Two legends discuss masculinity!
I sat down this morning with a hot cup of coffee and flipped open my computer to see if anything interesting happened in the surf world overnight. The Inertia found a #vanlife they liked very much, Stab was busy selling FCS’s new leash and then there was Sean Doherty, like a breath of fresh air, penning an ode to Snapper’s last dance as first gal on tour for Surfer. It was wistful, informative, nice.
He drove through Coolangatta, remembering what it once was when surfers were not welcomed and then went to Mick Fanning’s house.
“Joel was there.” he wrote. “Mick was asleep. He’d spent the day hanging out with Henry Rollins, the punk legend now spruiking cars more than revolution.”
Mick spent the day hanging with Hank Rollins and Joel was there? At first my mind raced to the most logical conclusion. That Rip Curl was following Billabong’s gilded path and doing a radical collaboration with Rollins and/or Black Flag. It’s got all the ingredients the surf industry loves and I wondered if Joel was jealous and trying to pry Henry over to Billabong, showing off his Iggy Pop trunks etc. but then I searched Mick Fanning and Henry Rollins and found this video.
Mmmmhmmm.
Henry Rollins has or maybe had a radio show on KCRW in Los Angeles.
It is/was torture.
Like, real true torture.
It always made me feel better watching him get thrown through a window though. Maybe it’ll help you too.
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
is henry gay. said he doesnt date much..
My point is that I was not aware of Black Flag until 12 or 13 when I started going to the shows in DC. I was not the earliest person in the punk scene but shit was happening in real time and was really special. I don’t have bumper stickers, T-shirts or tattoos telling everyone of that time, but I do find it a bit annoying when some fucking tourist comes up with an authoritative perspective on shit they were not a part of. I know what that time and place meant to me.
Any I agree that NYC hardcore was the best shit ever.
Kind of like someone from Oklahoma being an authority on surfing.
Did you ever see Gut Instinct down in DC? Good friends of mine. I was at this show:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
It was insane. I knew the north wind would kill jerz ( except for Cape May which I ain’t doin). I love those Long Beach jetties. On any swell, u can walk up and down the beach and pretty much find any wave you want….
You??
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Go to world surf league.com brah. “Watch” button pops up
I just watched the whole movie (again) on YouTube … soo good
Henry Rollins became lead singer in 1981 when you were 4.
Yeah, heard that shootout scene used the most blanks in a movie set at the time (or all time)
Punker than thou debate started above.
That gunfight was epic!! Totally an underrated movie!!
It works on the WSL app or the website .
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Cant wait for Ramones x Andy Irons collaboration.
English punk was 1 year old in 77. Punk is do it yourself Anarchy or nothing at all . Henry ,like Jello Biafra,was a breath of fresh air in an era where fucking GREED became good .
No single movie ever made is better than Heat. Deniro and Pacino had to be together for the legendary diner scene though. Maybe one of the best dialogue ever:
“There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We’ve been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.”
Plus:
“She’s got a great ass, and your head is all the way up it!”
And my personal fav:
“You can get killed walking your doggy!”
I use “you can get killed walking your doggy” (shouting “doggy”) pretty much every day.
I like when he tells Ralph to sit down…….. but he can’t watch his Tv
Maybe Chas just doesn’t like The Fall or Tinariwen as much as Henry does. And props to Engineer X!
Working on site and app . Got it on tv with chromecast.I can see they have cut the didgeridoo player off the rocks ha ha . Tough times .
Trying to work out who is more annoying, Pottz or Peter Mel. Think Pottz has the edge.
I am sure Joe T thinks he is working for The Children’s Television Workshop on Sesame Street.
Lol!
Peter Mel is a turd. He is an embarrassment to surfing. Such a loser.
Mattysez, Nick Carroll informed us it won’t go exclusively to Arsebook till next year. So should be available on the wsl app + site + YouTube . Maybe Quik can get Biafra Jello to collaborate with Mikey Wrong .Punk music was like early pro surfing, it gave some people a chance to be artists and not factory workers.
I have always liked Henry Rollins and good for him that he is still making a living as an entertainer, but damn, he is looking pretty fucking old. Show your kids this clip if they are thinking of getting a tattoo because seeing them on his pale geriatric skin makes me nauseous.
Word up shooter. Kids, tattoos come and go but teeth are forever and get you sex !
It’s funny how everyone is a punk historian nowadays. I was born in 1972 and started hearing black flag around 1984 or so, after Henry left DC, my hometown. I went to plenty of the shows, the biggest were at a venue that held 199 people. My point is that in the whole DC area there might have been 2 or 3 thousand people into the punk scene when Black Flag was big, probably half that before Henry.
Were you aware of and into Black Flag pre Henry or just historically?
NYHC !!!!! fuck black flag!
TV party tonight!