ETS Tour Journal

Post if you were at tonight's show hanging upside down from the ceiling.

setlist as taken from the access watch:

1. Pinion/Somewhat Damaged
2. Wish
3. Last
4. Sin
5. March of The Pigs
6. Something I Can Never Have
7. Piggy (nothing can stop me now)
8. Metal
9. Terrible Lie
10. Head Down
11. Burn
12. Gave Up
13. La Mer
14. The Frail
15. The Wretched
16. Non-Entity
17. Gone, Still
18. Lights In The Sky
19. The Downward Spiral
20. 1,000,000
21. Survivalism
22. The Good Soldier
23. Dead Souls
24. Hurt

25. Suck
26. Down In It
27. The Hand That Feeds
28. Head Like A Hole

29. Reptile w/Peter Murphy
30. A Strange Kind Of Love - Peter Murphy
31. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Peter Murphy (a Bauhaus song)
32. Final Solution w/ Peter Murphy (Pere Ubu cover)

What an absolutely fantastic last 2 nights in New York City. I didn't know how or if NIN was going to top last night, but 32 face melting songs will do that.

I'm on the LIRR home. Will post more when I get there.

Thank you NIN!!

Wave goodbye

God, Trent. Just cause he fucked up the lyrics to Reptile last night doesn't mean you have to tie the poor man up and leave him dangling from the ceiling.



(Ummm.... amazing show.)

Incredible way to leave NYC. Overwhelming and bittersweet.

It was amazing! Too bad I hadn't eaten all day. I was only 5 feet from Trent's face, perfectly aligned with the mic, got there early, everything went smooth. 3 songs in, being crushed and not eating took it's toll. I could barely stand had to go out for air 4 times during the show. Could barely see and was in too much physical pain to truly enjoy it's amazingness. The fact that they played for 2 1/2 hours was more torture than privilege. =/

I epically failed, so hard and will never be able to make up for it.

Very fun show. Not quite as fun as the Webster Hall or the first Terminal 5 shows for me, but still incredibly enjoyable. That was at least the fifth time Peter Murphy has performed Reptile with them. You'd think by now he could get the lyrics right. Kind of strange that they'd end their last show in New York with a song by another band though.

Also, there were 31 songs, not 32. Bela Lugosi's Dead wasn't performed, Peter just sang some of the lyrics while they were playing A Strange Kind of Love.

Holy fucking hell.

Will post more tomorrow, when I can process what just happened.

pinion/somewhat damaged

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mPs-0Rvkk

reptile w/ peter murphy upside down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se46lZOOQoU

strange kind of love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sowe5HYWdbc

final solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lajXE7CQm3A

something i can never have

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyWL0ZiE1Mw

gone, still

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMTZkr11jRY

piggy (nothing can stop me now)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ava1w-2Hgtc

the downward spiral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsfeEAEAYsY

hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiLAzb0jNiE

down in it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB38wzoIPvY



MEW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbCzgzGfC8o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGX3Y-GrTME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3RLw_4TVak

that final encore saved an otherwise low-key show with an unfortunately VERY standard setlist. WAAAAY too many repeat offenders from the night before. I was really bumed when i heard THTF, as i couldnt believe that was gonna be the lame setlist & the end of the night. The only notable songs up to that point were LITS, Sin, Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now), Last & Down In It. Now, that encore was AMAZING and i enjoyed the FUCK out of it, but i was let down until then. But yeah, that end was special...Final Solution is SO kick ass. Such a hard song when that chorus kicks in.

Seriously, STOP PLAYING Non-Entity, THTF & SURVIVALISM...NO ONE CARES AT THIS POINT. I wish he'd stop platying MOTP, HLAH & Gave Up, but people do really like those, so i know that would never happen. We can't afford all these standards songs if this is the final tour!

pinion...somewhat damaged...sin...final solution....sick


alot repeated from last night...oh well....

la mer was sick as usual


and i agree that hand that feeds is getting a little over done..like...hurt.... but i can NEVER get tired of a live march of the pigs!!!!

webster hall and t5 show 1 where sick this was cool too....to bad for the dead souls speak/amp/whatever problem....

adios... on a VERY good note...trent did reassure us he will be making more music :-)

add Burn to that list too. im burned out on Burn. Good Soldier pretty zzzz live too.

bobbie solo wrote:add Burn to that list too. im burned out on Burn. Good Soldier pretty zzzz live too.

stop complaining, jesus.

it was the last nin show in nyc and it was awesome. end of story.

i dunno man...for $65 a pop, i'd prefer to not hear a very similar setlist to the night before at the same venue. But again, that ending was amazing and made it all good.

i just find it hard to fault a 33 song setlist no matter how standard.

we saw a lot of one time only performances tonight which makes up for any repetitiveness in my opinion.

and a lot of people would have paid a lot more than $65 to see nin tonight if given the chance.

i agree that the one time only songs make up for it. totally. are people still not clear on bela lugosi's dead? it wasn't really performed...just a few lines at the end of Some Kind Of Love.

can we talk about how awesome Mew is? great band...wish they coulda played longer. Special was awesome. I will be seeing them in the future for sure.

I have never been so hot at any concert in my life. Everyone was so hot and miserable and packed in that it ALMOST ruined the show. My brother left the pit after 5 songs from the heat. A girl was crying too. Crowdsurfer fell on his head. Mayhem!

The encore made it all worth it. Felt like I had seen enough of Peter Murphy, but WOW! His voice sounded amazing upside down. He also played some strange piano/flute druing strange kind of love. Anyone know what that was?

At this point after seeing NIN 8 times this year, I am ready for a break.

Off to bed

TheyCallMeDrug wrote:i just find it hard to fault a 33 song setlist no matter how standard.

we saw a lot of one time only performances tonight which makes up for any repetitiveness in my opinion.

and a lot of people would have paid a lot more than $65 to see nin tonight if given the chance.

Agreed completely.

Badass show. Was second row near JMJ. Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) was a nice surprise, as was Peter Murphy dropping down from the fucking ceiling. We saw him walk into the venue while in line earlier in the day and I suspected he'd be back for a less botched version of Reptile, but little did I know he'd make an entrance like that. A+.

Short clip of Somewhat Damaged: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zesAD0Q24Ik

100 or so photos (unfortunately most are grainy, had to use a high ISO): http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5 ... 9d531bb782

Went to all 4 shows and the only one that left me unsatisfied was T5 last night. Tonight's show was badass! Peter Murphy is a maniac. I didn't think there would be an encore after HLAH, but was pleasantly surprised when Murphy came out hanging upside down from the ceiling.

I got the whole thing on video, although it's a little foggy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYzV4WOpsCQ

my videos from the past 5 days can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/kh863 (didn't post any from Tuesday).

how was Mew?

littlemonk3y613 wrote:how was Mew?

Mew was incredible!!! I keep forgetting to give them credit. Totally loved their set. Wayyyy better than The Horrors.

mew were breathtaking. i dug the horrors the previous shows, but i think mew's more positive, visual, and epic vibe was more my taste. the horrors were probably better suited for a nihilistic NIN gig, and perhaps mew were a bit too flouncy for the crowd, but i loved the hell out of them.

and this gig... thanks to christo and co. for saving the missus and i a balcony spot where we dangled our legs below, seated under a table. unlike the night before, we were able to see this show 100%, and enjoyed it thoroughly.

i <3 you, peter murphy. though odd to see the band go out on a series of covers, i am pleased as punch that it wasn't the head like a hole ending. stellar!

probably would rank: webster > this show > t5 1

Alright, a few thoughts. First off, the setlist. I honestly thought was pretty well put together. I was hoping for Ruiner (a lot), but was not disappointed by the choices. Yes, we've heard a lot of these songs often, but seeing Last made up for most of the repeats in my book.

Now to complaints: I was up against the soundboard, as I was taping. To those people immediately around me (i.e. anyone near the guy in a grey shirt with a green hat or the guy in the red shirt with black hat or the guy with a black shirt and black hat - all tapers), you are some of the worst human beings I've ever shared a close space with. You were obnoxiously loud, chatting through the slow songs or yelling nonsense to your drunken buddies during songs ("yo, should we retreat?" "nah, dude, this is my song, man") or "dancing" in such a way that caused you to bump into everyone around you (that's you, tall dude with the LITS shirt). A big FU also goes to the group to the right of me, namely tall blue shirt, short ass who would "think" about being quiet during songs (I asked them if, when NIN came on, they could cease their excessive conversation - they didn't), and the dude with the crazily long hair, who got obnoxiously drunk after a single beer. NIN fans are the single worst thing about NIN shows.

The only other thing that bothered me (like I said, I was reasonably happy with the setlist - it wasn't blowing my mind, but I have no complaints), was that three songs with Peter Murphy ended the set. What a mood killer. This is NIN's Wave Goodbye, and we leave the show after hearing Peter Murphy sing for three tracks? Weak. Although I would have left out the two PM songs they played altogether, they could/should have placed them before the last NIN encore - after all, we were all there for NIN, right? The last hooplah before Trent's great vacation.

Mew sucked major ass and had no business opening for NIN. I can't believe they weren't boo'd. It was just flowery, flavorless alternative tripe with really girly vocals. The peter murphy repeat was kind of lame and not a great way to end it out - using the same 'suprise' as the last night - and I've already seen him play Reptile last year and you know, its nothing new, it wasn't "Lets play TDS all the way through" special, I was expecting something else. Hell, having Gerard Butler scream on stage would have been 100x more exciting.

Nearly half the set was repeated from the first night. Why play TheFrail/TheWretched as an encore to one show and then incorporate it into the main set the next night?

Why are the last three songs by NIN I'll ever hear live a bunch of Baushaus songs I've never heard in my life? I don't care how buddy buddy they are, Trent always does something like this where I always have a gripe about the way he does his sets. Yeah its just my opinion I can't force him to do anything. But when you do things like play Hurt while the super fanboys are forced to yell "Let the guy sing!" "Be quiet!" "stop Talking!" because half the fucking audience can't stand it when they're riled up in a small ass venue, it just pisses me off.

Perfect Drug? Nah, we'll do a remix of Piggy and some covers of songs you've never heard of.

NIN's playing though was great and he will be missed, gripes aside. I had a good time. Just not as good as Jones Beach 2006 which will go down as the best here in NY.

The venue also sucked ass.

Mirrorsaw wrote:The venue also sucked ass.

the only bit of this i agree with, but to each their own...

I don't trust you Mirrorsaw...... ahaah Anyways awesome! I'm so excited to see them! Mew is one of my favorite bands and I'm super stoked I get to see them at the Palladium. WOO

by the by- murphy still fucked the lyrics to reptile up, but this time, he just switched verses, instead of coming in a whole measure early. before anyone gets on the man's case, he was hanging upside down, and it's nothing i haven't seen trent do before...

Mirrorsaw wrote:
Perfect Drug? Nah, we'll do a remix of Piggy and some covers of songs you've never heard of.

