After four out of five quarterly earnings reports were below expectations, Rollins resigned in 2007 and founder Michael Dell assumed the role of CEO again.

Additionally, by late 1983, Dukowski had retired from performing with Black Flag ( some accounts report he was " edged out " by Ginn ); Azerrad reports that Ginn was dissatisfied with Dukowski's failure to progress as an instrumentalist, and made things difficult for Dukowski in an attempt to make him quit, but in the end, Rollins took it on himself to fire Dukowski.

In his book Get in the Van, Rollins reports that he used to improvise the lyrics every night when the song was performed live.

Examples are the Matthew Reilly books Temple and Hell Island, the James Rollins books Sandstorm, Map of Bones, The Judas Strain, The Doomsday Key and Black Order, and the video game series Metal Gear Solid, as well as the video games Infamous, Vanquish, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

* 1961 – Henry Rollins, American musician, comedian, and actor ( Black Flag )

After performing for the short-lived Washington D. C .- based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.

Since Black Flag disbanded, Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 120 Minutes, and Jackass.

Fans included Ian MacKaye of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat and Henry Rollins, formerly of Black Flag.

Rollins acted as roadie for the remainder of the tour while learning Black Flag's songs during sound checks and encores, while Cadena crafted guitar parts that meshed with Ginn's.

Rollins also impressed Black Flag with his broad musical interests during an era when punk rock music and fans were increasingly factionalized ; he introduced Black Flag to Washington D. C .' s go-go, a distinctive take on funk music.

Rollins was Black Flag's longest-lasting singer, and has remained active in music to the present.

With Rollins, Black Flag began work on their first full-length album.

However, due to personality conflicts — in Get in the Van, Rollins described Biscuits as a " fuck up "— and the Unicorn court injunction-forced inactivity of Black Flag, Biscuits left to join their rivals The Circle Jerks.

Despite 1984-85 being the most fruitful period for the band and their record label, Ginn and Rollins would ultimately decide to eject Roessler from Black Flag, citing erratic behavior.

Since Black Flag's break-up, Rollins has had the most visible public profile as a musician, writer, and actor.

Black Flag were reportedly blacklisted by the LAPD and Hollywood rock clubs because of the destructiveness of their fans, though Rollins has claimed that police caused far more problems than they solved.

Henry Rollins, in his journal collection Get in the Van, notes that Pettibon's artwork became synonymous with Black Flag and that before Rollins joined the band he would collect photocopies of their flyers that had circulated from California to Washington D. C.

Has performed with: actor / singer Danny Aiello, Richie Cannata ( saxophonist w / Billy Joel ), Marc Ford ( Black Crowes ), Peter Stroud ( Sheryl Crow ), Mike Huckabee ( political commentator / bassist ), Michael Wolff ( pianist-The Arsenio Hall Show and Sonny Rollins ), Harvie S ( bassist-Stan Getz and Tony Bennett ), Victor Jones ( drums-Dizzy Gillespie and Chaka Khan )

Black Flag were also performing that night at the Mabuhay Gardens downstairs from On Broadway, and Black Flag singer Henry Rollins, a longtime fan of the band, came up to watch the Misfits ' soundcheck.

Henry Rollins recommended former Black Flag drummer Robo, who flew to New Jersey to join the Misfits in July 1982.

His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians ( many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era ), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees.

Henry Rollins later stated on his radio show's blog that alternate versions of " What I See " and " at least one other song that I can't remember " also came out of the Damaged sessions, and that other outtakes from Black Flag's other albums also exist.

Several songs on Double Nickels on the Dime were outsourced to or inspired by contemporaries, such as Black Flag's Henry Rollins and Jack Brewer of Saccharine Trust.

On the May 1, 2007 episode of his radio program Harmony in My Head, Rollins reported that one of Ginn's favorite albums during this era was Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire ( 1973 ), and opined that John McLaughlin's guitar work influenced Ginn.

This version of Rollins Band had some of the most overt jazz leanings of the band's history: Gibbs had begun his career with the jazz fusion group of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and worked with Sonny Sharrock on albums like 1987's 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 band's music.

