Henry Rollins Interview + Spoken Word Toronto 1989

[schwarzblatt]

After Black Flag was dissolved, Henry basically had to start from the ground up, doing Rollins Band and spoken word to miniscule crowds in the beginning. The guy is authentic, self-made, and one of the hardest working 'artists' out there.

[PETETHEMEAT42]

Haha that lame ass poem got him a lot of puss i bet

[TheIllegalKind]

0:11 two G's

[Godhand156]

Henry is really smart, but also has this dark, animalistic mascular side to him. I can relate to him, because I had a simillar background and I'll never be one of this sentimental, idealistic thinkers, because I'm too rough for that. It's really great to see a interesting humanbeing combining sharp, sensitive thinking and the biological realitys of being a man to a appealing and balanced package.

[GreenGrayRain]

BLACK FLAGG ?

[0endofsilence]

What authors is he talking about at 8:52? Albert Camus? And/Or?

[Fozzy757]

Did he kill Bono, I like to think so.

[WinMOD42]

Is that the 'SpiderWire' fishing line logo tatooed on Rollins chest?

[oldTOtaper]

@WinMOD42 Good one, 100 pd test, but I believe it's the taken from the spider on the label of Sonic Youth's Death Valley 7".

[kiarachan]

"Bono is Satan" -- thank you Mr Rollins for saying that!

[Chrisgodoflard]

Man. No comment.

[467rtyufgjh]

Is it just me or he really looks like Brandon Lee in this interview?

[YourTwistedDesires]

@467rtyufgjh they're both aquarius.

[blackcatcreep]

This is a little bit before I was born 1989. Awesome.

[greenday01989]

oh my god fucking censorship

[sherpa285]

Great interview/show. Thanks for posting.

[ZappaSauriio]

Yeah! Never seen this before, thanks for the video dude!

Wow the part when he tells about his "father" beating him, just wow!! O_O

[shickywhicky]

Holy shit thanks for uploading this

[TheRamsesII]

Keep the Henry coming, if you've got it. I have been searching endlessly for a post of Eugene Gant.

[TheGreatIndoors1979]

Great stuff. But this can't be 1989, Black Flag ended mid-1986. I'm guessing this is somewhere around 1984.

[oldTOtaper]

@TheGreatIndoors1979 The spoken word part is from 1989, however the Black Flag footage is from The Party Centre, Toronto April 1984. They just added that clip in at the beginning as a retrospective on his career up to that point. Cheers.

[TheRamsesII]

@oldTOtaper '89?? when did the Berlin Wall fall?

[oldTOtaper]

@TheRamsesII Nov '89

[TheRamsesII]

@oldTOtaper ahhh...okay. I was associating it with Reagan's 1987 speech, and of course he was only in office until '88. that was the challenge, and it was met in '89. got it.

[straightedge442]

@TheGreatIndoors1979 It also has a Rollins Band song in it. Were you joking?

[TheGreatIndoors1979]

@straightedge442 Well, I thought the interview-stuff was from a different era than the Rollins Band footage. You can see that he has a different haircut in both segments. I thought after Black Flag, Henry cut his hair short and always kept it short, but in the meantime I discovered some footage on Google video of Rollins with longer hair filmed at Poetry Art 1988, Stockholm, where he is interviewed by a woman called Malga Kubiak. It's a strange interview, but good.

[straightedge442]

@TheGreatIndoors1979 Ahh ok. I understand now. I've got to see that footage now too.

[Moshpitscum]

thx man, good shit