The band, which included MacKaye, Picciotto, and former Rites of Spring drummer Brendan Canty along with bassist Joe Lally, issued in 1989 13 Songs, a compilation of their earlier self-titled and Margin Walker EPs, which is now considered as a landmark album.

Minor Threat's song " Guilty of Being White " led to some accusations of racism, but MacKaye has strongly denied such intentions and said that some listeners misinterpreted his words.

As recently as March 2011, MacKaye reiterated that Fugazi has " been offered insane amounts of money to play reunions, but it ’ s not going to be money that brings us back together, we would only play music together if we wanted to play music together and time allowed it ".

And by and large, people would obey – it wasn't cool to disrespect Ian MacKaye.

The influential independent record label Dischord Records was originally created with the sole purpose of releasing The Teen Idles 7 " record. They were an early landmark in the D. C. hardcore movement, while MacKaye and Nelson would later form the seminal punk outfit Minor Threat.

Nelson and MacKaye even drove thumbtacks into the soles of their boots so they would make an " ominous clacking " sound when they walked.

MacKaye would later model in full uniform for John Quincy Adams Ward's Seventh Regiment Memorial statue, which stands in Central Park.

Other founding members included Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye ; the RPAA helped MacKaye develop his vision for what would become the Appalachian Trail.

After the dissolution of the band, both Canty and Picciotto would join MacKaye in the band Fugazi.

The trail was originally conceived by forester Benton MacKaye who envisioned a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work / study camps for city-dwellers.

After that band broke up, MacKaye decided to switch from bass guitar to vocals, and organized Minor Threat with drummer Nelson, bassist Brian Baker, and guitarist Lyle Preslar.

MacKaye went on to found Embrace with former members of The Faith, the obscure Egg Hunt with Jeff Nelson and later Fugazi and The Evens, as well as collaborating on Pailhead.

* Interview with Ian MacKaye on PMAKid. com

After meeting Ian MacKaye in 1980, Johnson later became friends with the members of Fugazi, and Beat Happening was the opening band on one of Fugazi's first tours.

The cover art is a tribute to Minor Threat, a landmark hardcore punk band, that originally used the image of Alec MacKaye ( brother of the band's lead singer Ian MacKaye ) with his head on his knees on steps of the " Dischord House " on their eponymous EP.

After the hardcore punk group Minor Threat dissolved, Ian MacKaye ( vocals and guitar ) was active with a few short-lived groups, most notably Embrace.

MacKaye decided he wanted a project that was " like the Stooges with reggae ," but was wary about forming another band after Embrace's break up.

MacKaye recalled, " My interests were not necessarily to be in a band, but to be with people who wanted to play music with me.

In the hiatus, the members undertook side projects, with MacKaye forming the duo The Evens with drummer and singer Amy Farina ( formerly of the Warmers ).

Generally, MacKaye's lyrics and singing are more direct and anthemic ( MacKaye admits that he loves audience sing-alongs and writes songs with shout-able slogans ), while Picciotto usually favors a more abstract, oblique approach.

Jourgensen and Barker also formed Lard with Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra, Acid Horse with Cabaret Voltaire, 1000 Homo DJs ( which featured Nine Inch Nails ' Trent Reznor doing vocals on a cover of Black Sabbath's Supernaut ), PTP with Chris Connelly and Pailhead with Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Picciotto and Canty eventually teamed up with bassist Joe Lally and former Minor Threat, Skewbald, Egg Hunt, and Embrace singer Ian MacKaye ( co-owner of the band ’ s label, Dischord Records ) in Fugazi.

Ian MacKaye continues his involvement in the DC music scene with his two-piece rock group The Evens.

Later in the decade, emo bands like Reptile House and Grey March had some success and recorded with Ian MacKaye in DC.

" MacKaye expanded upon this by stating, " A main point of the song is that I will not agree with war across the board.

The band included Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat with three former members of his brother Alec's band The Faith: guitarist Michael Hampton, drummer Ivor Hanson, and bassist Chris Bald.

During the band's formative years, some fans started referring to them and fellow innovators Rites of Spring as emocore ( emotive hardcore ), a term vocalist Ian MacKaye publicly disagreed with.

Although they did not all appear on the stage at the same time, most of the ex-members of Crass participated in the event under the name of The Crass Collective, along with other performers such as Ian MacKaye, Goldblade, the English Chamber Choir, Fun Da Mental, etc.

Inspired by other American punk bands like The Cramps and Bad Brains, The Teen Idles ' music was an early version of hardcore punk, and an attempt, in the words of MacKaye, " to get away from a really corrupted music.

It features Jerry Busher, Ian MacKaye, Amy Farina, Guy Picciotto, Scott Weinrich and many other musicians from the DC music scene.

" Singer / guitarist Ian MacKaye explained, " It was like we were walking on eggshells, trying not to offend each other.

The DVD, released in early 2005, also features Busher's other band French Toast as well as The Evens, the side project led by his Fugazi cohort Ian MacKaye.

The band's continual members are guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty.

" Picciotto's assumption of guitar duties allowed all four members of the band to jam together and write songs that way, where previously they had played songs largely as MacKaye had arranged them.

Teenagers Nathan Strejcek, Geordie Grindle, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson were the band's continual members.

During these years, a new wave of bands started to form, these included Rites of Spring ( which featured The Faith former guitarist Eddie Janney ), Lunchmeat ( later to become Soulside ), Gray Matter, Mission Impossible, Dag Nasty and Embrace, the latter featuring former Minor Threat singer and Dischord co-founder Ian MacKaye and former members of The Faith.

Skewbald / Grand Union, ( commonly known as simply Skewbald ), was a short-lived hardcore punk band from Washington, D. C. founded by former Minor Threat members Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson.

The band's strange name is a result of a dispute between founding members Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson.

While attending Wilson High School, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson were in the Washington, D. C., punk band The Slinkees, which was soon renamed The Teen Idles.

When " Out of Step " was rerecorded for the LP Out of Step, MacKaye inserted a spoken section explaining, " This is not a set of rules ..." An ideological door had already been opened, however, and by 1982, some straight-edge punks, such as followers of the band SS Decontrol, were swatting beers out of people's hands at clubs.

Fans included Ian MacKaye of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat and Henry Rollins, formerly of Black Flag.

Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, influenced by Bad Brains, formed the band Teen Idles in 1979.

With Picciotto now playing guitar full-time, Fugazi had made the transition into jamming on and writing new material as a band as opposed to performing songs composed solely by singer / guitarist MacKaye.

During the summer of 1990 MacKaye formed the corporation Lunar Atrocities Ltd in order to shield his own and his band mates ' personal assets from the threat of lawsuits.

After seeing a Bad Brains concert, teenagers MacKaye and Nelson began playing in a punk band, The Slinkees, with school friends George Grindle and Mark Sullivan.

Out of what was left of the band guitarist Michael Hampton went on to form The Faith in 1981 with Alec MacKaye ( brother of Ian MacKaye, later in Ignition ) who joined on vocals and Ivor Hansen, S. O. A.

Nelson and friend Ian MacKaye formed their first band, The Slinkees, in 1979.

Pailhead was a short-lived side project of the industrial metal band Ministry, which featured Ian MacKaye on vocals ( formerly of The Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Skewbald / Grand Union, Embrace, Fugazi and The Evens ).

The band consisted of Ian MacKaye on vocals ( who later formed Fugazi ), guitarist Eddie Janney ( who later joined Rites of Spring ), bassist John Falls, and drummer Jeff Nelson.