Henry Rollins
(born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield
) is an American singer-songwriter, radio DJ, comedian, actor, activist and publisher.
After joining the short-lived Washington D.C. band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 until 1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins soon established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, as well as forming the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups until 2003 and during 2006.
Since Black Flag, Rollins has embarked on projects covering a variety of media. He has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony In My Head
, television shows, such as MTV
's 120 Minutes
and Jackass
, along with roles in several films. Rollins has also campaigned for human rights in the United States, promoting gay rights in particular, and tours overseas with the United Service Organizations to entertain American troops.
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Early life
Henry Garfield was born in
Washington, D.C. on
February 13,
1961, and grew up in the
Glover Park neighborhood of the city. An only child, his parents divorced when he was a toddler; he suffered from low self-esteem and a poor attention span as a child.
[1] He was raised primarily by his mother, Iris, who taught him to read before he entered public school;
[2] however, because of "bad grades, bad attitude, poor conduct," he was soon sent to
The Bullis School, a preparatory school in
Potomac, Maryland.
According to Rollins, military school helped him to develop a sense of discipline and a strong work ethic.
It was at Bullis that he began writing; his early literary efforts were mainly short stories about "blowing up my school and murdering all the teachers."
Despite the relative affluence of Glover Park, for Rollins "it was a very rough up-bringing in a lot of other ways. I accumulated a lot of rage by the time I was seventeen or eighteen."
Music career
State of Alert
After high school, Rollins attempted college, but after being discouraged by the behavior of his fellow students, who were into "
beer and
bongs," he left and began working in minimum-wage jobs, including a job as a courier for liver samples at the
National Institutes of Health.
[3] Rollins became involved in the
punk rock scene after he and
Ian MacKaye bought a
Sex Pistols record; he later described it as a "revelation." By 1979, Rollins was working as a roadie for local bands, including MacKaye's
Teen Idles. When the band's singer Nathan Strejcek failed to appear for practice sessions, Rollins convinced the Teen Idles to let him sing. Word of Rollins' ability spread around Washington's underground music scene;
Bad Brains singer
H.R. would sometimes coax Rollins on stage to sing with him.
[4]
In 1980, the Washington punk band The Extorts lost their frontman
Lyle Preslar to
Minor Threat. Rollins joined the rest of the band to form
State of Alert, and became its frontman and vocalist. He put words to the band's five songs and wrote several more. S.O.A. recorded their sole EP,
No Policy
, and released it in 1981 on MacKaye's
Dischord Records.
[5] S.O.A. disbanded after a total of nine concerts and one EP. Rollins had enjoyed being the band's frontman, and had earned a reputation for fighting in shows. He later said: "I was like nineteen and a young man all full of steam [...]
Loved
to get in the dust-ups." By this time, Rollins had become the manager of the Georgetown
Häagen-Dazs ice cream store; his steady employment had helped to finance the S.O.A. EP.
[6]
Black Flag
In 1980, a friend gave Rollins and MacKaye a copy of
Black Flag's
Nervous Breakdown
EP. Rollins soon became a fan of the band, exchanging letters with bassist
Chuck Dukowski and later inviting the band to stay in his parents' home when Black Flag toured the East Coast in December 1980.
[7] When Black Flag returned to the East Coast in 1981, Rollins attended as many of their concerts as he could. At an impromptu show in a New York bar, Black Flag's vocalist
Dez Cadena allowed Rollins to sing "Clocked In," as Rollins had a five hour drive back to Washington DC to return to work after the performance.
[8]
Unbeknownst to Rollins, Cadena wanted to switch to guitar, and the band was looking for a new vocalist.
The band was impressed with Rollins' singing and stage demeanor, and the next day, after a semi-formal audition, they asked him to become their permanent vocalist. Despite some doubts, he accepted, in part because of MacKaye's encouragement. His high level of energy and intense personality suited the band's style, but Rollins' diverse tastes in music were a key factor in his being selected as singer; Black Flag's founder
Greg Ginn was growing restless creatively and wanted a singer who was willing to move beyond simple, three-chord punk.
