Joe Lally
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Joe Lally is a bass guitar
player, vocalist and label owner, best known for his work with Fugazi
.
in 1987, and remained the group's bassist until their "indefinite hiatus" in 2003.
(distributed through Dischord Records
), which was active from 1994 until 2001, putting out notable releases by such artists as Dead Meadow
, Spirit Caravan
, Stinking Lizaveta
& Orthrelm
.
members Shelby Cinca
and Jason Hamacher
on a project originally called The Black Sea, which would change its name to Decahedron and release an EP and an album before Lally left the band. He has also worked with John Frusciante
and Josh Klinghoffer
as the group Ataxia
, releasing two albums: Automatic Writing
(2004) and AW II
(2007).
, which was released in the fall of 2006. It features Jerry Busher
, Ian MacKaye
, Amy Farina
, Guy Picciotto
, Scott Weinrich
and many other musicians from the DC music scene.
In 2007, he toured the U.S. with the Philadelphia band Capillary Action
and The Melvins
and Europe and Japan with the Italian band Zu
. His second solo album, Nothing Is Underrated
, was released in November 2007.
Lally released his 3rd album entitled Why Should I Get Used To It in April 2011.
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
player, vocalist and label owner, best known for his work with Fugazi
Fugazi (band)
Fugazi is an American post-hardcore band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members are guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty....
.
Fugazi
Joe Lally formed Fugazi with Ian MacKayeIan MacKaye
Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and The Teen Idles, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well...
in 1987, and remained the group's bassist until their "indefinite hiatus" in 2003.
Tolotta Records
Lally founded Tolotta RecordsTolotta Records
Tolotta Records was a record label run by Joe Lally of Fugazi. It was based in Arlington, Virginia and has released bands from Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area, such as Dead Meadow and Spirit Caravan. The label was founded in 1994 and came to an end in 2002 when Spirit Caravan broke up and...
(distributed through Dischord Records
Dischord Records
Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...
), which was active from 1994 until 2001, putting out notable releases by such artists as Dead Meadow
Dead Meadow
Dead Meadow is an American hard rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1998. Currently comprising vocalist and guitarist Jason Simon, bassist Steve Kille and drummer Mark Laughlin, the band has released five studio albums and one live album.-Biography:...
, Spirit Caravan
Spirit Caravan
Spirit Caravan was a Maryland doom/stoner metal band featuring the guitarist and vocalist Scott Weinrich.-Biography:Scott "Wino" Weinrich formed Spirit Caravan after the breakup of The Obsessed. The remainder of the band consisted of Dave Shermann on bass and vocals; and Gary Isom on drums...
, Stinking Lizaveta
Stinking Lizaveta
Stinking Lizaveta is a power trio from Philadelphia that plays heavy instrumental rock. MusicMight categorizes them as "doom jazz". Their 1996 debut album was recorded by Steve Albini. Albini was so impressed by them, he brought them to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he co-curated in 2004...
& Orthrelm
Orthrelm
- Biography :Orthrelm is a duo with Mick Barr on guitar and Josh Blair on drums, experimenting in many forms of unconventional songwriting styles and musical concepts in general....
.
Side projects
In early 2002, Lally joined ex-FrodusFrodus
Frodus was a 1990s Washington, D.C.-based post-hardcore band, described by critics as a mixture of math rock, hardcore punk, and alternative rock. Their songs were frequently dark and dissonant...
members Shelby Cinca
Shelby Cinca
Shelby Serban-Alex Cinca is a Romania-born musician, one of the founding members of the DC post-punk band Frodus and the vaudevillian steampunk band, The Cassettes. He has also been a part of such bands as Frantic Mantis and Decahedron...
and Jason Hamacher
Jason Hamacher
Jason Hamacher is an American musician. He was the drummer for the bands Frodus, Decahedron, Combatwoundedveteran and the mid-1990s straight-edge band Battery. He also sang under the pseudonym Ponan for the Washington, DC rock band Mancake , which released an EP on Art Monk Construction in 1999...
on a project originally called The Black Sea, which would change its name to Decahedron and release an EP and an album before Lally left the band. He has also worked with John Frusciante
John Frusciante
John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums...
and Josh Klinghoffer
Josh Klinghoffer
Joshua Adam "Josh" Klinghoffer is an American multi-instrumentalist, who is best known as the current guitarist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Klinghoffer replaced his friend and frequent collaborator John Frusciante, who left the band in 2009.Klinghoffer also fronts Dot Hacker, and was...
as the group Ataxia
Ataxia (band)
Ataxia was a short-lived American experimental rock band formed in 2004 by guitarist John Frusciante , bassist Joe Lally and drummer Josh Klinghoffer ....
, releasing two albums: Automatic Writing
Automatic Writing (album)
Automatic Writing is the debut studio album by American experimental rock band Ataxia, released on August 10, 2004 on Record Collection. Ataxia consisted of then-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, Joe Lally of Fugazi, and Josh Klinghoffer, Frusciante's subsequent successor in the Red...
(2004) and AW II
AW II
AW II is the second studio album by Ataxia, released on May 29, 2007 on Record Collection. The album is the second half of the band's sole recording session which took place in January 2004....
(2007).
Solo work
In 2006, Lally was playing solo shows on bass with slight laptop accompaniment in various college towns, which would lead up to Lally's first solo album, There to HereThere to Here
There to Here is the debut, solo album by Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. Released in 2006 on Dischord, the album marks a departure from the post-hardcore sound pioneered by Fugazi, to a more sparse musical style.-Track listing:# "Reason to Believe" - 3:26...
