nine inch nails

[SHAFTR]

I'm attending tonight's show.

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I was so mad I couldn't attend the show, so I watched the video.  That audience was completely retarded.  The performance looked awesome, but when he was playing Frail the audience was just screaming stupid shit out like "I love you!!" and then during Hurt, they droned him out by singing along in their offkey voices.

Myabe it was just that crowd, though.

[mogwai]

does anyone remember what letterman said about nin's woodstock 94 performance? i know that he thought their performance was shocking but i'm searching after quotes.

[Pubrick]

does anyone remember what letterman said about nin's woodstock 94 performance? i know that he thought their performance was shocking but i'm searching after quotes.

how specific did u want.. i found this:

woodstock.67.23: Franklin J. Flocks (fjf)  Thu 18 Aug 94 17:31

   Re #21 - David Letterman a couple of nights ago in reference to Nine Inch
   Nails said "Book those guys" - (This is what Ed Sullivan said when
   he saw the Beatles and their sceaming fans at an airport in 1963).
   ...
   one of Letterman's guests said he only stayed long enough to catch
   a couple inches. - and re #23 and #24 - Yes I did mean "screaming."

over here http://www.well.com/woodstock/wstockconf/woodstock.67.html

[mogwai]

i was thinking about if he discussed the performance for two good minutes or so. this is like when foo fighters are on the show. he namedrops them several times during the show and that's that. thanks anyway.

[MacGuffin]

Q&A: Trent Reznor
The NIN leader worships Devo, disses Franz Ferdinand
By AUSTIN SCAGGS, Rolling Stone

At the moment, Trent Reznor is not happy about freezing his ass off in Minneapolis, but the Nine Inch Nails mastermind is happy that his tour has finally hit its stride. The first two weeks were a disaster, with a cancellation and two postponements because NIN drummer Jerome Dillon suffered from a heart condition. (He's been replaced for the tour by Alex Carapetis.) "That threw a big wrench into the works," says Reznor, "but now we're up and running." Reznor, who quit drugs and alcohol four years ago, is still riding the high of sobriety. "I've had a newfound appreciation for music in general -- listening to it, playing it, thinking about it and embracing it," he says, adding that there's a possible solo tour (just him, a piano and effects) and a new NIN album on the horizon. "I feel like I have a lot to do and a lot to say."

What's your first musical memory?

My dad told me that I was always putting on Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced? but I don't really remember that. I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's greatest hits. I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

You're forty. Is that too old to rock?

It's just a number. I can tell you that making music right now feels more vital than it's ever felt. When I got sober, my first priority was trying to not want to kill myself. After that I was aware that drugs and alcohol had not only taken away my soul but also took away my love for music. It'd become a job, people hassling and pressuring me, and the competitive nature of business consumed me.

The Beatles and the Beach Boys were competitive, and they inspired each other. Was there a band like that for you in the Nineties?

There's different levels. When I was starting out, Jane's Addiction came through Cleveland. I might have been ten feet from the stage, and it completely destroyed me: "They kicked our ass, let's figure out how to compete." But there's another level of competition: the reality that you're in a business, competing with your peers, trying to sell your product. When Downward Spiral came out, Soundgarden's record [Superunknown] came out the same day, and they beat us. I have no beef with them, but that was the enemy at the time. Two and a half years later, I'd sunk into being a drug addict, but we sold more records. I beat you, fucking Soundgarden!

Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" is the best, but what's the worst Nine Inch Nails cover ever?

One of those hair-metal bands [Trixter] covered "Terrible Lie." I almost called them up and said, "I'll pay you if you don't put this out." One of my biggest influences and favorite bands is Devo. Imagine my thrill when they were covering "Head Like a Hole." That thrill lasted right up to hearing the second bar! But they're still awesome.

Six years ago, you said in Rolling Stone that rock & roll "has taken a big shit." How do you feel now?