They're not playing Perfect Drug, ever! Especially not as a four-piece! Watching this incarnation is a little odd, as their samples are extremely obvious with only 4 men on stage. I'm guessing that is one reason the setlist doesn't wildly vary (and lacks much Year Zero). The other reason it doesn't vary is probably because they are filming these. If it's like any other live DVD, they'll mash all the shows together to make each song.

This show was rad. I have no complaints about setlist, performance, crowd or anything else. The venue is mildly sucky (i dont even know why), but with NIN on stage I didn't mind.

Farewell live NIN. It was fun while it lasted.

totally don't dig mew, but it's just me. as much as I loved the horrors I didn't like mew. I miss you stylish skinny brits.

the concert was as usually incredible! harsh part... quiet part.. harsh part.. encore... encore with PM. who kinda improved my opinion on him from last night. being able to hang upside down for the whole song - respect, really. and only two lines fucked up. thankfully trent didn't go to the depts of the stage to play guitar tonight as he did yesterday but helped PM by singing the refrain. the rest of PM set was wonderful. really wonderful. robin's guitar and singing part of strange kind of love - amazing. NIN playing final solution was incredible.

on the train back to downtown I met the guy who gave me Trent's pick he caught tonight. because the guy was so impressed that I came from russia for the shows. it's good to be me.

Dassarri wrote:A big FU also goes to the group to the right of me, namely tall blue shirt, short ass who would "think" about being quiet during songs (I asked them if, when NIN came on, they could cease their excessive conversation - they didn't)

You scared me there for a minute since I'm a tall guy that was wearing a blue shirt, but I was barely talking at all during the show, so it definitely wasn't me you were talking about. I was mostly annoyed during Lights in the Sky when I realized I was the only person near me singing along and everyone else seemed to be talking. It perplexed me. I wouldn't have been confused at a normal NIN show but this was hardcore fans who were all singing along with obscure songs like Metal and Non-Entity. Oh well, I had a blast anyway. The two best NIN shows I've been to were easily the first (November 1994) and what will probably be the last (today).

Mew:
I had not listened to anything by Mew before this show and I will most likely never listen to them again. It’s nothing personal I just didn’t care for their music. The lead singer annoyed me with his dumb shirt that hung in a weird way so his right shoulder was oddly exposed for their whole set list. I know this sounds stupid but he looked like mommy forgot to lay out his clothes for him before he went out today and he did the best he could. The visuals made me wish I was dropping acid but I wasn’t so I was confused what the hell was going on. Am I wrong or was there a part where stuffed animals were playing musical instruments? A very odd band.

NIN:
This is the seventh time I’ve seen Nine Inch Nails live and I hope it will not be the last because I was disappointed with this show. This is not entirely NIN’s fault but the crowd really ruined the show for me for a lot of reasons. But I’ll get to that later. First off, I really wasn’t happy with the set list. Was I expecting The Downward Spiral to be played in its entirety? No, but I was hoping for a few gems and I didn’t really feel like I got the show I was expecting from NIN’s supposed last concert in New York City. There were some highlights: Last, Something I Can Never Have, Non-Entity (I was surprised how much I enjoyed this live), The Good Soldier. This isn’t to say that the music didn’t sound amazing. Trent and co. were definitely giving me the great sonic orgasm I’ve come to expect from them, but still I felt the set list was really lacking. I know not everyone goes to the same shows as me and therefore while I might have heard Head Like a Hole 7 times already it might be the first time for them. I get that, but I still feel shortchanged somehow. It would have been nice if some commonly requested but rarely/not often played songs were given their proper due (We’re In This Together, Ruiner, The Becoming, etc). I don’t know what he plans to play in Chicago or LA but I will be extremely pissed if he decides to bring some of those out. The main gripe though was the last three songs with Peter Murphy. I have nothing against Mr. Murphy or Bauhaus. Am I fan? No, not really. But that wasn’t the issue. As someone else pointed out before me it just seemed really odd to end the last New York City NIN show for the foreseeable future with someone else’s song. I know some people were happy with it but it really felt odd having a NIN show end like that.

The Crowd:
This isn’t about everyone at the show just the people near me. I was also near the soundboard and it still blows my mind how insanely rude the people were around us. I was not taping anything but my friend was. He politely asked the very talkative and annoying people near us to try and not speak so much during the show because his mic would pick up on it. What did they do? Talk their asses off, especially during the quiet songs. Just because it’s a concert with loud music doesn’t mean people can’t hear what you’re saying. It shows a lack of common decency. In addition, why the hell do people feel the need to not have any consideration for the people around them? If you’re not in the pit and you’re squishing someone why make it worse when they try and let you know you’re crushing them? This didn’t happen to me but to three of my friends. They finally gave up and moved completely out of view of the stage just to get away to the drunken morons who thought it was funny to get as much of their body sweat on them as possible. The worst of the worst though was this one guy who thought it would be funny to block one of the cameraman with his hat. Seriously this is what you do at a NIN show? The band wants to record the show for the fans so you see a camera and take your hat and wave it in front of the cameraman so it’s blocking his POV? Hilarious stuff man *rolls eyes*. I know all fans can’t be well-behaved but I really expected NIN fans at a show like this to be a little nicer to one another.

Final Thoughts: This wasn’t my favorite NIN show, but I did enjoy it like I do all NIN concerts. I really hoped for a better set list but the amount of time spent on stage and the number of songs played did make it fun. I hope I get to see NIN again someday but with a better crowd and a better set list.

Mew is tripe? lolz. that was my first time seeing them and they only played fvor 40 minutes or so, and u can tell immediately that these are very talented multi-instrumental musicians. the horrors were okay, but u can start a list as long as your arm with all the bands theyre ripping off.

as someone stated above, the repetition might have had to do with the dvd filming, so i def. am not as annoyed now as i was. i kinda forgot about that.

WittyUsername wrote:

Dassarri wrote:A big FU also goes to the group to the right of me, namely tall blue shirt, short ass who would "think" about being quiet during songs (I asked them if, when NIN came on, they could cease their excessive conversation - they didn't)

You scared me there for a minute since I'm a tall guy that was wearing a blue shirt, but I was barely talking at all during the show, so it definitely wasn't me you were talking about. I was mostly annoyed during Lights in the Sky when I realized I was the only person near me singing along and everyone else seemed to be talking. It perplexed me. I wouldn't have been confused at a normal NIN show but this was hardcore fans who were all singing along with obscure songs like Metal and Non-Entity. Oh well, I had a blast anyway. The two best NIN shows I've been to were easily the first (November 1994) and what will probably be the last (today).

No worries! Definitely not you. This particular guy was probably four when the TDS tour was going on.

The other thing I neglected to mention was the sound in the venue. I expected the absolute worst - I had read bad reviews and really had my expectations set low as can be. What happened instead was that I was blown away. Turns out, as the helpful taper next to me pointed out, the two stacks actually seem to be pointing right at the spot before the soundboard - exactly where I was standing. The mix was crystal clear and, after listening to a few minutes of my recording, I'm convinced I wasn't influenced by NIN-hype: the sound WAS good.
Oh, and how badly do you think the soundtech is getting chewed out right now for that section during Dead Souls? I started noticing the fuzziness during the song before, but it was really bad during Dead Souls (I enjoyed the crowd cheering when they managed to fix the problem).

The bad
-Terrible crowd. No matter where I went to stand, I could not escape tools.
-Sound issues (that infernal CRACKLING that I thought would never cease).
-Not wow'd by the setlist, though I appreciated the length

The good
-Most epic encores ever
-Band was very energetic, you could tell they were really happy to be there, and that rubbed off a little.
-MEW

I think you guys are a little naive if you think a crowd like that in a sold out venue which is way too small for NIN to play in is going to shut up for you because you're making a bootleg. This isn't a play and there is alcohol everywhere. If you don't like how someones talking, YOU can move.


I'm not sure of the legality of taking those things but the same premise goes for every douchebag with a small camera - they're filming it professionally you assholes, wait till they put it out cause your half-rate audio boots and shitty vids are ultimately worthless and annoying to the crowd. For half an hour the first night I had some guy with a high powered camera constantly shoving it in front of my face to get pictures of sweaty, shirtless men in the moshpit (exclusively, no shots aimed towards the band). What the hell man? I was wondering why the short goofy bald guy in front of me the first night wasn't moving at all, when I noticed he was taping. It's really YOU guys who kill the mood with your silence and standing still, doing what in many concerts would be considered illegal.

Oh, and the guy with the pro camera bringing it into the front of the floor was an asshole who threatened my friend when he got pushed into him by someone else. How dare you take equipment like that into an area 10 feet from a mosh pit and expect to walk around unharmed. I had to literally push backwards just to get space to breathe because of idiots clammoring for trent reznor and pushing nearly half the crowd forward ten feet into a crush as soon as the first show started. hope it makes reznor proud that his camera crew are a bunch of threatening thugs.

Mirrorsaw wrote:I think you guys are a little naive if you think a crowd like that in a sold out venue which is way too small for NIN to play in is going to shut up for you because you're making a bootleg.

I'm not sure of the legality of taking those things but the same premise goes for every douchebag with a small camera - they're filming it professionally you assholes, wait till they put it out cause your half-rate audio boots and shitty vids are ultimately worthless and annoying to the crowd. I was wondering why the short goofy bald guy in front of me the first night wasn't moving at all, when I noticed he was taping. It's really YOU guys who kill the mood with your silent, standing-still, doing what in many concerts would be considered illegal.

This is the dumbest post I've read in a long time.

There's an open taping policy for NIN. It's legal and even encouraged.
Even if I weren't taping, I would be annoyed by idiots chatting through Gone, Still or Lights in the Sky - I thought people bought tickets to watch NIN perform, not to play grabass and chat about their recent drunken exploits.
In terms of your pathetic little shot at "half-rate" boots, you don't have to download a thing, you prick. A lot of fans appreciate taping their favorite bands and even more enjoy downloading an audience recording from a concert they attended.
The bottom line is that a taper (allowed at NIN shows this year) standing still and enjoying the show in his own way is hardly infringing on those around him, while the people I described before affect the experience for all.

Liked Mew enough to torrent them a bit to finds out more, but spent most of the set organizing the cameras - we had 5 HD cameras spread throughout the venue + whatever Ash512 gets a hold of from trawling the net. If you filmed tonight in HD and want to share for his edit, please contact him!

Down In It tonight was particularly funky - I love what they did to the samples. And Ilan's a motherfucker on Eraser!

Can't wait to see what Ash can do with all the video - I had fun being the pit cam - hopefully some of the moshing video will make the final cut :)

Mirrorsaw wrote:I think you guys are a little naive if you think a crowd like that in a sold out venue which is way too small for NIN to play in is going to shut up for you because you're making a bootleg. This isn't a play and there is alcohol everywhere. If you don't like how someones talking, YOU can move.