[9]
After joining Black Flag in 1981, Rollins quit his job at Häagen-Dazs, sold his car, and moved to
Los Angeles, . Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Rollins got the Black Flag logo
tattooed on his left bicep
and changed his surname to Rollins, a surname he and MacKaye had used as teenagers.
Rollins was in a different environment in Los Angeles; the police soon realized he was a member of Black Flag and he was hassled as a result. Rollins later said "That really scared me. It freaked me out that an adult would do that. [...] My little eyes were opened big time."
[10]
Before concerts, as the rest of band tuned up, Rollins would stride about the stage dressed only in a pair of black shorts, grinding his teeth; to focus before the show he would squeeze a pool ball.
[11] His stage persona impressed several critics; after a 1982 show in
Anacortes, ,
Sub Pop
critic
Calvin Johnson wrote: "Henry was incredible. Pacing back and forth, lunging, lurching, growling; it was all real, the most intense emotional experiences I have ever seen."
[12]
By 1983, Rollins' stage persona was increasingly alienating him from the rest of Black Flag. During a show in England, Rollins assaulted a member of the audience; Ginn later scolded Rollins, calling him a "macho asshole."
[13] A legal dispute with
Unicorn Records held up further Black Flag releases until 1984, and Ginn was slowing the band's tempo down so that they would remain innovative. In August 1983 guitarist
Dez Cadena had left the group; a stalemate lingered between Dukowski and Ginn, who wanted Dukowski to leave, before Rollins fired Dukowski outright.
[14] 1984's
heavy metal music-influenced
My War
featured Rollins screaming and wailing throughout many of the songs; the band's members also grew their hair to confuse the band's hardcore punk audience.
[15]
Black Flag's change in musical style and appearance alienated many of their original fans, who focused their displeasure on Rollins by punching him in the mouth, stabbing him with pens or scratching him with their nails, among other methods. He often fought back, dragging audience members on stage and assaulting them. Rollins became increasingly alienated from the audience; in his tour diary, Rollins wrote "When they spit at me, when they grab at me, they aren't hurting me. When I push out and mangle the flesh of another, it's falling so short of what I really want to do to them."
[16] During the Unicorn legal dispute, Rollins had started a weight-lifting program, and by their 1984 tours, he had become visibly well-built; journalist
Michael Azerrad later commented that "his powerful physique was a metaphor for the impregnable emotional shield he was developing around himself."
Rollins has since replied that "no, the training was just basically a way to push myself."
[17]
Rollins Band and solo releases
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Before Black Flag broke up in August 1986, Rollins had already toured as a solo spoken word artist.
[18] He released two solo records in 1987,
Hot Animal Machine
, a collaboration with guitarist
Chris Haskett, and
Drive by Shooting
, recorded as "Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters";
[19] Rollins also released his second spoken word album,
Big Ugly Mouth
in the same year. Along with Haskett, Rollins soon added
Andrew Weiss and
Sim Cain, both former members of Ginn's side-project
Gone, and called the new group
Rollins Band. The band toured relentlessly,
[20] and their 1987 debut album,
Life Time
, was quickly followed by the outtakes and live collection
Do It
. The band continued to tour throughout 1988; 1989 marked the release of another Rollins Band album,
Hard Volume
.
[21] Another live album,
Turned On
, and another spoken word release,
Live at McCabe's
, followed in 1990.
Rollins and Weiss released
Fast Food For Thought
, an EP by their one-off side project
Wartime in 1990. It was sonically in many ways more reminiscent of Weiss' work with
Ween than the Rollins Band. The music, while heavy and driving, had a distinctly psychedelic bent, culimnating in the final track, a cover of "Franklin's Tower" by
The Grateful Dead. Early pressings were simply credited to "Wartime" while later releases added the phrase "featuring Henry Rollins" to the cover.
1991 saw the Rollins Band sign a distribution deal with Imago Records and appear at the
Lollapalooza festival; both improved the band's presence. However, in December 1991, Rollins and his best friend
Joe Cole were accosted by gunmen outside Rollins' home. Cole was murdered by a gunshot to the head, but Rollins escaped without injury.
