Talk Is Cheap Vol IV

Talk Is Cheap: Volume 4
Live album by Henry Rollins
Released	December 2004
Recorded	16 April 2004 at San José State University in San José, CA
Genre	Spoken word Comedy
Length	159:26
Label	2.13.61
Henry Rollins chronology
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Talk Is Cheap: Volume 4 is the 14th live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released December, 2004 on 2.13.61 Records. It was recorded on April 16, 2004 at San José State University in San José, CA. Clocking in at nearly 160 minutes, it is his longest release to date.

Liner Notes

Here we go again! This CD set documents the 2004 tour. The show happened at San Jose State in Northern California. A great crowd and I am glad it was the night we recorded. In the tradition of the last three volumes of Talk Is Cheap, the CDs are long and low on edits and cost and of course, one dollar from each CD will be donated to Hollygrove in Los Angeles, CA (a home for abused and neglected children, www.hollygrove.org). The tour ended up being 91 shows and ended at the University of California at Bakersfield on October 21, 2004. Thanks for showing up. It was a great time I had out there with you. I hope you enjoy the show. The children of Hollygrove thank you too.

Henry Rollins, November 2004.

Topics

Warming Up the Spleen

• Fox News and Bill O'Reilly
• Dr. Phil McGraw

First On the List

• Dying record labels

Bush, of Course

• President George W. Bush
• Iraq War

Let's Go To Mars

• NASA's continuing missions to Mars

Spina Bifida Boy

• Henry's experience meeting a resilient young man with spina bifida after a show in Washington D.C.

Sermonizing From the Mount

• Henry's experience lecturing a complacent teenage skater who begged him for money

Unleash the Compassion!

• President George W. Bush donating American tax dollars to Christian organizations
• Pope John Paul II
• Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ (2004)
• Abstinence-only sex education

Kevin and Sean

• Same-sex marriage and homophobia
• Janet Jackson's 2004 Super Bowl halftime show controversy
• Girls Gone Wild
• Henry's frustrating dating experiences as a teenager

The Conversation Pt. 1

• Not fitting in with people in Los Angeles, CA
• Henry's frustrating dating experiences as an adult

The Conversation Pt. 2

• Henry's surreal experience during an attempted robbery of his home

I Can't Get Behind That!

• Being on the USO Tour
• Making a record with William Shatner, Ben Folds and Adrian Belew
• Hanging out at William Shatner's house
• The 2004 Presidential elections
• Arnold Schwarzenegger

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Warming Up the Spleen" - 6:35
2. "First On the List" - 5:05
3. "Bush, of Course" - 13:00
4. "Let's Go To Mars" - 5:17
5. "Spina Bifida Boy" - 8:23
6. "Sermonizing From the Mount" - 5:28
7. "Unleash the Compassion!" - 35:46

Disc 2

1. "Kevin and Sean" - 18:33
2. "The Conversation Pt. 1" - 11:50
3. "The Conversation Pt. 2" - 14:24
4. "I Can't Get Behind That!" - 35:10

Credits

• Mike Curtis - Recording
• Rae Di Leo - Mixing