These people were EVERYWHERE. Is it naive to believe that people go to concerts to listen to music instead of talking about bullshit for 2 and a half hours straight? I guess....

kskill wrote:Watching this incarnation is a little odd, as their samples are extremely obvious with only 4 men on stage.

Yes! Tonight was the first time I noticed this and it bummed me out a little. Head Down sounded really bare compared to LITS versions.

updated my original post with MEW videos

TheyCallMeDrug wrote:updated my original post with MEW videos

I commented the song titles if you want to update the descriptions

Awesome videos btw.

Mew were fantastic. I'd love to see them headline over that environment though.

I was in the second balcony behind the sound board and jesus christ on the crowd. Especially, whatever dumb blond was in front of me. Back turned to the stage talking her ass off the entire show and her two male friends indulging her. What the waste of 3 perfectly good tickets that many people would of enjoyed on such stupid twats. I'm sure it was a scene repeated through the venue. Whether someone is taping or not, while I expect some conversation, I didn't pay to hear about your inane and utterly pointless existence on this planet and have no desire for a recap.

The set list I was impressed with. I kind of got a blah set list for my date of the NINJA tour, so it was nice to pick up some songs that were played on other dates of the tour I didn't go to and have it condensed into one super long set list. I was also pretty blah when seeing Peter Murphy going in. Not that I'm not a fan, but it's treat value is wearing thin; however, the presentation more than made up for it. While it was NIN's goodbye, they aren't exactly making a boatload of money off these shows, these are very personal experiences IMHO, and sharing the stage with your idol and the music that influenced you is a nice closing of a circle in my opinion. Plus some songs like "Down In It" never seem to lose their ass kicking live-effect. Could deal with dropping "Hurt" though, and never hearing "Closer" again is okay by me.

All in all, was def. my favorite NIN show out of maybe 5 or 6 previous experiences. The sound was spot on in my area minus the tech issues during "Dead Souls". The venue wasn't nearly as bad as I feared from reading reviews. I got there pretty early for a decent spot in line, but club security when separating the NIN and Ticketmaster purchasers did a great job in making that an utterly pointless endeavor.

Looks like we got a bunch of video sources! If you filmed Mew or NIN, please contact me or hippygeek ASAP. We'll give you access to FTP so you can upload for the edit!

I got all of Mew's set and NIN with a nice SD camera. Wide shot, dead center first balcony. It's SD, so quite a lot noise but pretty stable and COMPLETE.

I was surprised to see Mew play such a difficult set. I would've expected them to play their heavier/faster stuff like Apocalypso, Snow Brigade or Repeaterbeater, the kind of songs that would've went over much better with stupid metalhead/goth NIN fans but many kudos to them for actually challenging the audience. Their set was great, but quite short. Can't wait to see them again @ VFest.

New Terrain
Introducing Palace Players
Hawaii
Sometimes Life Isn't Easy
Special
Zookeeper's Boy
Comforting Sounds

NIN were great as usual, but not much else to say than that.

Oh by the way... Clocking at exactly 2h 42 mins from my camera's counter, with 33 songs and TWO encore, I think this NIN's longest set in the band's history so far...

Oh terrible day! I stood way to close to the speakers standing on the balcony. I can't hear a thing and my ears are still ringing. But thought the show sounded great from where I was.

That was amazing. Peter Murphy closing out the night was a nice treat. I loved when TR and PM did final solution with TV on the Radio on the 06 tour, and it was awesome to get that to end the set.

Mew was cool, I wasn't fully into them like I was with the Horrors, but they have a cool sound, and the set they played interested me enough to find more.

Such an amazing show. I am not even going to think about picking my best show. I am only going to say that this week was the perfect way to end my nin concert experience.

This week has been bittersweet...

I have very mixed feelings about this show. Around the time that "Last" was played, I decided that I was sick and fucking tired of not being able to see the stage for 2 consecutive nights. Sitting on the top balcony 3 deep behind tall people is never fun. So I slowly forced my way into the pit. By the end of the show, I was right up front. Special thanks to the gentleman in the Army hat who tried to choke anyone who attempted to get closer. As usual, there were a bunch of fraternity douchebags up there (nipple rings, new tattoos, etc.). I swear most of the people in my vicinity didn't even know who Peter Murphy was. At least they didn't ruin "Hurt" as I expected.

Overall, it was great to be so close to Trent as he waved good-bye. The setlist had a lot of "repeat offenders" for sure, but it was 30+ songs (so it's hard to complain). The pit was pretty nuts; especially for "Gave Up", "Suck", and "The Wretched". I will miss this shit for sure. Although, it was sad that Trent didn't pull out any nuggets like "And All That Could Have Been" or "Sunspots" or even "We're In This Together"...it was a great week. And Mr. Murphy certainly redeemed himself for a less than stellar outing on Tuesday.

I wasn't at the show but i want to send out a thank you to anyone who was there that helped out my friend. He is in a wheel chair and has been a huge fan for years. Him and i have gone to many shows together and i have always bugged him to come up front with me but he was always aprehensive. Well last night they let him into the venue first and he got right up front on the rail in the dead center. He went there alone and apparently there were some people around him protecting him from getting too fucked up. Needless to say it sounds like this show was one of the greatest experiences of his life so to any and all of you who were there looking out for him thank you very much

Maybe it's just the fact that I got insanely lucky to even be there at the show--profuse thanks once again to joyus self-destruction and erin (who I'm pretty sure is his sister, as some of the pics look quite familiar), two complete strangers who got me out of bed fifteen hours before the show while I was 340 miles away and invited me along--but I can't for the life of me see what at all anyone anywhere was disappointed about. In the least.

I'm sorry The Fragile wasn't played in its entirety? Or that the show wasn't a "Purest Feeling" through "Demon Seed" Debut Songs ONLY affair? Or that the room could have been cooler for what was, indeed, the longest Nine Inch Nails set in the band's history? Am I hot or cold? What's wrong with you people? Granted, ending on two covers that Trent's only slightly a part of was a bit odd, but it was still cool to watch the guys doing something that they clearly enjoyed. This is why I can't really slam them for repeatedly playing "The Hand That Feeds"--they seem to really enjoy it. So why not?

Besides that, the setlist was phenomenal. This was my sixth show, dating back to the Fragility tour and I saw 10 songs I've never gotten to see before. 10 (if you count the encore, then 12).Two of these were "Last" and "Somewhat Damaged"; both of which I've been chasing and just barely missing for over a decade now; and which, earlier this week, I swore I'd eat a baby to see. Turns out I didn't have to.

And then there was "Down in It." And "Lights in the Sky" which followed "Gone, Still." Come on, people.

This show was a huge treat for fans who've only been able to see the band on their later ventures. I missed out on tickets for the '94 tour (I was like three people back in line) and only caught Fragility once. Nothing pre Spiral. So the fact that a full half of Pretty Hate Machine got played, along with 5/8ths of Broken is something for which anyone who didn't cut his or her teeth on the Now I'm Nothing tour should be grateful. The post-Fragile material was scarce and almost 100% solid: "1,000,000," "Head Down," and "Lights in the Sky" are about as unanimously liked as anything of The Slip; "Survivalism" and "The Good Solider" aren't maybe the most sought-after Zero tracks, but they're not loathed by anyone I've ever seen post; Non-Entity is sort of brutal live (that was new to me) and I think I even caught myself rocking out a little bit to "The Hand That Feeds"--a song which is much better in the crush of the pit.

Which reminds me: I've always stayed back from the stage at Nine Inch Nails shows--usually to catch the elaborate setup. I couldn't get close at the June, Toronto show this year. But tonight, I was pretty much under Justin, who was extraordinarily courteous (thanks for the water), into the set, and friendly (thanks for the hand slapping). At a few points (during Broken material, more or less, I ended up right in front of Trent. It was fairly intense and I'm, 100% positive I missed the actually intense part of the pit

But points being:

1. I lost $200 in wages; $128 on bus fare; two consecutive nights of sleep (couldn't pass out on the bus, either way); my earplugs and thus a good amount of hearing in my left ear, specifically ; I sweated so fucking much that no one would sit near me on the seven hour air-conditioned bus ride back to Rochester (which I had to suffer in by then frigid, damp clothes that smelled so strongly of sweat that the odor somehow more closely resembled a male cat's piss on an menstrual vagina). I'm bruised and my knees (shot with congenital debilitating issues) feel worse than I can recall them feeling in a very long while. And I think it was worth every bit of this. Restated: I don't have a single complaint.*

2. Perhaps because I've been smitten with Nine Inch Nails for a greater chunk of my life than the time during which I wasn't aware of the music, or perhaps because in some twice-removed, disembodied, semi-figurative way, Trent Reznor has spent more time with me than either my mother (long dead) or my father (whom I never met), I'm overestimating the show's importance or excellence. But it beats the nuts out of the five others I've seen. Thus, I don't think I am.

3. Besides unplayed tracks ("And All That Could Have Been," "Adrift and at Peace," "Underneath It All," "Where Is Everybody?," I"m Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally," "My Violent Heart," "Demon Seed," "The Perfect Drug," and "All the Love in the World"), I've now seen pretty much every song it pained me not to have seen. Sure, it would have been nice to swap "Hand" for "Ruiner," or to have been there for the "Big Man With a Gun" and "A Warm Place" sequence, but really, I'm pretty contented as a fan right now. I'm still heartbroken I couldn't be in Europe for one of the three(?) performances of "We're in This Together." And I guess I'm a little sad I never got to see "The Collector," "Please," "Into the Void," or (my newly accepted love), "Meet Your Master," but whatever. What you should take away from this paragraph is, I'm still missing a chunk of things I'd have loved to have heard. But that's mostly my fault for not going to see more live shows. This past tour has allowed me to hear so much excellent stuff I thought I never would, what the fuck kind of person would I be if I complained?

3. Listening to someone whine is worse than listening to someone's teeth click together as they bite through your nipple, severing it from your torso.

4. This thread seems to be 85% whining.

5. This explains why I was lamentably astonished to find that the random ETS users I met at this show shocked me by being affable, appreciative, gracious, perspicacious, and enthusiastic about whatever was going to be played. There are actually some seriously chill and appreciative NIN fans out there and I hope Trent realizes this. We're not all assholes who throw wads of chewed gum at him while he's thanking us for supporting him (whoever that was was hopefully cut into ribbons by a subway last night).

6. Thanks to everyone from the band to the aforementioned ETSers who made this experience possible for me. I'd have to get maudlin to explain what it meant for me to be there. So we'll leave it at "great fucking show, fuck yeah!"




* Okay, one complaint: The very cranky blonde girl behind me for much of the show had dreadlocks that felt like sandpaper wrapped around bullwhips and abraded the hot and sensitive skin of everyone who had the misfortune of smashing into her (which happened a lot, thanks to a ripple effect from the aggressive middle of the pit). And that only really annoyed me because she--in the middle of the fucking floor--was complaining about how "disgusting" and sweat-drenched everyone else was. I mean really, in the best ACed building, the floor folks are going to be gross and sweaty. How would you not see that one coming?