[22] Although traumatized by Cole's death, as chronicled in his book "Now Watch Him Die," Rollins continued to release new material; the spoken-word album
Human Butt
appeared in 1992 on his own record label,
2.13.61. The Rollins Band released
The End of Silence
, Rollins' first charting album.
The following year, Rollins released a spoken-word double album,
The Boxed Life
.
[23] The Rollins Band embarked upon the
End of Silence
tour; bassist Weiss was fired towards its end and replaced by funk and jazz bassist
Melvin Gibbs. According to critic Steve Huey, 1994 was Rollins' "breakout year".
The Rollins Band appeared at
Woodstock 94 and released
Weight
, which ranked on the Billboard Top 40. Rollins released
Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag
, a double-disc set of him reading from his Black Flag tour diary of the same name; he won the Grammy for
Best Spoken Word Recording as a result. Rollins was named 1994's "Man of the Year" by the American men's magazine
Details
and became a contributing columnist to the magazine. With the increased exposure, Rollins made several appearances on American music channels
MTV and
VH1 around this time, and made his Hollywood film debut in 1994 in
The Chase
playing a police officer.
[24]
In 1995, the Rollins Band's record label, Imago Records, declared itself bankrupt. Rollins began focusing on his spoken word career. He released
Everything
, a recording of a chapter of his book
Eye Scream
with free jazz backing, in 1996. He continued to appear in various films, including
Heat
,
Johnny Mnemonic
and
Lost Highway
. The Rollins Band signed to
Dreamworks Records in 1997 and soon released
Come in and Burn
, but it did not receive as much critical acclaim as their previous material. Rollins continued to release spoken-word book readings, releasing
Black Coffee Blues
in the same year. 1998 saw Rollins released
Think Tank
, his first set of non-book-related spoken material in five years.
By 1998, Rollins felt that the relationship with his backing band had run its course, and the line-up disbanded. He had produced a
Los Angeles hard rock band called
Mother Superior, and invited them to form a new incarnation of the Rollins Band. Their first album
Get Some Go Again
, was released two years later. The Rollins Band released several more albums, including 2001's
Nice
and 2003's
Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three
. After 2003, the band became inactive as Rollins focused on radio and television work.
Musical style
Vocals
As a vocalist, Rollins has adopted a number of styles through the years. Rollins was initially noted in the
Washington, D.C. hardcore scene for what journalist Michael Azerrad described as a "compelling, raspy howl".
With State of Alert, Rollins "spat out the lyrics like a bellicose auctioneer".
He adopted a similar style after joining Black Flag in 1981. By their album
Damaged
however, Black Flag began to incorporate a
swing beat into their style; Rollins then abandoned his
S.O.A. "bark" and adopted the band's swing.
[25] Rollins later explained: "What I was doing kind of matched the vibe of the music. The music was intense and, well, I was as intense as you needed."
[26]
In both incarnations of the Rollins Band, Rollins combined spoken word with his traditional vocal style in songs such as "Liar" (the song begins with a one minute spoken diatribe by Rollins), as well as barking his way through songs (such as "Tearing" and "Starve") and employing the loud-quiet dynamic.
Rolling Stone
's Anthony DeCurtis names Rollins a "screeching hate machine" and his "hallmark" as "the sheets-of-sound assault".
[27]
Rollins appeared on the 1996 studio album
Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel Present Highball with the Devil, narrating "Delicate Tendrils".
Rollins also appeared in the 1993
Tool album,
Undertow
. He and Tool front man,
Maynard James Keenan, performed the vocals in the song "Bottom". He also appears on
Black Sabbath guitarist
Tony Iommi solo record
Iommi.
Songwriting
Rollins wrote several songs with Black Flag, but was not the group's main songwriter. With the Rollins Band, his lyrics focused "almost exclusively on issues relating to personal integrity," according to critic Geoffrey Welchman.
[28]
Music Producer
Rollins is credited as mixer and producer on the 1995 album by Australian band "The Mark of Cain" titled "Ill at Ease". Fans of early Rollins Band albums such as Hard Volume will notice his influence in this work.
