Joe Lally

thumb|right|Joe Lally in Campinas, Sao Paulo Joseph Francis Lally (born December 3, 1963) is an American bassist, vocalist and record label owner, best known for his work with Fugazi. Quotes I spent all that time in Fugazi not formally being able to articulate about music very well with the other people in the band. It was very frustrating at times. There were times I wanted to leave the band because it felt like I couldn’t even talk about what I wanted to do. I took a few lessons at Flea’s school in L.A., the Silverlake Conservatory. I studied with Tree, the dean of the school, who showed me some things about songwriting on piano. I was looking at it like I was getting piano lessons, but really he was showing me the sound of major, the sound of minor, and the sound of the dominant 7 chord. Those three chords are the basic beginnings of learning music theory. On learning music theory, as quoted by Bill Leigh of Premier Guitar External links