''Sweatbox'' is the third live
spoken word album by
Henry Rollins, released in 1989 on
Texas Hotel Records Texas Hotel Records was an independent record label based in Santa Monica, California, which released records by singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, Henry Rollins and the Rollins Band from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The label, which started as a re ...
as a 3-LP set, reissued as a double CD and double cassette by
Quarterstick Records in 1992, and later reissued on
2.13.61 Records
2.13.61, Inc. is a publisher and record company founded by American musician Henry Rollins and named after his date of birth (February 13, 1961). The company has released albums by the Rollins Band, all of Rollins' spoken word work, and numerou ...
as a double CD in 2005. It was recorded at various tour dates in 1987-1988 in Washington DC, Los Angeles, CA, Madison, WI, Denver, CO, and Budapest, Hungary.
Liner notes
Sweatbox was a low budget, high ambition project. Originally it was a three LP set that I lugged by the box load on early talking tours. Eventually it hit CD on Quarter Stick where it resided happily for many years. Now, we're remastering and re-releasing all the early material on 213, upgrading sonically with ace engineer Phil Klum at the helm and adding tracks when we can.
The previous Sweatbox is missing one track off the original LP. It was recorded in Budapest, Hungary where I was asked to read for some students before the Rollins Band show that night. Anyway, we added it on this version as an extra track at the end of disc 2. If it's too awful for you, you can always just hit stop! At least the set will be slightly more definitive.
Also, it's great to have Phil Klum go over these tapes and do all that can be done to clean them up and even out the levels. Definitely what a re-release should be all about. I hope you like these ancient recordings.
– Henry Rollins
Track listing
Texas Hotel 3-LP set
Side 1
# 12/19/87 Los Angeles, CA
Side 2
# 12/19/87 Los Angeles, CA
Side 3
# 2/13/88 Madison, WI
Side 4
# 2/23/88 Washington, DC
Side 5
# 10/17/88 Budapest, Hungary
# 2/6/88 Denver, CO
# 8/27/88 Santa Monica, CA
# 12/19/87 Los Angeles, CA
Side 6
# 1/20/88 Los Angeles, CA
# 2/12/88 Chicago, IL
Quarterstick 2-CD/2-cassette and 2.13.61 2-CD reissues
CD/Cassette 1
# "Getting Home" - 7:16
# "Riding the Bus" - 6:25
# "Fun With Letterman" - 2:50
# "Santa Cruz Pig" - 6:36
# "Friction Pt. 1" - 14:09
# "Friction Pt. 2" - 13:41
# "Tough Guys Talk Dirty" - 15:29
# "Short Story" - 5:30
# "Hack Writer" - 4:40
CD/Cassette 2
# "Running, Crawling" - 23:10
# "Sex Ed." - 13:52
# "Blueprints For Destruction of Earth" - 14:37
# "Mekanik" - 3:41
# "Late Night Phone Blues" - 4:40
# "Untouchable" - 7:35
# "My Little Friend" - 11:27
CD 2, track 7 is not on the Quarterstick release, and CD 1, track 5 is erroneously unlisted on the Quarterstick 2-CD set.
Credits
*Rae Di Leo - Edit Engineering
*Phil Klum - Tape Transfer & Mastering (2.13.61 reissue)
1989 live albums
1989 compilation albums
Henry Rollins live albums
Live spoken word albums
Henry Rollins compilation albums
Live comedy albums
Spoken word albums by American artists
Quarterstick Records live albums
Quarterstick Records compilation albums
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