In this era, Rollins Band recorded with flamethrowing free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle, though these sessions remained unreleased for ten years at Gayle's request to avoid conflicts with his contractual obligations.

In 1958, at the age of 20, he moved to New York, and began playing with some of the best jazz players of the era, including Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric Dolphy, J. J. Johnson, and Quincy Jones.

An important figure of the fusion era of jazz, DeJohnette is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, Sonny Rollins, and John Scofield.

The Block of that era is featured prominently in several films, notably Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights and Diner, as well as Steve Yeager's independent feature drama On The Block, with Howard Rollins.

Davis played some gigs at the Cafe Bohemia with a short-lived formation that included Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Taylor, and then traveled to France, where he recorded the score to Louis Malle's film Ascenseur pour l ' échafaud.

In 2000, Rollins Band was included on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, ranking at No. 47.

His other songs also included " Crazy Lover ", recorded on their 1987 debut album by the Rollins Band.

: Founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier and other former faculty of Rollins College, Black Mountain was experimental by nature and committed to an interdisciplinary approach, attracting a faculty which included many of America's leading visual artists, poets, and designers.

Other artists included BB King, Gary Moore, Weather Report, Crossfire, Buddy Guy, Camarón de la Isla, Soft Machine, Chuck Berry, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Eric Clapton, Luther Allison, Bo Diddley, Stan Getz, Airto Moreira, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus, Etta James, Sonny Rollins, Son House, Count Basie, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, B. B.

In high school his friends included Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor.

Accomplishments in Rollins ' 2004 season included his third " quadruple-double " ( four statistical categories — home runs, stolen bases, doubles, and triples — in double figures in a single season ), making him one of three players to accomplish this feat during the season, along with Tampa Bay Devil Rays OF Carl Crawford and Detroit Tigers SS Carlos Guillén ; his three ten-game hitting streaks throughout the summer and fall months ; and his first career grand slam, hit in the final game of the season against Florida.

The late 80s and early 90s saw the formation and rise to prominence of several bands associated with earlier acts that not only included the examples of Fugazi and Shellac, but also Girls Against Boys ( originally a side-project of Brendan Canty and Eli Janney, which would later incorporate members of Soulside ), The Jesus Lizard ( formed by ex-members of Scratch Acid ), Quicksand ( fronted by former Youth of Today and Gorilla Biscuits member Walter Schreifels ), Rollins Band ( led by former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins ), Tar ( which raised from the ashes of a hardcore outfit named Blatant Dissent ), and Slint ( containing members of Squirrel Bait ).

The initial episodes were narrated by Kris Kristofferson, however other narrators have included Sheryl Crow, Steven Tyler ( of Aerosmith ), Ossie Davis, Levon Helm, Henry Rollins and James Justice.

Some of the previous guests have included: Sridevi, The Tragically Hip, M. I. A., Eckhart Tolle, Margaret Atwood, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Wyclef Jean, Chris Jericho, Tom Cruise, Bill Maher, James Cameron, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Marlee Matlin, Tim Robbins, Spike Lee, Ricky Gervais, Tony Bennett, Greg Kinnear, John Legend, David Byrne, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Larry King, LeBron James, Henry Rollins, Evangeline Lilly, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, Alanis Morissette, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Howard Zinn, Kings of Leon, Kylie Minogue, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Sean Avery, former Canadian Prime Ministers Paul Martin, John Turner and Brian Mulroney, P! nk, Smashing Pumpkins, David Suzuki, Mike Holmes, Douglas Coupland, Naomi Klein, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Tammet, David Thewlis, Larry Charles, Dana White, Tony Robbins, Gordon Ramsay, Dave Salmoni and Adrien Brody.

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins included a cover of this song on his 1977 album Easy Living.

His performance credits also included stints with Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Jaki Byard, Booker Ervin, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, Tal Farlow and many other top jazz artists.

Prominent castmembers who did not return included Blair Underwood ( Jonathan Rollins ), Jimmy Smits ( Victor Sifuentes ), Amanda Donohoe ( C. J.