Henry Rollins on Nirvana and End of Silence - 1992
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Henry Rollins on why Nirvana sold 4 million albums in 1992. Also about his album End of Silence.
This was recorded in 1992 from "120 Minutes".
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Rollins is one of those rare guys that manages to come across as likable despite the fact that you can never tell if he's being sarcastic or not.
He is seriously sarcasticly serious.
He's a true enigma. Danzig I understand but Rollins I can't pin point in my being. I get why he's the way he is and how he can be but I can't get him down at the same time.
it's because he's handsome, that's it
Or if hes being an asshole or not lmfaooo
Black Flag was a real influence on Nirvana. Good words from Henry.
Black flag is a huge influence on a lot of bands.
kurt apparently was considering getting a black flag tattoo at one time
More like one album of theirs was an influence. They weren't really into early Black Flag...at least it doesn't show in the sound.
@@amixofeverything Kurt loved my war and damage
@@amixofeverything Which album? I would have said the early BF was the stuff that might have influence, the punk stuff (First 4 Years, Damaged). Song like "territorial pissings" and "breed" have similarities to that stuff, though a lot of Nirvana is more melodic than any BF. Later BF? Way too weird, atonal, and random to be be similar to Nirvana, at least in general. Melvins influenced by BF? That's easy to see.
I don't care what anyone says. I fucking luv this guy.
Kermicheo Kermit awesome avatar man
Rollins sees things for what they are. I once saw him say that if you truly want to rebel against your parents and "the man" then out learn them,out earn them and out live them. This is truly the best thing ever said about youthful rebellion.
"This is the face of a guy who chases you around your bedroom with a baseball bat screaming 'MY MOTHER NEVER LOVED ME! I CAN'T BREATHE, I CAN'T BREATHE!' "
Oh, Henry....
I'm turning my mind off.
The i cant breathe part takes a whole new meaning as of recently
Rollins is the dad i never had and always wanted.
expectador Wow so much revealed trauma in one short sentence
i wish rollins was my dad
a n t i m a t e r i a haha indeed. At least you would be able to do smack and stay out with thugs committing crime until 4am on school nights. So cool
@@Emcfree2084 Rollins has never been into drugs or drinking.
@@matthewbrenneman5139 I didn't say he did, but I am sure any poor bstrd who had him as an absent father likely might. Then again probably better to have an absent father than one who murders his friend in cold blood and then blames it on "black people"
mtv used to air real shit like this all the time
I’m glad Kurt had such a deep rooted background in punk! I heard the alternative elements but I consider them to be a predominantly punk rock band.
mtv actually had music back then, no brainwashing dumb tv shows.
Jon Focker There were tv shows and some of them were bad. They just weren't as remotely bad as they are now.
Jon Focker *brain-steering
+Jon Focker yeah , imagine that. it went from music, to crapshit, gameshows and rap shit to just now being total trash sheople social engineering
Vox Populi
it sucks to see all the engineering. very cut and dry once u learn the patters. like all the disney and nickolodean "stars" that magically became skumbags to lead their fans to ruin. like miley, britney, demi, beiber, taylor momsen, aguilara, beyonce, katy, minaj......every single star turns out trash for the masses to consume.
blacks get hoooooorrible meaningless hip hop and shitty role models. no more r&b, no more marley, no ray charles. no nwa, no tupac. john legend is good but only to make people feel good but its still empty to me. record labels systematically push out their poison.
once an artist signs a contract the game is on. they lose their control instantly.
punk scene is ignored. meaningful music is ignored. i mostly like instrumental stuff now like ambient, prog, weird stuff. ozric tentacles, check them out.
Ambient? Prog? interesting. never heard of thos, i should check them out? Im pretyy much a rock only guy. but a very wide spectrum of all kinds of rock. Everything from PANTERA , to U2, or INXS, Janes Addiction, PSY-COM, all sorts of stuff. Even the cranberries. Will i be interested in the music you mentioned perhaps? Oh just in case u never heard this you need to...Check out Fugazi....Waiting room
Henry Rollins is awesome. One of my favorite people to listen to when speaking and philosophizing
Back when there was real hope for the future of mainstream music. And mainstream music was really good for a few years. Then it all went to shit again.
