The show was simply amazing! Thank you Trent and crew. What a bittersweet end to the show with Head Like A Hole... the band was so into it, the crowd was so into it. I'm really at a loss for words...

/waves goodbye



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off the top of my head. (i know most of these aren't in order, except the first two and last three.)

home
somewhat damaged
march of the pigs
piggy (album version. was hoping for nothing can stop me now. this was a nice surprise)
wish
burn
gave up
head down
suck
non-entity
the fragile
la mer
metal
i'm afraid of americans
the downward spiral
survivalism
hurt
the hand that feeds
head like a hole

i think that's all of them.


glad i was able to make one show from this tour. unfortunately i missed the lights in the sky tour... watched from the center of the lawn and had an amazing time. i was a big wuss and started crying during the fragile. definitely a bittersweet moment. hope that trent comes back after he's had a sufficient break. even if it's a few dates here or there.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2009 11:46PM by VermiciousKaknid.

Oh yeah sound check started with the frail/the wretched. I'll write more when I'm not dead tired.



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Awesome show! I don't believe it's over. I'm not going to lie - I cried a little.

Yeah hi. I was on the stage tonight with Trent Reznor. That is all.

home
somewhat damaged
wish
march of the pigs
piggy (album version)
metal
i'm afraid of americans
head down
burn
gave up
la mer
fragile
non-entity
the downward spiral
survivalism
suck
hurt
hand that feeds
head like a hole

awesome show, SSSC was great, NIN of course, unbelievable, and Jane's was outstanding. Anyone who left during Jane's missed out big time. If you don't like Jane's, then you're stupid.



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Tonight has been the best night of my life...hurt brought tears to my eyes...I am really at a loss for words to even begin describing the show...throwing the mic to us in the croud during piggy was def. a highlight..it was incredible to be able to sing like that in front of so many people, i hope everyhone had fun and goodnight.

I was in the pit, right up at the very front. What an amazing show... loved it. I am really gonna miss NIN.

Can we talk about how hard Street Sweeper Social Club fucking KILLED IT?!?!

I was expecting them to be good. I was not expecting to be as amazing as they were. Holy fuckin' shit.

PS: I met a lot of really cool people today/tonight. I was just the tiniest bit right of center, and one person behind the rail. There was a big dude next to my left with his girlfriend; if you guys are on here, it was nice meeting you guys and you were both really cool. Everyone else I met in line or during meet and greet waiting - Bobbie, Sawyer? Which users are you guys? - was really cool as well. I don't think I even met any assholes today, so thanks to all of you for being great people to wait out the day and enjoy the show with.

Shit. I haven't eaten in at least 24 hours. What's open around here at the wee hours??

yamiyugi00 posted:

Sanctified, you forgot Hurt.

What an amazing show! It was such a special experience to be there and share with everyone else. I had a great spot for the lawn, I was towards the right, right on the rail, the kid with the Alice In Chains shirt and the long sweaty hair!

So beautiful. So sad to see it come to an end.

thx

We drove 5 hours there from VA Beach for this show and drove straight home after. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. My friend flew from Illinois to make the trip with me. It was pretty epic on the lawn. My second show, an was just as impressed with the bands energy

Finally up and showered and my ears are still ringing.

The whole experience last night was just great. From avoiding the long lines to get into the venue with the pre-sale special entrance to the great seats three rows back off of the rail -- The wife and I had a great time.

I was ready to enjoy SSSC but they blew me away. My wife had heard a few clips I've played and was going in with more of a "meh" mentality. She wants me to get their album on Tuesday. They absolutely rocked. What a great way to open the show and I think we're going to check them out when they start their own tour.

We're both a little bummed it was our last NIN show. I'm thrilled I got to hear "Metal", "I'm Afraid of Americans", and "The Fragile". I would have liked to hear "Mr. Self Destruct" and "Heresy" but I still thought the setlist was great. I really enjoyed seeing the "stripped down" version of NIN. We were on JMJ's side of the stage and he was really having some fun with the crowd -- Completely playing the "Rock Star" part. Trent looked like he threw all the energy he had into the show and the crowd seemed to feed off of it. It was a much better crowd then the Greensboro show for LITS.

