henry rollins vs. hipsters

Two scoops of trust fund:

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Hah, fun fact: that bass player was/is also in Flin Flon, who have a great drummer too! (addendum to nabiscos story ...)

Anyway, Philip prob OTM:

do you guys think maybe some of it was staged? first, rollins plugs the record store, then the lady plugs her band, then at the end rollins plugs his book, and in the middle they try to plug the exile but she doesn't really have anything to sell.

^^^i dont buy that. if it was going to be so elaborately staged how come theres nothing on the net about the girls band?

Isn't this clip like 2 years old also?

that bass player was/is also in Flin Flon, who have a great drummer too!

Ha, I had a Flin Flon mention in the first draft, but had to cut it! It's a lot easier to hear interesting bass playing in Flin Flon than in Bratmobile.

Or I mean Cold Cold Hearts, sorry

xp: clip is like years old

er, 4 years old

happy birthday clip.

For the first time, Los Angeles public radio station KCRW (89.9FM and KCRW.com) will shine a spotlight on our most well-known DJ Henry Rollins, in a one-of-a-kind live event.

On Thursday, December 9 at 8pm, KCRW will present an exclusive listening party at the Echoplex which will serve as a benefit for the station. Rollins has been searching his musical vaults and will come armed with top selections from his personal music collection – some of which have never been heard before -- to share with fans. In a living room-style setting, anecdotes in tow, he’ll share a night of unforgettable tunes and stories.

“I will play stuff that I am unable to on my regular show, due to the rare nature of the material. I have been planning the set for weeks and am so excited to be able to get some truly unique tracks to your ears,” said Rollins. “Basically, the Echoplex will be my living room, you are the guests and I am playing some of my coolest cuts from decades of gathering, complete with the story around the track and its acquisition.”

GET IN THE ECHOPLEX

lol, so hank needs a live audience for his radio show?

"– some of which have never been heard before -- "

never? by anyone? including him?

as much as he gets cunted on, he was behind some pretty epic re-releases and no doubt has a dope collection and ~possibly~ a wealth of unheard shit.

you can see one of them in the video when he's browsing cds ;-)

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D-;

@ 0:38

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didn't somebody (on ILX?) snoop him buying lots of crazy shit on eBay?

he had an acct for buying oop r@re lps i think (pretend forgetfulness)

Does Henry Rollins have a lot of money?

rollins' radio show tbh is a pretty good listen! he should post on ilm.

"hey look it's henry rollins!"

didn't somebody (on ILX?) snoop him buying lots of crazy shit on eBay?

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:27 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

think a lot of the time when you see ridicu-limited Wolf Eyes tapes and shit go for like $200, turns out it's him buying them

I looked at that link am0n just posted a while back and he was buying lots of signed copies of UK Subs, Lurkers & Ruts singles for like $100 each. I guess that makes sense since he did that gig singing for the Ruts a couple of years ago.

henry rollins is a closeted hipster

explains everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw3sFFd1ZVg

that's really endearing

nice superhero outfit

OMG OMG OMG

That's the version he did as a duet with RuPaul, that Dreamworks refused to be allowed to be released, because it would hurt his image! and still never has been!

<3 <3 <3

Looking at Rollins' "they think I'm old and bourgeoisie, while they're avant-garde proletariat" remark, it makes his later introduction of Shirin Neshat "as an exiled Iranian photographer" as some sort of gross trump card, like dating her qualifies as a great piece of outsider art that they can't equal.

Years and years ago there was a rumor that Rollins had recorded a version of "You Don't Have To Be A Star, Baby (To Be In My Show)" with Mary J. Blige. I always kinda hoped it was true.

Echoplex listeners will be treated to two hours of Think Tank remastered.

also that's the actual superhero outfit from the Liar video, aw

Would love to see Rollins do a Curb or Louie cameo, but the director would have to keep him in the dark about the scene's situation until the cameras rolled.

