{"id":17972,"date":"2022-03-02T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=17972"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:40:16","slug":"black-flag-band-bassist-kira-roessler-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/black-flag-band-bassist-kira-roessler-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Flag Bassist Kira Roessler on Being in a Band with Rollins and Ginn, and Her Solo Debut, at 60!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"text-transform: none;\">How Kira Roessler Shaped Black Flag\u2019s Mid-\u201980s Hardcore Sound and Got a Matching Black Flag Tattoo with Rollins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/22246028\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ira Roessler played bass in a little band called Black Flag for about two years, during which time the hardcore punk outfit put out <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(!) records. It was the band\u2019s most prolific period, and the band did all of this while Kira was attending college, full-time. Now Kira is promoting her first solo album, at the age of 60!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kittenrobot.com\/product-category\/kira\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">out now on Kitten Robot Records<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014is simply called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kira, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as she says, \u201cmy last name is Roessler, though I don\u2019t usually use it.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kira <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an intensely personal record, reflecting on a love and loss that she speaks about extensively in this interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her bass playing here has more of a liquid feel than the hard-driving bass lines that she was known for laying down in Black Flag, syncing up with drummer Bill Stevenson and providing a foundation for guitarist Greg Ginn to launch off of, and for Henry Rollins to deliver his genre-defining shouts. But playing outside of the constraints of hardcore punk is nothing new to Kira. Her playing in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hootpage.com\/hoot_dos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> saw her interweaving lines with Minuteman bassist Mike Watt, to whom she was married for a time. Kira also speaks extensively about Mike Watt in this interview, and how Dos functioned as a support system for him after the sudden death of Minuteman singer and guitarist D. Boon, before Watt founded fIREHOSE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSomebody told me that Greg said after he saw me play in Dos years later, \u2018I never knew that Kira could do stuff like that.\u2019\u201d she says, with an incredulous laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kira also discusses her current career as a dialogue editor, for which she has won two Emmy awards; in 2012 for her work on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in 2008 for her work on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Adams<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She also won an Oscar in 2016 for her work on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mad Max: Fury Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which won the award for Best Sound Editing. You can also see the name \u201cKira Roessler\u201dduring the credits of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confessions of a Dangerous Mind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twilight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> movie, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Moon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But don<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019t let all of these professional credits fool you.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m still a non-conformist punk rocker, and continue on to this day,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kira also shares choice anecdotes about five-hour practices, going with Henry Rollins to get matching tattoos of the iconic Black Flag logo, and about living alone in Los Angeles with her brother, Paul Roessler, at the age of 16. Over the years, the siblings\u2019 relationship evolved from combative to competitive to collaborative, and finally to co-producer, as the pair worked together to bring\u00a0<em>Kira\u00a0<\/em>into the world.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kira Roessler played bass in Black Flag for two years, during which time the legendary hardcore band put out seven records. 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