Olaf Hess posted this report of the 11/19 Mainz, Germany show to the Rollins-talk list on 11/20:
Hi folks,
yesterday I went to a town called Mainz in the middle of Germany to see the spoken word show; it was my first and I hope it wasn't the last. Here is the list of topics that I remember. He spoke for more than two hours and seemed to be really into it.
Language:
- That all Scandinavian languages sound as if the person speaking has throat cancer and the reason for that
- That songs sung in German sound as if the singer is giving orders
- That he likes the Scorpions but that their singers always sings as if he doesn't know a word of English
- Him learing most of his German from songs by the "Einstürzende Neubauten" and being a big fan of Blixa Bargeld (their singer if that's his name)People and life in general:
- That people could solve a lot of problems if they would realize how much they have in common, e.g. that two soldiers who knew that they both loved John Coltrane's "A love supreme" wouldn't be able to shoot at each other any longer
- That young people should be able to shut up and listen to older persons because they have much more interesting stories to tell, that old people have seen and felt so much more of life and are therefore a great source of knowledge and wisdom
- That fucking up is part of the gamePlaying in front of German audiences:
- Marilyn Manson playing in the afternoon with hardly any audience participation
- The opening act for the Rollins Band during the "Weight" tour being an U.S. band that has sold 3 million records in the U.S. but in Germany nobody knows them. The crowd being totally bored by that band, so the singer telling them that "We just sold 3 million records in the U.S." and nobody in the audience cares.
- The Rollins Band playing in Stuttgart last year without any crowd participation, so Rollins finally tells them during songs that he's going to get married. The guys in the band looking at each other puzzled while he continues "to Sharyl Crow", but nobody in the audience reacting to it.Coolness:
- You're only ten percent as cool as you think
- Him telling about totally freaking out when having to do a nude scene in a movie (can't remember the name of the movie, Kelly McGilles is in it, too)Two days off during the last tour in Thailand:
- The band driving around with the cab driver who wants to be called by a number, not by a name
- Them going to buy silk suits
- Seing statues of the Buddha and immediatly liking him
- Why he thinks that Buddhism is cool and what he thinks about Christianity
- The golden Buddha that was covered with plaster and some reasons why the monks put plaster over the goldDreams:
- Him having a nightmare last year after a show when he dreams about a woman calling his name and wanting to stab him
- The woman acutally standing nude in front of his hotel room and calling "Henry" all the time
- His light technician from Scottland taking care of herGrowing up:
- That he is 37 now and nobody calls him "young man" any more
- That all things go down with age and that he didn't invent gravity
- that most people once they reach the age of 30 seem to turn into the middle lane, start listening to boring music and loose their passion for lifeWomen:
- Him having a role in a movie with all these fashion modells
- The two kinds of women one finds in Los Angeles
- That women are so much superior to men, that men try to solve problems through logic and going insane by trying to figure women out that way ("Does not compute...")
- That it only happend twice during his Rock'n'Roll career that he saw naked women during shows
- Him being at some Ozzy Osborne concert, Ozzy yelling "show me your tits" to the crowd and the women in the audience acutually doing so
- This woman "Heidi" working at 2.13.61, telling him all the time to dress nicely, to organize his place, to replace his old futton with a propper bed, to get nice bedsheets
- Men always staring at women's breasts and ass. "Life would be so much easier if we could just screw of our genitals and take that part of the brain out".Traveling:
- That he loves to travel
- That life is pretty short and one should try to see as much of this planet as possible ("I'm mad at all the places that I haven't been to")
- That people in Europe are so fortunate to be sort of "in the centre of the planet" and being able to get anywhere in reasonable time
- That he loves the big display at Frankfurt airport that tells you all the destinations of international flights
- That he will do a spoken word show in Moscow this month with a simultanious translation to Russian ("I'm going to fuck this guy. How is he going to translate 'looser futon' into Russian?")
- Going to Israel to do shows in Tel Aviv and having some days holiday in Egypt afterwards and really looking forward to it
- Him standing like any stupid tourist in front of the pyramids, smiling like an idiot into the cameraThe show rocked. The place seemed to be packed, I had a seat in the 4th row with a pretty good view of him. Contrary to his usual observasion of the usually detached German crowd the audience participation was great.
When he started to tell stories that I had already heard before (like Marilyn Manson playing in front of the bored German audience or about the golden Buddha) I at first thought "OK, that one I already know", but he always gave the stories a different twist and I just loved all of 'em. After the show my cheeks just hurt from so much grinning and laughing and smiling.
