KatKatKat posted:

JPiszakNIN posted:

Pleeeeeease tell me someone has pix/video of Robin smashing the acoustic!!

I was on his side of the stage backstage, and the sound that made when he smashed it... it's forever ingrained in my brain! BOOM!

I was on top of my "shit" last night when it came to videotaping awesome moments.... such as the performance of Heresy, The Fragile, The Downward Spiral, etc.... but missed THIS! DAMMIT!

No words necessary......

Bradcardoza posted:

No words necessary......

This is awesome! You got a hug right after my sister! Wish I had been quick enough on the draw to get a picture -- I was still shell-shocked!

wow that's a great pic and at the same time a sad one..
no trent dont wave goodbye please?
anyway great pic! i knew i shoulda bought a new camera.

Alexander posted:

Right after Hurt:


Thank you for the opportunity.

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Translucent_Onslaught posted:

I hadn't planned on going to this show, and actually ended up going with a good friend.
I'm glad I didn't pass up this opportunity to see the complete NIN set. (due to doing
all the cool donor stuff backstage at the Mansfield show) This setlist and the aggression
of the band on all the heavy songs blew my mind and brought me back to the old days
where throwing mic stands and smashing guitars was the norm.

That's pretty much all for now since I drove all the way back to Mass, and detoured
to work instead of sleeping for an hour... BLECH.

WOOT!! So glad I could accompany you to this show It was such a fucking blast. Great to see some completely different songs than the Mansfield set list. That was a treat for sure. Being on the water was absolutely breathtaking.....and when it got really chilly with the ice cold rain- literally breathtaking. I regretted not bringing in my jacket when I saw them selling those blankets. I knew that was a subliminal message. Will probably post more later. When my pictures are up on flikr I'll let you guys know. Mine seem to take forever to get into the forums.

i had to leave after the NIN show and missed JA. can i get some feedback: good/bad/indifferent? thanks

it's taken me a little while but here's a summary of what was a fucking amazing day....I did the $1200 package with four friends. Last show I saw was opening night of this tour in WPB.

6am: check my email, there's a message from NIN to show up at the venue no later than 1:45. We were three hours away and had planning on getting there before soundcheck around 4pm so it was a little bit of an oh-shit moment cause one person in our party had to bail. But how hard is it to find someone that wants to see NIN & Janes (and streetsweeper?) not that hard.

1:45 get the venue, park in the VIP area since we got there so early. (thanks venue people!) and joined the crowd of NINfans holding assorted items to be signed -- including two hardcore people with guitars.

About an hour later there was a NIN staffer with curly RED hair, who I will refer to as RED since I am horrible with names, who organized us into a line, got us checked in, gave us tickets and then put us in another line. One for $300 donors and one for $1000 donors. We waited a while in the sun (thank god for sunscreen) until the band arrived and they set up for the first meet and greet. We were finally let in as you could hear some of the bass and synth from I'm Afraid of Americans playing in the background. The $300 donors were let in first to do the meet and greet and the $1000 donors were split into two groups.

Our group was led backstage, past the trunks with the NIN logo and the Janes logos, past the catering area and we hung out for a little while posing for pictures. We were put in a back room -- looked like a dressing room in mid-80s beach decoration -- for about 5 minutes to wait for the tour manager -- tall guy with wristbands. He asks us to walk with him cause he hates the room and eventually we are standing by the tour buses. We were all joking that this was like NIN-Disneyland and this was our first ride. He answered our questions about the tour (not the much more difficult than LITS despite less technology, harder to make sure both bands get their full time, biggest screw up was the encore in WPB ) and we we also talked to one of the guys from Trent's management company. This part of the meet and greet was totally unexpected and everyone we talked to was amazing. It was like peeking behind the curtain. On the way back into the venue he let us sneak on one of the tour buses. Of course one of the lighting guys was trying to relax but he let us poke around and take some pictures.

It's our time to meet the band so we make our way to the M&G tents but it turns out everything is running a bit behind so RED marks our hands for a later M&G and we go to the soundcheck. Oh and since it was so hot they brought out some water for us during the Soundcheck -- as I said, nicest people on the face of the earth. Anyways, Justin comes out first -- dressed in his best beach concert outfit -- pink button down white jeans, red shoes and as Trent pointed out pink socks. The rest of the band comes out, Trent makes some more comments about the band's fashion -- Robyn was wearing some very cook black leather clogs with Cat in the Hat socks -- so after Trent's comments Robyn hikes up his pants and does the rest of the soundcheck with his socks showing. They did four songs during the soundcheck -- two highlights were SUCK, amazing and trent playing the finger piano thing. what was that?

