EasyBakeChicken posted:

@MistressWanda and the other nice fans up there with us - very nice rocking with ya!

Awwwww! Thanks! It was great meeting you, and it made my whole experience so much better. I wasn't sure about heading in alone to see the show, but everyone I met and talked to was so nice and friendly.

EasyBakeChicken posted:

Visitor17 posted:

Terminal 5 08-26-09

Enjoy

Wow that's alotta torrent. Good work! you were right in front of me.

Any chance you wanna help a fellow fan?

NicRN77 posted:

EasyBakeChicken posted:

Visitor17 posted:

Terminal 5 08-26-09

Enjoy

Wow that's alotta torrent. Good work! you were right in front of me.

Any chance you wanna help a fellow fan?

Help, how?

Seeding? I will after work... I don't think downloading 30 gigs of internet at a tv station is a good idea.

Invites? Maybe, not sure if I have any available

Download it for you and send you a full hard drive? Fat chance!

I'm 6'4" and from where I was during THTF it looked like a lame choreographed music video the way that everyone was clapping in unison. But it wasn't lame. But you all made it beautiful and... majestic. Can't wait for Aragon here in Chicago on Saturday.

Cheers all. If anyone just happens to have an extra NYC poster that you're willing to let go of, I'd appreciate a PM. I came all the way from Mother Russia for a poster and they were sold out before the show began. Lame.

Dirty

EasyBakeChicken posted:

NicRN77 posted:

EasyBakeChicken posted:

Visitor17 posted:

Terminal 5 08-26-09

Enjoy

Wow that's alotta torrent. Good work! you were right in front of me.

Any chance you wanna help a fellow fan?

Help, how?

Seeding? I will after work... I don't think downloading 30 gigs of internet at a tv station is a good idea.

Invites? Maybe, not sure if I have any available

Download it for you and send you a full hard drive? Fat chance!

Geez, no need to be an ass. I just meant can anyone help me out and send me a link to the 8/26 show. I have a Dime account but not one for this torrent site.

Full audio available here

nyctaper.com

Going through my video. I didn't really get any good pix. The combination of 500% humidity and that damned smoke kinda wrecked that. In the mean time, I'm starting to upload my videos. Here's Down In It from Terminal Five Wed night: [www.youtube.com]

It was a great final NYC show. Wraith(my *fiance*) and I were against the rail of the 2nd floor balcony right above the stage. The view as AMAZING!

Few notes:
If you're going to wear a dress and crowd surf, PLEASE wear one with a long skirt, not a short one... I saw two girls that got this right. I also saw two girls who did not... thank god they were wearing underwear.

Also, don't stick gum under tables or railings. It's gross and it ruins people's clothing.

I'm wondering if anyone else caught a glimpse of the 'I HAVE OXYGEN <-----' sign that appeared in front of Robin's pedals during the set... does anyone have any info on that?

Lastly, thought it was kinda cool that people in line were talking about Wraith and I getting engaged at the show the night before.... kinda weird, but kinda cool.

NIN_Slave posted:

Full audio available here

nyctaper.com

Listened to it halfway through and the sound is very good. Thanks for posting!

Still hard to believe I could make it to the show. Happy to see that the last chance I got to see them live ended on such a good note. The band has just been so generous playing such a long set with such an incredible setlist and that much intensity. Conditions in the front line were realy harsh but the quality and intensity of show made up for it. Thank you NIN for this awesome experience and for everything you've done through the years.

Oh and a big "thank you" to the security staff for handing out bottles of water during the show. It was greatly appreciated.

This was my tenth NIN show since (first was the Fragility tour). As with all the shows I’ve attended it was an incredible show and a great pleasure to be there; each show has had it’s own character and attributes which contribute to evening’s experience, whether it was the of all the Year Zero related excitement and the small size of the venue at Brixton or the elaborate and imaginative spectacle of the LITS tour. Right up front though, I have to say I managed to score Webster tickets and that show was THE most incredible NIN show I’ve ever attended and one of the most incredible shows I’ve attended period – in my 35 years or so of fairly steady concert going. But I will post more on that show in the Webster thread.

