Vexona posted:

Joel & Daniel- We love you guys. Seriously, we were sad to lose our partners in crime. I can only imagine the trouble we could get in to if we lived in the same town. Still, we are close by and I know we could do concerts in Atlanta, Asheville, and such! Thanks for being so cool. Keep in touch ^^

Dee- Thank you for the pin! We are still rocking them. Mikal is wearing it on his every day tees

Spiralwriter & Loegaire- You were a freaking hoot. Ya'll are locals too! If you guys do something for Halloween...hell, let me know. I'd love to go around town with some hot tranny grannies! Mikal will dress as his Milkshake again. And thank you for the sun tan lotion. That literally saved our necks.

CaptainMolotov- It was a pleasure to meet you. Thanks for rockin out the shades!

Niki- Thank you x1000 for taking photos during the M&G. I appreciate it sooooo much

TaniaSue- You are a sweetheart. It was great to meet you!

CPod & Mrs. CPod- Thank you guys for being so nice. It was great to meet ya!

Eureka- Cali girl, you were fun! I enjoyed chatting it up with you!

PeaceNIN- Thanks for organizing extra-curricular activities That was awesome.


And I met several more of you...maybe I didn't catch a name or my addled brain has misfiled it, but everyone was super nice. ^^

loegaire posted:

Hey, all. First of all, the show was phenomenol, as all of them have been. All the folks that we got to meet in the various groups were the nicest people you could imagine, and also the other fans that we got to meet were all very cool people. Just in case I forgot to introduce myself to any of y'all that I met, I'm Jason, the shaggier circled head in the picture.

AKA Tranny-granny librarian (if you've seen the pic from the Nashville pit, you'll understand...)

Soup4Brains posted:

millaanna posted:

This concert was an amazing experience, I would not trade it for anything in the world, I have been an NIN fan for over 15 years and Finally I got to meet them and hang out backstage. Everyone in the band was really cool, and the concert was amazing and fucking on point! This band by far contains some of the most talented and focused musicians I have ever seen! Ive always loved NIN because their music has always been outside the box, they did not sell out to corporate record companies and lose sight and play boring 2-4-5 chord progressions and crappy pop music for the masses. I appreciate the good music and the joy you guys have given us fans over the years it feels good to see real musicians who have honed their craft and have treated music with the respect that it deserves!


Thankyou!

I talked to your brother for a bit outside the backstage gate, did he ever make it in?

iamme310 posted:

They are quite possibly the most awesome people on this planet. With the M&G they were joking around with me and all of them were so nice. When it was our turn for pictures they were still joking around and Trent, Justin and Robin ended up tickling me and my cousin!!! They did not act the way I thought, in a great way. They were so normal and having a lot of fun. Backstage was amazing and Boots Riley and Tom Morello were so great. This was probably the best experience of my life. I posted some pix on flickr and I will be adding more.

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RunGVegas posted:

Figured I'd give some more details on our day in The Queen City.

We left Greenville around noon and took our time making our way up I-85 (stopped in Gaffney for a few minutes, Starbucks for an iced tea, etc.). We weren't expecting to get front & center rail or anything like that, so we were just gonna enjoy the day. We got to the venue ~3 pm and saw that all the parking lots seemed to be blocked off/closed, but we were like "F that" and just drove over the side of the road, through a very shallow ditch, into the parking area. Ah, the perks of driving a gas-guzzling SUV...horrible, I know, but it really came in handy in this situation.

We hung around in the sun with a guy we met from Pennsylvania who had a super rough trip down - a tanker had blown up in front of him on the freeway somewhere closer to PA! Apparently some drag racers + tanker = really bad fuckin' day. He was a nice guy though, and he let us know that everyone was (at that point) standing in the wrong line to pick up pre-sale tix. So we went over and started the line at the blue tent. We asked the guy setting up if it was okay and told him we were just going to shoot the shit, no pressure or anything. He seemed cool with it.

A few other people in line weren't cool with it, but like I said on p.1 - their problem, not mine. As it turns out, I've gotten a few PMs from people who said that these jerks told them stories along the same lines trying to get them to relinquish their good spot in line...but the story changes a little with each telling. So it turns out, "Pigtails," "Funbags," and "Short Shit," as I've dubbed them, were just lying their little asses off for their own selfish gain. Tsk tsk!

