HENRY ROLLINS Interviewed On Ireland's NEWSTALK
January 17, 2010Punk rock icon Henry Rollins was recently interviewed by Tom Dunne of Newstalk, Ireland's national independent talk radio broadcaster. You can listen to the chat at this location.
In an interview with Times Online, Rollins was asked if he is finished with singing. "Let's pretend my career in music is a bell," he said. "Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. What more can I do with my sledgehammer-cement-mixer approach? That wouldn't be repetition? That wouldn't be trying to be 26?"
A couple of years ago Rollins went to see VAN HALEN on their reunion tour. "And they were good," he said. "I know all the lyrics. I like those records. But to watch men in their fifties play music they wrote in their twenties, there's something distinctly sad about that." A famous friend of his, he said, "sells a gajillion records. But he has to go out and play the same 20 songs each night. He says, 'Well, that's what the people want.' That's one school of thought. I'm more from the Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane school: What they want? Who gives a fuck what they want? The art says we move on. So as I hurtle toward 50 I'm trying to be brave. I want to do stuff that looks like I am. I've got grey hair, a leg that kind of thunks around. I'm still mad as hell. I'm just trying to rouse rabble in a different way."
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