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Trent Reznor was not happy. Sitting ramrod straight, dressed in a black T-shirt and black shorts, he was staring with grim concentration as his band, Nine Inch Nails, worked through their set in a full-scale production rehearsal at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Smoke, strobe lights and video screens on wheels restlessly reconfigured themselves as the band performed, without Mr. Reznors lead vocals and instruments. Through song after song, his glare and scowl barely wavered; hed look away only to tap notes into his laptop. After the band ran through the full set, he convened the musicians and technicians in a back room, well away from a visiting journalist.
I dont like having to yell at people, he said the next day. But I was letting them know the severity of the situation. A lot had to shape up, and very soon.
In the course of a daylong tech rehearsal, some of it would. Powerful stage lights would no longer wash out video screens; the speed and density of interactive displays featuring cascades of virtual particles would be adjusted; the chaos and turbulence Mr. Reznor and his art director, Rob Sheridan, wanted to arise in each song would be calibrated to their specifications.
In 10 days Nine Inch Nails would be on tour for the first time since 2009, when Mr. Reznor had his band disappear for a while, as he wrote on the bands Web site. Hesitation Marks (Columbia), a new Nine Inch Nails album that sounds radically different from the guitar-driven blasts of aggression that the band released before the hiatus, is due for release on Sept. 3.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/arts/music/nine-inch-nails-is-back-onstage-with-a-vengeance.html?ref=arts&_r=0
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)I think it's cool that a lot of the old bands are touring again.
Black Sabbath plays here this weekend! I don't think I'll have the scratch to go.
Still, I think it's awesome they're touring.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts):dies: (probably of old age)
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I think the last concert performance I saw recently was John Fogerty. Now NIN is "old"?
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)But NIN takes me back to my high school days, and I'm 37. I had no idea they were still around.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I am a big fan of them too.
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)Because these days I hear a lot of the music I grew up with on the "classic rock" station.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)still a huge fan. I have heard one song off the new album. and it is good. I posted it below. I'm gonna make an effort to se them on this tour.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)Looks like I'll be buying that album, the first I've bought in a long time.
railsback
(1,881 posts)Geezuz, has it been that long? Even met him in the local Safeway buying munchies
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Funny how quickly time goes by. NIN is one of the few bands from my youth still around and still as great as they were 20 years ago.
railsback
(1,881 posts)It was a good time to be in college. Man, the shit I saw...
Initech
(99,915 posts)I've got tickets for the Staples Center show... can't wait to see what they have in store.
RudynJack
(1,044 posts)In '95 with David Bowie, and on their last tour in 2009. Very fun shows.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)I'd bother to do that again if they come to town again. I'm not very easily pleased with concerts, but this was the best awesome ever. Was the first concert like that we went to with daughter. She snuck in main floor centre by using a Halo Gamer wrist band she acquired that week.
Bunnahabhain
(857 posts)along with Tool, Type O Negative (RIP Peter Steele), and The Tea Party (hold your horses! A Canadian band from the 90s) around 1993 (certain parts of the 90s are hazy for me) and it was an eff'ing great day.