I didn't attend this show, so if this gets pulled from the thread, I understand. However, the below comment is just stupid. Trent made an open taping policy so FANS can share the music on torrents and trade amongst other FANS. You apparently having nothing better to do than to pay $65 to go to a venue, get drunk, and act like an ass. If you want to waste $65 and not have to worry about tapers and such, do yourself a favor and go to a titty bar. I'm not talking about a nice titty bar, I'm talking about a titty bar where the girls have bruises on their inner thighs and their tits hit their knees.... it sounds more up your alley. If you see a guy with a professional camera mounted to him then apparently he's their for a reason, so give him some fucking space. He's there to make sure you get something after all is said and done that you can enjoy in your home over and over again. And one last thing.... taping is NOT illegal in any sense, it's frowned upon by a lot of bands because assholes sell their recordings for mass production and that steals money from then band which in turn is illegal (the issuing of discs for profit, not the taping). So before you go on a rant about tapers being mood killers and such, just remember than a lot of these guys have been fans from the start and go to a lot of trouble to tape and share these shows.

Mirrorsaw wrote:I think you guys are a little naive if you think a crowd like that in a sold out venue which is way too small for NIN to play in is going to shut up for you because you're making a bootleg. This isn't a play and there is alcohol everywhere. If you don't like how someones talking, YOU can move.


I'm not sure of the legality of taking those things but the same premise goes for every douchebag with a small camera - they're filming it professionally you assholes, wait till they put it out cause your half-rate audio boots and shitty vids are ultimately worthless and annoying to the crowd. For half an hour the first night I had some guy with a high powered camera constantly shoving it in front of my face to get pictures of sweaty, shirtless men in the moshpit (exclusively, no shots aimed towards the band). What the hell man? I was wondering why the short goofy bald guy in front of me the first night wasn't moving at all, when I noticed he was taping. It's really YOU guys who kill the mood with your silence and standing still, doing what in many concerts would be considered illegal.

Oh, and the guy with the pro camera bringing it into the front of the floor was an asshole who threatened my friend when he got pushed into him by someone else. How dare you take equipment like that into an area 10 feet from a mosh pit and expect to walk around unharmed. I had to literally push backwards just to get space to breathe because of idiots clammoring for trent reznor and pushing nearly half the crowd forward ten feet into a crush as soon as the first show started. hope it makes reznor proud that his camera crew are a bunch of threatening thugs.

ninfreak27 wrote:I didn't attend this show, so if this gets pulled from the thread, I understand. However, the below comment is just stupid. Trent made an open taping policy so FANS can share the music on torrents and trade amongst other FANS. You apparently having nothing better to do than to pay $65 to go to a venue, get drunk, and act like an ass. If you want to waste $65 and not have to worry about tapers and such, do yourself a favor and go to a titty bar. I'm not talking about a nice titty bar, I'm talking about a titty bar where the girls have bruises on their inner thighs and their tits hit their knees.... it sounds more up your alley. If you see a guy with a professional camera mounted to him then apparently he's their for a reason, so give him some fucking space. He's there to make sure you get something after all is said and done that you can enjoy in your home over and over again. And one last thing.... taping is NOT illegal in any sense, it's frowned upon by a lot of bands because assholes sell their recordings for mass production and that steals money from then band which in turn is illegal (the issuing of discs for profit, not the taping). So before you go on a rant about tapers being mood killers and such, just remember than a lot of these guys have been fans from the start and go to a lot of trouble to tape and share these shows.

Mirrorsaw wrote:I think you guys are a little naive if you think a crowd like that in a sold out venue which is way too small for NIN to play in is going to shut up for you because you're making a bootleg. This isn't a play and there is alcohol everywhere. If you don't like how someones talking, YOU can move.


I'm not sure of the legality of taking those things but the same premise goes for every douchebag with a small camera - they're filming it professionally you assholes, wait till they put it out cause your half-rate audio boots and shitty vids are ultimately worthless and annoying to the crowd. For half an hour the first night I had some guy with a high powered camera constantly shoving it in front of my face to get pictures of sweaty, shirtless men in the moshpit (exclusively, no shots aimed towards the band). What the hell man? I was wondering why the short goofy bald guy in front of me the first night wasn't moving at all, when I noticed he was taping. It's really YOU guys who kill the mood with your silence and standing still, doing what in many concerts would be considered illegal.

Oh, and the guy with the pro camera bringing it into the front of the floor was an asshole who threatened my friend when he got pushed into him by someone else. How dare you take equipment like that into an area 10 feet from a mosh pit and expect to walk around unharmed. I had to literally push backwards just to get space to breathe because of idiots clammoring for trent reznor and pushing nearly half the crowd forward ten feet into a crush as soon as the first show started. hope it makes reznor proud that his camera crew are a bunch of threatening thugs.

Yeah, this needs to go into the Shitlist. Do this again and it's a warning bar and flood control.

i taped most of the show and added the videos to youtube
my profile is greatbelow00

all in all there is like 20 videos i didnt include trents little chat, peters thank you, HLAH and THTF
but if anybody really wants to see them i can upload them


quality isnt hd but the audio stays pretty consistent

thanks to the other tapers right behind the sound board
we managed to create a bubble of non-hooligans

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the guitar Trent was playing towards the end of the show. It was one of his custom-made Gibson "Fragile" guitars!!!

EDIT: Yeah, Trent already plled it out earlier this year (for "The Way Out Is Through"). Still awesome though!

bobbie solo wrote:i dunno man...for $65 a pop, i'd prefer to not hear a very similar setlist to the night before at the same venue. But again, that ending was amazing and made it all good.

Bah, really? After twenty years of tours, it should be pretty plain that NIN sticks to a certain pool of songs on each tour. If you're upset at paying $65 a night, maybe you should just stick to one show per tour.

Maybe I'm lame but I really like hearing Burn, and Survivalism really gets the crowd going. As far as THTF, I could see a majority of the crowd singing along to that one last night - I'm pretty sure your assertion that no one cares is completely false. While I prefer the studio version of Non-Entity above all, it seems to be a track the band likes to play. If you don't like it, stop buying tickets to multiple shows and let someone else in - there are plenty of people who've never had a chance to see NIN live who were at each of those venues over the last five days.

Peter Murphy coming in upside down was a lot cooler than I'd anticipated. Definitely a spectacle

Pretty good show (glad to see Last again) but nothing's ever going to top Webster Hall.

ninfreak27 wrote:I didn't attend this show, so if this gets pulled from the thread, I understand. However, the below comment is just stupid. Trent made an open taping policy so FANS can share the music on torrents and trade amongst other FANS. You apparently having nothing better to do than to pay $65 to go to a venue, get drunk, and act like an ass. If you want to waste $65 and not have to worry about tapers and such, do yourself a favor and go to a titty bar. I'm not talking about a nice titty bar, I'm talking about a titty bar where the girls have bruises on their inner thighs and their tits hit their knees.... it sounds more up your alley. If you see a guy with a professional camera mounted to him then apparently he's their for a reason, so give him some fucking space. He's there to make sure you get something after all is said and done that you can enjoy in your home over and over again. And one last thing.... taping is NOT illegal in any sense, it's frowned upon by a lot of bands because assholes sell their recordings for mass production and that steals money from then band which in turn is illegal (the issuing of discs for profit, not the taping). So before you go on a rant about tapers being mood killers and such, just remember than a lot of these guys have been fans from the start and go to a lot of trouble to tape and share these shows.

Mirrorsaw wrote:I think you guys are a little naive if you think a crowd like that in a sold out venue which is way too small for NIN to play in is going to shut up for you because you're making a bootleg. This isn't a play and there is alcohol everywhere. If you don't like how someones talking, YOU can move.


I'm not sure of the legality of taking those things but the same premise goes for every douchebag with a small camera - they're filming it professionally you assholes, wait till they put it out cause your half-rate audio boots and shitty vids are ultimately worthless and annoying to the crowd. For half an hour the first night I had some guy with a high powered camera constantly shoving it in front of my face to get pictures of sweaty, shirtless men in the moshpit (exclusively, no shots aimed towards the band). What the hell man? I was wondering why the short goofy bald guy in front of me the first night wasn't moving at all, when I noticed he was taping. It's really YOU guys who kill the mood with your silence and standing still, doing what in many concerts would be considered illegal.

Oh, and the guy with the pro camera bringing it into the front of the floor was an asshole who threatened my friend when he got pushed into him by someone else. How dare you take equipment like that into an area 10 feet from a mosh pit and expect to walk around unharmed. I had to literally push backwards just to get space to breathe because of idiots clammoring for trent reznor and pushing nearly half the crowd forward ten feet into a crush as soon as the first show started. hope it makes reznor proud that his camera crew are a bunch of threatening thugs.

1. I don't drink
2. I've never been to a titty bar
3. I've been a fan of NIN for over ten years
4. I've seen and supported NIN 9 times, including getting seventeen people to join me at NIN/JA
5. i never claimed absolute truth in the legality of audio taping - I can see I'm wrong there, but acting like audio taping is 100% accepted everywhere is wrong, according to half the ticket stubs and venues I've been to in the 60 or so concerts I've seen. I have many bootlegs but audience recordings in an area like that are going to be full of shouting and when the band is pro-filming it the effort seems superfluous. Not many shows I've seen have GA floor areas like that with so many people crammed into it - i'd find it laughable if someone went around asking people to shush before the show started as mentioned before. I think that's damn rude, actually. Trent said you could record, I can get that, but he never asked other people to shut up for you. The balcony would have been far more suitable for that with stereo separation or the soundboard area etc so I don't see the point. By the way, Mercado21 from Youtube already has the entire show availible on DVD in a multicam mix with decent sound, making 99% of the audiences cameras and audio recording equipment completely unnecessary.
6. I'm not dumb for finding it stupid that some fan is standing like a statue, emotionless. It's a mood killer and you can't say otherwise.
7. I didn't talk at all during the show, I was singing along. What people don't put together on this forum is every single time there is a NIN show the complaints on ETS remains the same - post after post about how people are talking. The band played really damn loud, and you were free to move about. I've seen enough shows to understand its a fact of life that people are going to talk, push, and act like general assholes at a NIN show (or most shows for that matter). It's hard rock music that attracts a diverse crowd, and in my experience it's always the worst crowd. I wish it could be all ETS fans who give you your personal space, don't slam into you, don't drink or smoke cigarettes(!) on the floor, don't spit onto the crowd below like the skank next to me on the balcony, etc, but it's not going to happen. And it's certainly not my fault.
8. I"m pretty sure he's used that fragile guitar earlier this tour.

