I swear man. my war is like one of the best fucking records of all time. and my war is THE BEST rage song of all time. rollins just fucking rules. I don't give a fuck what generation you are. that's an amazing band.
Agreed. I also like black flag along with the sex pistols dead Kennedys misfits and many more and I'm twelve. Most people my age like rap and dubstep and then I'm getting a concussion from banging my head so damn
If you ran into him he would give you the hour. Hes such a nice dude. I stopped him passing through my job just to say hi and apologized for stopping him. He said don’t apologize and he always has time to talk to fans. He was cool as fuck
The change in the scene Henry talks about has been described by John Lydon in the UK as well, albeit lacking the violence and authoritarianism that existed here. He complained that it ceased to be about individuality, as Henry remarked about anyone looking different, and went on to say it was almost as if everyone had the same look akin to a uniform - just another version of conformity. Interesting how many things often progress to become what they initially were trying to escape.
Great quote and very true..."if I don't like your band, I'm not showing up to the gig. But I'm not gonna stand there and put you down, life is too short." Amen. It takes courage to get up on stage to play any music and put yourself completely out there, you're letting people see you open yourself up. Easier said than done. Anyone who thinks it isn't...try to do a 40 min. to 1 hr. set, it feels like an eternity sometimes. I've been to plenty of shows where the band I saw sucked, but I didn't bash them because I know what it's like to be on stage in front of people...brutal sometimes. Yes, you can block it out sometimes. But we've all had those gigs where NOTHING goes according to plan. Humility is a musician's best friend.
I don’t care if you grew up in L.A. or the I.E. if you were into punk rock in Southern California Black Flag was a big deal in the scene no matter which singer you liked better!
Henry Rollins is inspiring and Black Flag is fucking legendary. Pharrell is out of his element here, just look at his face, so blank. Nothing is going on in that head of his believe me.
Zombie Squad I strongly disagree. Culturally to some extent yes. He isn't a punk rocker or a hardcore kid but he is in my opinion definitely on the same level as Henry. He is a good interviewer and I enjoy this duo very much
You are right ! I am a metalhead myself and I see a lot of people with an attitude like that, bashing or degradating other people for what they are listening to, or in a worse case for who they are. It mixes with some poor-man's(I mean no offence to poor people) philosophy and bad clothing and voila! we have a elitist moron. I am happy that I grew up from this bulls**t - my closed-minded high-school era. Fortunately there are many metalheads (mayby majority) who accept and support other's tastes
I wish I had a chance to know this Henry, but he was so quiet and he glowered a lot back then, which was pretty intimidating. He seems much more engaging now.
This goes to show how much more open minded people are today. This interview would have been the set up to a joke before it was a reality . Henry to me is kind of every punker so to watch his progression from then to know emotionally is super cool l
Quick question: What does Pharrell actually do for a living? He seems to just show up randomly in the most odd situations. Like when did he start interviewing for Reserve Channel?
Agreed. He should have either made a better effort to understand Henry's background beforehand, or just made it clear that he knows nothing about his life and background. He tried to play it cool and looked a bit stupid at times.
In my book, he looks like he's learning something new. Doesn't seem like a big negative. Being a little uninformed about certain things isn't a negative if you acknowledge it. And he respects Henry, too. Big deal.
Some places have mellowed out. I wouldn't really consider myself a punk, but I've been to a lot of shows, I don't really follow the aesthetic and people are usually pretty cool about it. In fact I've met a lot of pretty nice people in the scene. There are elitist pricks sometimes, but they are usually recognized as such by the others. I really like watching really old clips from early punk. Nobody is trying to be anything or live up to a standard, just people enjoying music.
scenes nowadays really have mellowed out like what twentymooseman said. now they're more as just a local group of bands that play together, more of the community. the only scenes that have that elitish cliqueish problem nowadays are electronic music scenes and Copenhagen's punk scene
That was how I found punk as a So Cal suburban kid. I was a 12 year old skate rat and heard Black Flag in skate videos, and I just wanted to fuck shit up.