Circle of life, my friend. We are now primed (2019) for the next wave.
That shit goin on the background reminds me of Max Headroom.
Hambone Jones
Only reason I know that character is because of David Letterman... Despite being in my 20s..Well mid 20s..24 T. T Max is a veryold character though. ..
tsohgallik He’s not that old...
henry is a talented and intelligent individual . im a musician and not really into that particular style of music 100%....but totally respect it and him. he's a very good actor (under appreciated/rated)..... author/poet and speaker/stand-up performer with a professional work ethic. i think he doesnt take himself seriously as a talent nor do enough people really try to see the man himself and his quality character that he deserves. i enjoy his energy and take on things. nice job mr. rollins.
so glad i was a teen back then. no internet. no facebook. no smartphones. amazing music.
Jon Focker damm right ! Life was harder music was better .people were real .I feel its are job now to share it with are kids the next fucked up generation .so it's not lost to all the bubblegum fake crap we are force fed
Without the internet you wouldn't be able to make this comment so stop being pretentious
@@briangrendahl4635 so you think we should not be able to listen to rap or whatever and shive shit down our throat because you like it? I can find this music my own way and guess what I found stuff like Black Flag where? ON FUCKING TH-cam!!! Stop trying to act like my generation is such a fucking disgrace your generation made my generation asshole and the generation before yours thought your generation was a fucking disaster aswell. You should learn to be smarter than a kid in the "FUCKED UP GENERATION"🖕
I would be able to make comments .you see beyond the mini blinds on the other side of that protective glass window .that's called the real world .I can go outside and say what ever i want to whom ever i want .with out a phone ,computer ,or internet you fucking whiny little prick
@@gunny2653 Shut up mouthbreathing pleb. This guy is a boomer but you really are making yourself look stupid
Henry's most honest song is Liar.
It's so cool to hear Rollins talk about Nirvana. Kurt was very influenced by Black Flag. One of my favorite musicians talking about another.
Henry Rollins is a straight weirdo..... I love it.
Perfect Michael stipe impression Henry 👏🏻
The honesty is admirable no matter how abrasive he can be with other people
love rollins
Henry is legendary
92 was a healthy year for mainstream music. Bands that kept it real and actually had meaningful lyrics were getting lots of exposure. Now it's all dumbed down for mass consumption.
2:33 now I know how Rollins feels about Sonic Youth’s 100%
Holy FF and tracking, thank you for the unexpected nostalgia
Nice upload
loved that album. henry rollins in concert were by best concerts. those times are gone now and maybe my son will listen to it one day.
At 2:32 I guess they must have just played Sonic Youth's 100% video.
I'm just captivated by the background lol :)
People who are bitching about the lack of a good "mainstream" are missing the point... the "mainstream" no longer is relevant. Technology and the internet have expanded the creative base for music and other media. That is, there are more specialized genres that can be catered to merely 50,000 fans. In the past you needed more than just 50,000 fans for someone to invest in you. But now, even if there is music that only 50,000 people really love, those people still get to listen to a more specialized form of music that appeals solely to them. So, there is no need for a "mainstream", just go out there and search for what exactly you like, you may find a little hipster indie band that just speaks to you individually. That's my take on it anyways.
True that! We really don't need a music industry of corporate labels now that there's social media sites everywhere & hopefully it will starve out the "music biz" to separate the musicians & artists from the ppl who are only in it for the money! The idea of "mainstream" is that it consists of music that sells the most & reaches the largest audience available-its target demographic of preteens & teens who buy the most posters, t-shirts, paraphernalia, etc. of any other demographic. It also consists of the radio stations & TV channels that give the bands/artists the airplay-it's not like just any band can walk in & say "hey, can you play our song/video? We're independent, but we made our own CD!", unless they happen to have some connections that can get them on, otherwise everything is pretty much preprogrammed fodder being plugged by the major labels to sell their signed bands music-basically it's advertising! It's also why a lot of ppl feel like they're being force fed crappy music when they hear it everywhere they go! Sure, they can wear earplugs/headphones, but it doesn't always work! I'm hoping that more & more ppl will start searching for better music rather than just buy what has the best distribution & can be found at every store-not every independent band has that kind of distribution! Hopefully someday they can, but for now it has to be special order, unless they use iTunes or bandcamp or something! RocknRoll!
