Punk Musician Henry Rollins opens up to Duncan Garner
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- Punk Rock icon. Spoken word poet. Actor. Author. DJ. Deep thinker.
Henry Rollins has been there and done that and isn't afraid to tell us what he really thinks about it.
He is far more than just a formerly-angry punk front man as I discovered in this fascinating one-on-one...
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Henry Rollins is my moral north star. He puts into words alot of what I am thinking. When he talks about having no self confidence and that he feels he has to work 3 times as hard because he knows he will probably screw it up. Man that is hits home.
How he talks about his father hit home too. My father back breaking hard worker and really smart. But buys into all the right wing conspiracy theories. Dad literally believe in global under ground pedophile cities.
"Henry Rollins is my moral north star. "
That's the kind of thing you keep to yourself because you don't want people to know you're a loser.
But still a conformist poser
Ikr.
@@jimbeam-ru1my I was thinking the same about your comment.
One hell of a human being.
He’s had 30 years of my respect and hopefully another 30 to come.
Total inspiration, and an absolute legend.
Thank you for your honesty, hard work and dedication, Henry.
I salute you!
@@foenix8094 hipster? Cmon lmfao. You obviously know nothing about Rock, punk, or metal
@@foenix8094 What is a hipster doofus? You're smoking something. He's been in his line of work for 40 years, like it or not.
@foenix8094 a hipster dofus wouldn't survive 6 years in Black Flag
Henry Rollins isn't ANTI-RACIST - he just hates white people - countless studies show that blacks are the MOST BIGOTED people on EARTH - Henry ignores their hateful demeanor because he feels they are INFERIOR. The guy is a CLOWN SHOW just virtue signaling his entire life - saying things & telling lies he doesn't actually believe just because he thinks it's trendy. It's a pathetic existence
This interview could have been 5 hours and I would've still watched the whole thing! Amazing interview, Henry is always so insightful in his interviews. Thank you!!
In addition to uncountable times seeing the Rollins Band, I have seen Henry do spoken word shows six or seven times over the past 30+ years and it is always worth it... will be there in July too.
Saw Rolliins Band at the first Lollapalooza ,Dallas tx 1991......
Saw the End of Silence tour in Austin 1992.......and finaly ....Rollins Band ,Weight tour....opening up for Helmet ,1994 in San Antonio....
Pat disaster
Henry signed my the end of silence L.P. at a spoken word show in my hometown in Liverpool, UK, it was a cold night, and covid was still an issue, but he still signed our things, other artists wouldn't of entertained signings on a night like this, but he did, respect to our Hank.
Saw Henry's spoken word show where he mostly showed photos of his travels and told stories about them.
There was more energy in that room than at most punk shows that I've seen - and I've seen quite a few.
Rise above, we're gonna rise above!
It's amazing someone on CZcams that has just 409 subscribers manages to interview such a famous individual. Again never ceases to amaze me.
It's a new podcast that's not really viewed on youtube.
The host Duncan Garner just lost his radio job a couple of months ago so I think this platform is brand new. Also, not many people in New Zealand so NZ media gets a lot fewer clicks.
yeah, there is nothing this guy wont do for money,
@@williamhornabrook8081 thats wild the man is trying
@@rodericknelson7112
which guy?
Love the bath towel hung up in the background, nice touch!
First time I've seen Henry all grey. I'm 46 and it's coming in on the sides...damn!! I'll never dye it and just be real and natural like ol Hank!!
Aged gracefully he has. 😻
I don’t think people would give a shit how old he is and would feel lucky just to see him perform music- but I understand he goes where he feels he’ll have the most powerful impact.
Richmond V.A The Casablanca 1981 or 2 Black Flag best show of that genre of music I ever saw. Thanks Henry!
Have the exact same father and it’s helpful for me to hear him talk about it
One of my heroes love this man
I used to respect him til he became a poser
@@Ishidanfarded2370how is he in any way a poser? The dude survived the 80s hardcore scene.....he's paid his dues
@@Ishidanfarded2370 I agree with you man, that is not same Rollins, the fire in him has gone...but this disgusting host is the height of sleaze
@@Ishidanfarded2370 Which one of your precious Hardcore codes did he break?
I like Henry a lot - Rollins Band in particular were a very underrated band.
No ones perfect obviously and Henry definitely is a fighter and gives a great interview .. that said their are two great questions hes being avoiding for years :
1. The reason hes not doing Rollins Band anymore is because he's too old to be travelling and singing at the level the band would be perched at today. Also, There is zero money in being in a band of that level in 2023.
