Didn't realize you brought "say something fucke up" back. Thanks.
Oh, and I posted to the beheading thread trying to clarify what I meant. Sorry if you felt misrepresented. I was trying to address multiple people at once with my post, not just singling you out.
how'd you break ya arm? The middle of nowhere sucked monkey nutz, they weren't giving me consistent days to work, so i came back and told them to fuck off. Now I'm workin for a coffee distributor and I'm a lot happier there. so I guess it all works out.
I've been a fan of Fugazi since 1995, and I was first introduced to them as "Hey, check these guys out, they're emo too, you'd probably like them."
Emo died off in the mid 90's, when most of the bands playing it quite (ie, Jawbreaker, that was a big one). But there were little bands like Sunny Day Real Estate who kept going, and sort of kept a little bit of that emo vibe going in their music. They influenced other bands like The Get Up Kids and Saves The Day, who were more of a really soft emo band. They got tagged with the term emo, even though they weren't. Then those two bands got huge, and bands like Dashboard, and every single little "emo" band nowadays came out, being partially influence by STD and TGUK, and hence being called emo.
Emo nowadays, is partial emo, influenced by partial emo, influenced by late emo. I heard the term used quite a lot in 94/95/96... I'm sure I would've heard of it earlier had I been older, but I'm not.
In one of Fugazi's first interviews, the interviewer called them emo, and Guy said "Emo? Emo Phillips" and joked around with the term for a bit of the interview after that. Maybe you just didn't care to know the term that was being thrown on them, or you didn't care for genre labels at all, or whatever. But I know tons of people (my uncle, who played in a band that opened for Jawbraker, Fugazi, and others) who called themselves emo, and anyone in that scene knew it was referred to as emo, short for emotional hardcore.
Nice to have ya in my journal