Appearances in other media
Television
As Rollins rose to prominence with the Rollins Band, he began to present and appear on cable television programs. These included
Alternative Nation
and
MTV Sports
in 1993 and 1994 respectively. 1995 saw Rollins appear on an episode of
Unsolved Mysteries
that explored the death of his friend
Joe Cole [29] and present
State of the Union Undressed
on
Comedy Central
. Rollins began to present and narrate
VH1 Legends
in 1996.
[30] Rollins, busy with the Rollins Band, did not present more programs until 2001, but made appearances on a number of other television shows, including voicing
Mad Stan in
Batman Beyond
in 1999 and 2000.
[31] [32] He also did the voice in Apple's 1999 G4 Cube Ad with Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" playing as the theme song.
In 2001, Rollins appeared as the uncredited host of "
Night Visions", a short-lived horror anthology series. Rollins was a host of film review programme
Henry's Film Corner
on the
Independent Film Channel
, before presenting the weekly
The Henry Rollins Show
on the channel. He co-hosted the British television show
Full Metal Challenge in 2002-2003 on
TLC. It was about teams that would build machines that they would drive and fight with them, trying to disable the other teams machine. He has made a number of cameo appearances in television series such as
MTV's
Jackass
and an episode of
Californication, where he played himself hosting a radio show.
[33] In 2006, Rollins appeared in a documentary series by
VH1 and
The Sundance Channel called
The Drug Years
.
[34]Also featured in
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
.
Rollins will appear in six upcoming episodes of FX's
Sons of Anarchy
in the fall of 2009. Rollins will play
A.J. Weston
a
white-supremacist gang leader and new antagonist in the show’s fictional town of Charming, California who poses a deadly threat to the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club.
[35]
Radio
On May 19, 2004, Rollins began hosting a weekly radio show,
Harmony in My Head
on Los Angeles'
Indie 103.1 radio. The show aired every Monday evening, with Rollins playing a variety of music ranging from early rock and
jump blues to
hard rock,
blues rock,
folk rock,
punk rock,
metal and
rockabilly, but also touching on
rap,
jazz,
world music,
reggae,
classical music and more.
Harmony In My Head
often emphasizes B-sides, live
bootlegs and other rarities, and nearly every episode has featured a song by British group
The Fall.
Rollins put the show on a short hiatus to undertake a spoken-word tour in early 2005. Rollins posted playlists and commentary on-line; these lists were expanded with more information and published in book form as
Fanatic!
through 2.13.61 in November 2005. In late 2005, Rollins announced the show's return and began the first episode by playing the show's namesake
Buzzcocks song. As of 2008, the show continues each week despite Rollins' constant touring with new pre-recorded shows between live broadcasts. In 2009 Indie 103.1 went off the air, although it continues to broadcast over the internet.
On February 18, 2009,
KCRW announced that Rollins would be hosting a live show on Saturday nights starting March 7, 2009.
[36]
In 2007 Rollins published "Fanatic! Vol. 2" through 2.13.61. "Fanatic! Vol. 3" was released in the fall of 2008.
Film
Rollins began his film career appearing in several independent films featuring Black Flag. His film debut was in 1982's
The Slog Movie
, about the West Coast punk scene.
[37] An appearance in 1985's
Black Flag Live
followed. Rollins first film appearance without Black Flag was the short film
The Right Side of My Brain
with
Lydia Lunch in 1985.
[38] Following the band's breakup, Rollins did not appear in any films until 1994's
The Chase
. Rollins appeared in the 2007 direct-to-DVD sequel to
Wrong Turn
(2003),
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
as a retired Marine Corps officer who hosts his own show which tests the contestants' will to survive. Rollins has also appeared in
Punk: Attitude
, a documentary on the punk scene, and in
American Hardcore
(2006).
Some feature length movies Henry Rollins has appeared in include:
- The Chase
(1994), with Charlie Sheen.
- Johnny Mnemonic
(1995), with Keanu Reeves, Ice T and Dolph Lundgren.
- Heat
(1995), with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer.