Jane's Addiction was much better than I thought they'd be. I really wanted to see them but I didn't want them to sound bad. The only downside of the JA performance was the three meatheads who came out of nowhere and ended up in the row in front of us. They didn't stop pushing, hugging, grabbing each other's nipples and asses, high-fiving, swinging their shirts around the entire time. I don't think gay porn has more nipple and ass grabbing than these guys did last night. I've never seen that at a NIN show. I guess they were JA fans. Section 3, Row K, seats 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Yeah, you. You cleared out everyone around your row because nobody wanted to be next to you. Other than the meatheads, JA put on one hell of a show. Extremely entertaining.

I took over 400 photos last night and will eventually tag them for nin.com once I get home and go through them.

Thanks Trent & Co. It was a great 20 yesars.

Okay - got some sleep and now prepared to talk about the whole experience (good parts and bad parts)

The good parts: Nine Inch Nails. The whole thing. I don't know how I got so lucky, but when they filed all the pit people in from the north entrance, I managed to tuck myself into this one little gap amongst a few girls, right on the rail, right in front of Trent Reznor. I wasn't *touching* the rail, but for all intents and purposes, I was right there. Hell, I could see Robin's eyeliner (and boy does he have a hand with that stuff). So I was super pleased with my spot, especially considering we got there at 3 pm yesterday.

The performance, I felt, was four guys giving their all. The heat in NC can be oppressive and I can't imagine doing what they did in that. Insane. I have wanted to hear "The Fragile" for a decade now and I finally got to (this was only my 3rd show), and it basically signaled the end of an era of some stuff I've been dealing with and finally coming out of for the past year or so. I almost cried, but I held it together.

SSSC was awesome - I LOVED Tom Morello's energy and Boot's little dances. I couldn't believe how well they handled the, um, technical difficulties, also.

Overall, despite a few people trying to make the entire concert about them ("Well, we go to ALL the concerts and JT will take care of us" hahaha), I had a fabulous fucking time and couldn't have had a bigger privilege to be at a closing (non-festival) show for a farewell tour. It was worth the money and the sweat, absolutely.


The Bad: Why are there always freakish superfan weirdos that have to try and make it all about them?

In case anyone was wondering, that girl with the really tall husband who was at the VERY BEGINNING of the line to pick-up pre-sale tickets (not the first line, the OTHER line - the correct one)...THAT was me. And I don't really get why "Pigtails" and "Funbags," as we began calling them were just staring me the fuck down for an hour, until Pigtails comes up and tells us "Well, we got here at 7 am yesterday morning and (insert random "blah-fucking-blah" here)...JT is gonna sort everything out so that you're at the back of the line where you belong."

Ya know what? I got there at 3 pm yesterday and I was essentially half a person back from the rail, front and center, and if you have a problem with that, you can just cry me a fucking river, build a bridge, and get the fuck over it cause that's YOUR f-ing fault for being a stupid person with way too much goddamn time on their hands. It's not my fault I have a real job and couldn't logically get to the venue until 3 pm and STILL got a top-notch spot in the pit.

That's all.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2009 06:09AM by RunGVegas.

The show was ok; I love NIN but was very disappointed to see them at second billing. We left before JA because we have absolutely no interest in seeing them (which is why we just got cheap lawn instead of springing for real seats). Was also disappointed at the poor turnout of freaks; I was hoping to get some good photos Oh well! The night was not a total bust but definitely not as great a show as 2006.

And on a side note, if people want to post that they didn't like the show then this is the proper place to do it and that's a completely valid point of view to have. It's not like we're saying we hate the band or anything. Be pissed off if you want, but the interwebs is all about varying opinions.

I will try to post some of the photos later (they're all from the lawn, and of fans)

Here are the first part of the photos, more later:

[www.flickr.com]

These are all from the lawn, mostly of fans