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XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 01:48 AM Jul 2013

Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage, With a Vengeance

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. Reznor’s lead vocals and instruments. Through song after song, his glare and scowl barely wavered; he’d 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 don’t 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 band’s 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

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Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage, With a Vengeance (Original Post) XemaSab Jul 2013 OP
I would love to see NIN! Mojo Electro Jul 2013 #1
"old bands" LeftyMom Jul 2013 #2
Heh! pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #3
Good point! Mojo Electro Jul 2013 #10
CCR was a hell of a band arely staircase Jul 2013 #15
I feel the same way. Mojo Electro Jul 2013 #9
Saw them at Numbers (small dance club/live music venue in Houston) in 1991 arely staircase Jul 2013 #4
Thanks for posting that. LuvNewcastle Jul 2013 #7
1990 I-Beam SF railsback Jul 2013 #8
I was stunned and humbled when I realized how long ago the show I went to was too arely staircase Jul 2013 #14
The 90's was probably the last decade of original sounds railsback Jul 2013 #16
Their 2008 tour ranks among the best I've ever seen. Initech Jul 2013 #5
I've seen them twice. RudynJack Jul 2013 #6
best concert I ever went to. With Teeth tour in 2005. Whisp Jul 2013 #11
Saw NIN Bunnahabhain Jul 2013 #12
Best live show I've ever seen. JaneyVee Jul 2013 #13

Mojo Electro

(362 posts)
1. I would love to see NIN!
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 01:52 AM
Jul 2013

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.

Mojo Electro

(362 posts)
10. Good point!
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:56 PM
Jul 2013

But NIN takes me back to my high school days, and I'm 37. I had no idea they were still around.

Mojo Electro

(362 posts)
9. I feel the same way.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:54 PM
Jul 2013

Because these days I hear a lot of the music I grew up with on the "classic rock" station.

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)
4. Saw them at Numbers (small dance club/live music venue in Houston) in 1991
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 02:23 AM
Jul 2013

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.

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)
14. I was stunned and humbled when I realized how long ago the show I went to was too
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:59 PM
Jul 2013

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)
16. The 90's was probably the last decade of original sounds
Sun Jul 28, 2013, 01:25 PM
Jul 2013

It was a good time to be in college. Man, the shit I saw...

Initech

(99,915 posts)
5. Their 2008 tour ranks among the best I've ever seen.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 02:27 AM
Jul 2013

I've got tickets for the Staples Center show... can't wait to see what they have in store.



 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
11. best concert I ever went to. With Teeth tour in 2005.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 01:21 PM
Jul 2013


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)
12. Saw NIN
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 01:28 PM
Jul 2013

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.

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