i stopped a little early doing the 5 lug to shower and get ready to go out tonight, but michele isn’t ready and ankur’s not here =( so i came online…my sister sent me a link to an hd video of nine inch nails and i got to thinking…
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while i don’t consider myself a hardcore rocker (i don’t live a crazy life, don’t drink much, no tattoos), i love music and have a decent collection of important albums from both during and before my life. some of it i find important to me and whatever i was dealing with, while others are just known as classic. hip hop has always been my favorite to listen to when i’m driving or chillin and definitely more fun to talk about…but nothing compares to listening to live rock. the hot anticipation, everyone there for the same reason, wondering if it’s going to be the best concert ever…i love it.
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so back to my point…nine inch nails. trent reznor is the reason nin exists. he started it, built it, and has survived in it long enough to sober up and create some of the most unique music of my life. i bought his first album, pretty hate machine’, when i was about 15 and i haven’t stopped since. trent is a control freak…every light, note, beat, and person has to appease him or he’ll flip, and he knows it. ‘pretty hate machine’ was apparently created in a studio that trent was a janitor in and was able to get time at night to mess around. since he was alone he had to improvise with using electronic sounds in place of a live production and, some would argue, industrial rock was born. he went on to create one of the strongest albums of the 1990s, the downward spiral. this elevated trent from great musician to an icon. it’s hard to believe there were only about 3 fully-produced albums nine inch nails put out in the 90s, but the effect they left was massive. influencing marilyn manson, playing with jane’s addiction…it’s crazy. he had years of fall out with his record company that he basically wanted nothing to do with towards the end of his contract. and he showed it real soon after being let go by his label by releasing ‘the slip’ without notice on his site, with a message: “thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years – this one’s on me”. madness!
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rewind to 2005…i’m in rutgers, i meet a girl, she asks me to go to a nin concert. i never really went to many concerts before this, i liked seeing incubus, i saw a couple shows here and there, but i never really was able to take in what it takes to create a great show. since trent is supposedly cleaned up now and is able to focus his full attention to something, he’s in the midst of creating something big. when ‘with teeth’ came out he started experimenting with state of the art lighting and stage setup that makes his concert all the more spectacular. fuck kanye and his light show. trent reznor appreciates technology and makes it his bitch. he’s also done some of david fincher’s music, including the intro to fight club and for se7en. a funny thing is i was in love with aaliyah and when she died, it got to me a little bit. and those that know me know what i’m talking about. i read later that timbaland has an admiration for trent reznor and aaliyah was a big fan of trent’s music. so much that they were in the works for trent to produce a song for her…i could only imagine what that could have been like. it’s funny how things work, y’know.
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so while i am no longer talking to the girl that took me to that concert, i brought my sister to the show and now she is borderline pyscho about trent reznor and anything nine inch nails. yay! maybe eventually david will want to come with me too =D
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we went to virginfest last year and they have 2 stages, headlining the final night was nin on one stage, kanye on the other. as much as i love kanye’s music, nin and trent reznor are on two different levels.
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so anyway, my sister sent me a vimeo link a while ago to nin’s page where rob sheridan is publically showing off his work that will inevitably lead to an hd video of their tour. trent wanted to create a full hd video for showtime but apparently it fell through so we’re getting the next best thing, free video! while you never know what trent’s planning (he’s always hinting at stopping nin) he still releasing things that leave us further and further entertained. his tours for the last few years have been entirely scripted and extravagant, but he said that nin will be going back to the raw and spontaneous sets that made them what they were…but this year, with jane’s addiction!
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so as you could see i am overly excited for what’s to come and i am very glad trent reznor has gotten himself together enough to show more people what he’s capable of. fuck…now i want to go. like right now right now.
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- sal
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trent had a house in new orleans and moved out just months before katrina. he never had much of a tv presence, nevermind a broadcasted performance. but this benefit concert for katrina had much meaning for him, so he performed ‘hurt’

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something harder…and in hd

March of the Pigs – Nine Inch Nails from Ryan Romero on Vimeo.
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hd nin is incredible

NIN: 1,000,000 Live from on stage, Sydney 2.22.09 [HD] from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.
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woodstock ’94…classic, older, muddy, hardcore. i don’t know what i would if we had the opportunity to see this.

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hurt was covered by johnny cash

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and linkin park did a live version of wish

i’ve always loved jamiroquai…til f’n napolean dynomite ruined it.