The day of the show was my thirtiest birthday and the show just made it perfect. It was sort of "the present of a lifetime", and I am really grateful for it.
J. Berger posted this report of the 10/31 Seattle, WA show to the Rollins-talk list on 11/10:
TO whomever it was that wanted to hear some more of Henry and Ian's childhood antics, here you go. When I saw Henry at the Paramount in Seattle on halloween, he told one story about when he and Ian worked at an Ice Cream store. Well, Ian got Henry to put ice cream and strawberry all over his head, while Ian put ice cream and chocolate all over his own head. When a customer came in they both sat there, deadpan and asked the guy if they could help him. The guy looked at the two of them strangely as ice cream and syrup was running down their faces and onto their clothes. The man asks what is going on, and Ian says that the owner is doing an instore promo and doesn't have alot of money, so they are human sundaes. OH, and another one at the ice cream store was when Ian put rat poison (which at the time I guess looked like little pieces of bubble gum) into one of the bins. One guy came in and saw the rat poison and said, I'd like the bubblegum. Ian said, Sir, that's rat poison. The guy said, are you serious? Ian replied, very serious sir. Give me the bubblegum the guy said thinking it was a joke. Ian looked at him and said, it's really rat poison sir. It will kill you. The guy said, well why the hell would you put rat poison in there? Ian goes, I thought you might want a variety sir. NO shit, it was fuckin' hilarious. Anyway, another time was when the two of them worked at a movie theatre. There was some old film that was playing there that had this orgy scene in it. Well, after the millionth time the two had memorized the music and the scene, so they took the old ticket stubs and right before the climax of the scene, they ran like fairies down the aisles throwing the ticket stubs, which looked like rose petals. Then they ran to the front of the theatre and jumped into each other, bumping chests as the climax occurred. Then they ran back. And there was this fat guy who ran the projector and he always had to walk up these stairs to get to the projector and Henry and ian would make him come down as often as possible by telling him someone called or bringing his dinner, but not taking it up to him, which pissed him off as he walked down stairs and back up.
There's some stuff. he also mentioned the positive assault squad in Ian's car and the petstore fish massacre.
Kate posted this report of the 11/5 Phonix, AZ show to the Rollins-talk list on 11/8:
I just saw Rollins at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, AZ on Nov. 5th. He was all excited about speaking at "theatre in the ROUND!" One of the stories he told about he and Ian was when Ian got a car; he was the first of their buddies to get one. The two of them and friends would drive around just to drive and one time they went to an Army surplus store. They got big army- issued black bug-glasses and would drive around with the windshield wipers pulled out, the glasses on, the radio turned to a white-noise/indeterminable other sounds AM station blasting, sitting ridiculously rigidly and would do positive assaults on people. Their favorite victims were old people. They would drive up, yell something along the lines of "Looking great; keep up the fiber" and speed away. This story was fucking hilarious. The other story I wanted to send out was one when he and Ian went back to the pet shop where they used to work, which had been converted into an Italian restaurant. When they worked at the pet shop, they would do dead fish count every day. Rollins (being Mr. Responsible) would tally the dead fish and Ian would fish the fish out of the tanks. Ian started flicking the fish behind the peg board which the tanks were held up against. When these two came back years later, Rollins mentioned they worked at the old pet store to the woman who seated them. This woman was particularly gretchy and harsh. Rollins asked her what it was like when they looked behind the peg board and the woman goes into this litany of things they had to do -- "It was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen" fumigating, recarpeting. At this point, Ian gives Rollins a "now is the time to shut the fuck up" look, so Rollins says "That was us"
I had a fantastic experience at this show. A friend of mine who has seen him twice before says this is his best show yet. Everyone must see this show.
