Use this thread to wish Henry Rollins a happy 47th birthday!

everybody should watch johnny mnemonic in tribute

when you punch the wall, you feel the world's fist

If you've heard about the hereafter, then you now know what I'm here after.

Thanks for playing Acute records on your radio show, Henry.

I have Hank's address around here somewhere.

i heard slip it in by black flag for the first time at a friend's house...what a great record!

anyway hank, lol u so crazy i luv u boo

i like your insanely earnest interviewing style!

hank:

you may be an old fart but my gf would leave me in 4ms if you were down

your girlfriend? he's not lol

hank:

crappy zings are bell labs way of saying he loves you.

lololol

everybody should watch johnny mnemonic in tribute

OTM and I will do this tonight

I love that this is the playlist from his most recent radio show:

01. Fela Kuti - Let's Start / Fela with Ginger Baker Live!
02. Various Artists - La Ilaha Illa Allah / World Of Gnawa
03. Mahmoud Ahmed - Lomiwen Tèqèbèlètch / Éthiopiques 3
04. Various Artists - Chant Avec Cithare / Burundi: Musiques Traditionnelles
05. King Sunny Ade - Alhaji Chief Okunola Sote / Classics Volume 1
06. Miriam Makeba - Magwala Ndini / Makeba!
07. Gangbé Brass Band - Awhan-Ho / Whendo
08. Les Tambours De Brazza - Le Griot Rap Compte
09. Mohammed “Jimmy” Mohammed - Sethed Seketelat / Takkabel
10. MM Ghania w/Pharoah Sanders - Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La' Foh
11. Tinariwen - Amidinin / Amassakoul
12. Konono No. 1- Kule Kule Reprise / Congotronics
13. Tony Allen - Get Together / Black Voices
14. Americo Kossa & Aurelio Jefe - Hakunene / Forgotten Guitars Mozambique
15. Hamza El Din – Shortunga / Lily Of The Nile
16. Omar El Guizawi - Salamou Aleikom / The Secret Museum Of Mankind
17. Oum Kalthoum - Bokra esSafar - Qolli Oula Tkabbish
18. Orchestra Makassy - Mume Wangu / Legends Of East Africa

Officer Dobbs: For me, it's the respect and power that the position commands. I don't know whether to be busting bad guys or signing autographs. It's kinda like being a star.

Dear MTV guy,
Happy birthday. Remember that metal fest my friend Mike suggested? The one with all the metal bands with names ending in "-ion"? Have you put any more thought into helping organize it?
Take care,
-Dan

Don't forget The Chase

xp to ian!

HBH! Pretty much everything you do rules, don't ever stop!

here's that cool looking african music show

I kinda liked his show, is that still on?

Happy Birthday dude, Damaged changed my young, stupid life.

TV show that is.

http://scrapbook.thauvin.net/Postcards/2002/11-jake-bday.jpg

Anybody hear Ian Mackaye filling in for him on his radio show (I did not):

Hello. Great news. Ian MacKaye, from the bands Minor Threat, Fugazi and The Evens will be filling in for me on my weekly radio broadcast on Indie 103 this coming Tuesday night 02-12-08 from 8 to 10 PM PST. He will be live. I don't know what he will play and I am jealous that I can't hear it in real time but I'll be on a plane heading back from South Africa so unlike you, I will have to wait! I bet it's going to be great and the price is right so if you get a chance, check it out. http://www.indie1031.fm/ gets you there. Thanks. --Henry

i will always have great memories of angrily listening to In My Head on my walkman while grounded and mowing the lawn, so HB HR

He shares a birthday with Peter Tork and Robbie Williams. Just thought I'd point that out.

MMYYYYYY WAR.
YOU'RE ONE OF THEM--
MY WAR!

(i've sold him unrest test pressings. lol.)

