The introduction’s interlocking guitar and bass parts segue to a melodic bassline, mirrored by electric guitar to create an effect evocative of reggae as MacKaye’s vocal comes in. On Fugazi’s debut self-titled EP, “Bad Mouth” highlights the band's deep well of influences. The stylistic range of releases from the year speaks to the erosion of genre restrictions. punk scene was defined equally, if not moreso, by action and thought rather than musical similarity. The “Meese is a Pig” saga pointed to how the D.C. Under the now iconic "MEESE is a PIG" slogan the posters laid out the case against Attorney General Edwin Meese III, with paragraphs of tightly packed text reading: “For Meese, the Constitution is so much toilet paper … under Meese’s Justice Department, companies are free to discriminate against blacks, women, and, most blatantly, people with AIDS.” 1 Due in part to The Washington Post's reporting on the FBI’s investigation into the posters, the movement grew over the year with more posters, banners, and t-shirts, all of which added to the growing outcry, culminating in Meese’s resignation mid-year. Originally orchestrated by Nelson, the project launched with the distribution and hanging of 300 straightforward and boldly-lettered posters screen-printed in the basement of Dischord house. The year began with Jeff Nelson, Mark Andersen and others in the orbit of Positive Force being investigated and tailed by Secret Service and the FBI as a result of the "Meese is a Pig" campaign that began in late December 1987. 1988 was a year of confrontation in the District.
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