Re: Re: Re: [bomp] Re: how the LIAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR broke down

[John Leonard <john.leonard19@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> he was good in S.O.A. and early BF. 
>
>Rollins wasn't in "early Black Flag" - admittedly
>"Damaged" was their first full length album but they'd
>put out quite a few releases prior to that. 

whoops, I meant the stuff he did with them in his first couple years or so as their singer -- "TV Party" and "Six Pack," stuff with at least a glimmer of humor. "Slip It In" had a creepy, corporate feel to it somehow. No me gusta.

I never
>got into SOA- then again, as I may have said before, I
>tended (and still tend) to have a problem with white
>DC hardcore bands. 

well, shit, yeah. Buncha country club kids. If you didn't go to to Wilson High and grow up in Glover Park, you were just dogshit, usually. Going to Walt Whitman was OK, but WJ or BCC, forget about it. Baltimore, uh-uh, unless you were Danny Lindenstruth/Dan Higgs or knew about Jules' place or the Marble Bar. Stabb and the guys in Marginal Man seemed to overcome that stigma, somehow. Had the right look, I guess. I hung out in G-town as often as I could, but I must've had "lives o/s the beltway" written all over my face.

These are sweeping generalizations, admittedly.
>>At that show I was in the dressing room smoking a
>joint with Sylvia Juncosa before being kicked out
>(along with everyone else in the dressing room
>including her and her band members). I was curious
>about why I was being kicked out. A few minutes later
>I peeked through the crack in the door, and glanced
>upon Henry in the dressing room, alone, lifting
>weights and making a practically Nixonian smug,
>self-satisfied smile. 
>
There was this guy in Toledo, John Stainbrook, who used to taunt him mercilessly and get away w/it.
>

>Based on what he plays on his radio show, he seems to
>be a fan of Suicide and Alan Vega more than anything
>else. Never heard any Simon and Garfunkel on his show.

Wouldn't wanna hold him to something he may or may not have said 25 years ago, unless I can find it. Anybody out there have back issues of the Black & White? Not that it matters.

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