I used to watch his spoken word videos in a flophouse trailer in the country that was ostensibly an older guy's home but that was mostly utilized by high school kids for fucking and drug use (older guy tended to indulge in both... he was actually a real nice guy).
I have oddly pleasant memories of hanging out with trippin' rednecks on couch cushions on a ratty disintegrating carpet, watching Rollins rant on a 16 inch b+w tv. Haps on the bidet, Mr. Rollins.

i cannot hate on this guy no matter how hard i try. hb!

i saw a dude that looked like henry rollins tonight

i wished him a happy birthday

He collects old UK Subs singles (if that really is his ebay name someone posted here ages ago), so he's OK by me!

everybody should watch johnny mnemonic in tribute

No thanks, I'm still trying to forget that one. <rimshot>

Henry sent me a nice email inquiring about a Jah Scouse 7" on which several Young Marble Giants play. I didn't have him pegged for a YMG fan, but given his Infinite Zero reissues I should have known better. Hope you had a happy birthday, Henry.

(and here's a gift for you: my advice to get off AOL)

Just found the Ian show:

http://www.rollins-archive.com/2008/2008/02/february-12-2008-guest-host-ian-mackaye.html

Track list:
01. Cheech & Chong - Earache My Eye
02. Ted Nugent - Motor City Madhouse
03. Van Halen - Atomic Punk
04. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
05. The Clash - What's My Name
06. The Damned - Noise, Noise, Noise
07. The Bad Brains - Black Dots
08. The Teen Idles - Teen Idles
09. Minor Threat - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
10. SOA - Blackout
11. Black Flag - I've Had It
12. Void - My Rules
13. The Ruts - West One (Shine On Me)
14. Trouble Funk - Pump Me up

Jah Scouse

Haha WTF I know this guy

Also happy birthday big dog I hope yr friends "Slip It [a birthday card or small gift] In [your letterbox or other mail receptacle]"

I thought he denied that people slip small gifts in his receptacle?

Flee Pain, and Pail will Seek You. Seek Pain and Pain will Flee You.

Can a mod plz change the title from 47th to 50th? It's a big day for our boy Henry!

2.13.Voice of Verizon

i saw a dude that looked like henry rollins tonight

i wished him a happy birthday

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, February 14, 2008

awesome post

Gotta pay rent. xp

happy birthday hank! my brother had a spoken word CD he recorded on his 40th birthday and he sounded pretty freaked out about getting old then, he must be really losing his shit today.

I'm sure he's going to record stores to start arguments with hipster girls as we speak.

I love spoken word.

I oppose changing the title because it will make me assume that Hank turned 50 when the thread was started.

happy bday hungry rollins!

Why is ILX obsessed with Henry Rollins?

why because he look intersting

as a hipster, I would like to officially say "happy birthday" to Henry on behalf of hipsters everywhere!

xxpost: The Talking from the Box that I had was a double cassette spoken word. Was probably on VHS too, though I never saw it.

The Boxed Life and Talking From the Box came out at about the same time and shared some material iirc. One was audio, the other was video.

Ooh maybe it was The Boxed Life. That sounds more familiar...hmm.

It had that great little bit about talking with Tom Waits at Lollapalooza or something. I need to listen to that one again.

There was a time where I could have repeated it all from memory. The only thing I remember right now is this snippet, in best Hank voice "And by the way: FUCK YOU."

He mustve done basically the same monologue at the Enmore as he did at the Melb Town Hall, in that case :)

Not necessarily, there was enough different material across that three-hour show and the night before, also at the Enmore, that both got released as double CDs.

I used to have them all up through The Boxed Life on cassette, so when I decided to replace them on cd I went to eBay. I found the Deep Throat boxset, which is comprised of the first four Quarterstick albums, for something ridiculously low like $5 there and won it for its opening bid. I actually apologized to the seller when I sent him the money through paypal because I felt like he was getting robbed. He told me not to worry about it, because he bought them off eBay about a year earlier.

^ which encouraged me to go to two consecutive Enmore shows the next tour, when of course he did half the same material across the two nights. And spent 40 minutes one night on "the first time all my friends in DC saw The Clash!" and 40 minutes the next on "the first time all my friends in DC saw The Ramones!"

(One of them got released as a double CD again though. The NEXT time he came, I only went to one night out of five [in a smaller theatre*], but he shot three of them and edited a DVD out of 'em. The Trans-Siberian railroad story was way better the night I went than the version he used.)

