Ep462: Henry Rollins Stays Fanatic!!! Pt 2 of 2
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Henry Rollins explores the intricacies of record collecting, sharing stories from his book series "Stay Fanatic!!!" and discussing his commitment to preserving rare music artifacts (Pt 2 of 2).
Topic Include:
- Response for records that are costing thousands of dollars
- Buying original Misfits singles then getting them gifted from the band
- Obtaining Dischord and Black Flag records and artwork
- Preserving flyers at the time they were made
- Backing up Ian's recording of The Cramps gig – Ivy holding the tape
- Collecting all the Black Flag gig posters when playing on the road
- Skipping meals to purchase archival page protectors
- Henry owns flyers and material that is the only known copy
- The scarcity of materials is a large attractor for Henry
- Lenny Kaye's review acetate for Iggy & the Stooges "Raw Power"
- Henry keeps collections together for preservation
- "Do Not Sell At Any Price" by Amanda Petrusich
- Logic for spending lots on a record you want
- Robert Johnson song found by Alan Lomax
- Urban labels putting out music from Record Stores
- Page Hamilton reckons Be-Bop is the angriest music
- Henry takes no days off of writing
- Listening to The Damned "Machine Gun Etiquette" every Friday
- Drastic Plastic's reissues of The Damned and The Cramps
- Henry plays The Damned "Strawberries" once each August
- Minor Threat opening for The Damned on Strawberries tour
- Charles Lindbergh left notes for future biographers
- Writing information and keep with records for future listeners
- Frustration on former owners who write or stamp on their records
- Regional pressings are so limited that copies with writing on it are only option
- Henry has a photographic memory for his record collection and condition
- Increasingly using software and laptops to track record collection
- Keeping records that he has nicer copies of – When possible, get 2
- Process for preparing a record for adding to his collection
- What are the white whales Henry is chasing?
- Competing against a mythical nameless "German guy"
- "Stay Fanatic!!!" books are the way to share his collectibles
- Interview wrap up
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Henry photo by Maura Lanahan
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, check out the killer record cases and stereo furniture at sidetracked workshop.com. |
| 0:06.4 | Get your vinyl out of the crate and display your records in style. |
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| 0:13.6 | That's sidetracked workshop.com. |
| 0:16.3 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:18.4 | Oh, hey everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome back to the Vinyl Guide podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | This is part two of our two-parter with Henry Rollins, musician, actor, author, record |
| 0:28.2 | collector, and music fanatic. Henry joined us way back when episode 100 of the Vinyl Guide |
| 0:35.6 | podcast, which you can hear any anytime. We keep all the back |
| 0:39.2 | episodes available, no paywall or anything, so all you got to do is follow the vinyl guide podcast |
| 0:43.2 | and you can enjoy all those episodes anytime. As mentioned, this is the second part of our two-parter. |
| 0:49.6 | Part one of this conversation, we spoke about Henry Stay fanatic book series, his approach to bootleg |
| 0:55.0 | records, his rhythms with discogs and eBay, and today we cover all sorts of new topics, |
| 1:01.0 | including preserving black flag and other punk flyers, rare one-offs in Henry's record collection, |
| 1:07.3 | his approach to writing notes in his records for future listeners, including himself |
| 1:11.8 | and more. So this should be a very fun and informative episode for all you record nerds out there, |
| 1:17.4 | and we do this to help celebrate Henry's new edition to his Stay Fanatic book series. Stay Fanatic, |
| 1:24.4 | Volume 4 is out now, and available to order at Henry Rollins.com. |
| 1:30.1 | And with that, let's get into part two of the Vinyl Guide interview with record |
| 1:34.0 | collecting and music fanatic, Sir Henry Rollins. |
| 1:38.6 | So you collect records, paper, flyers, set lists. |
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