Henry Rollins jättää musiikin

Black Flagistä ja Rollins Bandistä tuttu laulaja, sanoittaja, spoken word -artisti, kirjailija ja näyttelijä Henry Rollins on päättänyt jättää musiikin taakseen. Syyksi mies kertoo live-esiintymisen fyysisen rankkuuden. Rollinssilla ei ole myöskään aikomuksia osallistua hiljattain herätettyihin Black Flag ja Flag yhtyeisiin. Lue lisää nähdäksesi koko viestin aiheesta.

“I stopped doing music years ago, I stopped being played by music. Music used to compel me to play it, so I never had an easy night onstage doing music, it was physically an ass-whooping. It was really hard, insane and very painful. I would train for weeks getting ready for tours and you’re playing in places like (fabled New York venue) CBGBs and it’s, like, 115 degrees Fahrenheit [46 degrees Celsius] and there’s no real breathable air … it’s gonna be a really long evening and afterwards you’re gonna be pretty brain dead. And that was five to six nights a week for months at a time and every night I’d have to nerve myself up to go out there. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me and what I didn’t wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud… You cannot fool an audience. As painful as it was to leave music, I had to be as reverent to it as when it was still putting fire into my veins, and so, as a respectful Samurai, I had to re-sheath the blade and walk away.”

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“Some of my peers, for one reason or another, can’t seem to walk away when it’s obviously after the fact … It’s their lives, I’m very busy with mine. I’m not that dead yet and so that’s why I do not do the past, really … I don’t need to be 18 again. If all of a sudden I felt the need to write lyrics, I would heed the call, but if you told me right now, as like a homework assignment, to write a song tonight, it would be like I’d never written one before. I have forgotten so much. When it left it was like an animal dropping me from its jaws and I really don’t remember what it was like to see or hear or feel something and be compelled to stop what I was doing and write a song.”