*same place Keating! The Musical was filmed

The story about Marius off Think Tank was incredible too. Weirdly, I met Marius' brother at a party in Melbourne a few years later, even then he was still pretty jazzed that Henry had said so many great things about Marius.

The Quarterstick albums have been sort-of-remastered and reissued on 2.13 recently (and all now knocked down to $% too), with his very first spoken album as a bonus disc on Big Ugly Mouth.

It’s just awful. I figured if I put it in for free you couldn’t get too mad about how wretched it is.

% 5

Are the remasters of those any good? Because there are whole passages on the originals which are so poorly recorded that they're almost unintelligible.

it's a "best they can do" situation, really

Think Tank is probably the best of the spoken word albums, I think. Especially if you don't count the single-story Eric The Pilot

ha yeah:

Also, it's great to have Phil Klum go over these tapes and do all that can be done to clean them up and even out the levels.

I was just bouncing around his site and found out that this exists. Pretty fascinating, 'cause a) I've had lengthy talks about jazz with Rollins at the end of two different interviews, and I know he's a major jazz geek, and b) the selection's actually pretty great. A fair number of "hits," but a lot of relative obscurities, too.

oh Think Tank is so great. love the outpouring of enthusiasm for Rollins talking CDs here. maybe we should do a poll of them or something? i have no idea how many there even are.

I'll be honest and say I haven't heard a lot of more recent ones (and there are A LOT of more recent ones), but from 1990-2002 or so I was an avid collector.

saw this dude a few months ago with three other friends, we all laughed til we cried.

my favorite was the eBay story about him outbidding a dude just so he could call him up on webcam, break the record on camera, and tell the dude how much he hated that band cause they were jerks when they opened for him in '81.

HA!

i have no idea how many there even are.

I bet I'm the only one who has all of them, but even I haven't listened to all of them

We should poll them all anyway so we can reminisce about all the awesome stories he tells...like when he worked at that animal testing lab and tried to free all the animals, lol

My favorite awesome-then-sad Rollins story is about "Paul" the homeless guy from Human Butt (the album I'd probably end up voting for).

Tell it to me!

No way! I'd ruin it. You need to hear it from the source.

DONATE YOUR BODIES TO SCIENCE YOU FOOLS!

Johnny Fever you are NO FUN

I may send you an mp3.

Yes you may

At which time I will revise my earlier remarks vis a vis your fun-ness

pssssst... https://www.yousendit.com/download/MzZHcXloZ1BEbUpjR0E9PQ

:D

surprised there's not any talk here on dude's books

black coffee blues is a little juvenile, but great in its way

Still love his "On The Virtues Of Black Sabbath" routine lots

GET IN THE VAN

God I love that.

And I will stan for Black Coffee Blues. Loved that shit. LOVED. it.

otm i have gotten in it so many times

the van, that is

do i come here often = super underrated imo

my van has wizards on it

I love the story about John Macias from Circle One, even with the tragic ending he pitches it so right.

I read Get in the Van years ago and loved it, but it was weird! It put me in this aggro punk mood! >:[

I had the audio version, always found it funny that it ends with a "hate hate hate" rant, and then sums up with "the bands thesedays aren't doing this kind of grass-roots playing anymore, they're missing out on a lot of fun"...

(or something like that)

The audio version is HEEEAAAAAVVVVIIIILLLLY abridged.

I can imagine, yeah. "Books" usually are, unless they're 11 CDs or something...

the abridging gets super-abrupt at the end tho, so don't attribute any clunkiness to the audio (it does wrap up quite sharply though, he is obv q depressed abt D. Boon's death and the uncommunicative end of Flag)

(I always kinda assumed he would have recorded a much longer version and would do a 4- or 9- or whatever -CD edition when the rights reverted from Warner, but I guess not)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOgpnSWE00o

See also parts 8/9, damn the whole thing is cool, and the first time I saw Henry, at the Astoria iirc

otm i have gotten in it so many times

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the van, that is

― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:33 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

when you get out of the van you have to go to The Shed

http://i.imgur.com/fprBPpy.jpg

"Skate mean, live clean."

hb Rollins

hb rollins, i try to listen to your radio show every week.

Happy Birthday Mr Henry Sir, ilu xox VG