"Does your mom like it"

"That's an office building." "Yes it is."

Aw, Ian's mom looks nice! What a sweet old lady.

"This apartment building influences my music" "It's an office building" LOOOOOL

That unibrow is relentless, just like his vocals.

I seen Fugazi a bunch a times, but the show they did in the late 90's at the Pallaidium in NYC was most memorable. I was on line and Ian was passing by and I gave the guy a wave, he stopped shook hands and just started bullshittin, what a cool fucking dude. That guy is what being in a band is all about.

We owe that building a huge debt of gratitude.

that building must be like the greatest muse ever

Ian has that "you're an idiot" face on lol

i interviewed ian for an upcoming evens tour in 2007, my first job working for a music paper out of journalism school. we had a 25 minute slot booked; we talked for an hour. he's principled, which puts off some people, i get it. but he was super nice to me, spoke way longer than he had to, didn't give arsey responses to any of my boring questions that i was obliged to ask (fugazi etc) and made jokes the whole time. he's great and i hope i have the opportunity to talk to him one day again.

they just love doing interviews don't they

I play music because a piano fell on my head when I was a small child... I’ve never been the same since

I spoke with Ian on one occasion at Gilman St, I'd guess around 88 or 89 and I'd have to say that he was one of the nicest and most genuine people I have met to this day.

ian mckaye with hair is weird

That got an ActuLOL when he turned round and went 'do you like my music mom? .. yes she does!' Ian MacKaye, what a legend.

Guy here looks a bit like Bert from sesame street. :D

This was fantastic to see! Thank you for sharing. I live in El Paso, Texas and they were one of the few bands that always stopped here on their tours. And they only charged $5 for the show! I have a lot of respect for them because of that. They chose to keep the price of their tickets afforadable so EVERYONE can enjoy, together. Down to earth musicians are the best! It's all about integrity.

Damn, why won't Picciotto release some solo material? I love that guys songs..

I can't give you much more than that...

Shouts out to Ian McKaye's mama!!!

Saw The boys in an abandoned church in Texas.... AMAZING

It may be the 90s but this shit is timeless.

i love the shot of Ian and his mom, so you can see how similar they look.

I like how Joe was in the background the whole time but wasn't interviewed...

Realest character in all of music........

yes fugazi can be seen as aggressive...., i think you can listen to 'aggressive' music without being an aggressive person. Point being, he has his mother side of stage listen to this set and she is 'supportive' of the way he expresses himself. All true musicians create music from life experience and all music lovers enjoy what they can relate too.

Wow i finlly learned how to say his last name , but now ive got to deal with "ggee"?

Damn mediaburn comes through with another classic

sooo i guess the camerman never even heard of fugazi before that haha

thanks!

so straight to the point but so brilliant...

Guy piccioto tired and just give him a honest answer. Awesome

Agreed chunk1bunk! Nice to meet a fellow Fugazi fan.

Hey dudes, I just wanted to let everyone know that some buddies and myself made a music magazine that features interviews with Ian Mackaye, Henry Rollins, Mark Arm and Jacob Bannon. You can view it online for free at signed magazine 3 Dot com. We're a bunch of broke college students, so we've resorted to atypical ways of telling people about our zine. Ian is a truly great guy. Cheerz

@clovismcpony In 1988 I talked to Guy before the Lafayette Park show and he was as nice as could be to me, answered my questions about Rites of Spring since I barely knew of Fugazi still as they were so new and told me to have a great day when he had to get ready for their set. This interviewer was just lame.

haha it seems as if an interview were the last thing guy and ian wanted to do that day. i've met them both and they're actually quite nice, genuine and patient human beings. however, I did meet them post fugazi, and this was back when they still had their youthful fire if you will, i guess. it's pretty funny either way, though

Lets just interview buddy’s mom. She looks so sweet

They played 7th St. Entry around this time. Ian said $5 to get in. The venue tried charging $7 so Ian said they would not play until it was lowered to 5.

gotta love Guy's unibrow!

That building does look like something they'd put on an album cover

@terryowah lawl at anyone who says Fugazi sucks at making music, too bad they are one of the most inspirational bands of all time.

Ian is really Elias Koteas from Some Kind of Wonderful.

hey media burn why the tiny screensize on your website :(

I like this band so much that I overlook how they mispronounce their band name

The other guy in fugazi besides Ian looks just like Bert from sesame street.

They got it from a collection of vietnam war stories it means a situation is screwed up, kinda like Fubar. It's also italian slang for "fake" which I think is pretty cool, but I don't think they knew that at the time.

I saw Fugazi in 1990 at a show in the U.K. at an art school in Canterbury (now the University of Kent) . They were exhausted and Ian had flu but still managed to play an intense show . The crowd was a curious mix of hardcore kids , punks , students and a very lively group of travellers /crusties with their dogs . The show stopped at one point because Guy had an altercation with a few of them - there was no violence but it could've happened . Guy apologised from the stage and that was it . Those early shows were so unpredictable as there was never any security, the venues were so low key and Fugazi would always attract a sizeable crowd of disparate kids .

