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.”
― deej otm (some dude) otm (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
GET IN THE ECHOPLEX
lol, so hank needs a live audience for his radio show?
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"– some of which have never been heard before -- "
never? by anyone? including him?
― frogman henry rollins (am0n), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
you can see one of them in the video when he's browsing cds ;-)
http://www.punknews.org/images/covers/negative_trend-ep.jpg
― frogman henry rollins (am0n), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
D-;
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
@ 0:38
http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/33/m_0b4947de5f85884f22986221760933f7.jpg
― frogman henry rollins (am0n), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
he had an acct for buying oop r@re lps i think (pretend forgetfulness)
― frogman henry rollins (am0n), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Does Henry Rollins have a lot of money?
― frogman henry rollins (am0n), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
rollins' radio show tbh is a pretty good listen! he should post on ilm.
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"hey look it's henry rollins!"
― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― Joy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
henry rollins is a closeted hipster
explains everything
― The Brainwasher² = (The Brainwasher) X (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw3sFFd1ZVg
― idgital love (crüt), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
that's really endearing
― deej otm (some dude) otm (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
nice superhero outfit
― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Thursday, 11 November 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 11 November 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Echoplex listeners will be treated to two hours of Think Tank remastered.
― no place running the schools (Eazy), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
also that's the actual superhero outfit from the Liar video, aw
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― no place running the schools (Eazy), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 12 November 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 12 November 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 November 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Friday, 12 November 2010 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― deej otm (some dude) otm (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 November 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Friday, 12 November 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 November 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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?!
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Friday, 12 November 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Friday, 12 November 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
seems plausible enough
― undervalued aerosmith memorabilia I have appraised (bernard snowy), Friday, 12 November 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 20 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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!"?
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 20 December 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 20 December 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
High vote for Rollins here...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Right,I have actually got round to seeing the vid.
He comes over as not a douchebag at all. Someone shouts him, he goes up to them and engages. not in a threatening way.
He may come over as less than modest about his book, but at least she now knows what it was about.
Oh, and the people in the shop are also not douchebags. No-one was insulted or insulting.
So, there you go.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I think they were mocking him, but backed down when he came over, trying to make it appear that they were just fans.
― /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\||||||( *__* )||||||/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (res), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
so are we assuming that the average nyc hipster recognizes henry rollins on sight... but only in order to mock him?
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Mocking is not exactly 'insulting', really.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
He's maybe not a 'douchebag', but he is very intense and overbearing in a way that doesn't look at all fun to be around. Everyone else in the video is just a person doing normal stuff.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
At the start of the video Rollins was just a person doing normal stuff, he was looking at records and talking about them... Its not like he burst through the doors and called them all fuckfaces.
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
is it normal to film yrself doing normal stuff
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
+ not that they could have possibly known it at the time unless they had super-keen hearing, but he was ALREADY being kind of a dick just talking about the records
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
those poor records!
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
uhhh i mean i don't know what the larger context of this trip to the record store is, but talking about how "elitist" a store is while you rifle through their shelves pulling out cool albums to show your friend is p.douchey
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link