- Lost Highway
(1997), with Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette. Directed by David Lynch.
- Jack Frost
(1998), with Michael Keaton.
- Morgan's Ferry
(1999), with Billy Zane and Kelly McGillis.
- Dogtown and Z-Boys
(2001 documentary)
- The New Guy
(2002), with Tommy Lee and DJ Qualls.
- Jackass The Movie
(2002) with Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera
- Jackass Number Two
(2006) with Preston Lacy, Steve-O, and Bam Margera.
- Bad Boys 2
(2003), with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
- Feast
(2005), with Balthazar Getty and Navi Rawat.
- The Alibi
(2006)
- Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
(2007)
- The Devil's Tomb
(2009)
- ''H for Hunger (2009 documentary)
Video games
Rollins has made several voice acting performances in video games including the main character Mace Griffin in
Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter and as himself in
Def Jam: Fight for NY.
Books
Rollins has written a series of books based on his travel journals referred to as the
Black Coffee Blues
trilogy. They include the namesake book,
Black Coffee Blues
,
Do I Come Here Often?
,
The First Five
and
Smile, You're Traveling
. Others include
See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
,
Get in the Van
,
Eye Scream
,
Broken Summers
,
Roomanitarian
, and
Solipsist
.
Audiobooks
Rollins contributed a segment to the
audiobook version of the 2006 novel
World War Z
, where he portrayed T. Sean Collins, a bounty hunter who was hired to protect various celebrities before their home is over run first by desperate people looking for safety and then by the undead.
Rollins won a Grammy for his reading of his autobiographical book
Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag
.
Rollins also narrated the audiobook "3:10 to Yuma", as available at audible.com
Campaigning and activism
Rollins has become an outspoken human rights activist, most vocally for
gay rights, while deriding any suggestion that he himself is gay. On his 1998 spoken word album
Think Tank
the
straight ally declared: "If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve ... If I was gay, at this stage of the game — age 37, aging alternative icon — I'd be taking out ads." Rollins frequently speaks out on social justice on his spoken word tours and promotes equality, regardless of sexuality.
[39] He was the host of the WedRock
benefit concert, which raised money for a pro-gay-marriage organization.
During the
2003 Iraq War, he started touring with the
United Service Organizations to entertain troops overseas while remaining against the war. Rollins caused a stir at a base in
Kyrgyzstan when he told the crowd: "Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job."
[40] He has also been active in the campaign to free the "
West Memphis Three" — three young men that many believe were wrongly convicted of murder. Rollins appears with
Public Enemy frontman
Chuck D on the
Black Flag song "Rise Above" on the benefit album
Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three
; the first time Rollins had performed Black Flag's material since 1986.
[41]
Continuing his activism on behalf of troops and veterans, Rollins joined
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
(IAVA) in 2008 to launch a groundbreaking national public service advertisement campaign, CommunityofVeterans.org, which helps veterans coming home from war reintegrate into their communities. In April 2009, Rollins helped
IAVA launch the second phase of the campaign which engages the friends and family of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans at SupportYourVet.org.
