The Church Of What’s Happening Now: #606 – Henry Rollins



Henry Rollins has traveled the world as a musician, author, and speaker. You will recognize him from his roles in movies (Heat) and television shows (Sons of Anarchy). He can also be heard as the host of his own show on KCRW in Los Angeles, and as the host of the Henry and Heidi podcast. Joey and Lee are thrilled that he joined us for this episode of The Church of What’s Happening Now.


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  1. Even if henry didn't have kids he will live through me im 23 yrs old , henry is a upstanding man . His whole life if set on stone but as a human experience he is awesome , this goes for both joey and henry

  2. 'Henry Rollins For President' !!!
    So happy for this podcast, wish he hadn't declined to do Tigerbelly.. 😞 oh well

  3. Only a few minutes in, I find it interesting how Henry says "buy the record, the artist is probably starving etc". Growing up in the 80s and 90s in similar music scene, Australian punk and metal scene, and being very familiar with the music, recording scene, most of us I associated with knew that actual album sales basically give nothing to the artist.

    The damn music execs get the lions share, plus everyone else who seems to get a share with the creators of the actual music the last in line getting $. We did know the other thing he mentioned, listening to the music and getting fans meant more people in the gigs when you played.

    Back then, there was heaps of "tape trading" (people copying music cassettes, basically what pirate downloads are these days, free copies), also giving out tapes, CDs, whatever was a big source of actual income, the aforementioned people going to gigs(and maybe buying any merchandise. I just thought Henry might at least mention something like this knowing how typically that music execs are assholes and unless someone has hit the big break and well known, doesn't have much leverage to TRY to get a good deal out of an actual record deal. Maybe Henry forgets about that "the common man" doesn't always have enough money in their wallet or bank account to afford music (recordings). I bought a heap of records back then, but having a bad motorcycle crash and serious chronic pain causing me unable to work since 2006, recent single father and struggling to provide for my 2 kids that I have the greater time of custody for our 2 kids, affording music really hits my wallet and can actually stop the kids eating a meal or at least eating "food worth eating".

    If I had the income Henry had, or even half, I'd be spending a shit ton on recorded music, hah.

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