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RollinsBand "Insert Band Here"

2 13 61 RECORDS SMACD848P1 63.43 mins

Feel the pain!

"I can't unwind!"  Henry Rollins yells on What Have I Got.  Some 20 years after he fronted scary LA punks Black Flag as a wiry skinhead.  Rollins remains the angriest man in rock.  On this live album, recorded at an Australian radio station in 1990 before a small audience of roadies and  friends, Rollins marshals his band in the manner of a drill sergeant.  The Rollins Band rock with life-or-death intensity.  Lonely is a cry of utter desolation set to a merciless, Black Sabbath-inspired grind, but even this pales beside Do It, a supercharged punk rock song in which Rollins defies all comers to match his modus operandi.  "Get up off your ass," he roars, "do it!" ****  Paul Elliott


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