And to the people complaining about songs like Hurt and THTF on the setlist. The girl I went to the show with was not a huge obsessive NIN fan like me. (And just so everyone knows, she didn't talk through the show, she was not an annoying non-fan or anything like that - she was great.) I got excited when I heard the opening sounds of Last. She got excited when she heard the opening sounds of THTF. Both of our tickets cost the same price. So I'm fine with those songs being included because I still get the songs that I love to hear the most. Off the top of my head, the only two songs I can think of that I was hoping for and didn't get (or at least realistic songs i.e. not "The Perfect Drug") were songs I've already seen live anyway, so I'll live (The Becoming and IDNWT).

So I'm going to be the guy that says last night was kind of "meh". I was at all 4 shows, and this one was the least memorable for me.

Through the first three sets, NIN had played 53 different songs. And at this set, the only songs they added were Sin (woot) and the Bauhaus stuff (not my thing). That being said, I'm not sure what I else I wanted to hear this week.

Also, I'm a local New Yorker and Terminal 5 is by far my least favorite venue in the city. I thought that before these shows and these shows didn't change that. There's an absurd amount of obstructed views for a place that small and the bartenders refuse to give you a cup of tap water.

Please spare the flame.

Anyone have video of that kid eating the fence on the failed stagedive...amazing

Failure wrote:I can't believe nobody has mentioned the guitar Trent was playing towards the end of the show. It was one of his custom-made Gibson "Fragile" guitars!!!

EDIT: Yeah, Trent already plled it out earlier this year (for "The Way Out Is Through"). Still awesome though!

Because he has been using it shit loads on this last tour already?


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Webster >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Terminal 5 2 > Terminal 5 1 = Bowery

Sesquipedalism wrote:Maybe it's just the fact that I got insanely lucky to even be there at the show--profuse thanks once again to joyus self-destruction and erin (who I'm pretty sure is his sister, as some of the pics look quite familiar), two complete strangers who got me out of bed fifteen hours before the show while I was 340 miles away and invited me along--but I can't for the life of me see what at all anyone anywhere was disappointed about. In the least.

Indeed that is me. I'm glad that the ticket went to someone who really appreciated it. It was a fun show. And you're very welcome!

WittyUsername wrote:And to the people complaining about songs like Hurt and THTF on the setlist. The girl I went to the show with was not a huge obsessive NIN fan like me. (And just so everyone knows, she didn't talk through the show, she was not an annoying non-fan or anything like that - she was great.) I got excited when I heard the opening sounds of Last. She got excited when she heard the opening sounds of THTF. Both of our tickets cost the same price. So I'm fine with those songs being included because I still get the songs that I love to hear the most. Off the top of my head, the only two songs I can think of that I was hoping for and didn't get (or at least realistic songs i.e. not "The Perfect Drug") were songs I've already seen live anyway, so I'll live (The Becoming and IDNWT).

I totally agree. I took my girlfriend, who doesn't know anything about Nails (one quote from the night "oh, Trent Reznor's in this band?" ) After she heard Hurt (and the Piggy mix actually) she was really interested what was going on.

Mirrorsaw wrote:1. I don't drink
2. I've never been to a titty bar

There's your problem right there. Lighten up, asshole.

I smoked a joint at the show and got laid afterwards. That enough for ya?

Thanks for the personal insult really makes you stand out as being tough. Admins do that to people around here?

I've spoken my mind without intentionally insulting any of you personally. I'm truly sorry you can't take negative feedback towards a concert we attended as equals.

"This message board is open to all, however, and we welcome YOU."

I went to the Webster Hall show and this show. I have not ever missed a NIN show in the Philly/Atlantic City/NYC area since 1994. The Webster Hall show was in the top 2 shows I have ever seen, along with NIN/Manson/Fem2Fem at the Tower Theater in 1994. Last night's show is among the top 5.
The set list was the longest I remember at any NIN show ever and was definitely one for the record books. My impression of the set list was that it included all the songs that the band simply loves to play. Obviously I am just guessing here but I think TR put together kind of a band-favorite greatest hits set list. So while I was dying to hear something new or different like WITT, Into the Void, or Perfect Drug, I can't complain and am quite satisfied that the set list was a classic, though supersized, NIN show.
I was absolutely thrilled to hear Down In It towards the end (unfortunately right after I left my spot 6 people deep from TR to find my wife). It was also nice to see The Good Soldier live one last time since I am a huge fan of Year Zero and they played 0 songs from it at Webster Hall (THIS IS NOT A COMPLAINT, I'm just saying).
The thing that made it really difficult to get through the show was the goddam cement floor. As many have commented at Webster Hall the floor was shaking quite violently and it wasn't so hard on the knees, hips, joints, feet, and ankles. Standing on a cement floor in what had to be at least 110-degree heat from 7:00 until 11:30 really got painful after a while. The heat itself wasn't that bad since I was in a great spot to get bottles of water passed to me continually and Webster Hall was MUCH hotter, but by the end of the show I really couldn't have stood there much longer.
Thanks to everyone in the crowd in the first 20 feet from the stage. Though no one escaped without an elbow or boot to the head, everyone was SO into it and everyone was cool as hell and it really made the concert that much better. In case anyone cares, I was the short guy witht the extremely beat up TDS spiral (I bought it at my first-ever NIN show and wore it possibly my last). I was standing hip to hip with the band's camera man (the huge HD camera on the pole) for most of the show.
The only complaint I have to make is that they ended with a non-NIN song??? Great show though, the band obviously put everything they had into the performance. I have never ever seen Trent sing his ass off like he did at this show and Webster Hall. Actually the whole band really was perfect and if any of you guys ever read this, THANK YOU!! I am completely satisfied and though I will miss the whole NIN-live experience greatly, I could not really ask for more.

thebends9 wrote:Anyone have video of that kid eating the fence on the failed stagedive...amazing

I didn't even see the guy get up on stage, I just saw him run full force off of it and forget to leap. WHAM. Full body/face right into the barricade. That had to smart.

Umm maybe the reason why the setlists were similar was because he wasn't playing for the small group of people who managed to get tickets to all the shows or multiple shows, Jesus. Most people were only able to get one pair and most people didn't get any at all.

Lucy_Fyre wrote:Umm maybe the reason why the setlists were similar was because he wasn't playing for the small group of people who managed to get tickets to all the shows or multiple shows, Jesus. Most people were only able to get one pair and most people didn't get any at all.

Stop stating the obvious. This is the internet. You're supposed to complain.

Mew were awesome! Thanks to whoever posted their setlist, it's appreciated. Very happy I caught their whole set. Cool visuals, too - reminded me of Dave McKean. I made sure I got familiar with them prior to the show (listened to the newest album and "...Glass Handed Kites" which are great), but they definitely take it to the next level live. The singer doesn't move much (and generally looks frail), but he sounded stellar, as did the rest of the band - loved the harmonies/backing vocals! I would not mind seeing them again one bit. If anyone reading this is going to the Chicago shows, I'd absolutely recommend checking them out. Their guitarist reminded me of a cross between the bassist from Grizzly Bear and River Phoenix from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade... random I know, but I felt I had to mention it.

Anyway...

Another awesome show, my last for this leg (maybe ever), and I was quite satisfied. Luckily, I had a much better spot last night than at the first Terminal 5 show, and it made a big difference. I hadn't felt part of the 'ocean' of moving people since the With Teeth tour. The first two or three songs, you couldn't wipe the smile off my face.

The highlight of the night was definitely the encore. Peter Murphy hanging upside down was totally unexpected and amazing. I remember thinking there was a malfunction with the smoke machine, then wondering what that long black wire stretching up was. Seeing an inverted Jesus silhouette against blinding lights with Reptile playing was just incredible. My brother and I were joking that he had to do so because he lost a bet with TR: "If you fuck up Reptile the first night, you're hanging the next."

Strange Kind of Love was exceptional, too - I was surprised by how well Bela Lugosi worked inside of it. Final Solution killed. It sucks that Robin's mic cut out, but at least his verse wasn't entirely omitted. I don't whose idea it was, but I loved that Mr. Finck got to share lead vocals with Peter and Trent.

I also brought a friend who'd never seen NIN before, and it's safe to say this show shot to #1 on his Best Concerts list.

What song was it when the kid jumped off the stage, I think i have a video of it.

'down in it.' it's almost always 'down in it.'



VVVVV
nope, you're not...it seems it went off then, and wasn't needed again until 'final solution,' so no one thought to turn it back on.

So am I the only one that noticed that Robin's mic also cut out during Down In It?

Down In It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pptt3pMZMDQ

This is my recording of Down In It from last night

a little late on the draw, but here's a review i drew up with some choice photos my wife took as our feet were dangling from the balcony:

http://blog.limewire.com/posts/25044-ni ... nyc-82609/


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Sesquipedalism wrote:...

i like the cut of your jib, sir.

wow so much bitching.. i mean yeah the crowd sucked with not shutting up for some quiet songs...yeah last nights encore was played during the setlist but whatever it was a cool show... i went to three of the 4 and all where awesome in their own ways... ;-)


trent says he will make more music....so i really doubt any of us have anything bad to look fwd to ;-)


PERFECT DRUG SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYED! ALONG WITH ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD! TE SOUND CHECKED ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD BEFORE AND PERFECT DRUG HAS A SINGLE...DL ON FREAKING VIDEO GAMES AND FANS LOVE IT!

oh and once again SIN was sick

I didn't think the setlist was bad. It was pretty good and I'm glad I finally got to hear Sin one last time. A lot of the songs I've never heard before either.

The crowd last night did kind of suck though. Jerk-offs wouldn't stop talking. I had to keep moving to avoid dorks that wouldn't shut up.

The crowd on the 25th was much better. I was closer to the stage in the pit and there were a lot of cool people. The pit was hot and insane btw. I think my organs got rearranged.

oh and and on a side note that guy in the bathroom must have made a G a night in tips


i want his job

[quote="WittyUsername"][quote="Lucy_Fyre"]Umm maybe the reason why the setlists were similar was because he wasn't playing for the small group of people who managed to get tickets to all the shows or multiple shows, Jesus. Most people were only able to get one pair and most people didn't get any at all.[/quote]

Stop stating the obvious. This is the internet. You're supposed to complain.[/quote]



hahahahahaha wellll put

I refuse to pay someone to squirt soap in my hands that I can do just fine myself.

Oh and case anyone is interested, here are a couple more recordings...

Sorry for the shaking, kinda hard to keep still there...


Dead Souls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkRuqonaYPw

Burn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKCAmzGXBQI

Something I Can Never Have -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNdmA4rMf4

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2 ... 1251398243

If anyone wants to check out Mew's set.

hboy41 wrote:oh and and on a side note that guy in the bathroom must have made a G a night in tips


i want his job

Any job that requires smelling concert poo for hours on end deserves a couple extra bucks at the end of the night.

WittyUsername wrote:I refuse to pay someone to squirt soap in my hands that I can do just fine myself.

Bathroom attendant soap squirts are simply magnificent. Amateurs like us couldn't think of coming close...

We were right by the speakers, so the audio came out pretty well for a point-and-shoot.

Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)

More to come...

scraptalicious wrote:

hboy41 wrote:oh and and on a side note that guy in the bathroom must have made a G a night in tips


i want his job

Any job that requires smelling concert poo for hours on end deserves a couple extra bucks at the end of the night.

WittyUsername wrote:I refuse to pay someone to squirt soap in my hands that I can do just fine myself.

Bathroom attendant soap squirts are simply magnificent. Amateurs like us couldn't think of coming close...

he got my dollar ... you reach for the sink and bam! you have soap in your hands before you even realize it...

Wow there's a bunch of fucking whiny cunts here.

Watching that guy run full force into the barricade and then get mauled by security was hilarious.

A guy that caught a tambourine at one point was crowd surfing while playing it.

I can see the pit being really hot, but if you weren't in the pit it wasn't hot at all, unlike Webster which was insanely hot no matter where you were.

PA was giving a crackling feedback during Dead Souls, but they fixed it. Saw people scrambling under the light/sound board for 10-15 minutes. Maybe that crackling had to do with Robins mic failing him on and off after that point.

Mew was a shitload better than The Horrors. The Horrors are the real life version of the Goth kids from South Park.

Was a great 4 nights of NIN.

frankieteardrop wrote:

Sesquipedalism wrote:...

i like the cut of your jib, sir.

And I like the cut of anyone's jib who knows what "I like the cut of your jib" means. Thank you.

YYYEEEESSSSS my friend captured the failed stage dive from last night! Look for that to be up sometime tonight! syndrummer on demonoid. Not sure if he'll be ripping that song or part of it to put on youtube.

heheh, i was on rail and it was fuuun, i got to stare at robin the whole time.

the guy behind me passed out.

edit- oh yeah, i fucking loved mew, they were awesome. the guy behind me (who later passed out) jokingly said "I CAME TO SEE MEW!!"

Papagolash wrote:YYYEEEESSSSS my friend captured the failed stage dive from last night! Look for that to be up sometime tonight! syndrummer on demonoid. Not sure if he'll be ripping that song or part of it to put on youtube.

Thats me. I just rewatched it, and while you dont see him hit the rail, hes running off the stage and he just drops out of frame. It looks like he thought he had another step or two to go.

After having a night to calm down about people hating tapers, here are a couple of samples from my recording (these are raw samples, no processing):

Wish
http://www.mediafire.com/?3ljem2eujww

Non-Entity
http://www.mediafire.com/?m5tzhzjqjz2


Pending other obligations, I should have this ready to go early this coming week.

Went to the show with my older brother - fourth NIN show overall; third with him. Amazing experience, so glad we were both able to travel to NYC from our respective distances in order to catch this one. Taped in HD up to Survivalism (batteries died) from the second balcony, stage right (Justin's side). My song-by-song take on the evening:

1. Pinion/Somewhat Damaged - awesome. Glad I got to hear the classic Pinion intro one more time, and Somewhat Damaged is a great song with some significance to me at the moment.
2. Wish - solid song. Never one of my favorites, but a good track to rock out to.
3. Last - YES! This has been on my workout mix since the day I joined a gym, and it always, always gets me to push through whatever I'm doing. Incredible live.
4. Sin - first time I've heard this one live (same as Last). Sounded great.
5. March of The Pigs - honestly, I'm a little tired of this song. Great energy, but I'd love to see it replaced by something that hasn't been played at almost every single show.
6. Something I Can Never Have - wow. First time seeing it live. Had the camera zoomed in on Trent the whole time, and the look on his face matched the emotion in his voice. While my face was pretty sweaty throughout the show, I'm pretty sure I ended up crying just a little bit during the last verse.
7. Piggy (nothing can stop me now) - first time seeing this mix live. Very surprised, and very happy, to experience it.
8. Metal - huge Numan fan. Saw it in Mansfield, and was thrilled to see it again here. Great track.
9. Terrible Lie - Glad to see this one again. Hadn't seen it since the LITS tour, and since it's one of the first two NIN songs I ever heard, it's got a special place in my heart.
10. Head Down - one of my early favorites from the Slip. Glad they played it.
11. Burn - always a good song live. No exception here.
12. Gave Up - glad Manson didn't show up for a surprise guest spot.
13. La Mer - after Trent's speech about this in Mansfield, this song really chokes me up. Almost had to put the camera down.
14. The Frail - mmm, piano.
15. The Wretched - love this song. Enough said.
16. Non-Entity - I don't know why people rip on this song. It was my first time hearing it live, and I really enjoyed it. I still vividly remember watching the React Now show on TV and seeing this on piano, and I fell in love with it immediately.
17. Gone, Still - mmm, more piano.
18. Lights In The Sky - great song, absolutely fucking terrible audience. When one guy screamed "SHUT UP" at another blithering idiot in the crowd, I was worried that Trent might think it was directed at him and kill the track. Crowds: shut the fuck up during quiet songs; I didn't pay $65 and drive 600 miles to listen to a bunch of tone-deaf drunks singing Trent's songs.
19. The Downward Spiral - sweet! Couldn't believe they were playing that; it worked really well live.
20. 1,000,000 - good solid track to rock out to. Usually listen to it on the way to the gym to get me going.
21. Survivalism - spent this one wandering the venue after the camera died, so I wasn't paying too much attention.
22. The Good Soldier - very, very happy to finally see this live. This song was a staple track during one of the happiest times of my life, and I've really wanted to see it in person.
23. Dead Souls - got addicted to this after a 2005 Paris bootleg. First time seeing it live, and was not disappointed.
24. Hurt - seriously, crowd, STFU.

25. Suck - enjoyed the extended intro. My brother and I were talking about whether Martin would join Trent in Chicago for the "longest, most bad-ass" version ever.
26. Down In It - soooo great to hear this song live; another first. I do wish I had seen it during the five-piece days, when someone was presumably playing at least one of the keyboard parts. Kind of weird to hear all those awesome lines without actually seeing anyone play them, but it still kicked some serious ass.
27. The Hand That Feeds - I usually think "meh" on this one, but I really got into it last night.
28. Head Like A Hole - always a solid song. Was worried that it was the end of the night, though.

29. Reptile w/Peter Murphy - holy fucking shit. Was watching the stage, trying to see a glimpse of anything, when my brother tapped me on the shoulder and just motioned upward a little with his head. I think I was damn near passing out when I saw the silhouette of Peter Murphy hanging upside-down over the stage. In one word: surreal.
30. A Strange Kind Of Love - Peter Murphy - incredible song, glad they played it.
31. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Peter Murphy (a Bauhaus song) - another great song. I just saw a Lugosi movie last week (Plan 9 From Outer Space), so it was fun to hear this track.
32. Final Solution w/ Peter Murphy (Pere Ubu cover) - my only complaint is that they closed with this. Don't get me wrong; it was a great performance. But ending your time on the east coast for the foreseeable future with a cover? While it's not exactly the final memory I was hoping for, the song really was great, so I'm not too torn up about it.

Overall, I clearly enjoyed the show. The heat was an issue in all parts of the venue, despite what anyone else tells you. In shorts and a light T-shirt, I was sweating so much that I was genuinely concerned about the camcorder I was borrowing ending up with water damage. It wasn't so uncomfortable that I felt like I had to leave, but I wasn't moving at all during the Mew's set, yet still ended up sweating like I'd just played basketball for an hour.

I really liked the ticketing system for TM ticket holders. Get your wristbands well before doors open, then just walk in with your hands up for a really, really, really quick patdown and walk right in. We were down the street and around the corner from the venue, but were inside the venue within ten minutes of doors opening. That's easily a speed record, and I hope other bands start using systems like this.

Papagolash wrote:PA was giving a crackling feedback during Dead Souls, but they fixed it. Saw people scrambling under the light/sound board for 10-15 minutes. Maybe that crackling had to do with Robins mic failing him on and off after that point.

I'm no sound tech or anything, but I was right behind the sound board and the issue seemed to be with (one of the) the main computer(s). When it happened, the lead sound tech completely lost it. They tried to fix it but I think they had to shut it down. With all the wear and tear that equipment goes through, I'm surprised things like that don't happen more frequently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pptt3pMZMDQ

start watching at 2:00 for the failed stage dive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB38wzoIPvY
another view of failed stage dive, start at 2:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9oaCGr2Hks
and here, start at 2:00

Terminal 5 Tuesday/Wednesday photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smulligann ... 2039240239

(Hi-res copies available by request, message me on Flickr.)

video of the nin light guy rocking out to march of the pigs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1djLMZa5QI

and sin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSVGWxXx9M

theimage13 wrote:

16. Non-Entity - I don't know why people rip on this song. It was my first time hearing it live, and I really enjoyed it. I still vividly remember watching the React Now show on TV and seeing this on piano, and I fell in love with it immediately.


18. Lights In The Sky - great song, absolutely fucking terrible audience. When one guy screamed "SHUT UP" at another blithering idiot in the crowd, I was worried that Trent might think it was directed at him and kill the track. Crowds: shut the fuck up during quiet songs; I didn't pay $65 and drive 600 miles to listen to a bunch of tone-deaf drunks singing Trent's songs.

19. The Downward Spiral - sweet! Couldn't believe they were playing that; it worked really well live.

1. Great post.

16. This was surprisingly good live. And I actually like the studio version quite a bit. I didn't expect it to be so intense in person.

18. I actually worried the very same thing. This was the first time I was mortified by my fellow audience members last night. The second was the chewing gum incident. I honestly thought Trent might call it a night. The look on his face was very Angry Stepdad.

19. I thought I was getting the good end of the deal when I saw "The Way Out Is Through" in Toronto. But, now that I've experienced both (which I was pretty sure I wouldn't), I think this one is actually the superior performance. I was especially entertained by those members of the audience who contributed to the performance version by screaming (appropriately) for the duration of the climax. That made it a curiously pleasant communal experience.

http://www.youtube.com/user/greatbelow00

20 videos...

I promise I wont whine

StabItDead wrote:http://www.youtube.com/user/greatbelow00

20 videos...

I promise I wont whine

you must have been right next to me. where along the edge of the soundboard/light area were you?

[quote="Ruttiger"][quote="scraptalicious"][quote="hboy41"]oh and and on a side note that guy in the bathroom must have made a G a night in tips


i want his job[/quote]

Any job that requires smelling concert poo for hours on end deserves a couple extra bucks at the end of the night.

[quote="WittyUsername"]I refuse to pay someone to squirt soap in my hands that I can do just fine myself.[/quote]

Bathroom attendant soap squirts are simply magnificent. Amateurs like us couldn't think of coming close...[/quote]

he got my dollar ... you reach for the sink and bam! you have soap in your hands before you even realize it...[/quote]


AND THERE WAS CANDY!!!!


oh and also head down was so sick i forgot to mention that....

I can't believe those of you who attended all these ny shows are still alive to speak about it

After the two terminal 5 shows, I feel like I could die (and quite happily).

