come back to this video for a little hope.

When live music was another story.

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.

One of the best live bands ever. Great video too, sums up the experience of seeing fugazi live neatly in 4 minutes. Total cathartic energy release. Never missed a chance to see these guys back in the day 👍

I listen to Fugazi at least once a day like a good vitamin! Along with Op-Ivy and The Descendants! All no more!!!

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!

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

I've listened to them religiously. Love Fugazi. Weird to see them in rare form. Such vigor.and youth.

no me canso de ver este video

Joe Lally one of the Best Bass Player. My dear friend

a band is only as good as it's drummer.

The most memorable Fugazi show for me was when they played at the Anti Club in LA in 1989. There were only about 100 people there, if even that. What a band.

Hopefully Fugazi will come back . Favorite band of all times.