guy picciotto of Fugazi… A classic

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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

 

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Ian and Guy with a  ”Plastic G” on the Mic stand

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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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