, which was released in the fall of 2006. It features Jerry Busher
Jerry Busher
Jerry Busher is an American drummer and multi-instrumentalist. Jerry played drums in Fidelity Jones from spring 1988 to spring 1990. Jerry played drums with the Washington, DC rock group Elevator in 1992, which also featured John Hammill and Malcolm Riviera...
, Ian MacKaye
Ian MacKaye
Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and The Teen Idles, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well...
, Amy Farina
Amy Farina
Amy Farina is a musician living in Washington, D.C. She currently plays drums and sings in The Evens with Ian MacKaye. Previously she has played in The Warmers, Mister Candy Eater, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists and with Lois Maffeo. She and MacKaye welcomed their first child, Carmine Francis Farina...
, Guy Picciotto
Guy Picciotto
Guy Picciotto is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer from Washington, DC.He is most widely known for his role as the guitarist and vocalist of Fugazi, as well as Rites of Spring.-Rites of Spring & Early Projects:...
, Scott Weinrich
Scott Weinrich
Robert Scott "Wino" Weinrich is a doom metal guitarist and vocalist. Active since 1976, when he started his first band War Horse, Weinrich is best known for being the frontman and guitarist of the doom metal bands The Obsessed and Saint Vitus...
and many other musicians from the DC music scene.
In 2007, he toured the U.S. with the Philadelphia band Capillary Action
Capillary action
Capillary action, or capilarity, is the ability of a liquid to flow against gravity where liquid spontanously rise in a narrow space such as between the hair of a paint-brush, in a thin tube, or in porous material such as paper or in some non-porous material such as liquified carbon fiber, or in a...
and The Melvins
The Melvins
The Melvins are an American band that formed in 1983. They usually perform as a trio, but in recent years have performed as a four piece with two drummers. Since 1984, singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover have been the band's constant members...
and Europe and Japan with the Italian band Zu
Zu (band)
- Biography :Hailing from Ostia, a town near Rome, Zu are an atypical trio made of drums, electric bass, baritone saxophone and electronics. Formed in Rome in 1997, they began as composers and players for theatre performances. The band is composed of three members: Luca Mai on baritone saxophone,...
. His second solo album, Nothing Is Underrated
Nothing Is Underrated
Nothing Is Underrated is the 2nd, solo album by Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. As the follow-up to Lally's debut, There to Here, it stylistically similar in its woody, bass oriented grooves. Much like its predecessor, Nothing Is Underrated features various members of Washington D.C...
, was released in November 2007.
Lally released his 3rd album entitled Why Should I Get Used To It in April 2011.
Basses
- Music Man StingrayMusic Man StingRayMusic Man StingRay is an electric bass guitar by Music Man, introduced in 1976.- History :In 1971, Fender employees Forrest White and Tom Walker, unhappy with the way CBS was managing the company, left their positions with Fender to start their own venture. First known as Tri-Sonic and then later...
- Lally's main bass during his tenure with Fugazi was a 1976 4-string, black Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray with a rosewood fingerboard. He also owns two others, one that is identical to his main bass and another black Stingray with a maple fingerboard. The bass' signature midrange punch created the sound he would come to be known for (and can be heard very clearly during the intro of "Waiting Room" on 13 Songs13 Songs13 Songs is a compilation of all the songs from the American post-hardcore band Fugazi's first two EPs. It was released in September 1989.-Background:...
). - Fender Jazz BassFender Jazz BassThe Jazz Bass was the second model of electric bass created by Leo Fender. The bass is distinct from the Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange and treble with less emphasis on the fundamental harmonic...
- Lally acquired an all-white jazz bass around the recording of Red MedicineRed MedicineRed Medicine is the fourth full-length studio album by American post-hardcore band Fugazi, released on June 12th, 1995 through Dischord Records.-Background:...
to fill in places where the Stingray couldn't produce as much higher-end presence. This bass was also used frequently live through the End HitsEnd HitsEnd Hits is the fifth studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was recorded at Inner Ear Studios from March 1997 to September 1997 and produced by Don Zientara & Fugazi. It was released on April 28, 1998 through Dischord Records. The album saw the band continuing with and...
tour. - Höfner 500/1Höfner 500/1The Höfner 500/1 violin bass is a hollow-bodied bass guitar manufactured by Höfner under several varieties...
- Lally used this most often in his early recordings and touring for his solo work. - Fender 51 Precision - Lally's current bass.
Amplification
- AmpegAmpegAmpeg is primarily a musical instrument amplifier manufacturer headquartered in Woodinville, Washington, though they also manufacture guitars to a small extent...
SVT-8x10E - AmpegAmpegAmpeg is primarily a musical instrument amplifier manufacturer headquartered in Woodinville, Washington, though they also manufacture guitars to a small extent...
SVTCL 300 Watt - Gallien Krueger 800RB
- Euphoric Audio Pro Amp
- Euphoric Audio NL210 Cabinet
- Tech 21Tech 21Tech 21 is a New York based manufacturer of guitar and bass effect pedals, amps, and DI boxes which allow the user to emulate the tone of many popular guitar amps and record those sounds directly into a mixer....
SansAmp Bass Driver DI
Discography
- There to HereThere to HereThere to Here is the debut, solo album by Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. Released in 2006 on Dischord, the album marks a departure from the post-hardcore sound pioneered by Fugazi, to a more sparse musical style.-Track listing:# "Reason to Believe" - 3:26...
(2006) - Nothing Is UnderratedNothing Is UnderratedNothing Is Underrated is the 2nd, solo album by Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. As the follow-up to Lally's debut, There to Here, it stylistically similar in its woody, bass oriented grooves. Much like its predecessor, Nothing Is Underrated features various members of Washington D.C...
(2007) - Why Should I Get Used to It (2011)