+cjaygrove MOST hipster music SUCKS though. most modern day alternative rock or bands that get called alternative SUCK.
Oh dude!! 120mins was my fave show!!
he's right but Nirvana were extremely talented and bands like that don't come along often.
Nah, they sucked at their instruments, but had the creativity and forward-thinking ideas to distinguish themselves from their contemporaries.
+Jay Mazella they most certainly didn't "suck" at their instruments just because the technical ability isn't hindrix level dosen't mean its easy to do.
+FLORIDA From a theory perspective, they were below average skill-wise; playing simple power-chords to a 4/4 beat is objectively easy for any musician.
Also, Jimi Hendrix wasn't that technically skilled, it's weird that you'd use him as an example of advanced musical technicality when he's renowned for his creativity/showmanship than anything else.
Its not easy. I meet so many people like you who think playing 3 or 4 chords and a basic rock beat is nothing , you need to really feel the chords and the beat. Yeah you can play smells like teen spirit if a computer was monitoring what you were playing but to play it right its a whole other dimension it takes years to be able to play a song that good, most musicians think that can play 4 chords until you tell them to do it for 3 minutes alot of them won't be able to do it, literally i see it everyday working in studios and live sound. Also hendrix is hard to play again he's no tommy emmanual or whatever but if you can't understand that its more than whats written on paper and im not talking about creativity its when someone is playing and they are genuine they have a personality with the chords thats the real challenge not how fucking fast can you play or how complicated it can be , to make the songs you own is the most difficult thing to do.
+FLORIDA From what I can ascertain, you're conflating creativity with technical complexity. Being able to make simple power-chords interesting is a display of (yes, I agree with you), personality and ability to bring ones own flavour to the instrument and the song as a whole; however, when I talk about "complex", I'm not referring to playing fast or showing off, I mean playing odd-meters, syncopation, extended riffs ect- things common in Progressive music and Jazz.
TL;DR : Nirvana weren't very skilled, but they were very comfortable with their instruments, hence why their music gelled so well.
2022. I care more about Henry Rollins than any other band he mentions.
This is from when Mtv was worth watching, and not the rap and reality show garbage thats its become today... I know that it says 1992, but going by the music video line-up that Henry is doing, I think that this segment of 120 Minutes is from very late 1992 or very early 1993.... Either way thank you for uploading it.
Yeah, 120 Minutes was the only place you would see a Gene Loves Jezebel music video.
What's wrong with Rap?
rap is good actually
Fucking love Rollins. I'll never forget a few years back doing a BF tribute band performing Damaged. So much fun.
I had 'tearing' in '97. Became relevant in 2012-16.
Ahhh the 90s. If they had a channel just basically replaying 90s tv, commercials and all, I'd pay top dollar for that.
Very insightful. I believe it's true because mainstream music before the Seattle scene broke was the fluffiest of hair bands. Zero depth. I remember other kids at the time were listening to Zepplin, The Who and Pink Floyd to find some depth and music that means something, even though that music was at least 10 years old at that time.
man........!!! i feel bad for the kids who dont know mtv when it played music and art.. its beyond sad now..
I completely agree with you there ; he may rub some people the wrong way but as for me and my closest friends Henry Rollins is basically 100% likeable . He is handsome , sexy , physically endowed , charming , witty , and as rough / tough as he sounds in his music he comes across ( to me ) as having some vulnerability as a person . Totally likeable and extremely underrated .
There used to be a theory in music that what was happening in the country was reflected in the music. I know that John Lennon once said that his role as an artist was to reflect what was happening in society and, sadly, I think that is gone now. In the 1970s, we had the end of the Vietnam War and the Nixon Administration and what did America want to do? Dance! So we had the disco era when many people listened to a lot of mindless tunes, got stoned on cocaine, went to Studio 54 and escaped from the malaise. Then we had the 1980s when we wanted to put the 1970s behind us and we had a strong economy throughout the decade which led to happier tunes. But in the early 1990s, we had a recession and the Gulf War which was around the same time we saw the birth of grunge or alternative music and gangsta rap. Yet jump forward to a few years later when the economy got better and the grunge/alternative stuff pretty much became on life support and the gangsta rap blended with contemporary rap which helped make it the #1 music genre in America and it has been ever since. I know that a lot of rock and pop fans won't like me saying this, but if you turn on the radio right now and it's a top 40 station and you listen to 10 songs, I guarantee you that at least 7 out of 10 will be hip-hop or rap. It's just the way it is. I'm not that crazy about it either because I like variety and I'm not really a fan of modern rap, but it doesn't make it any less true.
