Is DFA '79 opening for them by any chance? Either way I'm jealous.



Also note: I will make your designers to watch list by the end of the day.

I went to a DFA '79 show a week ago and Sebastien said that even though NIN puts on one of the best shoes ever, the experience hasn't been enjoyable because they only get a half-hour to play.



Here's something to be jealous of, after the show I got their band shirt autographed by both Jesse and Sebastien.

hey thats near me

have you ever heard the chewbacca song?

Some of my friends saw them in Nashville on Halloween...two days ago.

NIN MCI DC

So NIN put on one of the best shoes ever, huh?

I guess Trent can afford it...

lucky ducky

I'm not a big NIN fan, but I'd go just for DFA79. Even if it was only a 30 minute set.

i fuckin love the NIN,white teeth took some time to grow on me though.

haven't grown on me yet. Loved broken and the fragile though.

(but not the downward spiral for some weird reason)

Pretty Hate Machine is IT, and Broken/Fixed plus Downward Spiral but after that it's been something else which I haven't really bothered to follow anymore.

Except skipped studies for a week and flew to London to see them on the Fragile tour in '99. And nobody noticed I was gone.

I think broken is the absolute high watermark...haven't listened to NIN in about three years though.

Actually all the remixes are more worth listening to than the original versions. Sin remixes are excellent. Back in the days you still had to hound them from special import shops, you know, when we didn't have P2P.

The stone age.

Yeah, i bought fixed on import in '96...Back when it was hard to find even rudimentary items such as NIN in Norwegian record shops. Cost me a fortune. Still like the original record better, mind.

(ps: did you catch Robert Patrick-aka-T-1000's cameo in the Broken Movie? Richard Patrick is his brother, you know..)

Yeah meknows meknows! Seen only bits of the Broken movie and then kinda forgot to hunt it down after I saw the main attraction = Bob Flanagan torn apart.

But I saw T2 laserdisc extras at one friend back in the days and there was a making of clip where they scanned Robert's head in for the morphing sequences and he was wearing this very basic NIN shirt with only the white logo in it and I was like what the hell?

Later on I made the connection of his brother.



Broken is a ffing great album, remixes don't water the originals down I'll clarify that at least.

No, they're pure insanity(in a good way). I've blown a few fuses with those, lemme tell ya....I'm just not angry and depressed enough to listen to NIN anymore, I guess. Nowadays it's just old bossa nova stuff, rockabilly, 60's soul and cambodian garage rock for me...

Heh, on one of those Closer remixes there's a track which goes into somekinda distorted frequency feedback and it blew one of my friend's speakers when he was blasting it a bit too loud.

I live in DC!!!!!....I can't wait to go see a Wizards game at the MCI Center

maybe that's what's wrong with my left eardrum.

There's a Swedish porn star who calls himself Nine Inch Nils. Thought you'd might like to hear that.

Well, I used to think Downward Spiral was the high mark....and I suppose in some ways it is. But the newer albums have their exceptional moments as well. It took me quite awhile to really give the Fragile a chance, but when I finally did I really enjoyed the hell out of key tracks, like "Into the Void" and "La Mer" and a few others. And with Teeth has its moments too...



Olli, I'm with you...I'm not as angsty as I once was....but I still dig out the NIN from time to time, and I remember how much I enjoyed it originally (its what I do with all the bands I fell in love with in high school).



I first expereinced Broken, and was blown away...it was the heaviest thing I had heard at that age ((I was pretty sheltered as a kid). Then I moved onto Downward Spiral, anbd backtracked with pretty Hate Machine.



For the record, the show was amazing. I didn't see DFA79..I checked out their website before hand, and they seemed pretty cool, but they started at 7:00 and I had to drive into DC from VA.



Queens of the Stone Age were up next...and they, as always, were rock solid...they had a cool backdrop, and they're playing was as tight as ever.



Finally NIN...sweet jesus, that was a show. It was all I had hoped for, really. Makes me wish I had caught some of the other tours...but this was enough. I have my fix now. I can cross them off my list of "must-see" shows.



The set pieces were amazing...free standing, jagged teeth looking structures, from the bottom and the topp of the stage....which somehow displayed imnages, like crazy lcd screens. They used the scrim several times, and to great purpose....very much like the "Hurt" video from years ago. Just lots of tremendous lighting and visuals, and the performace did not fail to impress either.



What I've always appreciated about NIN, and Trent Reznor, is the musicianship. Sure, it can be loud and hard, and they like to smash things from time to time and throw disturbing images at you...but, at his core, Reznor has always seemed to me to be an artist, and someone who takes his music and hisr performance very seriously...even if a bit too seriously. To see what I mean, check out the site, and watch the in studio performances and rehearsal: http://nin.com/visuals/index.html



And, if nothing else, the videos are always pretty damn cool.

If NIN is coming your way, try to check out the show. Its worth the 45 bucks...especially with two openers.

XIV: yeah, I have heard the Chewbacca song. In fact, I used it as my background music when I was a college radio DJ.

"What a wookiee!!"

Anyone else notice that all the people who said they'd go just to see DFA'79 over NIN all happen to be under 20? heh.

Gotta love the generation gap.

I feel old.

Damn whipper-snappers.

Glad you liked it! You can bet your socks I'll be present the next time they play in Norway. Trent does seem to try a bit too hard to appear tormented these days, mind..

I quite like The Fragile, btw. Especially the day the world went away and the great below. All that could have been on Still was pretty good, too.

Fragile has it's moments of greatness, but there are too many fillers and mediocre songs as well. Like Starfuckers, maybe the worst NIN song ever.