John About DC EP
John About DC EP
John About DC EP
"The DC EP was recorded in Washington,DC at Inner Ear studios. It is owned by Don Zientra
and it is where Fugazi and most of the other Discord artists record. My friend Ian Mackaye
had been encouraging me to come out and record, and I had been wanting to do these songs
with Jerry Busher playing drums. I first met Jerry in the spring of 1999 at the same time I met
Fugazi. He was their tech as well as playing the second drum set on some songs. He is one my
favorite drummers. He is in currently in a group called French Toast (with James Canty of the
Make Up) and he has another group called The All Scars.
The sessions were produced by Ian. It was interesting for me to leave a lot of the production
type ideas to someone else. Even though we recorded and mixed four songs in two days, it
was a very relaxed session and more like a vacation than work. Ian is one of the only living
people who I really respect and look up to, so it was an honor and a pleasure as well as a great
learning experience to hear his perspective. It was also interesting for me to do a recording
without any of my equipmentŠthe lesson being that it still sounds like me.
For the solos I borrowed Guy Picciotto's Les Paul Junior from the Rites of Spring days. This
guitar was played through Ian's Marshall head that is pictured on the cover of Fugazi's Red
Medicine. This EP is also unique in that it is the only album I have done in the last five years
with no synthesizer whatsoever. Jerry, Ian and I all hope to make more music together."
John Frusciante