I wonder were Eric is now, maybe hes still tooling around airports, driving single propeller planes into the night, and playing really bad covers of Paranoid and stairway to heaven
Yeah, I'd love to see who this dude is. He had to have seen this or heard about this when it came out (in 1999, just three years after it happened in '96) and I wonder what he's like now.
No sir, I am not. 😂There is a gentleman that goes by @eskee1 & is named Eric that commented on this video a few years back. He may be the real deal. 🤔He clarified the type of plane and also corrected Henry on the cap he was wearing.
We could only hope it was in fact, Eric. But I do appreciate not only this video but your timely response, as well. But as a drummer timing is your life...
He's great. You can't help but like the guy. And he's seen some shit. He's the kind of guy stuff like this happens to? You know David Gilmour never ended up waiting at a gas station in bum f&*k Egypt's lesser known and smaller subsidiary at 1AM.
In my experience, pretty much all people who dislike Henry are completely uneducated about the man. He’s a very cool guy and when I met him, he was very nice and down to earth.
Back in the day of filesharing programs, I stumbled across a version of Eric The Pilot that was about twice as long as this, but split up into about 6 parts (It took a long time to get one of the middle parts). I've never come across another version, and this is the first time Ive seen video of Henry telling the story. Thanks a lot for posting it!
Yeah, I saw him live years ago tell the Eric the pilot story and it was much longer. I guess he condensed it over the course of the tour. There's also a different audio version he released on a spoken word cd I have somewhere from around the same time. That's probably the one you heard back in the day.
I totally forgot that there is an actual CD that is just Eric The Pilot. Looking at it now, that is definitely the "track listing" and length (around an hour) of the files I have from back in the day. Great story, but it's nice to see a version with video after all these years! Thanks again!
@@Gekokujo76 Yeah, I have that CD (well, the files anyway). I assume you've hunted it down yourself in the seven years since you originally wrote your comment.
Henry Rollins just might be the coolest, most down to earth rock star/famous person to have ever lived. My god, I would be so thrilled to be able to meet him or get to hang out with him.
The way he describes the kids bringing home Marilyn Manson records is so true, the other day I bought Heaven Upside Down, and my mom said he looked like Nicolas Cage.
Eric, you my friend, win the Mic Drop for the net lol. I started flying in a 172, they are nice lil hoppers. We souped it up and boosted the Motor and it was a great plane. Also put fat tires on it so we could land on dirt roads and stuff, great fun.
I'd love to see who this dude Eric is. He had to have seen this or heard about this show when it came out in just a couple years after it happened in 1996. I wonder what he's like now.?
“Things get pretty intense in a single-propeller plane.” I can empathize, flew over the Nazca Lines a couple of yrs ago & it was the most turbulent, bumpy flight I’ve ever been on. Had to stop looking out the window & taking pictures about 15 mins before we landed because the Dramamine I took didn’t help one bit! Happy I did it tho, saw all the cool geoglyphs on the ground!
@@geekrockrats I work at a college and went with a professor and her archeology & anthropology students. The flight was a bonus I added to my tour package. Saw Machu Picchu too. Go there, the whole country is INCREDIBLE.
Amazing, but he missed a great joke. It should’ve continued after Eric asked Henry, “hey, here! You try to fly it!” Henry would go, “Sorry, Man! This isn’t like a cover band, where I get to pretend to be a pilot.”
I heard this the first time when I found the secret content in the game of Jurassic Park with the girl who can’t hold on the weapons and had shitty physics. I have been looking for it ever since.
Can anyone even imagine what it's like to be Henry's manager's assistant? She must've been going out of her mind while he was in the air -- I've wondered how long it took her to find out the truth about Eric?
Found out, he didn't file a flight plan so no one knows his transponder. Really no one knew where he was. Could look at MO radar and track the GA but which one. No cell phones in 1996 (by 98 yes). Eric had radio off. So when Henry calls she is freaked out.
@@sammencia7945 Yup. I feel bad for her but even if Henry tries to say that he's a wimpy traveler, he really isn't -- that's just his self-deprecating sense of humor. He can take care of himself. The guy's been to some of the worst hot spots in the world and he was already a hard guy so he'll always land on his feet, so to speak.