2. His parents. He wont go into that - its a closed shop. if he genuinely didn't connect with his father at 61, hes obviously been dealt a really hard blow in childhood. Theres got to be abuse at the root of that.
The question about his father passing was a bit personal but Henry took it quite well. All I can say is...Damn!!
I'm a black man and I couldn't tell you about any of Mr. ROLLINS music, but I've always thought he was / is a pretty cool guy. Very intelligent and stands on his beliefs. Respect!! 🍺 🍻
It's just different to see HENRY in a shirt that isn't black 😊 I am a 57 yr old drummer who is just starting to explore more colors in my wardrobe 😁😎🎼🥁🥁
Hahaha! Brilliant!!
I have a theory regarding his t shirt color and his hair color. Seems to me, he wore more black t shirts when he had dark hair, gray t shirts with gray hair and now white t shirts with white hair.
He signed a million dollar deal with KK, makes him a poser
@@JustMe-do9lz😮😮 interesting 🤔🤔🤔
The black and white
amazing interview!
Great interview
If you're a creative type you really want to read Henry's book 'solipsist.'
Henry is so cool. I think I'm going to see him when he comes round in September.
Love this guy. Rollins for President!! 🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠
Excellent books, highly recommend...love his music. Love to hear him speak on History. The man is so interesting
opens up? because he's been such an introvert all these years
Love that man! I wish he'd go on Bill Maher's podcast and set him straight.
It's the first time I hear him say that he's a rich man. The old "I got to work for my next meal" was getting old.
YESSSSS!!!! FINALLY! For once, I don't hear Henry Rollins and his "work ethic" bullshit. He's been a multi-millionaire for many years now.
Henry can be interesting from time to time because he has entertaining ways of describing ordinary bullshit in life, but FUCK him and his work ethic, and his "working hard for his meals and his floor to sleep on" garbage, because he's a *very* wealthy man for what he did with his life. Christ, he gets on stage and talks. He is NOT a brain surgeon. He does NOT build power stations or highways for a living. THAT kind of stuff is hard work.
Now that he's getting old, Henry Rollins is finally outgrowing some of his pretentiousness and I think that's pretty cool. It's also about fucking time already!
Henry’s the man. I can totally relate to him. A man I can trust.
I LOVE THIS MAN!!! He is incredible! HE IS INTENSE and that is why I love him!
I have watched him speak 4 times in my life. I saw him in 2005, 2017,2018 and 2022.
He is delightful and I had the honor of meeting him in 3 out of those 4 speaking engagements. He is a sweet person but I can see why he is guarded.
In the last three speaking engagements there were still groupies. One of them was quite clingy and wearing THE OUTFIT hoping to be called backstage for sex. She was so vacant, she didn't know Henry wrote books! He probably got lucky and good for him if he liked that type.
He would be a great dinner guest not because he is a celebrity but simply because he has a lot of interesting things to say and he is funny without even trying.
Growing up in conservative deep south Texas, a lot of the things he said would have been considered foreign but when he said them, I felt like I wasn't alone in the world and VINDICATED.
My dad died of cancer around the time Joe Cole was murdered so when I was exposed to his work, it was like the universe gave me a gift. I liked the book on grieving because those feelings were shared when I read those lines in his book!
He even talked about how people show their true colors when there is a death or tragedy. I saw a lot of ugliness too when my father died and to know someone else knew and understood meant so much at the time!
I will always have a special place in my heart for this man!!!
There's my guy.Pure role model.
COULDN'T HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED ANY BETTER WHAT A WORD SMITH💥💯
Henry's my idol,and I'm old. 👊 Not many people impress me that much.
Man’s interviews are like a book. Articulate on the fly and covers all angles. Would love another studio album. Understand not wanting to be angry and spastic live in your late 60s but do it one more time on wax Henry lol.
Thanks Henry!
Is it supposed to be special that he "opened up" to this particular interviewer? I mean rollins generally will talk at length whether you want him to or not. Lol
Henry signed my the end of silence L.P. at a spoken word show in my hometown in Liverpool, UK, it was a cold night, and covid was still an issue, but he still signed our things, other artists wouldn't of entertained signings on a night like this, but he did, respect to our Hank.
Such an interesting Man.
"Too intelligent for that!" Many confuse intelligence with wisdom.
See you Tuesday in Fall River, MA
Hell of a front man to a band .So crap i never saw him go off onstage
Absolute legend.
