Word rolled in this morning that nearly every recorded Fugazi live show (and that's a number that's gotta be in the thousands, dear readers) may soon be available for download. According to a post on the fan-operated World of Fugazi website (seriously?), the band has made major strides towards digitizing their famously comprehensive archive of live shows and plan to make them available for download, possibly beginning as early as late 2010.
With any luck, the show advertised in the flyer at left—which was a rather crucial benchmark of my angsty teenage existence of the 1980s—will be among those that make the cut. (Seeing your favorite band play outside, in the rain, in their hometown, and on only ten minutes notice sorta does that to you when you're 19 years old.) However, even without consultation of the band or any representative of Dischord Records, I can personally guarantee the show advertised via the other flyer will not be appearing on the internet anytime soon. (I'll spare you the short and not-very-interesting story about two bored kids with a dopey sense of humor, a Sharpie, credit at the local Kinko's, and the 200 people who subsequently showed up expecting to see "Fugazi".)
In the meantime, I'll be hoping that whichever show this recording of the song "Suggestion" [Listen] originally came from (anyone know who that is on guest vocals?) will be re-upped in better quality than the hotly-dubbed Fugazi live/demos cassette that squeaked out of DC around 1989 and slowly made it's way up the coast via Teac. It was eventually dubbed for me by the bassist of a long-gone NYHC band I was chummy with for a short time, and it remains one of maybe six or seven cassettes that I can not bring myself to part with, even though I haven't had a working tape deck in eons.
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