Artist: Rollins Band
Genre(s):
Punk
Pop: Pop-Rock
Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Nice
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Get Some - Go Again
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Weight
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
The End Of Silence
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Hard Volume (Edition '99)
Year: 1989
Tracks: 13
Do It
Year: 1989
Tracks: 15
Life Time (Edition '99)
Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
Almost at once after the legendary punk/hardcore band Black Flag called it quits in 1987, star singer Henry Rollins issued his first solo releases, Hot Animal Machine and Drive By Shootings (the latter an EP credited to Henrieta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters), featuring longtime ally Chris Haskett on guitar, bassist Bernie Wandel, and drummer Mick Green. But Rollins missed organism part of a true band, hence the formation of the Rollins Band. Similar in flair to the Flag's latter direction (Sabbath-esque riff-heavy hard-core metallic element), the Rollins Band enlisted ex-Gone members Sim Cain (drums) and Andrew Weiss (bass part), while Haskett remained onboard. The grouping cursorily made a name for themselves with their volatile concerts and nonstop touring, as soundman Theo Van Rock sign-language on as well (Rock's contributions were so great that he was much credited as a fifth appendage of the stria).
A steady stream of releases followed: 1988's Life Time (produced by Fugazi's Ian MacKaye), 1989's Do It and Hard Volume, as well as the 1990 live arrange Turned On. 1990 also power saw the release of Fast Food for Thought, a one-off experimental side project by Rollins and Weiss, dubbed Wartime. But the Rollins Band caught their gravid break when Perry Farrell invited them to conjoin his inauguration Lollapalooza fete enlistment in the summer of 1991 (which likewise included such acts of the Apostles as Nine Inch Nails, Living Colour, Ice T, Siouxse & the Banshees, and headlined Jane's Addiction). Opening up the day's multi-band concert proved to be quite a challenge -- playing in the baking early good afternoon heating plant piece concert-goers were static arriving -- merely the thousands world Health Organization had never even heard of the Rollins Band were at present well aware of the group's gripping, thought-provoking dense sway. The buzz on the band was growth and their adjacent button, 1992's The End of Silence (their first for Imago Records), proven to be their best selling album so far, spawning such popular MTV videos as "Low Self Opinion" and "Watering," while Henry Rollins began coming into court regularly on the network as a guest VJ or on metier programs.
Weiss left the band subsequently the spell in support of End of Silence draped up (later turning up on releases by the Butthole Surfers, Helios Creed, Yoko Ono, Pigface, and Ween) and was replaced by New York City blue funk bassist Melvin Gibbs, recommended by Living Colour's Vernon Reid. The Rollins Band's 1994 release Weight proven to be the biggest score of their career, due to MTV's heavy rotation of the contact Anton Corbijn-directed clip for "Liar" (which power saw Rollins eroding different costumes and, at several points, covered from head to toe in loss paint). A memorable appearance at Woodstock '94 followed shortly thenceforth as the band continued their unrelenting touring schedule. 1997 power saw the release of the band's debut for the massive DreamWorks label, Come in and Burn, simply stagnancy began setting in and Rollins dismissed his bandmates short after the ending of its supporting tour. Haskett by and by played on David Bowie's Hours, as well as continuing a solo calling, patch the others showed up on other artists' records as well. The makeshift live set, Live in Australia 1990, was issued in 1999 as Henry Rollins assembled a whole new Rollins Band batting order, consisting of L.A. rockers Mother Superior. 2000's Get Some Go Again was the fresh lineup's first album unitedly.
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