Works
Studio albums
- Hot Animal Machine
(1987)
- Drive by Shooting
(1987)
Featured On
Song
| Artist
| Album
| Year
|
"We Are 138"
| The Misfits
| Evilive
| 1982
|
"Kick Out The Jams"
| Bad Brains
| Pump Up The Volume Soundtrack
| 1990
|
"Let There Be Rock"
| Hard-Ons
|
| 1991
|
"Bottom"
| Tool
| Undertow
| 1993
|
"Wild America"
| Iggy Pop
| American Caesar
| 1993
|
"Sexual Military Dynamics"
| Mike Watt
| Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
| 1995
|
"Delicate Tendrils"
| Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel
| Highball with the Devil
| 1996
|
"T-4 Strain"
| Goldie
| Spawn: The Album
| 1997
|
"War"
| Bone Thugs-n-Harmony & Edwin Starr
| Small Soldiers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
| 1998
|
"Laughing Man (In The Devil Mask)"
| Tony Iommi
| Iommi
| 2000
|
"I Can't Get Behind That"
| William Shatner
| Has Been
| 2004
|
Spoken word
- Short Walk on a Long Pier
(1985)
- Big Ugly Mouth
(1987)
- Sweatbox
(1989)
- Live at McCabe's
(1990)
- Human Butt
(1992)
- Deep Throat
(1992)
- The Boxed Life
(1993)
- Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag
(Audio Book) (1994)
- Volume Eleven
(Compilation of Britain's Volume Magazine) (August 1994)
- Everything
(Audio Book) (1996)
- Black Coffee Blues
(Audio Book) (1997)
- Think Tank
(1998)
- Eric the Pilot
(1999)
- A Rollins in the Wry
(2001)
- Live at the Westbeth Theater
(2001)
- Talk Is Cheap Vol I
(2003)
- Talk Is Cheap Vol II
(2003)
- Nights Behind the Tree Line
(Audio Book) (2004)
- Talk Is Cheap Vol III
(2004)
- Talk Is Cheap Vol IV
(2004)
- World War Z
(2007)
- Provoked
(CD/DVD) (2008)
Spoken word DVDs
- You Saw Me Up There
(1998)
- Talking from the Box/Henry Goes to London
(2001)
- Up for It
(2001)
- Live @ Luna Park
(2003)
- Shock & Awe
(2006)
- Live in the Conversation Pit
(2006)
- Henry Rollins: Uncut from NYC
(2007)
- ''Henry Rollins San Francisco 1990 (2007)
- Provoked (album)
(CD/DVD) (2008)
- Uncut From Israel
(2008)
Essays
-
First published in Details magazine, 1994.
Notes
- Azerrad, Michael. ''Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991''. Little Brown and Company, 2001. ISBN 0-316-78753-1. p. 25
- "You can’t dance to a book:" Neddal Ayad interviews Henry Rollins
- Henry Rollins interview
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 26
- State of Alert > Overview
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 27
- Azzerad, 2001. p. 27-28
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 28
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 29
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 31
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 34
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 38
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 39
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 41
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 47
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 46
- Henry Rollins interview
- Lip Service - Henry Rollins
- Henry Rollins/Black Flag
- Rollins Band > Biography
- Henry Rollins > Biography
- Primal Scream: Henry Rollins speaks
- The Boxed Life > Overview
- Henry Rollins Biography
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 32
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 33
- Rollins Band: Get Some Go Again
- Rollins Band: Weight
- Joe Cole
- Henry Rollins Biography (1961-)
- Rats!
- Eyewitness
- LOL
- http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_drug_years/series_artists.jhtml VH1.com : Shows : Rock Docs : The D
- http://soa.blogs.fxnetworks.com/
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/02/henry-rollins-r.html
- The Slog Movie (1982)
- The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
- Henry Rollins
- USO cheers troops, but Iraq gigs tough to book
- Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three
References
- Azerrad, Michael. ''Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991''. Little Brown and Company, 2001. ISBN 0-316-78753-1. p. 25
- "You can’t dance to a book:" Neddal Ayad interviews Henry Rollins
- Henry Rollins interview
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 26
- State of Alert > Overview
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 27
- Azzerad, 2001. p. 27-28
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 28
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 29
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 31
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 34
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 38
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 39
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 41
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 47
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 46
- Henry Rollins interview
- Lip Service - Henry Rollins
- Henry Rollins/Black Flag
- Rollins Band > Biography
- Henry Rollins > Biography
- Primal Scream: Henry Rollins speaks
- The Boxed Life > Overview
- Henry Rollins Biography
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 32
- Azerrad, 2001. p. 33
- Rollins Band: Get Some Go Again
- Rollins Band: Weight
- Joe Cole
- Henry Rollins Biography (1961-)
- Rats!
- Eyewitness
- LOL
- http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_drug_years/series_artists.jhtml VH1.com : Shows : Rock Docs : The D
- http://soa.blogs.fxnetworks.com/
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/02/henry-rollins-r.html
- The Slog Movie (1982)
- The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
- Henry Rollins
- USO cheers troops, but Iraq gigs tough to book
- Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three