Erika posted this report of the 10/31 Seattle, WA show to the Rollins-talk list on 11/2:
Well, he says so much and talks so fast. I’ll do my best to remember and paraphrase as best I can. Unfortunately, I did not record it. If anyone did I’d love to get a copy as well. They were NOT checking bags and stuff at this show. I guess I could’ve if I wanted to. But with the other reports on this list...and the recording for the theatre said they did not allow recording equipment. So I guess that was a missed opportunity. Anyway, one of the stories with Ian was about the two of them a couple of years ago going back to the space that used to be the infamous pet store. It is now a family owned Italian restaurant (he talked about this the first time I saw him in ’93 but I did not remember this specific story). He said they went in and were served by the matriarch of the family and she was very serious and stone faced and didn’t have much of a sense of humor. They started peppering her with questions about what the place was like when they first set up their restaurant business there, and didn’t this place used to be a pet store? What was it like turning it into a restaurant? He said the lady immediately became hostile upon these questions. She basically said the place was a shithole and a big mess to fix up and why were they asking these questions? They said "oh we used to work here". Hank says that Ian really didn’t wanna volunteer too much information about it and piss the lady off more, but Hank was like "it was a long time ago". Then Hank asked her about a specific area of the store upstairs and the lady got REALLY hostile. Then he proceeded to tell why. When Ian and Hank worked at the store, they had the small feeder fish upstairs in a bunch of tanks that the store owner had put up on a shelving unit that he built himself. He put up a "fake wall" right next to the real wall that he had separated only by a couple of 2 x 4’s to nail the fake wall into, apparently and on the fake wall were the shelves upon which to put the tanks of fish. So, there was about a 4" space between the fake and real wall. They would get their fresh load of feeder fish on Friday(?), put them in the tanks, and hope the pH and temperature were good so they wouldn’t die. They apparently had a kid that worked "part time, about 40 minutes per week" who didn’t know anything about fish to speak of and did a real shitty job. So, on Saturday, Ian and Henry would come in and do the death count. Someone had to count them and scoop them out of the tanks and record the numbers to keep a running tally of money lost on dead fish. Of coarse, I & H decided this was a two man job. Ian would count them and scoop them out and say "4 Goldfish in tank #1" or whatever, and Henry would write it down. Instead of disposing of the fish carcasses properly, Ian would use the fish scooper to flick them over the top of the fake wall to land in the four inch space between. Henry made a point of saying "this wasn’t something that just happened once or twice, this went on for like, HIGHSCHOOL. This was YEARS of fish that piled up in this space." Hank said that since they were small fish, they just kind’ve dried up and didn’t really ever smell the place up or anything. At first Hank was like Mr. Responsibility "what are you doing? yea, you’re funny Ian, now cut the shit." But he couldn’t tell Ian what to do and Ian didn’t stop, so he just joined in, "because it was funny!" And then the other guy that helped out "40 minutes a week" started doing it, too. And they started getting good at it, if you missed, you’d have fish laying up on the top shelf and you’d have to climb up and toss ‘em over. So, the lady at the restaurant was like "oh my God! There were so many dead fish up there! We had to peel fish skins off the walls and blah, blah, blah." And Hank was like, very matter-of-factly "That was us." And the lady was really pissed. Ian said "Henry! What’d you do that for? You didn’t have to tell her that!" Henry’s like "what are they gonna do? It’s been years". He didn’t really say anything about the food, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that lady spit in it.
One of the other stories was: Ian was the first one in their group of friends to get wheels. "You all remember the thrill of that first time you go out on your own, no bumming a ride, or riding the bus or borrowing the folks’ car or getting a ride from mommy and daddy. All of a sudden you are going places. I remember when I got my first car, a VW bug. I pulled away from the curb thinking ‘Man, I am outta here!’" Ian’s car was a Duster. A big ass tank that you could "run into telephone poles and not do any damage". He and Ian got a hold of some sunglasses that were the kind that like wrap around your head in one piece and the lenses were like these bubbles that bulged out and you put ‘em on and "you immediately look …just…insane!" So they bought these $2 sunglasses at a drugstore and went around in the Duster with the windows down and the radio tuned into some AM frequency that was just in between two stations so it was just hideous sounding ear piercing white noise with snatches of someone’s voice or some music REALLY LOUD. And they didn’t just sit in the seats normally, they were in the car with only their heads touching the backs of the seats and their feet on the floor boards, arching their bodies like freaks--"We are Devo"-- with the sunglasses, the windows down, and the hideous white noise and would zoom up to people, elderly people were they’re favorites, walking along, carrying groceries or with their walkers or whatever and the people would be waiting for the flying eggs or the insults or the screamed threats or something of that nature and instead they would say things like "Good Day, sir! You are doing an excellent job carrying those groceries! You’ve got at least a good 20 or 30 more years of good life left to live!" or "Lookin’ sharp, ma’am! Keep up the effort!" Things like that and then zoom off. That was their "Senior Service" of their high school days. That story got a big laugh. He went off on that story after talking about the graffiti backstage at a lot of the venues that he plays. Every band that comes draws something on the walls in the dressing room and then the next band comes and totally destroys what the last band did and does their own thing and on and on, which of coarse got him off on the discussion of the word "fag", since that was one of the things to do--draw an arrow and the word "fag" next to the art of the last band. Henry said "I would never do the graffiti thing. I can just see "Rollins Band" on the wall, the next band, ‘Asshole’ ‘That guy’s a dick!’ ‘Fag!’. So I never walk into that punch. I’m not THAT stupid." But he said he would like to leave some "positive" graffiti for the next band or performer, like right next to the stage door "Hey, you’re gonna be great! They love you out there! Go out and kick some ass! Have a great show!" He says he could just see the next band, maybe the drummer is feeling bad "Oh man. I’m bummed out, I don’t feel like playing." And then seeing Henry’s message and suddenly feeling pumped and ready to go! So then that got him thinking about he and Ian’s exploits. He said he’d just seen Ian a few days ago, so he was thinking about him. I presume from the DC show.