At some point, though, during the 2000s, what was happening in the country didn't matter to the music world. We had two wars in that decade yet we didn't have anywhere near the amount of anti-war songs that we had in the 1960s We also didn't have the quality of the music we had during the 1960s. We went from "The Times We Are A Changin'" to "Your Body Is A Wonderland".
I believe that the 1960s was the best decade ever for music and here's why: you could have on the Billboard Pop Chart a song by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Carpenters, Jimi Hendrix, The Supremes or even The Archies. That's pretty eclectic! And we had artists in the 1960s who were not tied down to one genre. Roy Orbison, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and even Elvis Presley. These were people who didn't just stay in one genre and they continued to make quality music in any genre they played.
I think a large portion of the problem with music today is that I believe an entire generation has been raised to be "videophiles". That is, they have grown up on MTV and they associate the visual part of the video with the song rather than seeing the video as a separate entity from it. I believe that most people who go to concerts now would rather SEE the performer rather than HEAR them. Why do you think most people bring cameras to concerts? They take pictures and then they put them up on Facebook or Twitter. Some people make videos and put them on TH-cam, but by and large, the sound quality is awful and it is extremely hard to duplicate a song in the studio in a live performance, especially when most artists today are auto tuned.
That is not to say that there isn't great music being made out there. But if you're looking for it on a top 40 radio station, you're going to be disappointed. It's like watching a movie by Tom Arnold and trying to find humor.
I think there is still lots of music that reflects what is happening today but you certainly won't find it in mainstream music.
No shit. Same old sad sap story.
Did you just cut-n-paste a term paper for music class?
Moozle Yak yeah duck 🦆 reading all that shit.
Alot of what you said was true and I agree, but as a kid during that era I saw a few things you missed. I was born in 1975, the last of the pre-internet generations. GenX.
What killed Rock n Roll was a dominoe effect...
First came CDs, then digital trading, then the internet, then Carson Dailey and Total Request Live, then NAPSTER, then social media, then the end of "Xtreme sports."
CDs
CDs are great. What an idea, no more rewinding or fast forwarding. I remember saying that to all my friends. Too bad they were $12-20 each, LoL. We could only buy like one a month. We still had cassettes until the mid90's.
Digital trading.
We used to make mix tapes and trade with each other. What harm could digital trading do?
The internet.
WoW, I just made a friend from England and Germany in a chat room, and now I can trade for all those imports that I could never get because they are like 50 bucks a pop. Cool!
Carson freakin Dailey and Total Request Live.
Total Request Live was a TV show on MTV where kids could call in and request songs. The catch was; you had to pay by the minute to call in, so only rich kids could call in. This is when we went from Soundgarden, Faith no More, Smashing Pumpkins and NiN; to Spice Girls, NSync, Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera.
NAPSTER.
Free illegal online trading site. If bands don't get paid, they don't make money and they aren't a band anymore.
Period.
This killed so many up and coming bands and bands that were already established. The only bands who benefited from it were the ones who had about 2-3 years or albums behind them. Blink 182, Rage Against the Machine, Kid Rock, ect...
Social media.
MySpace, awesome, loved it. The only thing wrong was that it made it acceptable to bootleg bands music. Even the bands didn't care because they so desperately wanted to get heard and signed. They didn't get paid though, and as I said earlier; no pay, no money, no band. I love TH-cam, but it has made an already image laden industry into that even more. Now a group can start a TH-cam channel, never tour, get liked and subscribed, get a record deal and become a megastar; Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Sia, ect...
The end of "Xtreme sports."
