![]() Poor Steve Miller, who’s a great musician. And that night I went home and I actually physically threw out… maybe about 25 percent of my records after I saw The Clash. You felt a different way coming out of that gig. All of a sudden, you’re this far from the band, not across this rackety arena not built for acoustics, built for hockey and basketball, and almost suddenly you’re feeling this real music coming at you-not that these other bands weren’t real, Zeppelin was astounding live, it was great-but all of a sudden there’s something else. 15 1979 with D.C.eats, Bo Diddley and The Clash at the Ontario, and I’d never seen anything like that in my life. I think we saw Led Zeppelin first, the first of five nights at the Capital Centre. Can I like both? No! These records must go. ![]() So when punk rock started to creep into our lives-my life-I started going, well, if I like Led Zeppelin and I like Ted Nugent and I like Van Halen and Aerosmith and all that big guitar rock I was raised with, but I have a Clash record. And had a father who said it’s this way, and it can’t be any other way but this way. I was raised in a very conformist atmosphere at school, where you liked this, but you can’t like this. On “the changing of the guard” from arena rock to punk rock: punk, read the Ian MacKaye interview we recently published. It has been edited for clarity and brevity. This is a partial transcript of Tuesday night’s conversation. He dished on changing his name, seeing The Ramones at Louie’s Rock City in Fairfax, trashing his Steve Miller records (then buying them back), feuding with Greg Ginn, collaborating with Chuck D and watching football with William Shatner. punk, but with smart, open-ended questions from Richards (my former colleague) and the audience, Rollins hopped all over the place. The two-hour conversation ostensibly focused on D.C. ![]() ![]() native, in his trademark black T-shirt, Dickies and combat boots, talked like it was the first time he’d been given the chance. Weekly column and many recordings-you’d think the guy might have exhausted his supply of words. Tuesday, Smithsonian Associates hosted a lively conversation between Washington Post music writer Chris Richards and “punk poet” Henry Rollins. Considering Rollins’ insane output-his books, radio show, lectures, L.A. ![]()
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