Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American musician.
35 Facts About Ian MacKaye
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Ian MacKaye is a member of The Evens, a two-piece indie rock group he formed with his wife Amy Farina in 2001 and in 2018 formed the band Coriky with Farina and his Fugazi band mate Joe Lally.
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Ian MacKaye was born in Washington, DC on April 16,1962, and grew up in the Glover Park neighborhood of Washington, DC His father was a writer for the Washington Post, first as a White House reporter, then as a religion specialist; the senior MacKaye remains active with the socially progressive St Stephen's Episcopal Church.
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Ian MacKaye worked with Paul Popenoe on marriage advice columns and was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club.
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Ian MacKaye's grandfather was Milton MacKaye, a magazine writer as well as an executive with the Office of War Information.
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Ian MacKaye eventually took lessons, but quit when his mother placed him in a more academic environment.
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Ian MacKaye first attempted guitar at around ten due to inspirations such as Jimi Hendrix, but again he quit when he was unable to understand the connection between piano and guitar.
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Ian MacKaye listened to many types of music, but was especially fond of mainstream hard rock such as Ted Nugent and Queen before discovering punk music in 1979 when he saw The Cramps perform at nearby Georgetown University.
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Ian MacKaye was particularly influenced by the California hardcore scene.
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Ian MacKaye looked up to hardcore bands like Bad Brains and Black Flag and was childhood friends with Henry Garfield.
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The Slinkees evolved into the Teen Idles, in which Ian MacKaye played bass guitar and sang back up vocals.
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Ian MacKaye founded Minor Threat with Nelson founded after the break up of their previous band.
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Ian MacKaye cited the dynamic performance of singer Joe Cocker in Woodstock as a major influence on his own animated stage persona.
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In 1987, Ian MacKaye founded Fugazi, a band that has been cited as one of the most important post-hardcore groups.
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The band famously turned down at least one offer to headline Lollapalooza because festival organizers refused to price tickets cheaply; Ian MacKaye objected to the $30 ticket price.
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Ian MacKaye has never conducted an interview with Rolling Stone magazine or any other similar publication, stating he would only do so if the magazine agreed to not advertise cigarettes or alcohol.
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In 1982, Ian MacKaye sang lead vocals on one version of a Government Issue song titled "Asshole".
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Ian MacKaye contributed an extra guitar track to "Youth Against Fascism", the second single from Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty.
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In February 2004, MacKaye produced the recording sessions for John Frusciante's solo album titled DC EP.
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Ian MacKaye has contributed guitar and backing vocals to Joe Lally's solo albums There to Here, released in October 2006, and Nothing Is Underrated, released in November 2007.
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Ian MacKaye has been known to rebuke concert violence and to confront crowd surfers and other unruly concert attendees who start fights.
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In 2007 Ian MacKaye provided technical audio assistance to Alan Canfora, a former Kent State University student who, in 1970, was injured by a gunshot while protesting the US invasion of Cambodia.
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Ian MacKaye cleaned up a field recording of the incident made by another student.
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Ian MacKaye decided early on that it was not the lifestyle for him, having never fit in with it.
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In interviews especially in his later life, Ian MacKaye has often become annoyed with questions about being the founding father of a movement he never intended to start:.
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Ian MacKaye currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Amy Farina and their son Carmine Francis Farina Ian MacKaye, who was born on May 24,2008.
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MacKaye's younger brother Alec MacKaye has been active in several notable bands, such as Untouchables, the Faith, Ignition and The Warmers, which included Ian's wife Amy.
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Ian MacKaye has been close friends with Henry Rollins since childhood and was the first person to take the stage at Rollins' 50th birthday performance at the National Geographic Explorers' Hall in Washington DC on February 13,2011.
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Ian MacKaye has explained that he votes solely for the politician he believes is least likely to engage in war.
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Ian MacKaye noted that he had voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
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The documentary revisits the band's sources of inspiration, with Ian MacKaye playing a defining role.
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Ian MacKaye was interviewed in the documentary film Breadcrumb Trail: The Story of Slint, made about the band Slint.
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Ian MacKaye was featured in professional skateboarder Mike Vallely's documentary film Drive.
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Ian MacKaye is featured in the Friedman book Keep Your Eyes Open, a collection of Fugazi photos taken by Friedman over the course of the band's career.
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Ian MacKaye had a conversation with photographer Jim Saah, included in the photozine In My Eyes, published by Argentinian publishing house Walden Editora in 2018.