Comments on: We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California - exclusive photo gallery excerpt

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:27:00 +0000

ha, punkberry.

By: Josh Berk

Josh Berk — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:08:00 +0000

Pretty cool. FYI the Amazon link to the book in the first paragraph doesn’t seem to work…

By: jeligula

jeligula — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Rollins was, and is, a blowhard bully who liked to make kids cry. Voice of a generation? Only if that generation is false, shallow and irritating. What a minute….

By: jeligula

jeligula — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:57:00 +0000

Besides holding money away from his bandmates and then suing them? Who knows or cares? Biafra is the biggest sellout of all.

By: Chris Gsell

Chris Gsell — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:15:00 +0000

Awesome transcript! Hadn’t been aware of that interview. Thanks for sharing!

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:32:00 +0000

Some folks tend to not understand the difference between being a predatory capitalist & simply asking to get paid. Lots of ill educated masochists out there.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Which flavor?

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:19:00 +0000

Plus wanting money for things like being able to see a doctor, have a decent place to live, see the world, buy good food and nice clothes aren’t exactly “selling out”.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:55:00 +0000

They kept it as real as possible.

Sometimes I wonder what people expect from their idols. Did Judy Garland and Elvis ‘keep it real’ by dying young from too many drugs?

By: Will Bueche

Will Bueche — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:41:00 +0000

So, no actual punks, just one girl with eyeliner. Television lies about history!

By: WillieNelsonMandela

WillieNelsonMandela — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:55:00 +0000

Henry is at least 50 years old. He might still be the voice of a generation, but that generation is no longer caught up in teen angst. They’re now working and planning for retirement.

By: TwilightNewsSite

TwilightNewsSite — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:51:00 +0000

Thank you very much, that’s awesome.

I think this is the sort of guitar sound he was so taken with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DcHX–3crg&feature=share&list=PL4E15BFCF63F554C1

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:22:00 +0000

Funny how the self-proclaimed “voice of a generation” can wind up being as much of a sell out as anyone else.

What exactly does “selling out” mean? Henry Rollins is quite past his prime. Everyone who was in Black Flag is truly past their prime. At their prime, they did not sell out at all. They kept it as real as possible. So now decades later he takes a gig on a TV show to make money. Did he dump on his past by taking the role? Nope. Did anyone care? Nope. He did what most people do: He made money by acting. Whop-dee-doo. Who cares.

Selling out means compromising yourself. Taking a job & getting paid is not compromising yourself.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:30:00 +0000

I heart Jello!

By: wrybread

wrybread — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:49:00 +0000

Youtube shall provide:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4E15BFCF63F554C1

And:

http://grrlbandgeek.blogspot.com/

By: Chandler Lewis

Chandler Lewis — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:24:00 +0000

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/285/transcript
Not selling out?

By: TwilightNewsSite

TwilightNewsSite — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:47:00 +0000

I wasn’t at any of those shows, but my brother was at the Go-Go’s show. Jello told me once that he’d kill for an early/bootlegged Go-Go’s tape. Wonder if he ever got one.

By: connie1946

connie1946 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:11:00 +0000

Spectacular photographs. I was living in North Dakota at the time these photos were taken. It’s fascinating how so many of these former rebellious punk teens have incorporated themselves into so-called “straight” society – last year I saw Henry Rolins playing the role of a dad on the now-cancelled (and unfunny)Paul Reiser sit-com. Funny how the self-proclaimed “voice of a generation” can wind up being as much of a sell out as anyone else. Anybody know what Jello Biafra’s doing these days?