Guy Picciotto
| Guy Picciotto | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
September 17, 1965 Washington D.C. |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, musician, producer |
| Instruments |
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| Years active | 1984–present |
| Labels | Dischord |
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| Notable instruments | |
| Rickenbacker 330 | |
Guy Charles Picciotto (pronounced [ˈɡi piˈtʃoto] or "Gee Pi-CHO-toe") is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer from Washington, DC.
He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring.
Picciotto's musical career began in 1984, with the group Rites of Spring. A part of the D.C. post-hardcore scene, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore while simultaneously experimenting with its compositional rules. Picciotto, as the band's lyricist, as well as singer & guitarist also shifted hardcore into intensely personal realms and, in doing so, is generally credited with creating emo.
Picciotto's early musical resume also includes the bands One Last Wish (1986), Happy Go Licky (1987–1988), Brief Weeds (EPs released circa 1991–1992), and The Black Light Panthers (ongoing sporadic project since 1982), the last two bands both being projects with Brendan Canty. He also created a record label called Peterbilt Records, which released limited-quantity vinyl record albums for the bands Rain, Happy Go Licky, and Deadline, then years later was involved in releasing the album 1986 by One Last Wish, along with Dischord Records.
Though not in the original line up of Fugazi, Picciotto joined very early in the group's career, singing with them by their second show and appearing on all the band's studio recordings.
From the Margin Walker EP on, he also took up 2nd guitar duties, playing characteristically trebly Rickenbacker guitars. After seven albums (13 Songs, Repeater, Steady Diet of Nothing, In on the Kill Taker, Red Medicine, End Hits, The Argument), and several tours, Fugazi went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2003.
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