I joined Black Flag by showing up at an audition in New York City in the summer of 1981. I sang two sets with them in a small practice place and they gave me the job
Black Flag circa 1981
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The first days were a jolt because they were living hard and low to the ground and I had no experience like that before. It was a bend in the road as they say. I had worked hard all my short life at multiple jobs. I thought I was quite the hard-working taskmaster type. [Greg] Ginn was ten times that. When i first joined the band, we got into a rehearsal regimen that was quite an undertaking. We were at it hours a day. I thought that a few days in, I was ready. Ginn told me I was nowhere near ready. A month later, I saw that he was right of course. By the time we hit the stage there was no nervousness on my part. I knew my stuff. IT was not a warm-up show. We went out there and kicked their asses
-Henry Rollins, We Got the Neutron Bomb, The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
