“WANTED: Personal stories from the fans, a.k.a, ‘fanatics’, of Henry Rollins. If Henry Rollins has moved you, inspired you to reach higher, helped you in some way, or just makes your life better by way of knowing he is out there, living art and inspiration, and you are willing to share your story in a future publication of Fanatic Stories of Thanks to Hank, please send your story!”
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I was a drug dealer living on the streets of Southern California. I was surrounded by people without souls. I had no soul. I ripped off my first Rollins Band tape from a K-Mart. It was ComeInAndBurn. It caught my attention. I went to a Where house Music store (don’t think the store is around any more) the next week and stole LifeTime and TheEndofSilence. My life was changed!! I still sold drugs and lived from place to place for the next few years but all the while I was studying Rollins word. Eventually I found the strength to pull myself up and start living what for me was a better life. I had the strength inside me all along. Rollins just told me and reminded me when I needed it most… that I did. I met him at a club in SLC a few years back after a performance. My exact words to him were, “Thank you for raising me”. As my father died when I was 2, I truly replaced the empty father slot with Henry Rollins. He said “Well… Thank You!”
Rollins has helped me through drug addiction, depression & a divorce in more recent times.. He has taught me that I must rely on myself before I can rely on anyone else. I still get goose bumps on my arms when I listen to his music and a song I have heard hundreds of times before just sinks in all over again.
Today I am a great Father and Husband. Thanks Hank.
I am not the best writer but I hope I have successfully expressed how important this man has been to my life.
Sincerely Jason SLC Utah