palco 2 america metallica hard rock p hardcore Rollins Band - Weight (1994) 1. Disconnect 0:00 - 4:56 2. Fool 4:56 - 9:23 3. Icon 9:23 - 13:05 4. Civilized 13:05 - 16:59 5. Divine Object of Hatred 16:59 - 21:01 6. Liar 21:01 - 27:34 7. Step Back 27:34 - 31:34 8. Wrong Man 31:34 - 35:54 9. Volume 4 35:54 - 40:33 10. Tired 40:33 - 44:19 11. Alien Blueprint 44:19 - 48:05 12. Shine 48:05 Sim Cain – drums Melvin Gibbs – bass guitar Chris Haskett – guitar Henry Rollins – vocals Weight is the fourth full-length studio album by the Rollins Band, released on April 12, 1994 (see 1994 in music). It featured the bands biggest hits, Liar and Disconnect, which gained rotation on MTV and gained popularity after being featured on Beavis and Butthead. The song Civilized was also used as the closing theme for Dennis Miller Live from 1994-2002 on HBO. Rewiew by Brandon Sideleau (punknews.org) (5 star) In honor of the recently reunited Weight-era Rollins Band, I thought I would review the album itself, as no one else has yet. Weight was without any doubt the high point, commercially, for the Rollins Band, in no small way thanks to the heavily rotated Liar video on MTV. But what many people fail to remember is just how much this album really rocks as a whole, and that Liar, as great of a song as it is, is not the best track on the album. This album sees former bass player Andrew Weiss leaving the band and allowing new, more jazz-oriented bassist Melvin Gibbs to step up and get some. Musically speaking, this album was a bit of a departure from their previous album, The End of Silence. Where that album featured very long, intense and beautifully structured punk/blues jams, this album tightens up the song length and delivers a more hard rock / punk metal type of crushing tunes. Both albums are fantastic and both enjoyed a marginal amount of mainstream success, a first for Rollins. This album is full of gems -- the brutal Volume 4 and Step Back, or the surprisingly funky Wrong Man and Fool. My personal favorite is the very positive and extremely inspiring Shine, a song which seems to be Henrys own personal motto with lines like I aint got no time for drug addiction, no time for smoke and booze, too strong for a shortened lifespan, Ive got no time to lose, Its time to shine... Well, you get the point. And then, of course, we have Liar, an often misunderstood song with Rollins singing from the perspective of, well, a liar. He has mentioned in interviews that he simply wanted to write the meanest love song ever and the song is about someone else lying to him, not vice versa. The only other real difference between this album and his previous ones is that Henry doesnt scream at all, which isnt a bad thing since he makes up for it with plenty of angry yelling, but some people may have missed that. Anyway, this is a classic album and one of the greatest albums of the 1990s by far. Rollins Band was an American rock band led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins. They are best known for the songs Low Self Opinion and Liar, which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the mid-late 1990s. Critic Steve Huey describes their music as uncompromising, intense, cathartic fusions of hard rock, funk, post-punk noise, and jazz experimentalism, with Rollins shouting angry, biting self-examinations and accusations over the grind. In 2000, Rollins Band was included on VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, ranking at No. 47. Pre-history Rollins was the singer for the Washington, D.C. punk rock band State of Alert from October 1980 to July 1981. Afterwards, he sang with California punk rock band Black Flag from August 1981 to August 1986. Black Flag earned little mainstream attention, but through a demanding touring schedule, came to be regarded as one of the most important punk rock bands of the 1980s. Less than a year after Black Flag broke up, Rollins returned to music with guitarist Chris Haskett (a friend from Rollins teen years in Washington D.C.), bass guitarist Bernie Wandel, and drummer Mick Green. This line-up released two records: Hot Animal Machine (credited as a Rollins solo record and featuring cover art drawings by Devo leader Mark Mothersbaugh) and Drive by Shooting (credited to Henrieta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters). The music was similar to Black Flags, though it flirted more with heavy metal and jazz. First edition (1987–1994) Soon after, Rollins formed Rollins Band with Haskett, bassist Andrew Weiss, and drummer Sim Cain (Weiss and Cain had previously played with Gone, an instrumental rock group led by guitarist and Black Flag founder Greg Ginn). Live sound engineer Theo Van Rock was usually credited as a band member. Critics Ira Robbins and Regina Joskow described this line-up as a brilliant, strong ensemble ... the band doesnt play punk (more a jazzy, thrashy, swing take on the many moods of Jimi Hendrix), but what they do together has the strengths of both. The groups loud guitar rock with a strong, inventive rhythmic clock borrows only the better attributes of metal, ensuring that noise is never a substitute for purpose. Second edition (1994–1997) Gibbs in a July 19, 1980 performance in Paris, France Weiss was fired following the End of Silence tour; he was replaced by jazz and funk bassist Melvin Gibbs, whod