Minor Threat live clip at You Tube
Ugh , more twenty year old nostalgia. Well OK, here it goes:
Minor Threat - It Follows/Screaming At A Wall: You Tube permalink
(I don’t like embedded flash players, especially ones that start playing without asking first)
I ran across this fantastic clip. It’s a little jumpy but it shows a bit of a Minor Threat show. If you’ve never been to something like this (hardcore or punk or whatever) you might be thinking that this is some kind of out-of-control drunken brawl. It’s not. The guy in the yellow shirt in the foreground is Brian Baker (also of Government Issue, Dag Nasty, etc.) Notice that no one really interferes with him as he plays and jumps around, that’s because if they did, the music would stop. If the music stops, the mood stops. The people down in the pit are packed in firmly enough that they will break the fall of anyone diving off the stage. Later in the clip you see stage people who’s job seems to be to push fans off the stage if it gets too crowded. Rest assured even though it’s rough and tumble play, no one is trying to get anyone seriously hurt.
I’d evoke Dionysus, but that implies drunken revel. Minor Threat was the premier “Straight Edge” band. I’m not saying absolutely no one here was drunk or high, I’m saying that these guys are another kind of junkie.
Adrenaline junkies.
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