Bless him
my hero
ah, the hamster wheel of trying to get ahead grounded by one of my heroes, rather just flying higher.
Rollins says some things that I wish some would listen to, he's simple, direct and knows who he is. I'm curious about one thing, behind him there's a towel covering something, pretty sure it is Rollins that said something like ''I'll be on your show but I'll not have that thing as a background behind me.'' , I wonder if anyone knows what it is? :)
just assumed it was a doorway or a window.
bothered me though that someone couldn't go and get a coupla yards of black fabric. ha!
shrug.
just a very 'visual' person.
Henry forever.
I remember Henry outside the Astoria in 81-82 when Black Flag played and Henry was raving about how we should attack the cops because they had no guns. "We could beat their ass" he said, we all forgot to mention the Brixton and Toxteth and Bristol riots.
He's a champagne socialist
⚡💯
Probably disagree with him on a lot of political issues but I love his spoken word performances. Especially when he brings up the subjects U2 and techno. Also, his work ethic is admirable.
He's pretty based politically. Most people aren't homophobic misogynistic or racist. Climate change I for one believe in but is up for debate. I would like to know his thoughts on systemic racism and gender affirming care for minors. Those two things are the real hotseat in America right now and most people are divided. Would be interesting to see his take if he even has one. I'm sure he probably just dosent care which is the same way I typically feel
So you're a right wing hardcase..is that what ya tryna say?
Unfortunately most of the west is following the Yanks footsteps.. no real party to represent the blue collar worker...all party's are now centre right...& turn the argument onto sexualism, rather than human rights.
Rmmbr...every Anarchist is a Socialist at heart..but not all Socialists think like an Anarchist.
@@enigmatictrash Henry was spot on about Bush, but should be riding Biden just as hard, fuck politics! As for your fake climate change, I live on an island still waiting for the oceans to rise.
@@enigmatictrash You don’t care if kids are given puberty blockers that cause irreversible damage?
@@rullangaar trust me you're talking to the wrong guy lol I don't condone that stuff at all
a very interesting guy.......put him along with Iggy Pop,,,,David Lee Roth as great story Tellers
Henry i fucking love your soul man!
What Henry is saying here about his father makes one think , ''are there Ideals, regardless of their bias, worth defending beyond the risk of losing your kids' attachment to you?''. The answer is 'No'', of course, but the road to get there is long and rocky as Hell and you're barefooted.
Always liked & respected Henry, both as a man and as a musician. But I wish that I had heard more of what he says sooner.
Down to earth wisdom & honesty of the highest degree.
Rock on Henry. You are an inspiration.
He embodies being a true warrior, spirit, mind & body. A true inspiration. .
-Matt’s dad
I like Hank, but I'm glad he got called out at 16:45 on that old line about his father.
The more I listen to Henry, the more I want him to put out a brand of ice cream.
The best singer Black flag ever had.
agree to disagree
Keith Morris
vocalist.
not "singer".
I love him but Dez was the man.
I just watched him squirm through the debacle with John Lydon. I think the only thing Henry Rollins has missed is that Rock'n Roll/Punk is in fact purile and toxic at its core. Everything depends on the ability to control the ego, of which he is a genuinely shining light.
"I'm not a musician. I can't play an instrument." - Rollins 2022 :D
Props to him for having the balls to bluntly admit it instead of his usual gassy jibber-jabber :)
I wish politicians and other entertainers had the focus and perception that Henry has developed. Life is too short to have your eyes closed.
I was an early punk kid and I had a somewhat similar upbringing.
God I love henry, inspired me to get sober and stay sober, sldo to keep fit.... Ish😂
I’m going to see Black Flag august 12
Henry, please tell me you're not using a towel for a curtain 😂😂😂
Great interview Dunc!!
Although I prefer earlier Black Flag.. Hanks a gd bloke at heart...
He at least rmmbrs when everyone hated us...the system is fukt.. FTS!!
Put me in a room with Henry, Iggy and Anthony Bourdain, please
Henry, preston loves you man!!
Go Bills!
You should have asked Hank how he feels about Mike Valley stealing his identity 😮
Musician?
3:40
dig him up and ask him 😂
I wonder what kind of POTUS this guy would make…
Wayyyy too much focus on whether or not Henry is/was angry. There are so many other aspects of his life that would make much more interesting topics of discussion.
If this guy drank he'd be Charles Bukowski...
