Ian Mackaye : "Why did Minor Threat break up?" (Excerpt from The New York Hardcore Chronicles LIVE!)

The New York Hardcore Chronicles LIVE! "Hall Of Fame"
Excerpt from The New York Hardcore Chronicles LIVE! 2/7/24 w/ Guest Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat / Fugazi / The Evens / Coriky / Dischord Records)
#minorthreat #fugazi #dischordrecords
Watch the complete show here : kzbin.info...

[@matthews7805]

Amazing how a band like MT had such a huge impact with only about 45 minutes worth of recorded music.

[@fanda6122]

yep and an amazing band somehow spawned the worst music genre ever to exist

[@elihyland4781]

@@fanda6122 lolololololol

[@BreDawg714]

@@matthews7805 it’s about 46 minutes and 13 seconds….just sayin.

[@jlouis4407]

That’s a good amount of songs though in that 45 minutes lol

[@quainejohnson4808]

Why are you even here​@@fanda6122

[@patcogni7892]

"Look Back & Laugh" is such a killer song. Ian's lyrics and delivery are absolutely perfect.

[@BreDawg714]

@@patcogni7892 if you like that song you should check out Ian’s other projects like Fugazi

[@seanforourke]

Ian seems to have total recall of every gig he's every played. Wild..

[@mainwaring1975]

Coz he got that straight edge😂

[@yogabrice9881]

Vegan straight edge memory😅

[@graftonholler6029]

don't drink, don't smoke, don't fuck. least he can fucking remember!

[@jebrook]

He’s storing all the info in that dumb looking hat that is further and further off the back of his head every year

[@jasonpeng33]

Hell yeah...he remembered a gig in 1989 in Frederick Md...I told him it was the first time I saw Fugazi...he was going about stuff that happened in detail

[@neverfallnewsmedia]

My motto is actually: "At least I'm fucking trying, what the fuck have you done?" TY for that.

[@sstaners1234]

In my eyes in my eyes!!!

[@SDGuy1981]

It’s in my eyes, it’s in my eyes

[@BreDawg714]

@@neverfallnewsmedia guilty for being white

[@paulking8275]

One of the greatest bands of all time

[@TheRSTD1]

Robert Duvall was in Minor Threat???

[@danevertt3210]

Hahaha

[@NOJUSTNOALWAYSNO]

I smiled through this entire video. Thanks Ian.

[@nomnomnomJon]

Salad days is transcendent of what minor threat were to that point. Same with them as a five piece, a lot of it was Ian fighting the tide it seems. The acoustic, the chimes, etc is friggin brilliant.

[@stonefilmsnyc]

Absolutely

[@andrehendrik]

Yes -- plus it is a perfect pop song. I don't mean that as a diss: Salad Days is a perfectly structured composition, imo a high-water mark of songwriting of US punk/hardcore. Jeff Nelson had really good instincts here, anyone who disses those chimes -- including Ian -- are simply in the wrong. It's a majestic song, wouldn't be same if you deleted any aspect of the recorded version we all know.

[@petarticinovic2710]

"We always argued." No, you always argued, Ian.😅

[@jlouis4407]

Look Back and Laugh is probably my favorite Minor Threat song

[@achillefrancescorocc]

Those chimes are the punk rock cowbell.

[@apparaoapparao]

$75 to rent three metal tubes on a wire is outrageous! Thank you for the passion, the music, and the stories.

[@biffboffo]

In 1991, I went to see Fugazi at a little club in Sacramento and after the show I saw Ian sitting against the wall by in a hallway, basically chilling. I didn’t say hello to him because I thought he was surly, and only years later realized he probably would’ve been nice. I was just a kid.

[@jassondrastic916]

Cattle Club

[@biffboffo]

@@jassondrastic916 I think it was called One Edge Up... I still have the stubs with my Fugazi 45s.

[@WrongAsAnyoneElse]

Talked to him a few times, actually super friendly (if intense).

[@deanoid7753]

People love the chimes hahaha

[@TheChadTI]

This is a good question. 🤙 And interview. God bless 🙏

[@jmfs3497]

The chimes are iconic now.

[@billyblankenship7262]

Sad such an iconic band with all members still alive can’t get back together for some shows.I know the Ramones were always fighting and dysfunctional but I wonder if they could come back they’d do things a little different.