The crowd was pissing me off a lot during the first half of this show, but I really can't complain after the way this show wound down, and after an almost 3 hour long set...jesus fucking christ!

Also: Red headed girl who seemed just as drunk/stoned/fucked up as I was that was dancing next/with me during piggy, I think I fell hopelessly and endlessly in love with you.

This show kicked infinite ass.

Sesquipedalism wrote:The second was the chewing gum incident. I honestly thought Trent might call it a night.

Was that the one where he said "not cool" or something like that? At one point, later in the show, I thought I heard him say something like that, and I had absolutely no idea what had happened or what was going on. What went on down there?

Edit: does anyone have a photo of Peter while he's hanging upside down, preferably a wider shot that includes Trent and/or the rest of the stage? I would really, really, really, really, really love something to use as a desktop, possibly even print out. I saw Rob shooting briefly with the 5D, but in case those pics never see the light of day for some reason....anyone here get anything?

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2 ... 1251468650

Enjoy

Man, my ratio there is going to absolutely tank after all these downloads! My max upload is only about 20kbps - anything more, and you can't even use the internet because it kills the bandwidth. Oh boy.

theimage13 wrote:Man, my ratio there is going to absolutely tank after all these downloads! My max upload is only about 20kbps - anything more, and you can't even use the internet because it kills the bandwidth. Oh boy.

Turn it up close to 40 at night when your asleep and don't need bandwidth and just choke it back to 20 when you get back online.

It was a blast - we went up to the balcony - mixed crew of cool people and dudes who'd brought girlfriends who weren't into it (one thought Metal was My Sharona at the beginning hahaha). I liked all the Peter Murphy parts.

Inviting_Me_Away wrote:

Papagolash wrote:YYYEEEESSSSS my friend captured the failed stage dive from last night! Look for that to be up sometime tonight! syndrummer on demonoid. Not sure if he'll be ripping that song or part of it to put on youtube.

Thats me. I just rewatched it, and while you dont see him hit the rail, hes running off the stage and he just drops out of frame. It looks like he thought he had another step or two to go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clq9T_zaA0w

woooah! What a sick show!

I just saw my brief crowd-surfing, arms-in-the-air-in-front-of-trent-during-Burn on youtube. haha.

What an incredible show! It was my ninth time, and though I never got to hear The fragile, ruiner, the becoming, i do not want this, or the way out is through . . . there is no way I can complain!!! It was sooo great. insane energy!!!!!!

I shot some super sweet video from three people back, right in front of trent, of the first 3 or 4 songs. Beeeauutiful video!!!!! Actually, the audio is not bad all things considered. I will upload these videos eventually. I don't know when I will get to it, but subscribe to Usernamesstink on youtube so you can catch them when they are up.

Anyone else contributing their vids to the people who are editing together a multiangle video of 8/26?

tacosandburritos wrote:Anyone else contributing their vids to the people who are editing together a multiangle video of 8/26?

Yep - shot up to Survivalism in HD from the 2nd level stage right balcony. Some great angles up there. Is your footage HD or SD?

I've been to hundreds and hundreds of shows in my life and this is easily, EASILY in the top 5. I can't imagine a better NIN show. The setlist was perfect. The venue was very cool (and new to me, being from Toronto) and the stage was very low off the ground. I know it's not the smallest of the venues on this last run of shows but it was damn intimate in the place.

Of course, it was hot as anything and I walked out with my new NIN shirt drenched in sweat, but it was more than worth it. I couldn't have asked for anything more.

Sat in my lounge back in the UK feeling on a bit of a downer that my little jaunt to New York is over.

Show was good but as many have said it wasn't the best. I'm not familiar with Mr Murphy and to be honest when the figure was revealed hanging from the rafters the conversation went;

Girlfriend - Wow who is that!
Me - It's not Trent, he's got hair.
M - They're doing Reptile, they did Reptile with Bowie, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen its Bowie.
G - For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen how cool!
M - Actually it sounds a bit like Manson. He'd do some weird hanging upside down shit.
G - Nice.
M - Oh, it's that Peter Murphy.
G - Who?

Still enjoyed it that part of the show immensely. I'd just been thinking for the past month that Bowie may join them so built myself up for a disappointment.

The crowd were strange. At a normal show I would expect people to be chatting/spending time at the bar rather than watching the show but at this I was looking forward to it being the hardcore who would be hanging off every noise emitted from the stage. Clearly that was not the case.

Can't wait to see what NIN have in store for the LA shows.

Twitcher wrote:M - Oh, it's that Peter Murphy.
G - Who?

What do you see in her? Just messing with ya

edit: oh hey, looky here: an audio recording of the show, courtesy of NYCTaper: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1569

theimage13 wrote:

Sesquipedalism wrote:The second was the chewing gum incident. I honestly thought Trent might call it a night.

Was that the one where he said "not cool" or something like that? At one point, later in the show, I thought I heard him say something like that, and I had absolutely no idea what had happened or what was going on. What went on down there?

That's the one. Someone whipped a blob of chewed white gum toward the stage which hit Trent in or around the elbow as he was introducing Justin (I think). I actually saw this as it was happening and was like, "Please let him not have noticed that." Then he made this face--like he was bottling some rage, maybe--and said something like, "Someone just threw their gum at me. That's just not cool." But before he delivered that relatively calm reaction, I honestly thought he was going to leave the stage. I was embarrassed for the rest of us.

I don't know why someone who ostensibly paid $70 to get into a more or less Hardcore Fans Only gig would throw their saliva-sodden mouth garbage at the performer. I suppose it's probably the same kind of person who shows his girlfriend that he loves her by beating the shit out of her.

In the end, he may have stomped the gum with his boot, I wasn't 100% clear on that bit.

As I posted on nin.com:

This was my tenth NIN show since (first was the Fragility tour). As with all the shows I’ve attended it was an incredible show and a great pleasure to be there; each show has had it’s own character and attributes which contribute to evening’s experience, whether it was the of all the Year Zero related excitement and the small size of the venue at Brixton or the elaborate and imaginative spectacle of the LITS tour. Right up front though, I have to say I managed to score Webster tickets and that show was THE most incredible NIN show I’ve ever attended and one of the most incredible shows I’ve attended period – in my 35 years or so of fairly steady concert going. But I will post more on that show in the Webster thread.

I go to see bands at Terminal 5 regularly – and am under five feet tall – so I know it is my least favorite venue in NYC as it has the worst sight lines for anyone under 6 feet, to say nothing of for someone my height. I also knew that since I had TM tix rather than nin.com tix and since I am one of those “seasoned” fans, so not about to do the pit, that it would be very hard for me to get a spot where I could actually see the show.

Miraculously I grabbed a spot right on the rail in front of the elevated area on the ground floor behind the main floor where there is a bar. From there I had a clear view of the stage. The irony is that given the generous and thoughtful ticketing polices that TR has put in place for fans for NIN shows (Spiral and nin.com tix), I have actually been far closer to the stage in all the shows I’ve seen in bigger venues so even though T5 is much smaller than most places I’ve seen them I felt more detached and farther away. Also while it did become quite uncomfortably hot by the end of the night, it was positively arctic in comparison to the temperature at Webster on Sunday night. I have been at T5 at sold out shows before though – and it’s never even been slightly warm – so what was that about? Rob Sheridan’s tweet did describe the a/c situation perfectly. What was interesting to me was the mix of fans surrounding me. There were some very avid long time fans who had seen them many times but I also was near several first timers, including one who’d bought a very expensive scalper ticket. While everyone in my immediate vicinity was clearly very into the show, I too was astonished by the “buzz” I was hearing around me when LITS started. I was startled to realize that 90% of the folks around the bar area were chatting – and it sounded a lot like being thrown into the midst of a cocktail party. I actually had to strain to hear the song. I also realized that totally unlike Webster, everybody did not know the words to every song. I’m not complaining – but did figure out that it was understandable given that all tix to Webster were sold through nin.com – to uberfans vs the access that people had to T5 tix – even though one needed a password and the fact that they sold out in a minute- on Ticketmaster. I would’ve thought that would be an effective filter for the “cocktail party” set but I guess not.

At one point some hooligan decided to “crash” the area at this bar rail – he came in seemingly ready to mosh (wrong place for it buddy) but was actually outright assaulting those of us standing there. Thankfully the folks near us picked him up and threw him out of the area and made sure he stayed out.

TR has asked how the paperless ticketing worked (I’ll limit myself here to how it worked in terms of the night of show, not as to obtaining tix) and I’ll say that it was fine and good. The process was better at Webster where there were only nin.com tix but it was still fine here. My husband somehow bought the tickets on a credit card that wasn’t one of the usual ones we use and hadn’t brought it with him but they verified his identity and anything that keeps tickets out of the hands of scalpers and puts them into the hands of the fans is excellent.

Now as to the show – I love NIN – I love the music and I love the performances. And every performance exhilarates me. I marvel at the talent on display - the songs themselves, the performance as a whole and the musical ability. An added bonus for my husband was hearing one of his favorite songs (Down In It) which we’ve never heard live before except from the parking lot at Jones Beach during a sound check.

I was a huge Bauhaus fan from their first single on. I remember seeing Peter Murphy on his first solo tour in a tiny club in Boston called the Underground. His manager gave me some demos as I was a dj at the time. I loved the theatricality of his “dropping in.” I was also a huge Peru Ubu fan – and found Final Solution to be a fitting end – a nod to the Cleveland scene, to the contribution Pere Ubu has made to the musical canon, and the title and lyrics themselves are also somewhat fitting. [ Don't need a cure, Need a final solution; Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction, Guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction, Seems I'm a victim of natural selection, Meet me on the other side, another direction.] Should this have been the first encore rather than the second? Perhaps, but I have no quibbles - I saw it more as a lagniappe. Any encore with NIN is a surprise and a treat and to have them be untraditional fits right into that way of thinking.

Kudos to Adam Rivera for his daring rescue – clearly you are extremely courageous and also quick witted to act with such alacrity at that time and to think to ask for NIN tix during the Good Day interview. Delighted that TR made it happen for you and at your graciousness.

Thank you to the band for a terrific “wave goodbye” show.

Was the band filming this show? Or just the previous night?

Perhaps the greatest two nights of music life!!!




What do you see in her? Just messing with ya

edit: oh hey, looky here: an audio recording of the show, courtesy of NYCTaper: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1569


THANK YOU THE IMAGE FOR THIS RECORDING>>>SOUNDS GREAT!!!

Garrentee-Photo wrote:edit: oh hey, looky here: an audio recording of the show, courtesy of NYCTaper: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1569

THANK YOU THE IMAGE FOR THIS RECORDING>>>SOUNDS GREAT!!!