This interviewer is squirrelly AF. Too much caffeine! But at least he lets Henry talk.
Rollins loves painting a hard life for himself and appearing working class/hard working
The racial tension in DC
The minimum wage world
Getting into fights
Always going with his feet on the starting blocks
Henry lived in a white section of DC
He attended a very exclusive, very expensive private school
He scooped ice cream for a few months
In his 20s, he punched 14yr old kids at black flag shows
He talks, and noone is listening, writes it down, undoubtedly for far fewer hours than the average American works....all while dressed like an auto mechanic despite never having done any work in his life that would actually require a pair of Dickies
😂
Wow, he really has placed himself on a pedestal, looking down on everyone else. Henry really does believe that he’s doing something great, and making changes to the world by ridding it of all its evils. I guess it’s great to have been in a popular band. I’m sure that spoken word that he does pretty much just preaches to the choir. In the grand scheme of things his impact probably will be similar to the effect a butterfly has on the world by rigorously flapping its wings. Sorry, but I don’t need some former punk rocker to lecture me on how to live my life in a meaningful and moralistic way. Henry Rollins really comes across as a narcissistic clown, even though he really does believe he is enlightened and is making a difference.
I HATE THAT HENRY's a liberal. he should be a leftist... not mad at Bush or Trump... but mad at all of them. When he advocates for voting, he advocates for maintaining this system. It needs to be dismantled!
Why do you assume he's a liberal? He made fun of Joe Biden in this very video
Duncan Garner looks like he's been on a year long bender drinking Lion Red & eating meat pies.
He's like a punk metal version of Eminem. But cool.
Why does Duncan Garner stutter his words like he’s uncertain all the time, guys interviewing someone and he stutters with a twang in his voice.
I don't consider Henry to be a singer at all, I've never heard him actually sing, he's a vocalist, there is a difference. I don't think that he really has much talent, what he does have is a work ethic that puts most of us to utter shame! However, he's one of the last that would look to as a moral compass! 🤣
He didn’t give his dad a chance to maybe show he changed. Come on Henry. People can change
Behind the glib response to his father's death there's still a bunch of unresolved feelings. From what I have read in a lot of Henry's books he should have had just as much rage towards his leftist mother for all the loser degenerate boyfriends she brought home to abuse him. He's open enough to talk about the stuff but hasn't processed it. I had a very similar kind of dad growing up but i found room to forgive his bullshit, Henry comes off pretty cold and cruel about a dying old man that wanted to see his son...
@@palehorse1111 agreed
When a person has made your life hell you do NOT owe them reconciliation. Especially arrogant parents that raised you to hate being alive when you used to LOVE being alive.
I'm very curious why he chose to leave LA, for a state that epitomizes some fundamental things he focuses his anger against??, ie: homophobia, racism
@J-DUBF1
Google "where does henry rollins live now".
@@katherine9109 Nashville
Probably to get away from the high taxes and crime.
Leftist enclaves are failing and resembling 3rd world countries, he is trying to escape the problems he helped create with Uniparty Democrat rule.
Always liked Henry but I was disappointed when he started spouting WEF globalist talking points on global overpopulation and climate change nonsense. I hope he has snapped out of that
Rubbish I just seen him being disparaging about John Lydon.........and basically call him a homo for no reason but he wanted to denigrate him.......
Wait what? Living in Nashville? Where’s Heidi?
Over the years I've slowly but surely outgrown Henry Rollins. 25 years ago we were on the same page. I no longer find him interesting, nor impressive. Why people stop learning, developing and growing, or simply refuse to learn, develop and grow, is a mystery to me. Usually I blame it on college, but I don't believe that applies to Henry.
Yeah, he's basically a champagne socialist. Totally out of touch with _real_ reality.
How would you say he's not changed? Watching his interview with Howard Stern from 2000 he seems to be quite a different person now. He seems to have mellowed out a lot and gained some perspective on the world which he's gained through travelling outside of the western world.
some do,
some don't.
and to varying degrees.
take you, for example. you haven't grown wise enough to realize what I just 'said'.
@@katherine9109 What you "said" was of no interest to me. Big yawn and a half hearted duh.
Ah, the anti intellectual sour grapes conservative.
GO NAVY SEALS 🇺🇲☦️🪖
Huh? They're a branch of the US military, not a football team
the epitome of the gen x upbringing.
Henry!
you called yourself a singer.
AND!
just a few minutes later, you say that you "couldn't sing a note".
you're not a singer.
you're a vocalist.