[@drdanr]

It wouldn’t be nearly as cool as your mind imagines it would. Pushing 60 and singing about the salad days would sadden me

[@billyblankenship7262]

@@drdanr I get what you’re sayin but I saw The Circle Jerks in the mid 80’s and just again a few weeks ago.Still had good energy and it was just nice hearing and feeling the music live.

[@screemin187]

This was a great interview

[@trencher7]

So funny about the chimes, but I think they were definitely worth it.

[@Themonkeychunkspunk]

The real question we want to know....."How does that little hat stay on your head?"

[@williampacult9431]

It’s hanging onto the remaining hairs he chose to grow out at 55

[@tommyrat]

excellent interview segment

[@currentphonograph7487]

Cool interview. Interesting

[@wrobinnes]

I like the chimes!

[@lanmarknetworking3034]

Nostalgia is the most Powerful Positive Human Emotion.

[@damnedlock2956]

They were one of the few punk bands that their records sounded really good...most punk bands that put out records that the recordings sounded rough...but sometimes the roughness fit the band.

[@BreDawg714]

A minor threat reunion in 2001 would have been amazing. Minor Threat and Operation Ivy….

[@binxboi7156]

What helped their legacy is that they stood their ground and stayed buried. Ultimate respect for that decision. Nostalgia can stick it.

[@BreDawg714]

@@binxboi7156 ya…totally. But Minor Threat would have been amazing, even if it were just seven songs I’m not talking about a tour. There legacy is a few points of interest the music being thee most important.

[@AdolfStalin]

I always wondered what would have happened if Minor Threat plowed through the 80s evolving their sound

[@socialinsect5073]

probably would have ended up sounding like Fugazi lol

[@biffboffo]

Imagine a bill with Minor Threat and Trouble Funk.

[@fparnaby8366]

Amazing!

[@CrimeSchool138]

Great show as usual...Minor Threat along with Iggy and the Misfits were the first punk/hardcore bands I found purely on my own as a teen coming out of the thrash genre in the 80s.Ive seen Fugazi,saw Michael Stipe get beat down in upstate NY at their show in the 90s,saw Ian do a talk at Cochella when I went to see the first stooges reunion etc etc.My point is am I the only one who he puts to sleep,man I dont know if its his voice or what but wow...I feel like hes one of those people that would be talking right to you face to face and youd be zoning out thinking about going to get your oil changed later or something,and youd just say "yeah thats cool man."I can see how Rollins and him are friends but only part of Rollins personality is there when they are around each other.Idk I cant explain it.

[@josephplatania5593]

I’m sure he remembers the one I was at. He got hit by a car skating and broke his arm.

[@XCenturionX]

Face it, their hearts were not into Hardcore anymore...

[@MDK2_Radio]

That' was true for pretty much every first wave HC group. Whether it was the musical limitations of short fast 3 chord songs or their reaction to the increasing violence which was happening everywhere, by '83 they wanted to move on. That's why mid 80s music from still-active first wave HC bands is sometimes so strange. Not always in a bad way, though the Boston bands all going cock rock was pretty lame.

[@E.C.2]

Agnostic Front were among the only bands who stayed in touch with Hardcore,even if it was just their audience & choice of venues. They played Louisville KY 1990 & were still metal/punk,not trying to sound & look like college guys.

[@superunknown2812]

​@E.C.2 that was the new york hardcore scene though a little different then the D.C. scene at the time

[@E.C.2]

@@superunknown2812 I'm aware.

[@tylerdavis6203]

The chimes made that record! :)

[@michaelkeadle9383]

PUNKS NOT DEAD!!!🔥

[@neverfallnewsmedia]

It is unfortunately...bands like Offspring, Green Day and Blink 182 hijacked it with the help of Hot Topic (Hot Topic is NOT Punk Rock according to MC Lars, and I agree with him) "Sponge Bob wristbands are not Punk Rock"

[@mikeysingleton6389]

❤

[@jengelenm]

All i had up untill now was from an interview with Ian: “During a Minutemen show, someone came up on stage and punched my brother (the drummer Alec) in the face, and i was like, that’s it, it ‘s over, i’m done”. I didn’t know about not getting along anymore or musical differences. Too bad they never re-united. I feel it’s too late now. Last summer Pennywise did “Minor Threat”. Man, that was great. And i saw Drew doing Filler and another one with Antidote NYC in Belgium, their first euro gig.

