Fugazi had hundreds of recordings we had made of our shows.
We did not make these recordings for ourselves.
We don’t listen to them.
I don’t even listen to them.
I mean, the ones that are up, I haven’t even listened to most of them.
It’s not—I was in the band; I don’t need to hear these things.
Why did we make them?
I guess we made them for posterity.
So, posterity wants to have access to them, how do we make it—that was the big puzzle:
how do we make these things available?
So we actually initially were talking about a model in which we do one-to-one cassette
copies.
People would write in: “We want this show,” you make them one of that—that’s insane!
And then we thought, well we could make CDs, you know, ‘cause that made it somewhat more
affordable, ‘cause vinyl was out of the question.
But then you have to make at least fifty to a hundred, in small batches.
Ah, it’s just, just too—But then, what’s interesting is that this, like, the Internet
and this technology actually made it possible to have something that is essentially, it’s
just standing there.
And if you want one, you can just get an instant copy.
That to me—excitement?
I wouldn’t use the word, “excited.”
But in terms of it being, like, bringing something to a fruition, like an idea, to make something
possible—at a time when—when we started it was not even conceivable that this thing
would ever happen!
So for me that was like, wow, that—that worked out pretty good