ROLLINS BAND Reissues In The Works

Punk rock icon Henry Rollins has issued the following update:

"Hello folks. It's November and it's been awhile since I have done a newsletter. This was a long year with a lot of work and I hope that next year will be just as busy.

"We have started work on the next season of the IFC show and so far, the performances from the bands we taped are pretty mind blowing: THE MARS VOLTA, RYAN ADAMS, THE BLOOD BROTHERS, PEEPING TOM, just to name a few. We have not done any sit-down guest interviews as yet but I guess that starts soon enough. The first show of the new season will air at beginning of April. I'll get that start date to you as soon as it's firm.

"I will be going out on another USO tour in December. The location is still being worked out and they tell me where I'm going only a few days before I leave for security reasons. Wherever it is I end up will be the right place to be. It will be my seventh USO tour. I am looking forward to it. These trips are never easy to do but always worth it.

"I have a few talking shows tentatively booked for late this year/early next year in Dubai and Israel. I don't expect I'll be seeing many of you at these shows but I thought I'd let you know. When and if the dates firm up, I'll post the details. I plan on getting some interesting travel done in the next several months so I'll have some good stories for next year's talking tour.

"I hope some of you have checked out the radio show I do on Indie 103.1, Tuesday nights, 8-10 p.m. PST. You can go to www.harmonyinmyhead.com and read all the show's playlists and broadcast notes. I perhaps spend too much time working on the show but it's been a good time so far and I think I'm getting some good music out there. It's cool to get my record collection off the shelf and on the air. The show is listened to by people all over the world via the Internet (you can access it via the above-referenced website).

"It is the end of the year and it's time to unleash our new stuff. Here are the details:

"New Book - 'A Dull Roar': The full title is 'A Dull Roar (What I Did On My Summer Deracination)'. When my old bandmates and I decided that after not playing together since 1997, we were going to get back together and tour in the summer of 2006, I figured there might be some good stories to tell. So, in March I started a journal to document the four months I allotted myself to prepare mentally and physically for the tour and also the tour itself. During this period, I finished the second season of my show on the Independent Film Channel, worked in the film 'Wrong Turn 2', performed at the Download Festival in England and made trips in and out of New York City for band practice and press. As I have in the past, I overworked, underslept, blew out joints and generally had a swell time. The tour itself had its shares of ups and downs, which are documented in the book.

"I know what some of you are thinking, and no, it's not the 'Dispatches' file. For fans of my books 'Broken Summers' and 'Smile You're Traveling', you may find this book to your liking. We printed a limited first edition of 1000 copies that will differentiate itself from the rest of the press run by having a different colored cover, a signed-and-numbered title page and the coolest part (to me anyway) is the flexibound cover. This book will not be at retail for a long time, if ever.

"New DVD – 'Live In The Conversation Pit': Some of you may have seen this one on eBay or on Amazon.com at some absurd price. That's because a small run of them were pressed in Australia several months ago and found themselves on other shores. The domestic version is all done and it's the same as the one that came from Australia only at a much better price. The DVD is from a multi-night run of shows in Sydney Australia in May of 2005 while on the '25 Years Of Bullshit Tour'. It came out looking and sounding good.

"Old DVD better price – 'Up For It': There's nothing new about this DVD but there's some good news about it. Years ago, we did a licensing deal with another label to release this title and we had to buy pieces from them to sell on our site and they charged us plenty. That old deal just ran out and we pressed up a run of them and wouldn't dare charge that kind of money now that we have it back here where it belongs. It was 24 bucks but now that we've cut out the middle man, it's 15 bucks. The new cover is cooler looking, but there's nothing new about the DVD itself.

"In the works – 'Fanatic! Vol. 2': As the year winds down, so too does the work on the next installment of my labor of obsession, 'Fanatic! Vol. 2'. Same as the previous volume, this is the broadcast notes from my show on L.A.'s own Indie 103.1 (where I have a radio show, once a week on Tuesday nights from 8 to 10 p.m. PST called 'Harmony In My Head'). I liked what we did with the first volume but for 'Vol. 2', I wanted to add more images so I started digging deep into my reserves for flyers, press clippings and other stuff relating to the songs that would be great to look at. I reached out to some fellow Fanatics and borrowed some great DAMNED and BLACK FLAG flyers and clippings and made Carol and Dave crazy with all the scans and reductions but it will be worth it when you see it. As soon as 'Dull Roar' was away to the printer and off our desks, we immediately started in on this book. It's almost done and should be ready at some point in 2007.

"'Talk Is Cheap Vol. 5': I haven't had time yet to sit down with Rae and go through the shows that were recorded on the '25 Years Of Bullshit Tour' but I will have some time soon and will be on the case. When 'Talk 5' is done, I'll let you know.

"ROLLINS BAND reissues: We will be re-releasing some of the old catalog in 2007. The first two up will be 'Hot Animal Machine' and 'Life Time'. Nothing will be different with 'Hot Animal Machine' but 'Life Time' will contain all the live tracks from the original CD release as well as all the studio tracks from the sessions. All these tracks on one CD will be a first. Later in the year we will put out the 'Hard Volume' album and the 'Turned On' album will be remastered and indexed with track numbers. There will probably be some other things from that era coming out as well. We'll keep you posted."