I Will never forget this show. When I started hearing those Morse Code-like guitar pickup toggle switches being manipulated by Guy & Ian on “Facet Squared” sendi I felt like I might just float away before the song ended. It hit with such an emotional charge I thought I might start weeping and/or giggling simultaneously.

Also, I was pretty sure that my would explode.

I’m so happy I got to see Fugazi twice. There really is no way to be guilty of hyperbole when attempting to describe to another the experience of a Fugazi live performance. I don’t think there is any middle ground with them.

Thanks so much Fugazi for establishing this live archive. This is a beautiful thing...

This show was one of those magic moments of my youth. In 1997 I was a college freshman in Boston; out on my own and far away from home. I had been a Fugazi fan all through high school and knew all the songs. I had seen them prior and was already at the point where I wanted to watch the show instead of getting tossed around in the pit.

I sat in the balcony at Lupo's and still remember the way the air felt. It was hot and muggy as hell in the show, and outside the night air could occasionally be felt as a cool breeze when someone opened a door. I don't remember all the details of the show, but I remember them playing "Floating Boy." End Hits wasn't out yet and I was thinking, "What is this song?! I need to get this the second it comes out!" If my memory serves me right Guy was wearing a maroonish/red button down shirt. Them playing that song is just one of those young memories that has stuck with me for almost 20 years now. This recording brings back a lot of memories of that exciting time in my life when I was a young adult and completely un-jaded; just having a great time without a care in the world with my whole life ahead of me. Things are still great, but this reminds me of that feeling I can only describe as "youth."

In short, this is a great sounding recording of an outstanding performance. Also, the set list is really diverse.
Case in point, the first six songs played on this particular night represent all five Fugazi albums available at that point in time (1997), as well as the End Hits album that was released the following year (for this purpose, I count the first two EPs as one album, i.e. 13 Songs).
What is more, in total the set list includes no less than 6 songs from the End Hits album that had yet to be released. Other albums that are well featured here are 13 Songs and In On The Kill Taker, followed by Red Medicine, Steady Diet of Nothing and the Repeater album respectively.
Aside from plenty of musical highlights, I had a blast listening closely as Guy comes up with some very convincing reasons to turn off the airconditioning: "Hey, do you think it would be okay if we turned off some of this ventilation, this cold air blowing, it's kind of antithetical to the heat of natural Rock and Roll, you know what I'm saying, so if we could have this stuff killed it would be really excellent and we could get kind of a more lubricated situation going on... much, much more happening". The man is a wordsmith!
Although the sound quality of this show is really good as mentioned, I do want to note that both Long Division and Instrument seem to suffer from some sonic anomalities (slight distortion).