Rollins Band Essentials

Rollins Band Essentials

In the wake of his tenure fronting trailblazing hardcore punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins expanded his horizons stylistically, both as a musician and as a writer. Rollins Band became the context for these explorations, with his confrontational vocals sometimes veering into poetry recitation. The group’s revolving line-up made for sonic changes from release to release, which often owed as much to Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelic rock and Miles Davis’ heavy-duty ’70s fusion as to punk. To get a sense of the band’s range, compare the haunted blues of 1994’s “Ghostrider”, a soundtrack contribution to The Crow, to more funk-rap-informed experiments like Nice’s “Your Number Is One” (2001).

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