Once we got through the bullshit with the line bullies, the rain arrived. Jon and I were lucky enough to have brought ponchos, which we let as many people as we could fit crowd under them - looked kinda dirty, but nothing going on under the poncho, I promise (LOL). Eventually, someone came out and said they'd be letting us in to go stand at the North entrance. This was during soundcheck, so we could hear NIN performing "Banged and Blown Through," "In This Twilight," etc. and it was amazing. I was so pumped by then, it was insane. I got a green Wave Goodbye t-shirt, but I'm afraid to wear it b/c I almost want to save it forever...haha. I'll just be selective about wearing it I guess. It's too good not to show off.

We waited at the north entrance for a good 40 minutes or more before a big dude who I assume was the infamous JT (tall, pretty scary, lots of facial hair?) came around and gave us all a talking to about not running on our way to the pit. I think most people actually sorta listened to him, amazingly enough. When we finally got moving, flashed our pink armbands, and entered the pit, I COULD NOT BELIEVE how lucky I was to get such a great spot. There were three girls on the rail, right in front of me and I kinda wedged in a little spot behind and in between two of them and just kept that spot the whole time. I wasn't hanging over the rail "on the rail," but I was in a perfect spot nonetheless and could see every faint little facial expression that any of the guys made. It was aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing.

SSSC was incredible. We already put their new album that comes out tomorrow on order on our Amazon.com account. I am so excited for that - I will definitely be seeing them the next time they're anywhere near Greenville. Every member of the band was entertaining in their own way, but of course Tom and Boots were the standouts. I loved how Boots just goes off on a tangent to distract while Tom and the tech guy were working out the technical difficulties. I felt so bad for Tom, but they sounded amazing regardless of whatever issues were going on behind the scenes.

When Perry's wife came out on stage, my husband was like "Is that Mariqueen?" LOL...I cleared it up for him, but it was pretty hilarious. And also, I have to say: Mrs. Farrell, who I was not really even aware of before Friday night, was really taking her dignity into her own hands gyrating in that lowcut of an outfit. She pulled it off, but sheesh, I was worried for her for a minute there! She was a gutsy girl!

Nine Inch Nails was the be-all end-all of the day (of course), and they did not disappoint. Seeing the Fragile played live signaled something like the end of an era for me. These days, I am so much healthier (mentally and physically) than I once was, and I remember how that song was always an almost "theme song" for me - I wanted to find someone that was going to keep me from falling apart. Well, I did, but that didn't save me. In just the last 2 years or so, I've really recovered from an unhealthy state of mind and cleared my head of some major issues...and I realize now that it was never about finding someone else who was going to keep me from falling apart. It was about getting to a point where I couldn't let MYSELF fall apart. So hearing that song and seeing Trent sing it and just closing that chapter of my life that began at age 15 and being 25 now...it was emotional to say the least. I cried a little b/w NIN and JA's set, telling it to my husband and making him understand how that felt. It was really just a special thing to finally hear that song. Awe-inspiring.

Robin was cracking me up the whole show. He always seems to be having fun, but there was a looseness and a relaxed nature to him Friday night that just made him even more fun to watch (if that's possible).

I met so many wonderful people Friday - Capt. Molotov, Reznorgasm, etc. and really just could not have asked for a better way to end my time as a NIN concert-goer.

I hope and pray that after several years goes by, maybe TR will do a series of acoustic-type or club shows. I would go no matter what - nine month pregnant, even. I'm a fan for life. It may be a lofty dream, but I hope TR can see past all the drama and bullshit and really absorb and fully comprehend the way he has touched so many of us through his music. I am a stronger person today because of his music and I will always be so thankful to him for putting the way I felt about so many confusing things into beautiful words for me (and all his other fans). Thanks, Trent! We will miss you!

jennyk posted:

Illsubliminal posted:

Hey...you guys got the group pic already?! I thought they said that they would send it to our emails? How do i get one sent to me? Thanks