HENRY ROLLINS: 'I Don't Want To Go Out And Hit America Again Without A New Record'
August 3, 2006Punk rock icon Henry Rollins has told Alan Sculley of The Daily Herald that this summer's tour of the newly reunited original edition of the ROLLINS BAND won't turn into some sort of ongoing tour meant to milk as much cash as possible out of the ROLLINS BAND's legacy.
"Let's put it this way. I don't want to go out and hit America again without a new record, or at least a new album's worth of material. Otherwise the thing will lack legitimacy," said Rollins. "Miles Davis would never do that. And I'm not into a greatest-hits thing. I think a band, if you're going to be around, you should be moving forward and putting in the time and working for it, getting after the art. Otherwise you're just playing retreads. ... Imagine a tree that grows canned peaches. It's nothing I want to do."
This summer's tour opening for the legendary punk band X serves as something of a test run for the original lineup of Rollins (vocals),Chris Haskett (guitar),Melvin Gibbs (bass),Sim Cain (drums) and Theo Von Rock (producer/sound man).
"On this tour, we do songs that everyone knows, or songs our fans are familiar with, that we are familiar with," Rollins said of the band's hour-long set. "Then if we're still feeling it after the tour is over, we'll sit down and go, 'OK, do we want to pursue songwriting?' "
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