@@gscjapan6356 Chuckle brothers’ catchphrase is “To me, to you”. If I was gay, I’d definitely be a top, therefore I would be the giver (to you), not the receiver (to me).
Rollins is one of the best grunge reporters of the last two centuries, on par with Hunter Thomson, maybe better. Certainly more coherent. Who will follow?
I was thinking the exact same thing. The 90s were just lousy with videos like that. Lots of them were poorly spliced or whatever, so they’d show a shot of someone completely losing their shit and laughing during a not very funny bit. And it didn’t match the crowd volume or reaction. Comically bad editing, it was everywhere in the 90s. It would be harder to watch if it wasn’t so hilarious.
My only single prop plane ride was one of my favorite flights. It was a short flight from Queensland to Dunk Island. There was a small spot of rain we flew through just as we arrived, but the pilot flew flew with grace and ease. There was a rainbow and sunny landing. I grew up on big planes; so it was for me actually more enjoyable.
I don't like those little planes. I'll fly in the big ones all day but the little ones kill musicians. I'm surprised Henry agreed. And it's not just Lynyrd Skynyrd and Buddy Holly. The list is longer than you might think and it's usually that situation. They have to be at a gig, they can't get a flight (usually because the weather is bad) so they charter one of those tiny planes. So if ever you're on tour and you for some reason you can't get a flight on an airline, maybe just eat it this time.
when I was young and stupid, I was having a big breakfast and on a whim accepted an invitation to take a flight in a tiny single engine airplane around the grand canyon. That breakfast came out in both directions mid flight repeatedly on the pilot. We landed and I was not well the rest of the day. Will never fort that.
I would have stuck with Eric, idgaf, you basically have your own personal pilot now. “It’s just me and you Eric, just me and you. Let’s do this!” and Dumb and Dumber our ass to Tulsa.
light planes are extremely scary. just thin pieces of metal barely held together with tack welds and loose rivets. but the good news is, you can't fly over 10K feet for a long time, so if you fall out, it's max 2 miles to the ground. (cessna transition layer specsl, where the atmosphere starts to get too thin to breathe so you shouldn't fly unpressurized). also, keeping your hands on the tiller is absolutely unnecessary because planes are built inherently stable - if you nose down, you speed up, which noses you up - unless you lose an engine, you won't crash. oh, except in a crosswind landing.
Just thought of something when he mentioned the "Airplane" movie -- anyone else think his manager's asst was probably waiting for Henry to call her and said "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smokin'!"
hmm i guess for "Eric" if all went well maybe the story would not have made it into Henrys spoken word, but nope the gods said "you shall be remembered for being an idiot and nothing more"
Unfortunately, I uploaded the video to a laptop and then a few vids on to youtube and got rid of most of my old VHS tapes. The laptop no longer works, so all I have left is the RU-vid clips. Pretty sure you can find more clips scattered through RU-vid and Rollins may still sell the DVD on his website, so I would check there first. Good luck!
The 90s was kinda before even the basic internet much less social media, so a lot more flew under the radar (no joke intended). I googled Mister M's and it's still there
its one thing to learn how to play an instrument to play your own music. its a whole other shitty thing to learn an instrument to play other people's music.
That's 95 percent of musicians, though, at least, between playing folk music, classical music and then popular styles as well. Plus even most great songwriters start off playing other people's music to learn their chops. Yeah, it's a bit lame playing bad Eagles covers, but there's a whole world beyond that in terms of playing other people's music.
Oh come off it. For the vast majority of human existence, music was a cultural artifact copied and passed down for millennia. All music was “other peoples music,” at the same time it was the musicians own. A cover band is no different.
Hm. If Henry Rollins is “as funny as a female comedian,” and Henry Rollins is a male comedian, do you think maybe being unfunny is independent of gender identity? I know I’m asking a lot of you in the thinky parts department, and I know that’s not your strong suit. But I believe if you consider this patiently, and try your best, you might just get there. Or, maybe you’ll just die a misogynist bonehead. I’m thinking the latter. But I’m rooting for you, little buddy.
@@ghostedyoutuber263 Hold on are you some sort of advanced AI that churns out cliched chud comments on RU-vid? Your use of every single cringey online insult trope makes me think it’s an algorithm pumping these out and not a real person.
