The Oregonian "Get Some Go Again" review
From the Oregonian, A&E section, Friday 3/24/00
ROCK
Get Some Go Again, Rollins Band, Dreamworks
GRADE: ASome rockers approach turning 40 with passivity, surrendering themselves to the inevitable, softening their approach and saying goodbye to the past. Not Henry Rollins.
One of the original mavericks of what became the alternative rock scene, the ornery muscle man has returned to his roots (both his volatile Black Flag days and his teen-age favorites) to craft what is assuredly the most accessible Rollins Band album.
Of course, this isn't the same Rollins Band that hard core noise enthusiasts have come to love. After a final outing with his first thrash cohorts, Rollins gave them their walking papers and enlisted the help of L.A. outfit Mother Superior. The members couldn't care less for the sarcastic rage of "Liar" but sure know their way around a Black Sabbath riff.
And 'ol Hank certainly knows how to push their buttons on "Get Some Go Again", sending them careening through one spitfire routine after another - here an accelerated MC5 attack (the anti-wastoid tirade "Thinking Cap"), now a Minutemen slice of lean power-funk ("Change it Up"), even a twinge of the nastiest of Guns N' Roses ("You Let Yourself Down") before finally reviving Thin Lizzy on a cover of that band's "Are You Ready?"-with Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham in tow.
Ben Wener
The Orange County Register