After the soundcheck we went back towards the meet and greet tent. We had some pizza and salad while waiting for the Band. The Band came out again -- do they not get so freaking tired of spending so much time with us crazy fans? -- and did the meet and greet with our group. Of course the four of us were all a nervous mess. I think I muttered a "thank you for all the music" to Trent while he signed a 9" vinyl of march of the pigs. My friend patty had taken a polaroid of his tambourine stand behind the stage and had the band sign it. When she got to trent he looked at it and said "It looks kind of like a marital aid." After signing, they posed for pictures with us. They had a lot of people to get through so it was pretty quick but they were so cool about the whole thing. Meeting everyone was totally worth it.

After another piece of pizza we went to our seats (just to the side of the sound booth). we passed on watching from the side of the stage but how about those folks that got seats on the stage!?!?! That was great!

The show itself was awesome. Street Sweeper was pretty much the same as WPB but Boots had developed more of his tour schtick. "This is not a band this is a Social Club" "This is not a concert, it's a Meeting" I thought they were great in WPB and they were great again. Looking forward to their album.

NIN rocked. As other people said their set was heavy. Personal favorites was the Im Afraid of Americans-The Becoming-Burn-Gave Up section. It just did not let up. And Wish-Survivalism killed. Closing with Hurt was very cool -- especially since we missed it in WPB. I think I had a shit-eating grin on my face the whole time.

Jane's addiction was a party. NIN is my favorite band but there's a special place in my heart for Janes'. My first experience into "alternative" music was someone handing me a cassette tape of the live Janes Addiction album on Triple XXX records in 1988 as a freshman in high school. NIN shortly followed. So there's always been a special place for Janes and I had never seen then live. Thanks Trent for putting this togther. Mountain Song, Ocean size, Ted Just Admit it, Stop and Jane Says were also highlights. Perry is/was insane while being lucid enough to ask if the Laker's won before going into the encore. He also said here's something from 1984 before launching into Jane Says. 25 years old? goddamn I'm old.

finally got home around midnight. tired and sunburned but completely happy and at peace with the world. Thank you so much to the band and everyone involved in the show, especially RED for shepherding us around.

Hey, does anyone have audio of the whole show? I have 640x480 video of the full versions of "Gave Up" and "The Downward Spiral/Wish" that I'd be more than willing to share (the raw, uncompressed files from my camera, that is).

I'm dying to see the group photo taken of the $300 M&G greeters. If anyone has a link to it....please post or PM. My friend was the payee and was told he'd get an email but he's traveling from Europe and it will probably be several days before he gets to his email. I was lucky enough to have Trent with his arm around me and I need proof! Nobody believes me!

My meet & greet prize...

Trent said he has this same poster framed in his home...



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The show was amazing and the song selection practically flawless.

I got a chance to shoot all three bands from the front for a bit, so here's more photos (including Robin gearing up to smash his acoustic): NIN, JA and SSSC at Jones Beach photo set.

Kudos to Trent and his team for a lovely Sunday night!

nantucket68 posted:

I'm dying to see the group photo taken of the $300 M&G greeters. If anyone has a link to it....please post or PM. My friend was the payee and was told he'd get an email but he's traveling from Europe and it will probably be several days before he gets to his email. I was lucky enough to have Trent with his arm around me and I need proof! Nobody believes me!

HA, I have the same question. I was one of the $300 people AND Trent stood next to me in the group photo with his arm around me. No one believes me yet!! I waited 15 years for that photo op. Can't wait for the pictures to surface!

I've got some video coming up sooooooon (but never soon enough of course)

If anyone has some fantabulous pics pleeeease post them--especially of the JA set (which i can't find any of).

what a great night---out of all the NIN shows that was easily the best set list <3

I really can't put into words how I felt during this show. I pretty much started crying during Head Like a Hole and didn't stop until Jane's left the stage. This was my last of 12 shows on this tour and I have loved every single second and did not want it to end.

and if you are one of the two really nice guys that let us share your seats in the front row during Jane's Addiction (before security made us leave after 3 songs), thank you SOOO much. I never got a chance to get your names. That was really awesome of you, I just wish we could have stayed the whole time! *shakes fist at security*