Talk Is Cheap Vol II

Talk Is Cheap: Volume 2
Live album by Henry Rollins
Released	23 January 2003
Recorded	24 April 2001 at the Enmore Theater in Sydney, Australia
Genre	Spoken word Comedy
Length	116:06
Label	2.13.61
Henry Rollins chronology
Talk Is Cheap: Volume 1 (2003) Talk Is Cheap: Volume 2 (2003) Talk Is Cheap: Volume 3 (2004)

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Talk Is Cheap: Volume 2 is the 12th live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released January 23, 2003 on 2.13.61 Records. Talk Is Cheap: Volume 1 was recorded the previous night at the Enmore Theater.

Liner Notes

The liner notes welcome the listener to "Talk Is Cheap" Volume II. Rollins describes the performance as more "stories, bile and ranting diatribes", and himself as a "graying, limping philosophic misanthropic curmudgeon", and mentions that funds from each performance will be donated to "Hollygrove", a home for abused and neglected children in Los Angeles

Topics

Spazz Mit Microphone

• Pauline Hanson
• Australia
• TV shows: Big Brother, Survivor, "Surviving Henry"
• Bill Clinton's impeachment
• U.S. Navy submarine commander Scott Waddle - accidentally destroyed a Japanese fishing boat on February 9, 2001 with the USS Greeneville

Happy Birthday

• Growing old
• Nick Cave
• Henry's experience at his first Birthday Party concert in 1983

Early Retirement

• Growing old
• Shifting from boyhood to manhood; girls into women

It's Kiss!

• Henry's experience going to his first Kiss concert in 2000
  • Henry's Kiss-fanatic bandmates
  • San Bernardino, CA
  • The men and women of the Kiss Army
  • Wal-Mart
  • Ted Nugent
• Playing at a music festival in Germany with Macy Gray

The Wisdom of Gene and Paul

• Not burning out as you grow older
• Traveling

India

• Henry's experience visiting India for the first time
• Over-consumption in America & trying to stay low to the ground

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Spazz Mit Microphone" - 12:44
2. "Happy Birthday" - 5:52
3. "Early Retirement" - 18:44
4. "It's Kiss! Pt. 1" - 38:37

Disc 2

1. "It's Kiss! Pt. 2" - 29:27
2. "The Wisdom of Gene and Paul" - 4:03
3. "India" - 6:44

Credits

• Randy Fransz - Recording
• Rae Di Leo - Mixing
• Dave Chapple - Design
• Mike Curtis - Tour Management

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