Savannah Goodwin posted this report of the 10/31 Seattle, WA show to the Rollins-talk list on 11/2:
Hey Everybody, The Seattle show rocked! The Paramount looked packed, and is quite a step up from the University of Washington Ballroom of years ago...Henry was thrilled to be on the stage that James Brown had rocked only the night
before :)He came out on stage as Rollins-Man, head to toe with cape & chest "R", to thunderous applause. I may never be the same :)
(I had been hoping that he would dress up, but my friends---only marginally familiar w/ Henry, I should've noticed---thought he was too cool for that. He's actually just so cool he's not embarrassed to be a bit goofy...or as he said so fittingly during a story about he and Ian during their teenagehood---"Life is short. You gotta fuck around a little.")
The coolest parts were those tales of he and Ian in their Senior Support Devo-mobile, the Caligula pranks, the 3am Hotel Stalker, the Bankok suit-shopping, lack of priority in this country, his vision of Hades, the serenity and beauty of Buddhist temples ("he looks like a God who would cut you some slack") the travel diary from his trip to Kenya & Madagascar, and the (real?/imagined?) response of a hyperperceptive woman to him asking her out. My favourite soundbite is actually "I refuse not to be passionately in love with something." Amen. What badass positive reinforcement.
babic posted this report of the 10/25 St. Louis, MO show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/26:
The show kicked ass and was without a hitch, except for a buzzing on-stage speaker that was aggravating Rollins for the first hour or so. He talked about most of the things that have already been mentioned about other shows via e-mail (the budda story was great) and a few others which included: his dream about the knife lady/naked woman at his door, living out his rock n roll superstar fantasy, and Fido, Rollins Band's crazy Swedish lighting technician who solicited a transvestite for a blowjob. A little past halfway through the show, some guys in the back started shouting out names of old Rollins and Black Flag songs and Rollins just tore them up. He said something to the effect of, these guys think they can get my attention by yelling out names of songs I wrote a long time ago, well thats just stupid--WHY DON'T YOU DRINK SOME MORE AND GET REAL DRUNK? He then proceeded to tell how this guy's woman was going to want to have sex later but this guy would be too drunk. So Rollins said he would fuck this guy's girlfriend in this guy's car, while he was in the seat next to them passed out, using the condom from this guy's wallet, and then when Rollins was done, he would tie it up, autograph it and put it on the passed out drunk guy's forehead while it was cooling. It was funny as shit. Excellent show--what I expected and more.
Erich Fromm posted this report of the 10/20 Cleveland, OH show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/25:
due to circumstances, i got to cleveland about an hour before the doors opened. i got in line at the odeon just as rollins got there. he talked with the four of us who were out there for a minute or two before going in - he is such a personable guy. he talked during the show about how the way he talks to people and his table manners come from years and years of his family's "influence" ("say 'how do you do ma'am' to the nice lady - whack!"). you can see that he treats his fans with much respect.
since i was there so early and it was general admission, i got a front row seat. quite cool. the show covered a lot of things people have mentioned here already. it started with him talking about graffiti in dressing rooms and how he saw one in austin (i think) that was this massive detailed art work and someone wrote in tiny letters "fags" beside it with an arrow. he said that that word was so cool in a non-sexual orientation way ("the great leveller of the playing field") and he mentioned the "kids in the hall" episode where they did a spiel about taking the teeth out of 'faggot' by changing it to 'faggo' ("c'mon faggo!"). he also talked about him and ian mackaye, buddha, heidi making him buy a bed, interviewing sonny rollins on the phone, africa, hanging with the original black sabbath lineup in birmingham (he got to sing "paranoid" with them - whoa), travelling and seeing the world, and racism.
a little while after the show, he signed autographs and talked to people. most people were cool and henry was cool right back. great night.
