Gridskipper
Ian MacKaye is one good-natured punk. Articulate, pleasant to be around, and, it turns out, a great oral historian of D.C. Ditto that for Joe Lally, fellow Fugazi bassist, Alec MacKaye The Untouchables and the other hardcore icons who narrate "Capitol of Punk" a text-message walking tour of D.C.'s punk rock scene. Show up at 1522 14th Street for example, and text 14TOU to 67067. As you'll find out via text messages from the likes of Ian MacKaye and others, the place used to be Dante's Restaurant, a punk hangout back in the day. What follows is a steady stream of history from some of pioneers of the US hardcore scene. The tours are pretty detailed and amazing. For those of you without lenient text message allowances or not in the DC area, the tours are also available in well-edited video form downloadable from the site. The one for Fort Reno even features Marion Barry, whose program as mayor to build free stages sort of jumpstarted the hardcore scene,
Previously: Jimmy Cantler's Riverside Inn, DC Obyrcki's Crab House & Seafood Restaurant, Paul Klee at the Phillips Museum, Blue Duck Tavern, Eighteenth Street Lounge
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Felt I need to clear something up here. Not too sound snobby, but it's ian MACkaye, not MCkaye, which is important as he is the brother of alec mackaye, also mentioned in this post. I worked with Alec at the Phillips Collection a bit back (quite the righteous gent), and I find it amusing that he likely hung most of the Paul Klee show linked at the bottom of the post.
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