461: Ian MacKaye on technology and the value of a good song : Shudder to Think Digital Download for Christmas please!
December 10, 2009
Ian MacKaye Dischord Office
Photo Amy Farina
Thanks to Jake Egolf for sending me this.
Great Interview with Ian MacKaye from CreativeLoafing.com. Some gems you will find:
Ian Makaye
Photo Jason Oliva
-The general impetus is to document something that’s important to you
-People ask me about starting labels all the time and the truth is that you have to write a good song.
-If you want people to remark upon your work than you have to do something remarkable.
-One of the benefits of the Internet is that you can find anything there, but the problem with the Internet is that you can find anything there.
-That’s the trap that people fall into, and they say to themselves what’s the best way to promote music. Well, the best way is to write good music.
-Essentially that’s how I try to live period; think about a situation and try to come up with a creative way to navigate it.
-you don’t have to do things the way people tell you to do them. That’s the quickest way to bitterness and surrender.
You get the drift click Here to read the whole interview and get Ian’s take on technology today.
Which leads me to Dischord records and:
Shudder to Think’s first record. I dig Shudder saw all their DC shows even took a university level photography course with Chris Mathews at the time of its release…1989! I had a taped version from the vinyl that I eventually wore out and have not been able to find this record for anything less then 3 figures on Ebay ever since…Enter Dischord/Sammich who apparently without telling me remastered it and added the first 7″ and you can buy it on vinyl, cd or digital download…Merry Christmas indeed One of the all time great bands and their all time great record!
If you dont know who Shudder to Think is Let me Google that for YOU (Seriously click that for some internet 2009 wizardry, you’ll be doing it to before the day is out)
So I am adding this to the Master List:
Shudder to Think Curses Spella Voodoo Mooses from Dischord (this is a seriously good record)
-Tony Hawk RIDE (check out the contest!!)
-The House of Steam Tee Shirt…LOL
-ONE CHOICE (Rob Mertz) Vinyl/with Digital Download
-Anything from DeathMarch Skates
-Sublime Wheels on a Miramar Longboard
-A Pulaski Park, Washington DC Tech Deck…or a Prototype for a “Barn” Tech Deck
guy picciotto of Fugazi… A classic
Photographer (If you are he/she please email me so I can give credit)
OK this is one of my favorite rock pics of all time. I was even thinking it is up there with Hendrix burning his guitar and then I thought I like Guy’s even more then that…Hendrix doesnt sing or play his guitar while its burning…look at Guy!! Singing his guts out…too cool. Another reason for posting this pic on THOS is that we get Fugazi traffic mostly due in part to a post I did on DC and my Fugazi pics:
If you google Guy Picciotto you can see THOS photo I took features prominently
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=guy+picciotto&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g9g-m1
So I thought I would add this basketball hoop gem of Fugazi Guy to the site and see if we can push it up the ranks a bit. Guy is cool and I have had a bit of a back n forth with him here and there and he digs my pics too.
Hey while we are at it we should get these two up the google ladder as as well:
Guy Picciotto of Fugazi St. 1990 St. Augustines School
photo by Jason Oliva
Guy Picciotto of Fugazi St. 1990 St Augastines School
photo by Jason Oliva
359: Fugazi 1990 by Jason Oliva
January 29, 2009
Ian and Guy with a ”Plastic G” on the Mic stand
What I dig most about this shot is that somewhere someone has a picture of me on the front of the stage taking a picture of Fugazi with a disc camera! If you are out there and are responsible for the flash in this pic…email me!!
I went to The George Washington University in D.C., easy parking access to C.C.C.C. and a ton of great music at the time. Early in 1990 hometown heros Fugazi released Repeater on LP only and people went nuts for it, by May it was out on those new fangled CD’s with 3 bonus tracks (Song number one being one of em) and more people went nuts as well. On July 6th Fugazi had a show at St. Augastines School in D.C. (anytime they played in DC all the dough went to Charity and the tix were cheap, $5) along with Crash Worship and False Face Society. Before leaving my pad on 23rd street (always dug the address, 23 is one of those weird numbers) I grabbed a roomettes Disc Camera (thanks Missy) remember disc cameras?..small, slim and producing now worthless disc based negatives that cannot be reproduced anywhere. Anyway the disc camera beat lugging the huge SLR with flash and case and not really enjoying the show. I sat on the front of the stage (people wound up en-circling the band on stage as well) and was able to avoid the people going nuts and managed some cool grainy/discy shots, especially of Guy…..Guy digs em and also gave me permission to use a Fugazi track, its cool to be in touch. I had run out of exposures by the end of the show which culminated in Guy forcing the mic stand down the front of his jeans and in order to walk off stage and extricate himself from the mic he had to strip off the remains of his kit and cut and run…classic. Great time, hotter then hell and dehydrated I left and saw a roach twice the size of a star wars figure on the wall on the way out..I never could get that giant bug outta my head.
Jason
PS: The Video may take a couple minutes to load (new technology can be sooo slow) but hopefully it should be worth your wait.
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