Rollins band

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Rollins band
General information
Genre (s) Post-hardcore
founding 1986
Current occupation
Henry Rollins
Chris Haskett
Andrew Weiss
Sim Cain
Henry Rollins (foreground) with Chris Haskett
Henry Rollins (foreground) with Chris Haskett
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Weight
  DE 53 06/06/1994 (10 weeks)
  UK 22nd 04/23/1994 (2 weeks)
Come in and burn
  DE 71 04/07/1997 (4 weeks)
  CH 49 04/27/1997 (1 week)
Get Some Go Again
  DE 60 03/06/2000 (5 weeks)
Nice
  DE 56 09/10/2001 (2 weeks)
Singles
Tearing
  UK 54 09/12/1992 (2 weeks)
Disconnect / Liar
  UK 27 09/10/1994 (2 weeks)

Rollins Band is an American rock music group founded by Henry Rollins in 1986 . Other founding members were Chris Haskett, Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain.

history

Rollins was initially the singer of the band Black Flag . When it broke up in the spring of 1986, Rollins gathered a few musicians around and released two albums with them: Hot Animal Machine (as Henry Rollins) and Drive-by Shootings (as Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters). The music style was similar to that of Black Flag, but flirted with metal and jazz .

Shortly thereafter, Rollins formed the Rollins Band with Haskett, Weiss ( electric bass ) and Cain ( drums ). The band was often in the studio and on tour and quickly gained popularity, in part due to Black Flag's fan base. By 1990 the band had released four albums.

Recognizing the importance of the band for the establishment of alternative rock , Perry Farrell invited them on the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991. In 1992 Rollins Band released the album The End of Silence . The singles Low Self Opinion and Tearing were played on MTV , which brought the group further exposure. Slowly the band left their original style, looked around the field of jazz rock and developed a unique jazz-metal sound.

Weiss was fired after the end-of-silence tour and replaced by jazz radio bassist Melvin Gibbs . Further studio stays and tours followed. Weight was released in 1994 and Come in and Burn in 1997 . Liar's video , the first single from Weight , was very successful. In the video, Rollins wore different costumes, including that of a policeman and that of a nun. Despite everything, the band got into a phase of stagnation and broke up in 1997.

After a while, Rollins replaced Haskett, Gibbs and Cain with members of the band Mother Superior , but the name Rollins Band remained. From 2000 the releases of Get Some Go Again and Nice as well as the live album The Only Way to Know for Sure followed .

In 2002 the Rollins band released Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three . On the album with cover versions of Black Flag songs, the band is accompanied by Lemmy , Corey Taylor , Ice-T , Tom Araya and other guest stars.

In April 2006 the band reunited with the old line-up Rollins, Cain, Gibbs, Haskett. Long-time sound engineer Theo Van Rock, who Henry Rollins always referred to as a full member of the band, is also there. From late July to early September of the same year the band Rollins walked on a joint US tour with the band X .

Discography

Albums

  • 1988: Life Time
  • 1988: Do It (Live)
  • 1989: Hard Volume
  • 1990: Turned On (Live)
  • 1992: The End of Silence
  • 1993: Electro Convulsive Therapy (Live)
  • 1994: Weight
  • 1997: Come in and Burn
  • 1999: Insert Band Here: Live in Australia 1990
  • 2000: Get Some Go Again
  • 2000: A Clockwork Orange Stage (Live)
  • 2000: Nice
  • 2001: A Nicer Shade of Red (Compilation)
  • 2001: Yellow Blues (Compilation)
  • 2002: End of Silence Demos (Compilation)
  • 2002: The Only Way to Know for Sure (Live)
  • 2003: Weighting (Compilation)
  • 2012: End of Silence Demos (Compilation) (2 LPs)

Compilations

  • 2001: Audio Airstrike Consultants: 1986-1988 (4 CDs)
  • 2003: Hard Volume / Insert Band Here (2 CDs)
  • 2003: Hot Animal Machine / Life Time (2 CDs)

Singles and EPs

  • 1988: Live in Deventer, Holland, October, 1987
  • 1990: I Know You / Earache My Eye
  • 1991: Let There Be Rock (as Henry Rollins and the Hard-Ons)
  • 1992: Tearing
  • 1992: Low Self Opinion
  • 1992: You Didn't Need
  • 1992: Hammer of the Rök Gödz (EP)
  • 1994: Disconnect
  • 1994: Liar
  • 1994: Fool (2 × vinyl, 12 ")
  • 1997: The End of Something
  • 1997: Starve
  • 2000: Get Some Go Again
  • 2000: Illumination

swell

  1. ↑ Chart discography albums
  2. ↑ Chart discography Singles

Web links

Commons : Rollins Band  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files