Fugazi - Live 8.29.97 - Fort Reno - Washington, DC USA CDr - USED
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The CDr has a few very minor marks. The CDr, insert & tray card are in VG+ condition. The sound quality is acceptable.
"Fugazi was one of a kind; a band so staunchly "punk" in their unyieldingly independent and politically revolutionary ethos, yet without limits in where they took their music with punk as a starting point. Born of the Washington, D.C. scene that produced some of hardcore's most legendary acts (in particular founding members Ian MacKaye's Minor Threat and Guy Picciotto's emo prototypes Rites of Spring), Fugazi drafted the blueprint for post-hardcore by introducing dubby basslines and unorthodox song structures into their high-energy songs. They remained self-sufficient at all costs, managing themselves, booking their own tours (which guaranteed the low ticket prices they insisted on for their fans), and rejecting all offers from major labels even as songs like their funk-flecked "Waiting Room" became unofficial hits and albums like 1995's Red Medicine sold in numbers that landed them in the lower reaches of the Billboard charts. After 2003, Fugazi entered a decades-long hiatus without ever officially breaking up, and their influence only grew from there. They sated their fans' hunger for new music with an online archive of all their live shows. In 2026, they released Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), a previously unreleased alternate version of their 1993 album In on the Killtaker recorded by Steve Albini." - Steve Kellman
