The end of silence

I've never been a fan of later Black Flag releases. The demos to 'My War' are ok but that's where it ends for me. I'm not even a big fan of 'Damaged'. 'Rise Above' definitely is a killer but the rest of the songs are not all that good. They're good but not as good as everybody else says. Also Rollins is my least favorite Black Flag singer. Keith, Dez and Chavo were a lot better. Probably that's why I prefer the releases that have any one of them on vocals.

It seems people either think he's a cool genius or a musclehead trying to make the trivia he spews look clever. I think he's a weird freak. To me though that's a rather positive quality in a human being. Maybe what he says is trivial but it's to the point. He's always a pleasure to see live on his spoken word tours (unfortunately never saw him perform with a band). And most importantly he doesn't give a fuck if you, me or anybody doesn't like what he does. To me everything he does spells honesty and I think we need more of that. Roll on Henry.

With all this out of the way we can finally get to the record I bought:

 

Rollins Band - the end of silence 2LP - euro pressing - Imago - 1992

Of course I will remove those ugly stickers.

Printed innersleeves for both records. I like that.Yes, they are a bit rumpled but I think it's not too bad and am ok with it.Especially because I got the record for a good price.

Prior to this purchase I never bothered to really check out the Rollins Band discography but this time I did. What a surprise. There are a lot more releases than I knew of. Right away I felt worried about all those other releases I seemingly would have to chase down. Luckily though (I thought I'd never say this) all of those I had never heard of were only released on CD which means I don't have to bother with them. So it's still 3 more until being satisfied with my collection.

What's missing:Henry Rollins - hot animal machine - Texas Hotel(I already own 3 copies of this record but not the US original)Rollins Band - niceRollins Band - end of silence demos

 

Henry Rollins - Occupants - book pre-order

I just ordered the newest book by the man, the myth, the legend. Henry Rollins. No way anyone doesn't know him.

Here's a bit of what he has to say about it:

"As I traveled and took more photographs I came to the conclusion that the book had to be more than merely a collection of images. If you are a real photographer, you could perhaps get away with that but not me. I am not a photographer, just someone with a lot of visas in his passport and a camera on his shoulder. The last thing I wanted was for someone to think I was being pretentious. I thought about what I could do to make the book be more time intensive on my part, so there would be more for the person who endeavored to get the book. I came to the conclusion that I would write something for each photo. In fact, I would write two things; an impression of the photograph and a caption that provided more of the practical information about where the image was captured, etc."


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