Tom Luffman posted this report of the 10/19 Columbus, OH show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/20:
The show was great. He spoke on many topics like personalities he encountered on airplanes. My favorite was Powerman. He did read the print out from the Africa story but it was cool to hear his voice behind the story. He really hit hard on young people being lazy and unmotivated. He talked about Frost and the sci-fi thing which he had the lead in. Does anyone have a copy? He also covered the plaster covered buddha which I think is a really cool story. He talked about hanging out when he was younger with Ian...He said so much over 3 hours time that it is hard to really pull pieces to write about. He flows so effortlessly.
Jaimee posted this report of the 10/18 Pontiac, MI show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/19:
I wasnt able to catch the show in Ann Arbor in February & I wasnt at all disappointed with the show last night. He seems to definitely deliver every time. It was shorter than other shows that I remember though... I did notice that the mix of the crowd wasnt as diverse at it usually seems. Perhaps it had to do with where the show took place......? Seems like the group gets younger every year. He told some great stories, as always. I look forward to the next time that he comes around. Those journal entries about the trip to Africa were definitely classic.
Michael Plumridge posted this report of the 10/18 Pontiac, MI show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/18:
I was at the Rollins show last night in Pontiac. That was the first time I had ever been to se ehim and I have to say that I was pretty impressed. I haven't laughed so hard for that long since I went to see George Carlin in February of 1997. I had never been to Clutch Cargos and after driving down from Mount Pleasant with friends, it was a great time. We got there around 8:00 but we didn't miss anything because he started about 15 minutes after we got there. I have been a fan for the past couple years - of both his reading and writing and spoken word recordings. He managed to say some stuff that was really really relevant to me right now (about Buddha, and how it's what's on the inside that counts.) I had kind of feared seeing him because I have such a high opinion of him and I didn't want that spoiled but he was alot cooler than I thought he'd be. I could listen to him talk for years.
Jackie Augustine posted this report of the 10/15 Rochester, NY show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/16:
I saw Henry last night in Rochester, NY. He seemed to be so on, everything flowed and it was just wonderful. Topics of conversation included: Buddha in Thailand, Flea at a jazz club, what love's all about, how Henry's trying to grow up (including buying a bed), racism, how the press' coverage of the Lewinsky thing should really make us mad, tha "power man" on the airplane (this part was *especially* hilarious, also some Africa stuff and some anti-MTV talk plus more. My camera was confiscated at the door, apparently he is allowing no pictures this time around. I was lucky enough to catch Henry and convinced him to tell the doorguy to give me my camera back so I got a picture of us together (he is semi-hugging me) I can;t wait to get that roll developed.
When he came out there were a lot of people hanging around. Some guy had been yelling out the title of Black Flag songs all through the show and Henry had to stop twice to tell him to cut it out with comments such as "here I am talking and you start ejaculating things" and "this is not an interactive performance". Anyway, there was some guy after the show standing right next to his ear yelling "Henry ROllins is the Cal Ripken of ROck and Roll!" and some woman (who was incidentally behind me in the very long ling of people waiting to get in, having her husband try and jog her memory as to who Hank was...he was saying things like "remember when we saw heat?") asked him to sign her belly (she was really gross-look ing and pretty old) and he said if he did that, he'd only be able to sign "ted Nugent". That cracked everyone up but she was so retarded that it didn't phase her. Then there was a guy who shoved all of this stuff in his face to be signed and kept saying "when might yuo be able to publish some of my stuff" and Henry was like "why do you need someone to do it for you? Do what I do, get a stapler and go to Kinkos." But he was really cool to everyone and it was a really great end to the evening.
"bar sinister" posted this report of the 10/13 New York, NY show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/15:
I went to the Irving Plaza show on Tuesday night. A large-size crowd with every folding chair filled to capacity. Creative seating plans were the order of the day...