The interviewer seems to be a bit presumptuous.
@seanmeade2364
not sure that's for you to say.
I think Rollins woulda called it if HE thought so.
Might’ve been interesting if I hadn’t fallen asleep in the first five minutes
Henry Rollins is more than just a punk musician, hes an intilectual.
No, he is NOT an intellectual (and you spelled "intellectual" wrong.)
Henry Rollins is a good talker. His thinking is pretty ordinary, it's his personality that's very unusual. He's a very bombastic talker and knows how to make mountains out of molehills when he speaks. That's what made him a great entertainer to many people.
Cool man, thanks for correcting me. Also what I said is my opinion based on my perspective so theres that.
@@devilsoffspring5519bro why do i see you everywhere, do you know him personally?
@@prod.87jaws Know Henry personally? Nope, not me
@@devilsoffspring5519 alright then stop acting like you're his dad or something, it just looks like obsession at this point.
Get in the van taught me how to be a grown up.
Imagine hating daddy in your 60s
Happens all the time, pretty common depending on how you were raised. You have no business judging him in that regard.
Some of us hate them because they did something or multiple things that were unforgivable. You must have no idea what that's like. Lucky you.
He is not really a musician. Not a lick of musical talent actually. I do like some of his social commentary, but his 'how I made myself superstar of manhood as a punk' is a rather tired story now.
Yeah it is, it's been a tired story for ages and I like Henry Rollins even though I don't know him and haven't listened to a lot of his stuff since I was into Black Flag when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old.
Henry has been too wealthy for too long to keep milking that "hard working hard life" bullshit. He's not Mickey DeSadist--and Mickey doesn't have a chip on his shoulder about the fact that he's been an actual musician for half a century and still has to work for a living :)
how about henry for president ... sooo much better than Trump and Grandpa Biden
Pity he didnt mention misandry
Wow, what if his father had genuinely changed for the better during those 42 years!? We will never know.
@Chillwithjel
think if pops had changed, he woulda contacted his son before he was 'on his death bed'...
what bothered me was what Rollins said next:
that he "went right back to what (he) was doing - which was writing a book"...
I took this to mean
he felt nothing.
I'm not impressed with people who feel nothing. is Henry a narcissist? was he bragging? (that he was writing a book...)
males are conditioned from babyhood: "feelings - bad". possibly he DID feel something. and dealt with it by diving into his "struggle for higher achievement".
(Joni Mitchell, 'Jericho')
funnily enough, he described his father as an over-achiever...
@@katherine9109you don’t know Henry nor his relationship to his father. I’m not impressed by those who think they know what others should be feeling.
He has written about and spoken about his Father at length. He had a lot of making up to do to Henry. Probably didn't care to or didn't know how.
To the commentors here. I went to see Henry Rollins since I posted & he spent 30 minutes of his set basically laughing & mocking his dead parents including his mother & what he did to some of her ashes. It wasn't funny though he tried to make it comedic. It was unnecessary & I lost respect for him.
@ChillWithJel What do you expect from a narcissistic sociopath? I am very familiar with this type of personality, as he's so much like my brother, who only contacted our father when he was looking to "borrow" money, but didn't have the decency to show up at his wake or funeral. He ha no interest in maintaining contact with me and my brother and our families, and he's turned his daughters against us.
He should have made up with his dad
nope.
and by what Rollins said - he wasn't a 'dad'. he was his father, but sounds like 'sperm donor' best describes him.
Why?
@@radzo1675 i think it would have felt good to maybe forgive him and end the never ending anger and hate he holds bottled up.Maybe
@@katherine9109Read most of Rollins' books. By all accounts the mother was just as deserving of the hate (and probably did more damage bringing in the abusive boyfriends) than his father, who was on the periphirary with a little every other weekend custody. He didn't completely cut her off like he did his dad . Its stockholm syndrome on a child, whoever gets primary custody sets the narrative of the other parent being a villain because they have a young impressionable mind to manipulate. She also turned him into one of the first guinea pigs for testing Ritalin on youngs boys with "too much energy" back in the late 70's. Here's some amphetamines in doctor approved prescription, now shut up and leave me alone and let me screw another one my loser boyfriends in the other room. Maybe a little reconciliation wouldn't have been that bad of an idea at the end of his life ehh?
I respect you Henry.
He's balding...im sad
@butt737
wtf's wrong with a bald head..!?!
fact is - men with no head hair have more testosterone
than those WITH hair.