Well, we've managed to put rap rock -- or, sorry, new metal -- back where it belongs, as a forgotten footnote. I'm a bit more optimistic now, but in the alternative-rock world I see a lot of hype over substance. I think Radiohead are great, and Arcade Fire -- I saw them live and couldn't believe how good it was. On the other hand, there's a band like Franz Ferdinand -- all the cool people say they're good, but it sounds like I'm getting bullshitted by somebody. That's just my take.

You lived in New Orleans for nearly fifteen years. Was there any bar you went to regularly to hear live music?

What you should've asked me is, "Was there a bar that I didn't go to?" Musicwise, generally we'd go to Tipitina's -- the real Tipitina's that was uptown. I miss that place. And I miss now the fact that it won't ever be the same.

What's romantic music to you?

I got to say, I don't think I've ever been asked that question. You mean, if there was romance in the air and I had my iPod sitting on my desk...

That's what I'm saying.

Uh, that would range from Debussy to D'Angelo -- Voodoo, in particular. Perhaps Erykah Badu, Sigur Ros or Brian Eno's latest album, Another Day on Earth. They all come in handy.

You've spoken for years about taking a female singer under your wing. Who'd work best with you?

Sade would be at the top of the list. Or someone raspier, like a Lauryn Hill type, minus the personality.

What's the best gift you've gotten from a fan?

Yesterday I got a Narcotics Anonymous keychain. And I did have a great letter that came when we were in California working on Downward Spiral. It says, "Trent, I'm your biggest fan. I would do anything for you. In fact, I'm writing this in my own blood." I'm not a handwriting analyst, but I can pretty much guarantee that this person was sincere.

[hedwig]

D'Angelo -- Voodoo, in particular.

hell yeah. that's quite an album.

cool interview 

[mogwai]

there's a lengthy interview with ex-drummer jerome dillon. he talks about life with nin, why he quit the band and his own band nearly.

the interview

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New tour dates up, and I think they've been posted here yet.

http://nin.com/tour/index.html

I've gotten my second chance...

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Got my tickets for Detroit!  Yay!

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I just saw NIN in concert and I can safely say, of all the bands I've ever seen, this has to have been the best performance.

First off, after the crappy opener left, everyone pushed to the front, and I was tightly packed in a circle of drunken, dance prone women.  A thin sheet covered the stage from all sides.  The show started and immediately snapped the audience's attention with the song I hoped the most he'd play, Mr. Self Destruct.  A strobe light ran pretty much the whole time, and it was one of the most beautiful spectacles I'd ever witnessed (until later in the show when the lighting tricks only became more and more mindblowing).

They played Closer, which was expected, but in the middle they broke into Closer to God (one of the remixes) and then went back into the song, picking up with the solo.

They did some really cool stuff with the projectors on the screens, occasionally they'd project rain drops going down on all sides, but at different rates on each screen so it looked like it was just pouring water down.  They did some really cool, subtle stuff with making it appear like blood was dripping down the back of the stage.  During Right Where It Belongs he displayed a lot of clips of suburban spreads, industrial complexes, etc. then George Bush and got quite a reaction from the audience, as I'm sure they expected. 

Their setlist was amazing, though.  They played almost every song I wanted to hear, and surprised me with some I hadn't heard in a while.  He played a surprisingly low amount of With Teeth and mostly played Fragile, Broken and Downward Spiral. 

The big downside of the show was he was playing Hurt and the audience were being loud, obnoxious, rude, as it was the end of the show and they grew tired, I suppose.  It was really growing in volume and eventually pissed Trent off enough to stop playing, kick his piano over and just leave, no encore.  Oddly enough, it was still the best show I've ever seen, even though it left on such a downbeat.

[mogwai]

the reason he walked off was that he got hit by a lighter. and they don't do encores any more. the usually end with smashing apart the whole stage. the songs you missed out on was "starfuckers", "the hand that feeds" and "head like a hole". shame that some in the crowd acted like idiots.

show reviews including a video of trent walking off

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Thanks for that, Mog.

[mogwai]

no problems!

[bonanzataz]

what fragile songs did he play? i saw them three times and he hardly played any fragile. it was mostly with teeth. when i saw them in boston, i think he only played the frail into the wretched.