been highly recommended by guitarist Vernon Reid; Cain and Gibbs had also both played in different versions of guitarist Marc Ribots band. This version of Rollins Band had some of the most overt jazz leanings of the bands history: Gibbs had begun his career with the jazz fusion group of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and worked with Sonny Sharrock on albums like 1987s Seize The Rainbow, which along with Rollins obsession with the late 60s/early 70s era of iconic trumpeter Miles Davis, shaped this version of the bands music. In this era, Rollins Band recorded with flamethrowing free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle, though these sessions remained unreleased for ten years at Gayles request to avoid conflicts with his contractual obligations. The first video from 1994s Weight, Liar, was a huge hit on MTV, with Rollins sporting numerous costumes (including a cop and a nun). The band appeared at Woodstock 94, and Rollins was a guest-host for several MTV programs, including 120 Minutes. Rollins Band signed with the then new major label DreamWorks Records, who released 1997s Come In And Burn. The album was not as successful as Weight and, after touring for Burn, Rollins dissolved the group, citing creative stagnation. Third edition (1997–2003) Rollins replaced the Haskett-Gibbs-Cain lineup with the Los Angeles rock band Mother Superior, retaining the name Rollins Band, and released Get Some Go Again (2000) and Nice (2001). They also released a two-disc live album, The Only Way to Know for Sure. This line-up was a more straightforward hard rock group: their first album featured Are You Ready? a cover of a Thin Lizzy song, featuring Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham; Rollins has often expressed fondness for Thin Lizzy and its founder, Phil Lynott. In 2003, the Rollins Band released Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three. The album features a number of guest vocalists (including Lemmy, Chuck D, Corey Taylor, Ice-T, Tom Araya, Rancid and others) singing Black Flags songs. Fourth edition (2006) In between other commitments (His radio show Harmony In My Head, his cable/satellite TV show The Henry Rollins Show, and his spoken word tours), Rollins also reunited the Haskett-Gibbs-Cain lineup. In a blog entry on henryrollins, Rollins admitted, Actually we have been practicing on and off for months now, slowly getting it together ... Its been really cool being back in the practice room with these guys after all these years. The band opened some concerts for X, and played on the first season finale of The Henry Rollins Show on August 12, 2006. Rollins told Alan Sculley of The Daily Herald that this reunion with Haskett, Gibbs and Cain would not become long-term unless the group decided to write new songs: Lets put it this way. I dont want to go out and hit America again without a new record, or at least a new albums worth of material. Otherwise the thing will lack legitimacy ... Miles Davis would never do that. And Im not into a greatest-hits thing. I think a band, if youre going to be around, you should be moving forward and putting in the time and working for it, getting after the art. Otherwise youre just playing retreads. ... Imagine a tree that grows canned peaches. Its nothing I want to do. Musical style and influences The band have been categorized under the alternative metal, hard rock and post-hardcore genres.[8][9][10] They were part of the early 90s LA alternative metal scene, alongside bands such as Tool, Janes Addiction, Rage Against the Machine and Green Jellÿ.[10] Their influences include 70s metal and rock bands, such as Black Sabbath, The Velvet Underground, Pink Fairies and Thin Lizzy.[8] Rollins shout-singing style proved influential to later nu metal and alternative metal artists such as Coal Chamber, Korn, Chevelle, Godsmack and System of a Down. Band members Henry Rollins – lead vocals (1987–2003, 2006) Chris Haskett – guitar (1987–1997, 2006) Sim Cain – drums, percussion (1987–1997, 2006) Theo Van Rock – sound engineer (1987–1997, 2006) Andrew Weiss – bass (1987–1992) Melvin Gibbs – bass (1993–1997, 2006) Jim Wilson – guitar, piano (1999–2003) Marcus Blake – bass (1999–2003) Jason Mackenroth – drums, percussion, saxophone (1999–2003) Keith Morris – lead vocals (Rise Above Tour 2003) Discography Studio albums Life Time (1987, re-release 1999) Hard Volume (1989, re-release 1999) The End of Silence (1992, double-CD re-release 2002) No. 160 US Weight (1994) No. 33 US, No. 22 UK, No. 10 AUS[11] Come in and Burn (1997) No. 89 US, No. 38 AUS[12] Get Some Go Again (2000) No. 180 US, No. 40 AUS[13] Nice (2001) No. 178 US Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three (2002) Outtakes and demos collections Yellow Blues – from the Get Some Go Again Sessions (2001) A Nicer Shade of Red – from the Nice Sessions (2001) The End of Silence Demos (2002) Weighting (2004) Come in And Burn Sessions (2004) Live albums Live Split Album with Dutch band Gore – Recorded @ El Mocambo, Toronto, Ontario 5.17.87 (1987) Do It – Studio Outtakes and Live (1988) Turned On (1990) Electro Convulsive Therapy (1993) Insert Band Here: Live In Australia, 1990 (1999) A Clockwork Orange Stage (2001) The Only Way to Know for Sure: Live in Chicago (2002)
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