“Sir? Sir? Sir? Use your energy for good.”
-Ian MacKaye shaming a potential slam-dancer.
I’ll have to buy the Kansas City tapes to be sure, but I think that quote is verbatim down to the number of ‘sirs’
These tapes are not all good. I certainly cringe at some of the stuff I hear, especially sometimes when I’m talking to the crowd. I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but … I have a reputation of — people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
—Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye on releasing every performance the band ever did (and letting listeners name their price)