I agree with Henry onso much stuff those 4 Seattle bands truly were so good I'm not a fan of pearl jam but musically speaking those guys now how to play sound garden there original albums the guitar riffs I thought were straight genius Alice in chains easly the best musically speaking every album is great Jerry his riffs were totally original dark and such a great sound funny nirvana biggest influence was black flag in fact the whole Seattle scene wanted to be black flags last album it's true ask David growl
I love Henry Rollins and the way he looks at and speaks about everything for but when he starts talking about how music is supposed to be a judgement free zone, he needs to look back at what he said about electronic or "rave music".
I remember winning tickets to see Rollin's Band in Cleveland. I went to go pick up the tickets and saw all the kinds of guys getting tickets, I just turned around. I love Black Flag, Rollin's Band, and his spoken word, but I didn't want to be in the show and get singled out. I really wanted to go too.
well, me for one and a countless amount of other people???? Don't go on a crusade trying to make the electronic music culture look and feel bad because it doesn't work like that. Respect.
Nobody likes to hear Henry talk more than Henry. Black Flag morphed into something else around the time when Henry joined. That’s fine, but Black Flag had already made its impact on music. Henry had nothing to with it.
In fact, most of the punks I know consider Rollins Black Flag as an afterthought. The EARLY stuff is universally loved. Henry is riding on the coat-tails of the greats before him. Every minute Rollins was in BF was a minute it was on the way to being over.
I think he wears it how he wants, if he cared about what Greg Dahlen thought then maybe he would have it green and 12 feet long, but it looks like he doesn't.
+Smiff I don't know, the members of Black Flag liked to do things that were contrary to expectations, like they grew their hair long because the punks thought they should have it short. So maybe that's why Henry has it like a businessman now.
The night of a Black flag show Hank just decided to wear black shorts. And nothing else for the next 2 yrs. in Black flag. And flip around his long hair every 3 seconds for the entire set. I thought he was an idiot. Black flags music was great. They did shows without Hank. Just Greg,Drums and Bass guitar. Those were good Black flag shows!!. And the Pettibone flyers were GREAT.
Yeah, if it wasn't for him we might not have a lot of alternative rap we have now he was. Happy was pretty wack but he is a talented singer and rapper. I feel like your judging him without knowing anything from him
Azazel you are just like those elitist that Rollins is talking about. Pharrell used to be into the skate scene and if you listen to some of the N.E.R.D stuff he did you can hear some nods to the hardcore scene in it. All you've given is some ill informed assumptions.
Greg Ginn is Black Flag not Henry Rollins. Rollins is just the guy that happened to be the last singer in Greg Ginn's band. He wasn't even a very good one.
Greg drove Black Flag to the ground with all the lawsuits. Flag which is composed of all the original members except Greg is more black flag og energy than what black flag currently is
Black flag has the power to give you the second of confidence you need to really push it.
"Is this on tape?" My man that's the first thing I would have asked!lol
Michael G. Williams I wish I could go back in time and record every black flag concert from start to finish
I swear man. my war is like one of the best fucking records of all time. and my war is THE BEST rage song of all time. rollins just fucking rules. I don't give a fuck what generation you are. that's an amazing band.
I got two exact words for that: here here.
Agreed. I also like black flag along with the sex pistols dead Kennedys misfits and many more and I'm twelve. Most people my age like rap and dubstep and then I'm getting a concussion from banging my head so damn
Hard. I forgot to add that at the end
OH FUCK, DUDE. YEAH, TOTALLY. ROCK ON.
Kermicheo Kermit and what do you have to relate to his music??
"My friend Ian MacKaye"
That's what I was thinking like "oh just Ian"
Just some no name dude named Ian MacKaye...😂😂😂
They've been friends since they were 13 or 14.
What do you mean?
Since it’s quarantine I might just watch Henry Rollins videos all night
I'd love to have a conversation with Henry Rollins for like an hour.
