The Rollins Band, C/D, S/D

I get excited by Hot Animal Machine, Henrietta Collins & the Wifebeating Childhaters, Do It! [Pink Fairies cover! Always a sign of the coolness.], Life Time, Hard Volume. The shows during this era were amazing spectacles & probably the loudest shows I ever heard. After that they were OK, but not as perfect for me. Henry is an amazing guy. Tons o' respect.

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"get excited by Hot Animal Machine"

yeah, so underrated!

just jamming 'gun in mouth blues'. A++++++++++++

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAZQ9qQDotg

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http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/obituaries/article53625760.html

man this band is too much

"TOO...MUUUCCCHHH!!!!"

If Haskett was a more interesting soloist they would have been the best band that ever was. To me, anyway.

Got to catch the Rollins Band twice as an opening act back in the 90s in front of Jane's Addiction and the Beastie Boys. They were great, especially the drummer Sim Cain.

Something that occurred to me that I was curious about was if the Rollins Band ever played a gig with Fugazi? Considering the connections, I was wondering if they ever shared a bill.

Saw 'em three times with the original lineup between '90-'92 (once at CBGB, once at City Gardens in Trenton, and once at Lollapalooza), and once in '97 or so at Irving Plaza, with the Mother Superior lineup. Never saw them with Melvin Gibbs on bass; wish I had. I listened to them A LOT between '89-'95 or so; I kinda gave up after Weight, though there are a few good songs on Come In And Burn.

Saw them at Reading in 1994 with the Melvin Gibbs band. They were immense. Volume 4 off Weight is generally my go to track.

Vol 4 off Weight is brilliant (as is the riff to Civilised), but as that album progresses you can literally hear them becoming less and less compelling. End Of Silence is an absolutely electrifying text, to me, and Weight's brightest moments like the last sparks of greatness, followed by an almighty pointlessness.

I was mad obsessed with them circa End of Silence and all the records up to that one (I've heard Turned On roughly 1 billion times) but even by the time Weight had come out the sheen had worn off some. Weighting, the outtakes/jams record is pretty great, with Charles Gayle of all people sitting in, he's actually a perfect fit for them.

Come In and Burn I've never really spent much time with.

Some guys I played with we did "Low Self Opinion" and "Tearing" for a friend's birthday party one time and as cool as though songs are I had forgotten HOW LONG they are, "Tearing" is like 5 minutes. When we were learning them it was like "oh my god another instrumental section? jesus christ get there faster!"

Just played a Rollins Band track on a whim, first time I've heard them in about three decades, and...it sounds like Van Halen! Albeit with shoutier vocals. Why didn't I notice this first time around? Was it deliberate on their part?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124h159Xcd0

I listened to Life Time, Hard Volume and The End of Silence earlier this week myself, writing retrospective reviews for the Shfl. They really were an amazing band; Haskett gets my vote as most underrated rock guitarist of the late '80s/early '90s. He had this virtuosic punk/metal/fusion/noise thing going on that nobody else came close to, a kind of postmodern shredder.

The first two aren't on streaming services for some reason, though. I wonder who has the rights at this point.

End Of Silence is sublime. The perfect distillation of Rollins' oceanic rage.