Fanatic! Vol. 3 contains annotated notes from the songs Henry Rollins broadcast on his Harmony In My Head radio show on Indie 103.1 in 2007. Information on the bands, the songs, some anecdotes, websites, discographies and flyers throughout. Over 500 pages of fanatic music worship.
Fanatic! Vol. 2 contains annotated notes from the songs Henry Rollins broadcast on his Harmony In My Head radio show on Indie 103.1, from 12/27/05 to 12/26/06. Information on the bands, the songs, some anecdotes, websites, discographies and train spotter type information throughout. 470 pages of fanatic music worship.
Fanatic! is the very expanded notes from the almost 600 songs I played on the 27 broadcasts of my radio show Harmony In My Head on Indie 103.1 FM in Los Angeles from summer to winter of 2004. Information on the bands, the songs, some anecdotes, websites, discographies and train spotter type information throughout. Almost 300 pages of fanatic music worship. -- Henry Rollins
Smile, You're Traveling is the third installment in the Black Coffee Blues series of books (which include Black Coffee Blues and Do I Come Here Often?). This time around Rollins reports from show tours and frequent flier financed travel during 1997 and 1998. Whether being terrified by roving gangs of baboons in Kenya or haggling with immigration officials over visa charges in Madagascar, Rollins finds a way to make his unique experiences universal. Says our weather beaten scribe of his journeys, "Some of it was cool, some of it was a pain in the ass, or maybe that was just me."
The construction of Human Butt was at the time, an ambitious undertaking. I sat on the floor of a small apartment and went through several cassette and DAT tapes until I had what I thought would pass as a 2CD set of material. Thrilled by this new format, I put it together and flung it out into the world. It went out of print almost immediately. It took awhile (years) but we finally got around to re-releasing it. For many of you, this is a new record, for others, just an echo of a bygone era. Please enjoy these ancient ramblings from the last century. – Henry Rollins
Track Listing: CD#1: 1. Adventures Of An Asshole (Chicago 1989) 2. Kicked In The Ass By Adventure (Santa Monica 1989) 3. Smokin' The Filter (Hamburg Germany 1989)
CD#2: 1. Decoration (Santa Monica 1990) 2. Donate Your Bodies to Science You Fools! (Chicago 1990) 3. Romance (Lausanne Switzerland 1989)
On June 9 & 10 1990, I shard the McCabe's stage with Exene Cervenka and Hubert Selby, Jr. As I remember is was a good time. Thanks for listening. - Henry Rollins
Track Listing: 1. Exhaustion 2. Misunderstanding 3. I Wish Someone Had Told Me 4. Travel Tips
Welcome to the re-issue of my first attempts at a talking record release. For the re-release of Big Ugly Mouth, I figured I would embarrass myself totally and include my first ever talking release Short Walk On a Long Pier. It was initially a cassette only release and it took all the money I had. Later, a short run was made on LP in Canada and then it went out of print. So here it is again, first time on CD. It’s just awful. I figured if I put it in for free you couldn’t get too mad about how wretched it is. As for Big Ugly Mouth, we sent it to engineer supreme Phil Klum to even out the levels of the tracks and clear it up some so it should sound better this time around. Enjoy . . . or something. Thanks. --Henry
Sweatbox was a low budget, high ambition project. Originally it was a three LP set that I lugged by the box load on early talking tours. Eventually it hit CD on Quarter Stick where it resided happily for many years. Now, we're remastering and re-releasing all the early material on 213, upgrading sonically with ace engineer Phil Klum at the helm and adding tracks when we can. The previous Sweatbox is missing one track off the original LP. It was recorded in Budapest, Hungary where I was asked to read for some students before the Rollins Band show that night. Anyway, we added it on this version as an extra track at the end of disc 2. If it's too awful for you, you can always just hit stop! At least the set will be slightly more definitive. Also, it's great to have Phil Klum go over these tapes and do all that can be done to clean them up and even out the levels. Definitely what a re-release should be all about. I hope you like these ancient recordings. -- Henry Rollins
When we were in the studio making the Life Time album, we recorded the cover songs we played on the tour that has just ended. Taking advantage of the relatively new medium of CD, I stuck on a bunch of live stuff from the tour along with the studio tracks and put it out as a CD EP for really cheap. I figured it would do the band a good turn by letting people hear how we sounded live, which was what we were really all about. Thanks for listening. –Henry Rollins (2007 Los Angeles, CA
Track Listing: Rollins Band: Do It 01. Do It 02. Move Right In 03. Next Time Live Europe 1987 04. Joe Is Everything And Everything Is Joe 05. Black And White 06. Lost & Found 07. Followed Around 08. Wreck Age 09. Lonely 10. Hot Animal Machine I 11. You Look At You 12. Gun In Mouth Blues 13. Turned Out 14. One Thousand Times Blind 15. No One
Andrew Weiss - Bass / Sim Cain - Drums / Chris Haskett - Guitar / Henry Rollins - Vocal / Theo Van Rock - Hands Of Thunder Mix Messiah
I wanted to integrate some additional sounds to the mix on this recording. I brought in jazz greats Charles Gayle (saxophone, violin, and piano) and Radhied Ali (the drummer who played with John Coltrane from 1966 until Coltrane's passing in 1967). Charles read the piece and lead the two of them according to how the book made him feel. The music is brilliant, stark, and intense. -- Henry Rollins (2-CD Set)
A two disc set of storytelling for great late night listening. Henry Rollins reads selections from his book Black Coffee Blues with musical score by former Rollins Band guitarist Chris Haskett.