If you ran into him he would give you the hour. Hes such a nice dude. I stopped him passing through my job just to say hi and apologized for stopping him. He said don’t apologize and he always has time to talk to fans. He was cool as fuck
The change in the scene Henry talks about has been described by John Lydon in the UK as well, albeit lacking the violence and authoritarianism that existed here. He complained that it ceased to be about individuality, as Henry remarked about anyone looking different, and went on to say it was almost as if everyone had the same look akin to a uniform - just another version of conformity. Interesting how many things often progress to become what they initially were trying to escape.
Great quote and very true..."if I don't like your band, I'm not showing up to the gig. But I'm not gonna stand there and put you down, life is too short." Amen. It takes courage to get up on stage to play any music and put yourself completely out there, you're letting people see you open yourself up. Easier said than done. Anyone who thinks it isn't...try to do a 40 min. to 1 hr. set, it feels like an eternity sometimes. I've been to plenty of shows where the band I saw sucked, but I didn't bash them because I know what it's like to be on stage in front of people...brutal sometimes. Yes, you can block it out sometimes. But we've all had those gigs where NOTHING goes according to plan. Humility is a musician's best friend.
sydIRISH Preach! It takes courage to get up on stage and do something in front of an audience.
Love these interviews - Every time Henry Rollins speaks for more than 30 seconds I find out something else that blows my mind! Absolute legend!
"My friend, Ian MacKayae"
I mean I should've expected it, but hell yeah that's an amazing connection
They've been friends since they were 13 or 14.
I have loved Henry Rollins since the 90's. His raw, abashed candor is so refreshing! Great interview!
Imagine Henry talking then out of nowhere someone just tosses a water balloon at Pharrell's head
GOTCHA!!
I wish .pharell is a goddawful interviewer.does he even know who Black Flag is
@@claytonraynard5874 he clearly does
pharrel Williams and henry rollins....two bright minds, having a meaningful conversation. humanity has regained hope!
Very deep man! Henry Rollins is one em honest artists out there!
I don’t care if you grew up in L.A. or the I.E. if you were into punk rock in Southern California Black Flag was a big deal in the scene no matter which singer you liked better!
Henry Rollins is so very well spoken
this interview guy is awesome..
Henry Rollins is inspiring and Black Flag is fucking legendary. Pharrell is out of his element here, just look at his face, so blank. Nothing is going on in that head of his believe me.
Zombie Squad I strongly disagree. Culturally to some extent yes. He isn't a punk rocker or a hardcore kid but he is in my opinion definitely on the same level as Henry. He is a good interviewer and I enjoy this duo very much
Elitist.
i thought pharrell was nothing but a yuppi airhead hip hop poser, but this interview is just great good work !!!!!
great interview. his comment on punk rockers at 5:29 is right on
That's a very broad statement about punk rockers, there's dickheads everywhere.
AGREED!
love the hand shots
Hey!
HEY!!
LOOKIN GOOODD
oh....thanks!
You are right ! I am a metalhead myself and I see a lot of people with an attitude like that, bashing or degradating other people for what they are listening to, or in a worse case for who they are. It mixes with some poor-man's(I mean no offence to poor people) philosophy and bad clothing and voila! we have a elitist moron. I am happy that I grew up from this bulls**t - my closed-minded high-school era. Fortunately there are many metalheads (mayby majority) who accept and support other's tastes
I'm soo glad he got out of the Ice cream business, Rollins gets life to its fullest!
Great man interviewing a great man.
The more I learn about this man the more respect I have for him. A punk rock singer who listens to Albert Ayler....that says volumes to me.
I’m starting to love this guy
I can listen to this man talk all day.
He really is he's so interested,excited yet calm at the same time i really dig him i wonder why i don't see him do that much interviews though...
I wish I had a chance to know this Henry, but he was so quiet and he glowered a lot back then, which was pretty intimidating. He seems much more engaging now.
This goes to show how much more open minded people are today. This interview would have been the set up to a joke before it was a reality . Henry to me is kind of every punker so to watch his progression from then to know emotionally is super cool l
Quick question: What does Pharrell actually do for a living? He seems to just show up randomly in the most odd situations. Like when did he start interviewing for Reserve Channel?
