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Fugazi!
They're headed by these two guys, Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto. MacKaye was the singer from the hardcore punk band Minor Threat - the guys that invented Straight Edge music!

Fugazi don't play on the radio, they don't do TV. They do interviews, though. They don't do MTV. All their gigs are for charity, mostly - unless they're just small ones.

They make their money from their records, which are sold on a label MacKaye owns - Dischord. It has loads of punk and stuff on it. They set a price - if you see a full price Fugazi CD it has "$x postpaid from Dischord" writted on the back, ranging from $8 to $12. In the UK, that's bloody cheap for an album, especially as well produced as theirs. You can buy their CDs, or easily in most music shops, too. They do it all themselves, are immensley popular with people who've heard of them, and are also really 'hoopy froods'.

Oh yeah, and they do all their live shows unrehearsed and without a set list. They also don't have a lead guitar or rhythm guitar, or lead vocals. MacKaye and Picciotto share it all.

Good for them! That's how they work it out

Well, let´s face a fact or two!
The masks and suits, t-shirts, scary attitudes etc. Pure commercialism!! However that doesn´t necesserily underimine the fact that these guys ar all kick-ass musicians. Especially Joe the drummer...Fugazi are cool too though.....

I disagree with 'pure' commercial. You could say that Bathory wetre commercial for precisely the same reasons...

Or Mogwai. Or indeed Belle & Sebastian. But, I don't object to the masks, the mad gigs or indeed the things that Slipknot say. I object to the music. And yes, I have heard it.

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Solos, eh? Have you heard of the Rollins Band, budgar?

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I got their album 'Get some Go Again' yesterday, but I can't listen to it all.
I bought it completely on a whim, which is odd for me, having never heard any of their stuff. I thought I might like it because I'm a fan of Black Flag. What I've heard so far is a big cliche. It just sounds like you'd expect a heavy rock/metal in the old sense band to sound. Unfortunately, this is just the type of band I find to be bland. Plus, Rollins himself looks like a fool!

On the upside, it's early days yet, and I MAY grow to like them. I'm sure I'll listen to it when I'm in need of some mindless guitar music (which is nice now and again). It reminds me of the soundtrack to Quake 2!

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I think Slipknot are heavy metal cos their music is heavy. It's a goddamn stiff kick in the ear when you listen to it! Nuff said!

I saw a Rollins Band video in Australia. Can't remember what the song was called, but it was good. Does Henry always sing in his pants?

It looks like it. All the live pics (and the videos on the CD) are of him, shouting down the mic in only shorts or possibly boxers. His 'butch' image is another thing that irritates me... there's something I find inherrently annoying about Body Builders.

There's a bit in the news section of one of my Kerrang!s, about him giving a talk at Cambridge university. Students respected him, but still made fun out of his neck. Well, one or two did blahblahblah

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well what can I say that hasn't already been said? I'm not a 14yr old kid
taking Slipknots image seriously.All their songs are about real s**t that actually
happens, that these same 14 yr old kids don't really think about, The combination
of their 'bad' image does look cool (everyone loves the bad guys!) with their
obvious hate of all they stand against, One of their songs, for e.g. is all about standing
up against the so-called 'rules' of society, being who U want to be. And my mother thinks
Slipknot are negative! It's obvious to me that they're trying to raise awareness among
kids about all this bad s**t that goes on in the world, despite what my mates say,
they don't encourage mass murders. They sing about them, yes. Encourage? NO
Well, till I remember the rest of what I had to say, tell me what U think.

yes they do sing about stuff like that but it doesnt make me do anything, if it did, well i couldnt get a girl friend because i would probably do the following: beat her, rape her, kidnap her, beat her, rape her, kill her, rape her whiles shes dead, in that order, but i havnt, some peole take it seriously though, i read a interview with the lead singer once and it said he was sitting around and these guys walked in, lifted up the one guys shirt, and he had scraped in really deep "people = s**t" (one of there songs) and they showed the singer the tape of them busy doing, and these were really deep cuts, that would be someone who takes it seriously.

They do sing about real stuff, there one song "everything ends" is about the last time the singer tried to comit suicide when he was 17 cause of a chick who dumped him, he cut his arm like 20 times and drank a bottle of pills

have u lot eva thought that people might just like the music because it calms them down?