HR: Yeah. There were about 18 hours.
PB: Do you have any plans to release the rest of that material?
HR: No. I actually have another talking record that's Internet-only at the pressing plant right now. Whereas the shows at Luna Park were the first two shows of that year, this release is from the second-to-last show of that year. It's a double CD, full concert, two hours. It's called Henry Rollins Live at the Westbeth Theater, New York City.
We also have a new Rollins Band record in the can that we're going to put online soon. It's all the outtakes from Get Some Go Again, and it's called Yellow Blues. It's 65 minutes of mastered and fully mixed music. We're going to do a healthy bunch of Internet-only releases this year.
PB: It sounds like you've fully embraced the Internet.
HR: Having website-only releases gives a guy like me an opportunity to put out a lot of stuff without people thinking you're just gouging them for money. It bothers me when I see the No Doubt five-song single from one record and then the three-CD box with the two singles and the remixes on the shelf at Tower Records. To me that says, "I am preying upon 14-year-old kids who 'gotta gotta' have it, and that's an extra houseboat for me." I can't do that, but on the Internet you can put out, like, 30 live records so that they are there if you really want them, but they aren't in your face at Tower Records. You have to go to our site to get them. It's great because the fans who have to have everything know where to go instead of being this thing that is crassly put in front of you as a new product. I wish all my favorite bands did that kind of stuff.
PB: What are you listening to lately?
HR: Lately I've been listening to a lot of vinyl. I'm getting through the Miles Davis/John Coltrane box set on vinyl and the Bitches Brew sessions on vinyl and a lot of punk rock vinyl such as Ramones, and also Zeppelin and the Beatles. I just got a mono copy of Sgt. Pepper's and I played that. It sounds just fucking awesome. I also picked up a mono copy of Chelsea Girls by Nico. It cost me an arm and a leg, but it sounds great. I'm kind of an audiophile nerd. I have five different playback systems stretched across two houses.
PB: So, you're a total stereo geek into speakers and stuff?