I like henry, he's a human and has contributed something.
Great interview from one of my favorite persons.
this is pretty cool you never think that the two worlds would collide
I love the way Henry looks when he smiles he looks like a puppy
Pharrell Williams has absolutely no idea where Henry is coming from, he's petrified :D
Agreed. He should have either made a better effort to understand Henry's background beforehand, or just made it clear that he knows nothing about his life and background. He tried to play it cool and looked a bit stupid at times.
In my book, he looks like he's learning something new. Doesn't seem like a big negative. Being a little uninformed about certain things isn't a negative if you acknowledge it. And he respects Henry, too. Big deal.
Tardi Grade Absolutely! :)
Disagree. Seems like he knows who he's with. This series of interviews with Hank are the best I've seen.
He always been different Pharrell made outside the box music
And I pretty sure he knew black
Flag before hipsters heard of them
Some places have mellowed out. I wouldn't really consider myself a punk, but I've been to a lot of shows, I don't really follow the aesthetic and people are usually pretty cool about it. In fact I've met a lot of pretty nice people in the scene. There are elitist pricks sometimes, but they are usually recognized as such by the others. I really like watching really old clips from early punk. Nobody is trying to be anything or live up to a standard, just people enjoying music.
hey hey!!!! looking good! aha
Um dos maiores artistas da música q ja vi ...
Rollins is so fucking on point.
Henry is the man!
scenes nowadays really have mellowed out like what twentymooseman said. now they're more as just a local group of bands that play together, more of the community. the only scenes that have that elitish cliqueish problem nowadays are electronic music scenes and Copenhagen's punk scene
That was how I found punk as a So Cal suburban kid. I was a 12 year old skate rat and heard Black Flag in skate videos, and I just wanted to fuck shit up.
'Back in my day... in the 1850s' lol
I totally get what he is saying I've played in metal bands most of my young life telk elitestism metal are the hardest fans to please always something
I love this fing band
henry is a level headed phil anselmo
Kezia Naomi *talented Phil anselmo
There’s interviews out there of anselmo praising Rollins work in black flag .
@@dougthealligator phil anselmo has way more stage charisma and vocal range than Rollins ever had, come on dude.
bentnosewp there’s literally no way you could think that’s true man let’s be real.
And without the added baggage of being the poster boy for skinheads.
Plenty of elitists in these comments.
wow so he's just been super confident all his life
I hope he knows the impact My War had on the Seattle scene
I agree with Henry onso much stuff those 4 Seattle bands truly were so good I'm not a fan of pearl jam but musically speaking those guys now how to play sound garden there original albums the guitar riffs I thought were straight genius Alice in chains easly the best musically speaking every album is great Jerry his riffs were totally original dark and such a great sound funny nirvana biggest influence was black flag in fact the whole Seattle scene wanted to be black flags last album it's true ask David growl
I gotta give props to Pharell and Henry's so captivating, like always.
I seen henrys think tank stand up at the walker theater now named burton cummings. Back in 2003. Or 2002. Or 2004 winnipeg mb.
''its pretty bitchin' ''
FUCK YEAH HENRY
Great story
Never know any of that
what show are the spoken word clips from?
Damn Henry, he was hot back in the day 3:14. I love his story.
10 things I didn't know about black flag !!!!!
Good Mufuggin Interview
What about SOA?
black flag made an effort to piss off their fans for years. their hair, their long songs, their jazz influence, etc.
Both Pharrell and Hank grew up in DC!!!
I love Henry Rollins and the way he looks at and speaks about everything for but when he starts talking about how music is supposed to be a judgement free zone, he needs to look back at what he said about electronic or "rave music".
I skate and listen to black flag
K
9:18 background song please?
Fans can ruin anything. The more niche something is, the worse the fans.
Did you even watch the interview. He is talking about punk rock being close-minded , not Henry Rollins.
After seeing henry destroy a young interviewer, my mind has changed about him. He talks a good game but ruined that kid for no reason.