Just in case there's any confusion, this is not my recording - this is a joint effort of tapers acidjack and nyctaper. I just put up the link for those who may not have seen it on the nin.com thread for this show.

gardenia_spectre


excellent post! one of the best ive read about a previous show.



just had to mention that...

hboy41 wrote:gardenia_spectre


excellent post! one of the best ive read about a previous show.

hboy41, you don't much care for formatting, do you?

Gardenia: Nice post, indeed. From up at the very front, it was hard to find someone who wasn't actively evidencing that he or she knew the words to every song. Which I expected I'd find very annoying, but instead was quite moved by. I wish you could have seen more of that side of the show.

But seriously, I think a lot more people would read that if you'd thrown out for us the bones of a few occasional line breaks, paragraph breaks, you know, the niceties of formatting.

Criticism aside, the point you make about Trent's open question is a good one. He did ask us to let him know how the paperless system worked out. I don't really visit nin.com, so I don't know if there's a thread there, but should we maybe construct a thread here that's just for frank, terse reviews of the paperless system?

EDIT: Ha. Nice editing.

Heyho,

I've been to that show and it was really, really good. I'm from Germany, saw nin two times before and this was probably the best one. But something I have to mention or i want to ask - is the crowd always like that? Its hard to describe but when i was in germany it felt like everybody belongs to one big family - so during the show u look to anybody, smile and scream the lyrics together u know.. but here it was kind of strange. Ppl next to me that didnt know peter murphy or at least bauhaus (shame) were making fun on him.. or somthing which was really scary to me was when one guy asked what song they are playing right now.. i sad "burn..." he "oh cool, i have to remember that one" - for that price i expected 'true' nin fans - but its seems like some ppl over here just go to shows to whatever... tell that they have been there.
Oh an by the way... in germany it got even more hot during the concert, so it can get worse that in was on that day

All in all i'm happy that i got the chance to see trent for maybe the last time <3

cheers

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2883/img3996.jpg

I know I don't post on here much, and I am sorry to add to the whining, but FFS assholes next to me.

This kid in front of me passed out and fell right onto me and it was by far the scariest thing that has ever happened at a concert to me, because I am a very small chick, and while I was bothing trying to get this kid water, and get some help from god damn terminal five employeess. I also had to help block this kid from getting trampled on by the drunk assholes who were trying to get closer by stepping on the poor kid. God damn asshats man. No concert is worth stepping one someone when they are passed out because of the million and a half strobe light that were pretty unbearable.

Once we all got the poor passed out kid out of there, and thank the baby fucking jesus he was ok. (We saw him later when we moved upstairs and away from the crowd and I gave him like twelve hugs heh) The same guys proceeded to smoke mad cigarettes right the hell next to me and blow their smoke in my face in a room that was a million degrees. And were blathering through every god damn song. And pushing me, I was like dude I'm five feet tall and 100 pounds you think you could stop pushing me before I fall)

When gone god damn still is being played, you really should quit god damn talking.

I felt sooo bad for my friend who came from the tippy top of maine and we just had such a awful time with the crowd. And it would have been such a great show were it not for the stupid drunk people. I understand that your over 21 and live in America. But it doesn't make you any less of an asshat.


But, NIN! Even though I couldn't focus at all on them (Because I had to watch everyone and everything around me. I don't even remember Down In it being played and I love that song) were pretty god damn tight!

Stupid crowd. You ruined it and I hate you all. Well at least the people around me!

Sorry about the rant.

show was sic. set list was great. l the floor was great (hot as fk, but great.)
i really let myself go at this show, what a great fkn time.

also was glad to hear, through the grape vine, that tr will still be making music. then he said something to that effect as well.... guess we’ll see

and as far as the paperless tickets..
makes sense on paper, get the hands into the fans, but i got locked out for every ny show and had to buy tickets on ebay(besides getting riped off) i also had to have the guy take the band off his hand, put it on mine. while on line they were saying they would check id and c/c again. needless to say i was freaking out a little. when we got to the front i flashed my id and any c/c. we got in, but it could have really been a shit show.
point, scalpers still did their thing. this guy had 8 tix to both t5 shows.
dont get me wrong, i appreciate the attempt to get the tix into the fans hands. since the nin presale i have to say ive had pretty good luck getting my tix.
why not just do the nin pre sale tix like hes been doing? guess paperless could make lines move faster..?
i also would like to have the tix stub, but thats another story.

guess i hope getting tix to see tr is a issue in the future

elsbeth wrote: I felt sooo bad for my friend who came from the tippy top of maine and we just had such a awful time with the crowd. And it would have been such a great show were it not for the stupid drunk people. I understand that your over 21 and live in America. But it doesn't make you any less of an asshat.
But, NIN! Even though I couldn't focus at all on them (Because I had to watch everyone and everything around me. I don't even remember Down In it being played and I love that song) were pretty god damn tight!
Stupid crowd. You ruined it and I hate you all. Well at least the people around me!

im not trying to sound like a dk, but..
look into the venue. you knew this was a club show?
get a raiil on one of the two other levels..
i enjoy different angles of the show depending on the venue/the crowd/mood.
the show was sic, the crowd was great (where i was at least)

i do agree that t5 is a tough place to just watch the show, unless you lock down a spot on the balcony rail.
and that the crowd should stfu at the right times

I felt sooo bad for my friend who came from the tippy top of maine and we just had such a awful time with the crowd. And it would have been such a great show were it not for the stupid drunk people. I understand that your over 21 and live in America. But it doesn't make you any less of an asshat.
But, NIN! Even though I couldn't focus at all on them (Because I had to watch everyone and everything around me. I don't even remember Down In it being played and I love that song) were pretty god damn tight!
Stupid crowd. You ruined it and I hate you all. Well at least the people around me!

im not trying to sound like a dk, but..
look into the venue. you knew this was a club show?
get a raiil on one of the two other levels..
i enjoy different angles of the show depending on the venue/the crowd/mood.
the show was sic, the crowd was great (where i was at least)

i do agree that t5 is a tough place to just watch the show, unless you lock down a spot on the balcony rail.

elsbeth wrote:
I felt sooo bad for my friend who came from the tippy top of maine and we just had such a awful time with the crowd. And it would have been such a great show were it not for the stupid drunk people. I understand that your over 21 and live in America. But it doesn't make you any less of an asshat.
But, NIN! Even though I couldn't focus at all on them (Because I had to watch everyone and everything around me. I don't even remember Down In it being played and I love that song) were pretty god damn tight!
Stupid crowd. You ruined it and I hate you all. Well at least the people around me!

im not trying to sound like a dk, but..
look into the venue. you knew this was a club show?
get a raiil on one of the two other levels..
i enjoy different angles of the show depending on the venue/the crowd/mood.

reptile22 wrote:im not trying to sound like a dk, but..
look into the venue. you knew this was a club show?
get a raiil on one of the two other levels..
i enjoy different angles of the show depending on the venue/the crowd/mood.

The balcony crowd, in many places, were asshats, too. The girl next to me at my first spot was puking her guts out because she smuggled in a bottle of scotch - and this was BEFORE MEW had even finished playing. Her friend was encouraging her to just keep puking on the floor instead of, you know, getting help. The woman next to us, luckily, was furious and was working on getting security.

Thankfully, Hippygeek and his girl had managed to save me a spot elsewhere on the balcony for our taping endeavors, so I was able to escape that situation.

Listening to the bootleg from nyctaper, I really, really hope that there's a full soundboard released from this show. I remember a few times during the show (especially during SICNH) where Trent's voice was the most emotive I've ever heard it...a mix between nearly crying and downright growling...but the crowd noise over him really takes away from it.

can someone scan their ticket and/or bracelt? us ticketmaster buyers got fuct. thanks

There is nothing. There was a bracelet used solely to identify those over 21 with nothing written on it. There was no ticket.

For people who got tickets from the nin.com sales, there was both a ticket and a special wristband. Same goes for all the shows.

otnavuskire... i know thats why im looking for them. i have the bowery and webster ones. chops just decided to reiterate what i said

Terminal 5 Night 2 - My Source !!!!!


Easy Access Flac Torrent = http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=527867

Dime = http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=264671

Sample = http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/26/ ... Sample.mp3


Enjoy !!!!

ScreamingSlave wrote:Terminal 5 Night 2 - My Source !!!!!


Easy Access Flac Torrent = http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=527867

Sample = http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/26/ ... Sample.mp3


Enjoy !!!!

Thanks for another great recording! And thanks for splitting Pinion/SD and Frail/Wretched into separate tracks...I never got why some people insist on combining more than one song into a single file.

theimage13 wrote:

Garrentee-Photo wrote:edit: oh hey, looky here: an audio recording of the show, courtesy of NYCTaper: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1569

THANK YOU THE IMAGE FOR THIS RECORDING>>>SOUNDS GREAT!!!

Just in case there's any confusion, this is not my recording - this is a joint effort of tapers acidjack and nyctaper. I just put up the link for those who may not have seen it on the nin.com thread for this show.

Serious props to those guys - I'm re-enjoying the show right now. Forgot how good Sin was there.

I know some people on here could probably care less about closer, but I had never seen it live and to only play it once in NY on this last tour I think was wrong. I mean its a song everyone knows, casual and fanatic. Also I know Trent said he didn't want to play it on this tour anymore when the NINJA tour started, but since the inclusion in the Asia shows I figured it was a given to be heard during these shows. I couldn't get/afford tickets to all 4 and I really think it should have been played more than just Webster. I mean Chicago got it, Toronto got it, and now Cali night 1 got it. Just wondering if anyone else feels this way.

Thanks so much to Nine Inch Nails for playing such a sick show. I just up uploaded some videos that I shot of the night (better late than never!).

Most are quite action-packed, as I was right up front in the pit!

Somewhat Damaged

Wish

Last

Sin / March of the Pigs

Piggy (nothing can stop me now)

Metal

Survivalism

The Good Soldier

Reptile

Final Solution


Enjoy! I can't wait to see what people come up with for the multi-camera edit of this show!

tacosandburritos wrote:Thanks so much to Nine Inch Nails for playing such a sick show. I just up uploaded some videos that I shot of the night (better late than never!).
Enjoy! I can't wait to see what people come up with for the multi-camera edit of this show!

Sweet stuff! Are you submitting these for the TOIOU edit?

you betcha! I am about to start my upload to their FTP!

tiouo?

tiouo?

huh?

TOIOU = This One is on Us

http://thisoneisonus.org/about

http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/v ... b4d8f0cc72

Most definitely! I uploaded last night. unfortunately, they are not in HD, but they are still decent.

For some reason, YouTube won't upload the entire Reptile performance. I attempted twice. I don't understand--it is not over 2GB.

really? no one can take a sec and scan their bracelet or ticket? come on hook a brother up

Here are my photos from the show:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fithphotog ... 153894739/

Also if anyone who went to the show and I spoke to/hung out is on this board, please PM me :D

Here is me:

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/imag ... c27a1b.jpg

My recording for the night is up at www.dimeadozen.org in 16 and 24bit, enjoy! Do not MP3 except for personal use, maintain info files.