So the news is True. Henry Rollins has picked up his pros again in the form of a L.A. Weekly music column. To add a element of professionalism he also has twitter account and a saturday night radio show on KCRW. Holy fucking shit. Yes it happened – he’s back and burning on all cylinders. In his first column he writes about outsider music – or some lonely hippies he remembers who would not join the party inside the house. He brings up Diamanda Galas as having turned him on to such music as if it were a page written yesterday right out of Get in the Van. Same familiar tone and don’t mess with me Hank I’m better than most of you because my shell is strong outside but inside I’m weeping because everyone else makes me ill. I think he may have invented narcissism as we all might have Rollins stories like mine. I remembered the time he was playing a free show with The Rollins Band in Princeton with Ween. My friend Jen wanted to go over to him while he was stretching and try and interview him on video before the show. I went and then he basically told her to fuck-off right on camera and get out of his face. Real typical couth. You could tell by his eyes that he meant it but she just kept laughing at him trying to break him down – sorta funny now that I think about it. In retrospect in his position I might had been the same way. He’s a professional performer you know. Here’s the whole documentary filmed by David Markey from the last Black Flag tour called “Reality 86’d”. Shot on super 8. Pretty gritty stuff.
Black And White MP3 by Henry Rollins. This was the lead track which appeared off the first LP post Black Flag.
Police Story MP3 by Black Flag from Damaged
Slip It In MP3 by Black Flag
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Henry & Danzig forever
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