I remember winning tickets to see Rollin's Band in Cleveland. I went to go pick up the tickets and saw all the kinds of guys getting tickets, I just turned around. I love Black Flag, Rollin's Band, and his spoken word, but I didn't want to be in the show and get singled out. I really wanted to go too.
Forgive me, but who is the black guy ?
fuck you
Fuck you is a great musician
Me too, punks aren't too smart and are critics of everything but themselves
pharrell, the dude from N.E.R.D.
I saw herny on son of anarchy \m/
Pharrell is an Excellent interviewer.
well, me for one and a countless amount of other people???? Don't go on a crusade trying to make the electronic music culture look and feel bad because it doesn't work like that. Respect.
Fine scottish ancestrial name mckaye.
I cant take this conversation seriously with Pharrel interviewing him. Henry might as well just talked to himself
I'd say so.
Nobody likes to hear Henry talk more than Henry. Black Flag morphed into something else around the time when Henry joined. That’s fine, but Black Flag had already made its impact on music. Henry had nothing to with it.
In fact, most of the punks I know consider Rollins Black Flag as an afterthought. The EARLY stuff is universally loved. Henry is riding on the coat-tails of the greats before him. Every minute Rollins was in BF was a minute it was on the way to being over.
Hurled it...Am I trippin? 5:06
So pretty much their old lead singer fired himself.
Next to the big poser?
What?
Pharrell is wearing a pair of Docs with red laces. Does he actually know the hate behind that?
Why do you expect him to know lace code
Why does the word "contrived" echo in my head while I'm watching this? "Click..."
is henry's hair kind of boring aren't musicians supposed to do something wild with their hair?
+Greg Dahlen No
Smiff you think it's interesting?
I think he wears it how he wants, if he cared about what Greg Dahlen thought then maybe he would have it green and 12 feet long, but it looks like he doesn't.
+Smiff I don't know, the members of Black Flag liked to do things that were contrary to expectations, like they grew their hair long because the punks thought they should have it short. So maybe that's why Henry has it like a businessman now.
+Greg Dahlen He's clearly doing something contrary to your expectations. Very punk rock.
Hank Rollins was a geek. Greg Ginn was rocking out. I thought the song - Who's got the 10 and a half,had no music value.
Black Flag Damaged was their apex in '82!
Zeitgeist>?really?like Jacque Fresco Zeitgeist?
The night of a Black flag show Hank just decided to wear black shorts. And nothing else for the next 2 yrs. in Black flag. And flip around his long hair every 3 seconds for the entire set. I thought he was an idiot. Black flags music was great. They did shows without Hank. Just Greg,Drums and Bass guitar. Those were good Black flag shows!!. And the Pettibone flyers were GREAT.
HE HAS A EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN TATTOO!!!
matt jenks What
Rollins is probably one of the most open minded individuals out there? Wtf are you talking about?
no no keith is the man,
the end
Neck tattoo. What a great life decision.
but rollins seems to have finally calmed down and grown up
Why won't he mention he was a singer in s o a before black flag. No props to his bros dude.
More of this less of Anerica
que alguien subtitule esto, le amare siempre
I love how Pharrel is obviously pretending to know what punk rock is, he does write shit music so he can't relate one bit
+beau vonarx You gotta give him more credit than that. There's more to him than the hits he had lately.
Yeah, if it wasn't for him we might not have a lot of alternative rap we have now he was. Happy was pretty wack but he is a talented singer and rapper. I feel like your judging him without knowing anything from him
Azazel Acheron found the elitist
Azazel you are just like those elitist that Rollins is talking about. Pharrell used to be into the skate scene and if you listen to some of the N.E.R.D stuff he did you can hear some nods to the hardcore scene in it. All you've given is some ill informed assumptions.
Presumptuous.
Greg Ginn is Black Flag not Henry Rollins. Rollins is just the guy that happened to be the last singer in Greg Ginn's band. He wasn't even a very good one.
Greg drove Black Flag to the ground with all the lawsuits. Flag which is composed of all the original members except Greg is more black flag og energy than what black flag currently is