Just remembered it! "Happy go Licky"... One album though. It was... "will play".. ?

hahaha, this is awesome.

Guy's eyebrows rule the atmosphere!!! JW

I'm a big Fugazi fan. I know Guy and Ian are joking around. Although some people , the cameraman in particular, does not know this. So the attitude of both really dissapionted me.

That being said, exhausted and having this knob with a camera buzzing around would try anyone's patience.

Uni-brow. When did Bert become a member of Fugazi?

I love Ian's mum

ahahaha guy is so qt

Hell yeah! Same thing happened to me when they played First Avenue in Minneapolis for "the Arguement" tour. These guys are anything BUT jerks when a person treats them like regular guys.

Sweet JEEEBUS!!!! I should be flogged... Joe Lally is the bassist... lol. Sorry, i meant Brendan [Canty]. The 2nd drummer on the tour [or at least in the Mpls show] was Jerry Busher...

What park is this in?

Guy actually reminds me of my cousin lol.

Love how he cuts the Neanderthal interviewer short.

@chunk1bunk same here, im black, and i like 'em. their bass lines are sick, and the guys voice. i hear reggae and funk influences in their music, so i dont think they are. :)

...i don't understand the last question of the cameraman...?

@clovismcpony What else do you want? They were just friendly and honest. The interviewer wasn't Mr Inspiration was he?

fucking icons

Those sesame street eyebrows. Who can forget that

so funny... why is this SO FUNNY?

lol that's great...fugazi has some awesome music :):)

omg MacKaye had hair!

He did... Just cant remember the name of the band. :(

That is it!

ian looks worried for the sped with the camera

Is this the same Ian MacKaye from the right >>>>>>>>>. related videos

Guy is summoning his John Cassavetes.

Coolest eyebrow ever

@glorp896 They were giving the interviewer precisely the type of response he deserved.

Worder man worder

@Solid1rock ....cont. There were plenty of people smoking cigarettes outside the show, but he went after the person who didn't have his head shaved, wasn't dressed in all black, and rolled his own tobacco. He was in such a rush to push his straight edge agenda on us that he almost got the shit beat out of him. And what for? Because Ian MacKaye told him to? Because he was concerned about my friend's health or second hand smoke? NO! He did it to try & act the part he had seen others do.

excellence.

Then it begs the question, why are you watching an interview with him?

I don't think this video was filmed in 1989, those people don't look that oldschool

Who gave the special kid a camera?

0:52 if that guy is name "Guy Picciotto" you ought to read OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE and you laugh

i been reading this back n forth about them being racist or not for the longest while and i jus gotta say this... am black and live in the caribbean and Fugazi's music is the best i've heard in a long time.. note i said their MUSIC! ppl need to evolve from this whole "are they racist or not" mentality and jus listen to the effin music yo..

I'm just curious... did you mean to write LSD? or LDS (i.e. Latter Day Sainta, a.k.a. the Mormons). Because the mormons are a total cult. I just thought it was kind of funny if you meant to type LSD, got it wrong, and actually made more sense with a typo...

the word Fugazi cames from a 2nd war slang that Italian army used to talk that means "Fucked". This word cames again with Vietnan War but this time was used from american army.

its an office building...

Lol they look so annoyed, they clearly did not want to be interviewed.

@HonRevPTB AMEN! XD

wait... so if i go stand in front of that apartment building ill be inspired with musical geniousness? HOLY. FUCK.

Does anyone know the specifics of why the interviewer is getting curt answers? Was the band purposely trying to avoid giving the interviewer anything of worth, or was the interviewer being a pest and trying to elbow his way in at inappropriate times or something?

Word... haha.

0m30s mom likes it!

its a pretty pedantic difference, if'n u take Guy at what he insinuates is some sort of crusade against post modern architecture.

ginger RIP!!!

@Solid1rock Totally agree with you, Solid1rock. The problem was that these "straight edgers" were going around & beating on people at shows because they were drinking or smoking & just generally exercising their human right of free choice. It's one thing to do your own thing. It's another to push your shit on someone else. At a Fear show in '03, one kid comes up to me & a friend and tells us to get lost(my friend was smoking a cigarette), but the overzealous dweeb thought it was a joint.

lol yeah. Too bad it doesn't look like they're going to get back together though. I never got to see them live

@chunk1bunk Given the significant personal effort the members put into fighting racism in the late 80s. I can't imagine a more ridiculous question. And as Jay smooth says, "don't worry about what they are, worry about what they do." Saying something racist is not the same thing as being a racist. We have to address the former before the latter. But in this case, having lived in DC through that era, trust me, there are no racists at Dischord.

0:44... ahhh sweet pure cocaine circa 1980. Too bad I missed it, but fortunately I have a few boulders kicking around :))

Guy looks and acts like Bert from Sesame Street

This is not a fugazi t-shirt.