The dude is totally untouchable for his Infinite Zero re-releases (OOP Trouble Funk albums, the Iceberg Slim spoken word LPs on CD, etc. etc. etc.). I heard he supposedly stores the archives of tons and tons of Dischord stuff, too - master tapes and unreleased albums and stuff - in his vaults.

I was just thinking about how Henry Rollins was a prick. I imported the Volume 11 - Reading Special cd the other day and listened to the Rollins Tour Diary again. He comes off as a major asshole.

Looking at Rollins' "they think I'm old and bourgeoisie, while they're avant-garde proletariat" remark, it makes his later introduction of Shirin Neshat "as an exiled Iranian photographer" as some sort of gross trump card, like dating her qualifies as a great piece of outsider art that they can't equal.

― Cunga, Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:00 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

LOL yes there is definitely nothing as anti-hipster as a Video Artist!

BTW if that's correct upthread that this was shot in 2006, dude's diaries reveal that he was massively, massively, clinically depressed at the time; very unhappy with some then-current career decisions and unable (due to his pathology) to communicate his discomfort to his co-workers; bottling up resentment and getting angry at the situation, instead of attempting to solve it; and that by early the next year he was much healthier, and consciously aware of what a state he'd been in during the previous year (and relieved at the difference now he was out of it).

It's certainly good to hear that this doesn't reflect his current mental state. I had a good year or two idolizing the spoken word and would like to think he's at heart a cool guy.

there's also that phil was basically otm re: a socially awkward nerd , it's just that sometimes we handle these things better than others, and frame of mind affects our ability to respond

I liked "Think Tank" a lot, it did sort of end in a "Here's some hilarious stuff I wrote to someone.." but the rest was all good.

TBH I *like* Rollins because at heart he's the nerd-made-good, revenge fantasies and all that, but you know he's still human and unsure. I've seen him do standup a couple times in past years and he did this one where he went ON AND ON about turning 40 and how horrible it was and blah blah but then he segued into this awesome story about going to a KISS concert and how adorable and awesome KISS fans are which kind of redeemed his "wah I am an old fake" rant.

I DNGI why he is so obsessed with this "people dismiss me cos Im an old has been" thing. Why does he think this? He's the arbiter of true hardcore! He was the singer of Black Flag FFS. What is the matter with him?!

PS I read "get in the van" back in the day and it made me all aggresive and angry for some reason. Not at what I read, but in some weird sympathy?

seems plausible enough

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Wow, that 1984 clip brings back all my mixed feelings about Black Flag at the time.

I will say this: Not all social behavior on the other side of decent is equally bad, and that kind of confrontational narcissism is both very '84 punk and very sociable in its stunted way--the idea of putting it all out there (including prejudices), making people defend themselves, snapping them out of politeness, challenging received thinking, etc. If there are less healthy impulses mixed in (aggressiveness, asking questions so loaded you couldn't possibly want an answer), that only shows the risks of living too long on the other side.

The reason the kid isn't too shocked is he's used it. (Even Henry touching his hair is very slam-pit, somewhere between tenderness and a prelude to a fight.) He runs the interview in that same play-acting way until the tables get turned, and obviously doesn't know what to make of Kira, who's unacculturated enough to think she's being interviewed. And as if to confirm Henry's paranoia, he invokes the common, automated critique of Black Flag at the time--that they were playing "heavy metal," "selling out," not playing "TV Party" etc.

So I don't see a bully and a kid, I see a bunch of kids trying to figure out who they are in a radical situation. And there's a bit of punk culture-clash in the New York footage too, where, what, these women are surprised Henry Rollins is baiting them with whatever demons lurk in his head rather than asking them questions and getting to know them after they yell, "Get in the van!"?

I should say, punk was the first time I became aware of people using quotation marks around everything--speech, clothes, the tiniest behaviors. It was a pointed irony expressed at the expense of all kinds of conventions that truly needed tearing down--and I still see kids deconstructing things as they say them in the same way in alternative schools. But now obviously the attitude toward sexism is like night and day.

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High vote for Rollins here...