As a Skater and BMX punk kid from the 80's and 90's, I always hated that they called it "Xtreme sports." Skateboarding is not a crime and it definitely ain't no sport. At the skateparks there was always music. Loud music, angry music, obnoxious music, NEW MUSIC. No other era had a more loyal fanbase than this. From the beginning of Bones Brigade to the last Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game, these are the last of the real music fans.
IMHO, the greatest music came from 1967-2007 with the peak being 1987-1997.
We had some valleys with Disco, Boy Bands, Glam Metal, 70's mellowyellowpop, 80's cokepop, 90's altpop and the Kid Star revolution of the eary 2000's; but there were so many mountain tops to be proud of with Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Zeppelin, The Stones, Beatles, the punk movement, metallica, the cure, U2, Elton John, Queen, Jimi, Janice, Nirvana, lollapalooza, Mike Patton, Run DMC, Biggie, NWA, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Selena, the Highwaymen, Soundgarden, The Midnight Special, SNL live performances, Austin City Limits, SXSW, the Forrest Gump and the Crow soundtracks, ect...
I sometimes wish I was born 10-12 years sooner, so I could have seen more of the 70's.
greatest neck in r & r.
End of silence, took me so long to find a physical copy of this...
Name dropping my fav Gene Loves Jezebel!!!
Josaphina...?
Imagine MTV doing music reportage and showing videos again
is rare se henry smile that much
I want the infamous *Prince/Rollins single* released by Paisley Park *NOW*
Henry back during his black hair hardcore days. He has chilled with age but he still has balls of steel and faces life with a truth and rawness which everyone can learn something from.
it does not matter(about being commercially successful), as long as those who are doing something different are still doing what they like while keeping others entertained and in a sense educated or emotional/mental active.
Why? Why? You wanna know why?
Cuz Ima a liaaaaaarrrrr yeah I'm a liaaaaaarrrrrr
I CAN'T BREATHE
IS THIS THE FACE OF PLATINUM SALES
What's with the giant fly swatter moving around behind him?
Man, I'd love to watch this intact, with all the music. I kinda forgot that MTV didn't totally suck at one point. I mean, I started watching in the early 80s, but it's still hard to reconcile what it used to be with what it is today. It's just utter garbage today.
smart & respectful!
Henry,the best.
They were both in legendary, inspiring punk icon bands, went solo moderate success, and expermented with other media.
Lydon had a tv show or two, Rollins has done acting, spoken word tours, etc.
(not that youtube typically makes that much sense)
imho
I believe it comes down to practice. Everyday for 6 months they practiced Nevermind before recording it. Ive been in bands and if you are working a job 5 days a week and trying to be a musician 'as well', its difficult to commit when theres bills to pay. Talent comes along every day of the week but its only the people who have the balls to NOT work a job and do the music full time who trully become song smiths or teenage idols, in my very Humble Opinion.
zooming in and out on a disco ball. genius.
lol, that Michael Stipe impression
Henry and Micheal are good friends.
i miss MTV.
...but what was and wasn't marketed by the labels made a bigger difference back then than it does today.
oh thats good to know.
And by the end of about...1995, it was all gone. And the record companies gave way to awful groups like Our Lady Of Mercy and Creed.
HappilyWithMonotony I think Creed came around a bit later, but you're absolutely right. Once the record labels started trying to artificially produce the sound that caught on in the early part of the decade, alternative music's turn in the "mainstream" was done.
creed was horrible
Yep you hit the nail on the head. Once the mainstream music industry capitalises on a scene and starts churning it out artificially, the soul of the music is removed and the scene eventually dies.
He's a good man
no
That is debatable, but Rollins certainly has had an interesting career.
its funny i thought he was this old man then ('cuz he was in SOA when i was 5 or 6, which seemed like ancient history to me at this point when i was 18). but weird perspective. i realize he was like 31 here, 10 yrs younger than i am now... and i don't FEEL old, lol.
the stipe impersonation is dead on
How great would this piece, would have been, if you just would of continued playing the video for low self opinion. Or better yet. Played tearing us, like he said he was going to play. End of the silence is a masterpiece
the answer is: harmonies.
if you write songs with a good harmony and melody - people like it more than abrasive harder-to-digest songs.
Henry Rollins "The other guy is sneering at you from his four block long limo."
Richard James: "WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!"
