When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Sokol Auditorium, 2234 S. 13th St.
Tickets: $25 at www.ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets or by calling 800-745-3000
Information: www.sokolunderground.com or 346-9802
Coming Sunday: A review of the show.
Henry Rollins has done it all.
The hard-core punk icon and former singer of Black Flag moved on to the Rollins Band and also turned into a radio personality, a voice actor, an author and a TV/film actor.
You’ve probably seen him in films such as “Bad Boys II” and “Heat,” as well as a recent turn in the TV series “Sons of Anarchy.”
All the while, he’s toured the world doing what he calls “talking shows.” It’s just Rollins on stage with a microphone, telling stories about his world travels, innumerable past experiences and his opinions on it all.
Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s serious, but it’s all pretty darn interesting.
Before Rollins arrived in Omaha for Saturday’s show, we called him up to ask a few questions.
Q. What will you be talking about on this tour?
A. This tour, I’m talking about a lot of the travel that I’ve been doing in the last year or so. I was just in South Africa a few weeks ago. It gave me a lot to think about and a lot to talk about.
Q. What else?
A. It’s interesting to have this new president and having the challenges left to him by the last guy. I have more complaints with Obama than with George W. Bush, mostly because I expected more of him.
This oil spill. I’m trying to wrap my head around it. We can all agree that it’s awful, so I’m trying to think what thing that is unique that I can put on it. What I can’t understand is the logic of the people that are defending BP.
Q. What’s going to be next for you?
A. I’m hoping to be doing some documentary stuff and some TV work and some travel next year. I have some writing projects that are going to take some time. It’s a matter of bolting down and getting it done. I’ll also hit the road a good part of next year.
Q. Do you have any plans to do more music?
A. I’ve got no musical plans. Doing music and touring would necessitate me doing old music. That holds a smell of failure to me. I like that music and those bandmates, but when you’re 50 and doing 30-year-old music, it is what it is. It doesn’t matter how well that 50-year-old plays that 30-year-old music, it matters that you’re doing old material.
The idea of doing new music with different people, that’s interesting. But not interesting enough to make me stop doing what I’m doing now.
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