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Was Fugazi the only band doing this at the time? When I was tuned in to the local music scene in the greater Boston area (say 15 years later), it seemed like m
by my_username_is_ 8y ago
Was Fugazi the only band doing this at the time?
When I was tuned in to the local music scene in the greater Boston area (say 15 years later), it seemed like most shows were at 'non-traditonal venues' like VFW halls, churches, and basements. It's funny to think of a time when DIY bands played mostly 'real' venues
- spooneybarger 8y agoNo but there were very few bands of their stature that did it.
- astronautjones 8y agoit's just DIY culture. the $5 thing was very much a Fugazi rule though, definitely after minor threat (most of those shows wouldn't have been much more than $5, save when they opened for Trouble Funk at UMD)
- ilamont 8y agoI think the local club/audience dynamics changed. These clubs in the late 80s/early 90s could fill up a small venue with an out-of-state headliner and a few local supporting acts which gave an incentive to regularly do these shows. 10 or 15 years later I think that became far more difficult as fewer people wanted to see loud bands in a small club, which drove the DIY bands back into DIY spaces. I remember the last time I went to TTs in the early 2010s and very few young people were there to see the rock bands. There were always DIY shows percolating at the edges in the 80s, sometimes with well-known names participating. I saw F.O.D. in wide hallway on the 2nd floor of a beat-up Allston commercial building that was sometimes used for art shows and poetry readings.