Henry Rollins / 2.13.61 • DVDs • Henry Rollins - Live At Luna Park

Available for the first time on DVD! / DVD-5 - Approx time: 83 minutes. Includes the special feature: "Pump With A Chump." It was December 1996. I had come to the end of a run of 78 shows. I figured it was time to make another video since it had been awhile and I had a lot of new material. We booked two nights at this great looking theater is Los Angeles called The El Rey. we brought in Modi to direct as we had on Talking Form the Box. There were two shows, on December 6 and 7. The crowd was great and a good time was had by all. I hope you get a kick out of this video. I know I had a blast at the show. -- Henry Rollins NTSC All Regions

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

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

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

Rollins spoken word show recorded live Spring 1999 at Luna Park, Los Angeles, CA. Track Listing: 1. Intro 2. Death To Poets 3. Journal 4. Clintonese 5. Language 6. Never Again 7. The United Colors Of West LA 8. Rite Aid 9. Israel 10. Maturity 11. Men In Make Up 12. Future Parents 13. Encore From liner notes: I remember cold water being splashed on my face and the harsh light of a bare bulb burning my eyes. I tried to cover my eyes but couldn’t move my hands; I looked down and saw that they had been duct-taped to the arms of a chair. I immediately relaxed; it was just another “meeting with management.” My manager, Richard “he’ll do it” Bishop, spoke from behind the glare, “My Gulfstream needs new carpeting. I have booked a series of talking shows for you at Luna Park here in town. You will appear one night a week for the next nine weeks. This will be good for you, a local artist playing locally, that kind of thing. These stiffs will think you really care. What a joke.” “But Mr. Bishop,” I replied, “I’m tired from the nonstop touring and all the work I’ve been doing on your property lately. With the 16 hour days pruning your orange groves and picking grapes in your vineyards, I am totally exhausted. Please, I’m low on material, let me rest.” I heard a short laugh and saw my manager jerk his head to one side. A large shape moved to my left, I caught the back of a hand hard across my face. “You’ll do what I say, when I say or I’ll move that cardboard box you’re living in further downtown. Get this trash out of my office!” I was, chair and all, removed from the office and hurled out onto the street, signaling the end of the meeting. The resulting CD is taken from a few of the aforementioned nights at the wonderful Luna Park. Thanks for listening. -- Henry

Work on Eye Scream started in 1986. I was crossing America constantly and experiencing the morality shifts, attitudes, and rituals in different parts of the country - the difference in the way people were in the Bible Belt as opposed to New York City, the way blacks and whites interfaced, the intolerance of homosexuality, the morality plays. I started to become aware of how brutal the country is and how much ferocity, cruelty, and oppression are inherent in the culture and how much of it was in me. I wanted to document it and create a book that brought the whole thing to a boil and see w here it left me off. In the summer of 1995, I finished the book and started to edit. Re-reading the manuscript over and over, I realized all the things I had picked up over a decade of playing Devil's advocate and it was inspiring because it clearly defined who my enemies are. As an American, I feel it impossible not to be infuriated by the way things are and have been. I refuse to be happy about the day-to-day and go along with it. There's too much spitting in my face and too much spitting in the faces of people who don't know any other way of life. This book is brutal, and at times, funny. I know that I will probably get a ton of shit for Eye Scream. Enjoy, or better yet... don't. -- Henry Rollins

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

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

A Saturday night in New York City with Henry, as recorded live at the Westbeth Theater in December of 1999. (2-CD Set)