Los Angeles: Henry Rollins (Spoken Word) @ Largo at the Coronet

Friday 18 February 2011 at 5:00pm

Where:
Largo at the Coronet
366 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles 90048
United States
Tel: (310) 855-0350
Web: www.largo-la.com

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Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American Grammy Award-winning alternative rock singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist.

He is perhaps best known for his work with the hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, and for leading the Rollins Band since 1987.

Critic Steve Huey decribes Rollins as “a post-punk renaissance man …Rollins is relentlessly busy … and has kept his artistic integrity, becoming a kind of father figure for many alternative bands of the ’90s.”

Rollins grew up in Washington, D.C… His parents divorced when he was young, and Rollins was raised primarily by his mother, Iris, who taught him to read before he entered school, and who he credits with instilling his lifelong love of reading.

He was prescribed Ritalin as a child and was sent to the The Bullis School, a Washington, D.C. military school. He disliked the authoritarian atmosphere and the then-boys-only campus, which impeded his early attempts at dating and made him uncomfortable around women for several years. More positively, he said Bullis helped instill in him a sense of discipline and a strong work ethic. It was at military school that he began to develop his muscular build, and began writing.