Henry Rollins dives into the fascinating world of record collecting, sharing insights through his book series "Stay Fanatic!!!" and discussing his passion for preserving & sharing music history.

Topic Include:

  • The origin story of “Stay Fanatic!!!”
  • Writing about The Stooges
  • Learning to scan, archive material
  • Telling the stories with early band materials
  • Transcribing from handwriting, then speech to text
  • Henry doesn’t get rid of records
  • Acquiring individual and collections of records
  • Bands that reinvigorated his interest: OSEES, Ty Segall, etc
  • Label out of China – Old Heaven Books
  • Seeing Keiji Haino in Tokyo
  • Metallica closing a show for Iggy Pop
  • Can Henry talk about his new project?
  • What is Henry’s tolerance for bootleg material?
  • Going to “see” David Bowie and Joy Division through their bootlegs
  • Aggravation with bad recordings sold on bootlegs
  • Understanding band reluctance to put out some recordings
  • Stopping releasing spoken word CDs as they end up on YouTube
  • Signatures get put on eBay near immediately
  • Henry no longer signs things
  • Stopping people from bidding on fake signatures
  • Henry’s routine with Discogs and eBay
  • The anxiety of chasing Discogs and eBay alerts
  • Missing out on fresh listings of a holy grail
  • Buying items that were misstated in the listing
  • Educating inexperienced sellers on proper listing
  • The 1st world problem of collecting records
  • Breaking even on the “Stay Fanatic!!!” Books
  • The genius of artists like John Coltrane and The Fall
  • Henry’s early years – His mother loved books and music
  • Road Manager Ward brings a portable turntable on the road
  • 15 feet on the unplayed records shelf
  • Henry describes his home stereo system
  • His system is set – very few changes
  • Leveraging experts to work on the setup
  • Collecting personal items from musical heroes
  • The Adverts, UK Subs clothing are in Henry’s collection

Order "Stay Fanatic!!! Vol 4" here

Henry photos by Jacob McCann IG @blokeyoucantrust and Heidi May

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