Tag: Fugazi

5 Great Shows I Attended (That Are On YouTube)

Posted on by andrickmike in Music

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The first show / concert I ever saw was friends’ band in a backyard in Bridgeport, West Virginia some time around 1994. It was the start of many years of being very involved in live music in many ways. I’ve been to a lot of shows over the past couple decades, but only a few of them were documented. I’ve managed, though, to find at least five shows I attended and enjoyed that I’ve found video of on YouTube. Photograph of Fugazi (Pittsburgh, 2001) by me.

Hot Water Music, Indecision, AFI, Sick of It All (Louisville, Kentucky; 2000)

 

!!! (Wayne, Michigan; 2002)

 

Fugazi (Huntington, West Virginia; 2002)

 

Eddy Current Suppression Ring (Austin, Texas; 2010)

 

Sturgill Simpson (Bakersfield, California; 2015)

Fugazi in Pittsburgh (2001)

Posted on by andrickmike in Music, Photography

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I nearly missed this show because I was unintentionally watching some jam festival on Pitt’s campus instead of being at the proper venue at Carnegie Mellon University. Eventually I figured out that I was at the wrong place, and I got to CMU just as Fugazi was taking the stage under a tent in a parking lot. I tried to use my college newspaper press pass to get on stage to shoot, but was denied. So I went to the other side of the stage and walked right up beside Guy Picciotto from where I photographed the entire set. I shot a number of images I liked at that show, but this is the only one that has survived electronically. One day I’ll find those negatives and rescan them. Dischord seems to like this image and has used it in a few places, so that makes me proud. Fugazi is still the best band I’ve ever seen live.