![]() Though he claims he couldn’t pay his own rent from 1981 to 1991, he’s now America’s premiere punk-rock entrepreneur. Rollins, who got his start in show business by jumping onstage and singing at a Black Flag concert, does not lack for ambition. They say to me, ‘You’ll be the angry musician who throws the girl off the roof,’ or ‘You’ll be the thug,’ or ‘You have tattoos so you can hop on a motorcycle.’ But I’m not ready to go slumming yet.” I’m asked to be in movies all the time where I say no. Most of the time, though, Rollins turns Hollywood down. For the movie thing, it’s nice to let someone else drive.” “For all the record labels I’ve owned, I’ve always been the A&R (artists & repertoire) man, the bill payer, the dotted-line sweater. ![]() “I’ve always been the front man for every band I’ve been in,” relates the never-married rocker. “If Hollywood gives me $100,000, I try and figure out who I can put in the studio or who I can publish a book by,” Rollins says.īesides swelling his bank account, movies are a vacation from responsibility. ![]() Rollins, a pitchman for the Gap and the Powerbook, also has published books by punk godfathers Iggy Pop and Alan Vega, the vocalist of Suicide. The audio version of “Get in the Van” won a 1995 Grammy for best spoken word performance. He owns a video/publishing/record company by the name of 2.13.61 (his birth date) which has issued nine of his books, including “Get in the Van,” his story of life on the road with Black Flag. ![]()
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