A three-hour tour: for the literate, reading Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's signature and setting off the motion detectors at a museum - the F. Scott Fitzgerald posse vs. the Thomas Wolfe posse - using the tattooed facade to toy with the curator...
for the sexually frustrated, the prospect of the first Rollins nude scene (yes, virginiae, there WILL be a butt shot!)... for the armchair travelers, killer baboons and life behind the electrified fence in Africa -- hang time watching Elvis movies with Ozzy and pushing Tony Iommi's truck out of the murk -- chatting with Brian May and John Lee Hooker...
- and more for you to love. Wish I could have gone back for seconds, but you know how that goes! The only drawback was a rather loud argument between two audience members because the guy told the girl to 'shut up'. Didn't phase Henry but I don't think anyone sitting nearby 'ssshh' -ing her was too happy.
Heather Astonposted this report of the 10/13 and 10/14 New York, NY shows to the Rollins-talk list on 10/15:
Was anyone else at the Philadelphia show? I'm drawing a blank right now- all I remember was that I had to leave before he finished, and someone came up and told me to stop taking pictures. But I do remember the New York shows, for good reason. The first night-Tuesday. I got there waited on line, sat in the fifth row. Boy, he sure can talk can't he? What he talked about:
North Carolina-filming a movie with Kelly McGillis. He sat on her lap and sang "take my breath away", everyone cracked up.
Men hanging around in the parking lot at Hooters. (Why?)
A cop hitting on him when he was at the gym.
The psycho businessman with the notepad made up of $1 bills.
There was a whole lot more, but I won't give away the show. The second night, last night was even better. I sat in the second row, the stories were almost completely different. He started off by talking about the East Village and how it's changed so much. Then recommended a book called "Lowlife (s?)" which is a history of Manhatten. He was staying down near Bowery and talked about the homeless shelters, and how he wondered what happened to each person to cause them to end up there. Other things:
Thailand-buying clothes he has no use for, and going to a sex show.
He's 37 and just bought a bed for the first time.
How, when he was staying in New York, the sink was difficult to beat off in. This story is on the new video. (I never got this. Why didn't he just use a sock?)
Afterwards, about 30 people hung around to meet him. I met a photographer who had taken pictures of Henry in Amsterdam a few years back. She wanted to show them to him. He looked at them, complimented her, and promised to e-mail her. I took a picture with him, gave him some deer and that was that. A good night.
Al Balkiewicz posted this report of the 10/14 New York, NY show to Rollins-talk list on 10/15:
Well, I went to the second Irving Plaza show last night, and it was absolutely great - just what I expected and then some.
Don't want to give too much away, but about 95% of it was different than when I saw him last in May in Morristown, and apparently around 80% or so was even different than the night before....
It was little bit shorter than the last time (2 1/2 hours), but just amazing. Finally heard the "infamous" Thailand bit, which was great.
The one thing that I noticed was that he coughed every now and then. Dunno if he's coming down with something, or was just affected by the smoke in the venue. Just one anal thing I picked up on. Got to sit about 10 rows back, and Irving Plaza did a real good job of setting it up - a very different atmosphere than I was used to at that place, but then again, it was a different type of show. Kudos to the venue for setting it up well.....
IF you have a chance to see him, whether or not you've seen him before, go as much as you can. The man definitely does not disappoint.....
jeff moore posted this report of the 10/3 Austin, TX show to the Rollins-talk list on 10/7:
went to the gig the other night.really good show.the place was alive. he talked about alot of different shit, im sure some of you have heard em .
1.new one about this texas power-executive that he met on the plane the night before that hands out dollar bills to people for smiling,and took a book out of henrys hand and commanded a coversation on music etcetera,funny as hell.henry was in his control.
2.henry verses iggy pop. story about them trying to outdo eachother at this festival every year in norway.
3.being brushed off by celebs such as chris tucker.
4.stories from the set of his new film with kelly mcgillis and billy zane.henry plays a kidnapper.he sang take my breath away to kelly on the set.
5.talked about his africa trip,and read the stuff from the now defunct "rollins page"at 21361.com
6.dont do drugs or smoke
7.crazy chicks that have stalked him in australia,this lady sent him boxes of garbage to the 21361 office,bizare shit,fucking hilarious.
thats all i can recall at the time,im sure the little 2 minute bits will come in time but that is basically the main topics of the show. the shirts they are selling this year have the cover art from the new album,which look really cool.i didnt get one though. also,did everyone get the post card announcing the new cd/video?probably be a cool momento some day. thanks. jeff