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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.
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MacKaye went on to co-found Fugazi, which attained international recognition under the Dischord record label, alongside Rites of Spring guitarist Guy Picciotto.
He met Jeff Nelson, a classmate of his, after Nelson set off a pipe bomb outside their school and MacKaye went to investigate.
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.
Later Hampton went on to Embrace with Ian MacKaye in 1985, and One Last Wish with Guy Picciotto ( Fugazi, Rites of Spring ) and Brendan Canty ( Deadline, Fugazi, Rites of Spring ).
MacKaye and on
All of Minor Threat's recordings were released on Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson's own label, Dischord Records.
The version on Out Of Step is slower, allotting a bridge where MacKaye explains his philosophy of straight edge, explaining that straight edge " is not a set of rules ; I'm not telling you what to do.
During that period, MacKaye and Nelson put together a studio-only project called Skewbald / Grand Union ; in a reflection of the slowly increasing disagreements between the two musicians, they were unable to decide on one name.
MacKaye was allegedly skipping practice sessions towards the end of the band's career, and he wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Salad Days EP in the studio.
Alternatively, MacKaye stated that he did not " check out " on hardcore, but in fact hardcore " checked out ".
Requesting only that the original label design ( which was based on the " Bottled Violence " artwork ) be amended, Ian MacKaye gave the product his endorsement.
* Interview with Ian MacKaye on PMAKid. com
The group broke up in 1980, and MacKaye and Nelson formed Minor Threat, who became a big influence on the hardcore punk genre.
Beginning in the late 1980s during his time in Fugazi, MacKaye became well known for his opposition to " violent dancing " at shows ( despite having done so during Fear's Halloween 1981 performance on Saturday Night Live ).
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.
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.
Spin Magazine has listed MacKaye and Picciotto together at No. 86 on their list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time for their unique and interlocking guitar style in Fugazi.
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.
Its twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February 1985, produced by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat, and released on vinyl in June of that year as Dischord Records No. 16.
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.
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat was a friend and supporter and his Dischord label's logo appeared on the back cover.
MacKaye and found
MacKaye then found the word " skewbald " in a dictionary, and thought it was a better name.
MacKaye and Embrace
After the hardcore punk group Minor Threat dissolved, Ian MacKaye ( vocals and guitar ) was active with a few short-lived groups, most notably Embrace.
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.
Following the breakup of Embrace, MacKaye rejoined former Minor Threat drummer Jeff Nelson to form Egg Hunt.
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.
The style was pioneered by bands Rites of Spring and Embrace, the last formed by Ian MacKaye, whose Dischord Records became a major centre for the emerging D. C. emo scene, releasing work by Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, Nation of Ulysses and Fugazi.
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 ).
Dischord Records, owned and run by Jeff Nelson, drummer for Minor Threat and Ian MacKaye, the frontman for Minor Threat, and later Embrace, Fugazi and the Evens put out records by many of these bands.
The Evens are significant for fans of MacKaye because it is his first project aside from Fugazi since Pailhead ( 1988 ), his first non-Fugazi related LP since Embrace, released in 1987, and his first and probably only music video with " Vowel Movement ".
* Ian MacKaye ( vocalist for Minor Threat, Embrace, and Fugazi )
MacKaye and with
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 issued a press statement condemning Nike's actions and said that he would discuss legal options with the other members of the band.
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.
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.
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