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Title: Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag by Henry Rollins ISBN: 1-880985-24-1 Publisher: Two Thirteen Sixty-One Pubns Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (40 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Thoroughly Enjoyable Read(3 1/2 Stars)
Comment: Whether you are a Black Flag fan or not is pretty much inconsequential. "Get in the Van", Henry Rollins' journals from back in the Black Flag days is a realy interesting look at the band and a time in American music.
Rollins may not be a poet, but his writting style reflects well upon the experinces he was going through at the time. If you were living in a van two hundred days a year, playing shows every night, I really doubt that you would write eloquent passages either.
This book is also an easy read and is full of really cool photos that are fun to look at even if you don't really care about Rollins writting.
Overall, "Get in the Van" is worth buying if your a fan of punk rock and this period of it.
Rating: 5
Summary: amazing portrayal of life on the road, dev. of an artist
Comment: Rollins' anecdotes of life on the road with Black Flag and back in "The Shed" are fascinating, but for me the most fascinating parts of Get in the Van are about Rollins' thought development and epiphanies that lead to his convictions about his artistic direction. It is fascinating to compare the "form" of Get in the Van, which is pretty much the memoir, to the form(s) of song lyrics; since Rollins is a poet/lyricist, the relations between raw notebook entries, memoirs, poems and song lyrics are intriguing. Another interesting aspect of Get in the Van is R's continuing struggle to articulate who he is in relation to other people--audience and band members, society, etc., and especially how he tried to deal with his ambivalence toward people. On another level, the book is about survival (Rollins' and others')and death (esp. his struggle to come to terms with the death of a good friend, who incidentally encouraged Rollins to begin keeping records of his life with Black Flag in the first place). The book also has a heavy amount of commentary on the state of America in the late 20th Century--where the creative vibrancy is, where the stagnant zombie gunk is--esp. as refracted through the eyes of someone living the hard core punk life. In the back of the book, Rollins includes a statement to the reader about what can/should be done to live a creative and courageous life, which for me dispels any doomsday soothsayers' assertions that the future looks bleak for anyone in America who aspires to be a creative artist.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rollins best work
Comment: This is Henry's diaries from his tours with Black Flag. It follows him across the world through struggles with bandmates, fans and promoters. This is a great read and can't help but to motivate.
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Title: See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die by Henry Rollins ISBN: 1880985373 Publisher: Two Thirteen Sixty-One Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Portable Henry Rollins by Henry Rollins ISBN: 0375750002 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 10 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Henry Rollins: The First Five by Henry Rollins ISBN: 1880985519 Publisher: Two Thirteen Sixty-One Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Solipsist by Henry Rollins ISBN: 1880985594 Publisher: Publishers' Group West Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush, George Petros ISBN: 0922915717 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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