RIP Joe Cole, how could you Henry? Was it worth it? No fame now, no nothing now. You will come to meet the one you made a deal with soon enough.
nirvana is a pop band, pop sound, kurt noBrain is a justin biever of the 90's
Henry Rollins is a no comercial artist.
Listen to the song Negative Creep and try to tell me that it’s pop.
What he said about Nirvana? I don´t now english very well and i want to know :P
Emi_97 Dijo que eran una buena banda mejor que las que muestran en mtv y que su musica era honesta :)
El Padrino Muchas gracias amigo!
Emi_97 De nada wey Nirvana es lo maximo!
she's in paisley park working with hundred envision. Interesting
good on 'em
In beautiful Elizabeth NJ.
"Mainstream rock n roll" imagine if that was still a thing
There is a certain Naivete and truth in what Rollins speaks. Mass media people aren't dumb. They only put out what they "think" people want to hear. In the 80's when people are eating up the kind of stuff that was selling, it isn't like they were forcing people to buy these records or go to these shows. As much as we want to blame mass media for music people buy we often forget sometimes, that's just what the people want, by and large, at that time.
big black atomizer
why are john lydon videos related to this. he's like the opposite of Rollins.
Ahead if his time and way too real for lame MTV.
Henery Rollins rules
4:33
Sonic Youth: 100%
Another great track.
Yes I also noticed that reference at 2:33
I LOVE BLACK FLAG. My favorite Black Flag is Keith Morris but I love all BF even Dez
John Lydon was in Sex Pistols. they are Punk. Rollins was in Black Flag. also Punk, and they both were seminal bands in their respective countries
Michael & Kurt were good friends.
i swear i saw u on a fiona apple video hah
I met Henry outside of Pearl St in Northampton MA in 96'. Rollins Band were touring with Clutch I believe...and my friend and I were waiting outside to get a hello or a handshake.
Chris Haskett kept running past us as if he wasn't Haskett of Rollins Band. Very bizarre guy.
Rollins, Theo and Melvin finally come out after sndchk. My friend and I purposely stand in their path so we could pretend we weren't waiting for them all the way knowing it's our best chance to get some pictures.
Melvin came right over to us thanking us for coming. We asked for a picture and he looked at Henry trying to quietly escape and motioned yer not going anywhere to which Hank was like "what's the problem?" Theo was amused at our gushing over this moment in time like little schoolgirls...
We got a few pictures goofing around with them and immediately, Henry was not some angry screaming machine. He's in his own words "the guy people laugh at". A total cupcake.
Luckily for him, this gorgeous young lady who wanted to pass her artwork ( which was really amazing) to him and he melted and we left him alone as he walked off with his new friend.
who is this "modie" he talks about?
1. his name is henry rollins. 2. HES HENRY ROLLINS AND THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE
Ah Henry from his smart-ass days.
Rollins is Neal Cassidy revisited
I often wonder what it would be like for Henry Rollins to have a show on BBC 6 Music (one of the smaller TV channels on Sky used to show his TV show which I enjoyed)
He's a hugely interesting and fascinating man, and the radio show would be brilliant and spoilt only by numbskulls calling him a sellout for working with the BBC
Henry talking about diarrhea. Cool
2:32 Obviously Hank wasn’t a fan of Spike Jonze’s video for Sonic Youth’s “100%.” Considering who and what the song was about, he’s got a pretty good reason.
Never underestimate yourself Henry. Black flag was and still is one of the core foundations of d I y.we have you to thank for bands like nirvana. Pity nirvana went mainstream. They may have made many more albums like Melvins did. Dam fate took him away.!
Why is he so damn fine?
Sure but in the 80's they wanted big hair rock. Sure the labels would press certain acts over others but it was the people that wanted the arenas and the riff rock.
maybe..I have only been on two Fiona Apple videos, though. EVER.
My username is very memorable - so I can see why, lol.
Disagree, he doesn't suck!
There were plenty of bands in the "grunge " scene that were much more talented than Nirvana, but they weren't marketed properly. Bands like Mudhoney, Gruntruck and the Melvins were much better in my opinion, but they just didn't appeal to more mainstream audiences. Kurt Cobain had a certain look that appealed to teenage girls back in the 90s and if you can get that market you're guaranteed to be a star.