5/5 Great DVD if you love Fugazi
  by K. Franz
This is a must have DVD if you love Fugazi. Well worth the money. The live performances are awesome! Great band and great live shows.

5/5 My favorite band documentary of all time.
  by Ricky J. Leitner (Johnson City, TN USA)
I'll never forget about 8 years ago when a friend of mine handed me this dvd. I watched it that evening, and it brought tears to my eyes. I could never really express the significance this documentary has made on my life. Absolutely amazing, and very highly recommended.

5/5 A close, personal look at an amazing and important band
  by S. Reddy
I must admit that I became a fan of Fugazi late in the band's career; perhaps a year or two before they released their last album "Argument." I actually listened to "13 Songs"--the first album I picked up--at least once a day for an entire year (and then some). And I was fortunate to see them in concert during their last national tour. It was perhaps for this reason that I wanted to know all about them, and immediately purchased Instrument when it was released on DVD.

Instrument is a terrific glimpse into the band's life on the road, in the studio, and of their personal lives. The interviews with the band are insightful, while the blurbs about the band (from various news clips) are entertaining as they try to categorize this band. I especially love the live performances shot on film (16mm) and the adoration shown by their fans. Vignettes featuring fans waiting to see Fugazi set to their music evokes memories of my youth and shows the diversity of Fugazi's non-mainstream audience. This is an excellent documentary from the annals of U.S. punk/hardcore history that I urge you to see.

4/5 Fugazi vs. Audience
  by Daniel Richmond (Atlanta, GA United States)
The most prominent thing I took away from this film and from my experiences seeing Fugazi several times in the early - mid 90s is how often the band found itself at odds with idiots in the audience and trying to struggle through a stop/start set.

Has there been any other band in history that was plagued with consistently playing to an audience that has no clue what the band is about?


3/5 The Grateful Dead of Punk
  by Col Killgore (Wading River, New York United States)
Well, it starts out with good footage of a show in Washington state. They then hack off the end of the song they are performing. Everything in this film segways into something else. After a while it gets on your nerves. While this is going on Fugazi is trying to shove their left leaning politics down your throat. There is one scene where a woman in her 40's a guess dosen't know anything about Fugazi, but is at the show because she heard about them on NPR. Sheeesh. One scene that is interesting, is when some kid spits on Ian MacKaye and the kid is dragged from the audience by Ian, and is asked to apologize for his actions. The kid dosen't apologize and he is promtly booted from the show. This could have been a great dvd, unfortunately egos and so called art got in the way. HEY FUGAZI, shut up drink a beer and play the music that I like. Leave the politics to the corrupt politians.