Summary and Analysis for Pages 51-80 Summary and Analysis

Rollins says that his parents divorced in Washington D.C., and he remembers their custody fights and other bad memories. He says that with Ian MacKaye, he went to Yesterday and Today Records in Rockville, MD, where he used to buy punk records as a kid. Now that Rollins is back from tour, he is dour about Amerika, and he is critical of the excesses and overdone people and stores.

The band plays in Boston and Buffalo, then Chicago before Henry Rollins returns to L.A. Rollins wonders whether the tour is reality or whether it is a way for him to avoid reality, but he says that he prefers the drive and focus of being on tour to the "vast amounts of pissed off that accumulate" when he is at...