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Henry Rollins' Capitalism: Live from Washington, DC on Nov. 5th | TakePart TV. Henry Rollins is taking his show on the internet! Watch a LIVE performance …
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I caught the whole Henry Rollins live broadcast from the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, via TakePart TV last night. That show was the last stop in Henry Rollins' "Capitalism" tour.
Live streaming topped out at around 600 live viewers, but fortunately, they've made the whole thing available for not-so-live viewing.
The two plus hour spoken word show had Rollins telling us stories from his Black Flag days to his thoughts and opinions on women, politics, history, and the world.
Broadcast setup was very professional, it included multiple (with panning/not stationary) cameras and had a live director (for switching camera angles.) Tight shots are amazingly detailed, but blowing up the image full screen, you can see image artifacts, even at "720p" quality. I believe this has to do with the bandwidth limitation and current streaming technology and not necessary on the cameras they were shooting with. For the price of "free", I can't complain too much. In fact, because of stuttering problems/buffering issues, I had to reduce the streaming to 240p anyway, so I can just listen to Henry Rollins' voice.
Compare this to the amateur setups of Stageit shows (and this has nothing to do with the performers), the HD-quality of TakePart TV blows away any low-res laptop camera from all the Stageit shows I've seen. Plus, it's free and made available for later viewing.
As for the show, it's pretty amazing to just watch Henry Rollins just talk. There's so much energy and excitement from Rollins. Even if you don't agree with him, at least Rollins stands behind his beliefs 100%. There are three things Rollins is afraid of, but the most important thing is that he's afraid he would do a bad show. He thinks that everybody that buys a ticket for his show, that the ticket is a binding contract for Rollins to perform his best show. He does it every night, and you wonder sometime how he pulls all the intensity, anger, and loudness, every time.
My favorite is his stories about Black Flag. I wish he had more of these stories to tell, after all, he explained it best that in the 80s, hardly anyone documented or taken photos of the band. One story he told was they were constantly looking to crash at friends and fans' homes. If you stay late to meet the band, often Rollins had the unfortunate job of asking their fans if they could sleep over (this made a lot of sense because Rollins was the most recognized person on stage.) The pancakes that were fed to them by a suburban mother were the funniest story on Rollins' set, especially when Rollins was doing his pack of hyena eating impression.
His dedication and engagement with his fans are his number one concern. He made it quite clear that he answers all fan mail and there are a number of stories about this. He encouraged everyone to come meet him face to face after the show, even if it's just to shake his hand.
Rollins is a man of many thoughts and opinions. Although accessing the live stream, and sitting at home in my pajamas was pretty awesome, I would have rather been with him in the audience. Hopefully, when he comes back to St Paul, at Fitzgerald Theater on 12/14, we'll cover his show in person.
In the meantime, he's doing several residency shows in New York, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, and his hometown in Los Angeles (where he lives just a couple of traffic lights from Largo.)
The two plus hour spoken word show had Rollins telling us stories from his Black Flag days to his thoughts and opinions on women, politics, history, and the world.
Broadcast setup was very professional, it included multiple (with panning/not stationary) cameras and had a live director (for switching camera angles.) Tight shots are amazingly detailed, but blowing up the image full screen, you can see image artifacts, even at "720p" quality. I believe this has to do with the bandwidth limitation and current streaming technology and not necessary on the cameras they were shooting with. For the price of "free", I can't complain too much. In fact, because of stuttering problems/buffering issues, I had to reduce the streaming to 240p anyway, so I can just listen to Henry Rollins' voice.
Compare this to the amateur setups of Stageit shows (and this has nothing to do with the performers), the HD-quality of TakePart TV blows away any low-res laptop camera from all the Stageit shows I've seen. Plus, it's free and made available for later viewing.
As for the show, it's pretty amazing to just watch Henry Rollins just talk. There's so much energy and excitement from Rollins. Even if you don't agree with him, at least Rollins stands behind his beliefs 100%. There are three things Rollins is afraid of, but the most important thing is that he's afraid he would do a bad show. He thinks that everybody that buys a ticket for his show, that the ticket is a binding contract for Rollins to perform his best show. He does it every night, and you wonder sometime how he pulls all the intensity, anger, and loudness, every time.
My favorite is his stories about Black Flag. I wish he had more of these stories to tell, after all, he explained it best that in the 80s, hardly anyone documented or taken photos of the band. One story he told was they were constantly looking to crash at friends and fans' homes. If you stay late to meet the band, often Rollins had the unfortunate job of asking their fans if they could sleep over (this made a lot of sense because Rollins was the most recognized person on stage.) The pancakes that were fed to them by a suburban mother were the funniest story on Rollins' set, especially when Rollins was doing his pack of hyena eating impression.
His dedication and engagement with his fans are his number one concern. He made it quite clear that he answers all fan mail and there are a number of stories about this. He encouraged everyone to come meet him face to face after the show, even if it's just to shake his hand.
Rollins is a man of many thoughts and opinions. Although accessing the live stream, and sitting at home in my pajamas was pretty awesome, I would have rather been with him in the audience. Hopefully, when he comes back to St Paul, at Fitzgerald Theater on 12/14, we'll cover his show in person.
In the meantime, he's doing several residency shows in New York, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, and his hometown in Los Angeles (where he lives just a couple of traffic lights from Largo.)
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Henry Rollins at 9:30 Club, Washington (11/05/12) |
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