"There was a light at the window, there was a light under the door...

... but it's not there anymore."

The post below has been revised, but before you silently judge, please do me the favor of reading this excellent profile of Joe Lally, (former?????) Fugazi bassist.

It's a very well written and thorough article, with interesting comments from other Fugazi collaborators - Guy and Ian  - mixed throughout. One choice excerpt: “Portland also was a place I heard there were no jobs,” Lally says. “And not wanting to work, I thought we’d better go there.”

More? Okay, one more:  But for a guy with a wife and kid who describes his current financial situation as “hanging by a thread,” this determination to make it on his own could be viewed as suicidal. Or maybe that the occasional crappy show is a smaller price to pay than slotting into the next Queens of the Stone Age tour.

Major hat tip tip to Andrew Beaujon, who wrote the article.

(I've been to some of Lally's recent New York performances.)

Photo by Shawn Scallen.