Henry Rollins / 2.13.61 • DVDs • Henry Rollins - You Saw Me Up There

Caught at the end of a three month worldwide tour, Up For It showcases Henry Rollins and his very own brand of stand-up comedy live on the first of three sold-out nights at London's Astoria Theater. Also includes a half hour, in depth commentary-interview with Henry, "Your Number is One" music vide and a documentary on the making of release of the Nice CD. NTSC All Regions

The 50 DVD has made its arrival to our site after being sold on tour only for most of this year. The DVD is a live performance of me at the National Geographic Theater in Washington DC on February 13th, 2011, when I turned fifty. Ian MacKaye introduces me and I take it from there. It was a good night in a good theater with a fantastic audience. One of the parts I like about it is that we did some non performance footage of me going back to some of my old haunts in DC like the classic venue Madams Organ as well as a tour through my old job that I left in 1981. We are very happy to be able to bring this to all of you who were not able to go to the tour and pick it up there. -- Henry

In May 2005, I made my 26th trip to Australia for some talking shows. The first three dates were in Sydney. We rolled film on the performances and some post-show interviews as well. This DVD is what made the final cut. The Sydney dates were 44-46 of the 119 tour dates that made up the 25 Years Of Bullshit Tour which took in 11 countries from January to December 2005. I always have a great time in this beautiful country and have recorded live albums here both with the band and on my own but this is the first DVD effort. I hope you like it. Thanks for showing up. --Henry Rollins Recorded at the York Theater, Sydney, Australia. NTSC Region Free / DVD-9

Henry has more than ever to rant about in this performance from the Shock & Awe tour, its title irreverently inspired by George Bush's early predictions of the Iraqi War's impact. With all the ferocious energy he's so known for, Rollins scathingly draws observations from his recent USO tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also tears across the American political and cultural landscape and ventures into more personal territory, talking about his eclectic career from music to books to TV and film, sharing his fascinating insights from traveling the world and revealing his hilariously unsuccessful search for love. Also includes a gallery of photos Henry took on his USO tour in Afghanistan. NTSC All Regions

Live at Luna Park brings together two month's worth of speaking performances at the Hollywood, California nightclub Luna Park in March and April of 1999. The challenge was for Henry to appear one night a week for two months and give a different spoken word performance every time. That's a lot of stories to tell when you realize that Henry has a reputation for regularly speaking for almost 3 hours a performance! What we've done is put together the 'best of' Henry Rollin's Luna Park spoken word shows for you here on this DVD. Hope you enjoy it! Region 1 Encoded

Before the Chop compiles the first one hundred pieces I wrote for the Weekly and also includes the feature interview I did with Nick Cave when Grinderman II came out. For reasons of space, the Weekly must often slightly truncate the pieces and also sees fit to change the name of the piece. So, what you read there isn’t always what I sent them. This is one of the reasons I wanted to put this book out. Also, knowing there are a lot of people out there without the time to go to some website and read something every week, I thought it would be a good idea to have the articles all in one place. I hope you enjoy the book and thank you. - Henry

A Mad Dash picks up where 2007’s A Preferred Blur left off. A seemingly endless stream of words, one after another, details his travels all over the world, over one hundred performances and the shooting of five documentaries. The book goes right to the end, only stopping at the last page. Henry Rollins is still writing himself into obscurity and from the looks of this book, he’s almost there! This self-published punk is criminally implicated in several books that bear his name. Someone should have a word with him about that. This back cover blurb is not the first time he has written in third-person singular. Thank you. -– Henry Rollins Note: Autographed copies are SOLD OUT.

It was a great night to be onstage in the DC area. The next day was the presidential election and the entire world was watching America to see what would happen. The audience was in a great mood that night. I remember thinking to myself after the show was over that perhaps it would be a good talking record. Several months later, in Ryan’s small but sturdy home studio, we turned on the machines and listened to the show. A few edits for time constraints and we were done. Thanks for listening -- Henry

It was 1998, I was bandless and producing a local Los Angeles band called Mother Superior. Great guys, great band. They get it done and move onto the next thing. My kind of people. I had some song ideas but no band to work on them with so I asked them if they would help and they generously offered their services. We got together and wrote some songs the first night. A few days later, we had more songs. Eventually, over two sessions we ended up with a lot of songs. In 1999 we went out and played a bunch of shows all over the world and had a blast. In 2000 we released some of these songs as the Get Some Go Again album. This is all the songs we recorded in this period plus two live tracks from a show in Los Angeles at the Troubadour that were on a promo CD. Having Brother Wayne Kramer and Thin Lizzy’s Scott Gorham guest on our record was huge and we thank them. Jim, Marcus, Jason and I worked hard, played hard and had a good time rockin’ out. It was so great to work with people who had such enthusiasm and a will to get it on and not just get on with it. There’s a big difference. Thanks. –- Henry Rollins (2-CD Set includes the "Get Some Go Again" video and Electronic Press Kit)

CD #1 is from a show I did on my birthday at The House of Blues in Chicago. I always try to do something interesting and fun on my birthday. (In 1997 I was in Bangkok--no show, but I caught a good sunset.) I picked Chicago because it's always a great time there. CD #2 is culled from shows I did in Australia in October 1997. The audiences are tremendous there. I tried to balance the two discs. The first is a faster-paced run; the second is a more settled-in storytelling pace. The name came from a cover idea. I had this image of students in a classroom with thought balloons over their heads with a tank in it--a think tank. I figured it would be a good cover because the visual is so over the top and exaggerated, much like the record. The name "Think Tank" just stuck. So, no, I didn't call the album "Think Tank" because I regard my brain as some great intellectual engine, or because I perceive these shows as a higher-learning experience. They're a good time, and that's all. -- Henry Rollins