HENRY ROLLINS Gives A Guided Tour Of Washington D.C.'s Punk Underground

March 26, 2007

Never thought you'd live to see the day where you'd see a photo of Henry Rollins in a white smock and Häagen-Dazs t-shirt?

Now better known as a muscle-bound fount of positive rage, back in the nascent days of the D.C. punk scene, Henry Rollins was a slim kid working 60-hour weeks at Häagen-Dazs slinging pralines and cream and rainbow sherbet to Georgetown kids. He hired Ian MacKaye, the future cofounder of Dischord Records, and Susie J. Horgan, a transient would-be photographer, to work with him as soda jerks.

Now, more than two decades later, the three have reunited, to collaborate on "Punk Love" — a book of Horgan's shots from the Wilson Center days, making for a raw and vivid document of the D.C. punk scene in the 1980s.

For Rollins, who wrote "Punk Love"'s foreword with MacKaye, the book is a love letter to the era and place he calls home.

For the excerpt from "Punk Love" on Radar Online, Rollins sat down with the site to offer background on what was happening when some of his favorite shots were taken, and, in a few cases, on what was happening just out of frame.

Check it out at www.radaronline.com.

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