Scream, Marginal Man (ex-Artificial Peace), and Government Issue soldiered on, either staying with the label or moving on to stay afloat. From that point until the summer of ’85 (Revolution Summer), it was very quiet and even slightly depressed around Dischord, especially during the gap year (1984). The Faith played its last show in the summer of ’83, and Minor Threat broke up soon after. At the time, Dischord was a very small (shoestring) hardcore punk label that could not even completely cover its inner circle of friends. Moving fast and furiously, by the summer of 1983, most of the first and second wave of Dischord bands had broken up. (Mark Andersen, Positive Force activist)īad Brains had sailed to NYC in 1981, and they let the kids grow up with their hard-core punk. I went to the payphone across the street and the payphone had “Nazi punks rule! Oi Oi Oi!!!” It made me very happy to be in punk rock Washington. Kudos for the ever-present logistical support by Don Zientara and Inner Ear Studio, too.īanned in DC 1983-85: Dark Corners of Washington D.C. So here is a blog post dedicated to the unsung side of Washington, DC, from the early and mid-’80s. Dischord House had its share of punk rock weirdos (Beefeater!) for sure, but this book was full of photos of completely unknown bands (hardly heard in the age before the internet) that sported a messy goth/glam image. I got familiar with 9353 later, but they were my first preview of Washington, DC’s dark side, alongside the book of photos “Banned in DC”. As it often goes, love of Fugazi led to interest in Dischord records and label’s artists other than Minor Threat or hard-core bands in general.ĭischord cofounder Jeff Nelson (ex Minor Threat) liked 9353 (almost forgotten band outside DC) so much that he reissued their albums with additional material on CD on his own small label Adult Swim. In the late 1980s, records by Fugazi (and already mentioned Nomeansno) were held in high regard, and they circulated around town between all the punk rock subcultures. “Good evening, everybody! Damn good to be here, in Zagreb.”įugazi were the first DC (punk rock) band that played in (the Socialist Republic of) Croatia. Where were you in ’90? And what to do (about it) in ’20.įugazi, Live in Galerija SC, Zagreb, Hrvatska, Jugoslavija. The usual reply or passing thought was, “No, no way it would happen here.” It did. Fearful whispers about imminent war spread around the ex-country like viruses. Winter 1990–91 in Zagreb was super exciting for young people and promising in many ways but full of omens too.
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