Geburtsdatum | Montag, 16. April 1962 |
Geburtsort | Washington |
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Beschreibung | Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (* 16. April 1962 in Washington, D.C.) ist ein US-amerikanischer Musiker. Zusammen mit Jeff Nelson ist MacKaye Mitbegründer und -Eigentümer von Dischord Records, eines in Washington, D.C. angesiedelten Punk-Labels. Er war in seiner Karriere Mitglied von sieben Bands, unter anderem Minor Threat, Fugazi und Embrace. MacKaye gilt außerdem als der Initiator der Straight-Edge-Bewegung. |
With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