[@MDK2_Radio]

It's one of those things. In "Our Band Could Be Your Life" it's alleged that there were plenty of philosophical differences between Ian and the others too. It's hard to say because I always thought Dag Nasty "Can I Say" sounded like where Minor Threat could have gone, more so than Embrace, but their subsequent records don't at all. But you can look at other first wave HC band who didn't break up then and see how they often struggled to come up with something new, and how strange some of it was, or how they just decided to go metal. Minor Threat did everyone a favor by breaking up when they did.

[@joesuburb]

Ian doesn't mention band names but Lyle and Brian were taking a cue from U2/The Alarm musically at the time, check out the demo from The 400 which is the short-lived band that they were in after MT broke up

[@PointGiven]

You know what would be good now. Fugazi touring.

[@matthewreed2614]

love the big boys

[@jkwttrs]

That's what I like about Minor Threat. " I meant it and I mean it. My lyrics I didn't fuck around ".

[@clovismcpony]

Love this. $75 for chimes lol

[@samuelhall4056]

They were kids and they grew apart as they aged up

[@E.C.2]

Dag Nasty's late 80's stuff is better than "Out of step" ep. The latter has this feel of trying much too hard to sound different.

[@ericpirillo7363]

Minor threat couldn’t age. Appropriate they didn’t.

[@1afterthep]

Hey Drew, Off topic I know, but is there a way to look through your new york hardcore books online, so I can get an idea if I really want to order them.

[@stonefilmsnyc]

Yes of course. Vol. #1 is sold out but Vol. #2 is available at www.stonefilmsnyc.com

[@demo3456]

Who was Ian's father again?

[@tanneredge9774]

That’s easy to answer. Minor Threat broke up because the shows were getting way too violent and Ian Mackeye absolutely hates violence. Henry Rollins also hates violence but he can tolerate it a lot more and he’s showing that by punching fans in the head. You could say they are two sides of the same coin. Did I hit the nail on the head?

[@AwesomeEcho-tb3oj]

What was the direction the band wanted to go into?

[@joesuburb]

U2/The Alarm

[@AwesomeEcho-tb3oj]

@@joesuburb o yicks

[@E.C.2]

I could hear Ian singing, "And we danced" by the Hooters.

[@GaryTseTseFlyNYHC]

Jeff is a businessman, Ian is Dalai Lama

[@Ck-zk3we]

Wake up

[@jasonriehl8742]

Some of their best music was recorded after they broke up? That's like having your best sex with your ex after you broke up. It's a shame they didn't have one more album left in the tank.

[@dongkumong]

0:14 for some weird gibberish.

[@Ianitas1]

“What’s that?” 😂

[@thosethatcan]

😎🫡☕✍️

[@jimreplicant]

The hat looks so dumb😂

[@1travstone]

I really wonder why he insists on wearing it. It fucking sucks.

[@benzun9600]

being a vegan was not good for him, still loved the music

[@lawrencepatrick5760]

Essential punk

[@bbbvnbnbnbnb]

espAÑOL WEY

[@zippydooda]

Because they had Minor success amd made no money.

[@jessejorgensen3931]

Hey does anyone know if cashing in is a tongue and check sex pistols check. It reminds of emi a little. It feel very purposeful. Am i the only one who thinks this?

[@bbbvnbnbnbnb]

nO SUB SPANISH

[@briansmith2125]

Just how many booster shots have you had Ian? I'll bet a lot.

[@ryandieter]

What does it matter? Worry about something important

[@briansmith2125]

@@ryandieter It matters because a holes gonna a hole. He was an advocate. Never let them live it down.

[@ryandieter]

@@briansmith2125 dumbest response ever. If you’re arguing “don’t tell me what to do with my body,” he can feel the same. Don’t worry about it and just enjoy the music

[@briansmith2125]

@@ryandieter That's the problem. He DIDN'T respect doing whatever you want with your body. He fancies himself as an advocate therefore there WILL be a reckoning.

[@ryandieter]

@@briansmith2125 worry about something important man. Way more pressing issues

[@PinHeadThePopeOfHell]

Why is that hat so far back it's just like stuck to the back of his head like one of those Jewish hats LMFAO 😂

[@lubetester]

wasn't trouble funk a go-go band?

[@apparaoapparao]

$75 to rent three metal tubes on a wire is outrageous! Thank you for the passion, the music, and the stories.