I go to see bands at Terminal 5 regularly – and am under five feet tall – so I know it is my least favorite venue in NYC as it has the worst sight lines for anyone under 6 feet, to say nothing of for someone my height. I also knew that since I had TM tix rather than nin.com tix and since I am one of those “seasoned” fans, so not about to do the pit, that it would be very hard for me to get a spot where I could actually see the show. Miraculously I grabbed a spot right on the rail in front of the elevated area on the ground floor behind the main floor where there is a bar. From there I had a clear view of the stage. The irony is that given the generous and thoughtful ticketing polices that TR has put in place for fans for NIN shows (Spiral and nin.com tix), I have actually been far closer to the stage in all the shows I’ve seen in bigger venues so even though T5 is much smaller than most places I’ve seen them I felt more detached and farther away. Also while it did become quite uncomfortably hot by the end of the night, it was positively arctic in comparison to the temperature at Webster on Sunday night. I have been at T5 at sold out shows before though – and it’s never even been slightly warm – so what was that about? Rob Sheridan’s tweet did describe the a/c situation perfectly.

What was interesting to me was the mix of fans surrounding me. There were some very avid long time fans who had seen them many times but I also was near several first timers, including one who’d bought a very expensive scalper ticket. While everyone in my immediate vicinity was clearly very into the show, I too was astonished by the “buzz” I was hearing around me when LITS started. I was startled to realize that 90% of the folks around the bar area were chatting – and it sounded a lot like being thrown into the midst of a cocktail party. I actually had to strain to hear the song. I also realized that totally unlike Webster, everybody did not know the words to every song. I’m not complaining – but did figure out that it was understandable given that all tix to Webster were sold through nin.com – to uberfans vs the access that people had to T5 tix – even though one needed a password and the fact that they sold out in a minute- on Ticketmaster. I would’ve thought that would be an effective filter for the “cocktail party” set but I guess not.

At one point some hooligan decided to “crash” the area at this bar rail – he came in seemingly ready to mosh (wrong place for it buddy) but was actually outright assaulting those of us standing there. Thankfully the folks near us picked him up and threw him out of the area and made sure he stayed out.

TR has asked how the paperless ticketing worked (I’ll limit myself here to how it worked in terms of the night of show, not as to obtaining tix) and I’ll say that it was fine and good. The process was better at Webster where there were only nin.com tix but it was still fine here. My husband somehow bought the tickets on a credit card that wasn’t one of the usual ones we use and hadn’t brought it with him but they verified his identity and anything that keeps tickets out of the hands of scalpers and puts them into the hands of the fans is excellent.

Now as to the show – I love NIN – I love the music and I love the performances. And every performance exhilarates me. I marvel at the talent on display - the songs themselves, the performance as a whole and the musical ability. An added bonus for my husband was hearing one of his favorite songs (Down In It) which we’ve never heard live before except from the parking lot at Jones Beach during a sound check.

I was a huge Bauhaus fan from their first single on. I remember seeing Peter Murphy on his first solo tour in a tiny club in Boston called the Underground. His manager gave me some demos as I was a dj at the time. I loved the theatricality of his “dropping in.” I was also a huge Peru Ubu fan – and found Final Solution to be a fitting end – a nod to the Cleveland scene, to the contribution Pere Ubu has made to the musical canon, and the title and lyrics themselves are also somewhat fitting. [ Don't need a cure, Need a final solution; Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction, Guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction, Seems I'm a victim of natural selection, Meet me on the other side, another direction.] Should this have been the first encore rather than the second? Perhaps, but I have no quibbles - I saw it more as a lagniappe. Any encore with NIN is a surprise and a treat and to have them be untraditional fits right into that way of thinking.

Kudos to Adam Rivera for his daring rescue – clearly you are extremely courageous and also quick witted to act with such alacrity at that time and to think to ask for NIN tix during the Good Day interview. Delighted that TR made it happen for you and at your graciousness.

Thank you to the band for a terrific “wave goodbye” show.



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With NYCTapers permission, I have hosted an additional link to the audio for the 08/26 show. It is the same NYCTaper recording, however I have renamed the files to match the track listing and added ID tags for all you ipod users out there

Enjoy!!


Nine Inch Nails-2009-Live at Terminal 5 NYC (08-26-2009)

Additionally, NYCTaper has these files in original, untouched FLAC files. Be sure to contact him privately for that link.



I will pull down that 30GB video torrent to check it out. I won't be able to rehost that much data but maybe I can seed it on a public torrent site instead for you.

I am also hoping to host a zip file of nice pictures from this show. If anyone else has quality photos or videos they would like to share, I'd be happy to host them for everyone. I will edit this same post once I have a nice collection of pictures to share.



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oh shit you were the cop???hahahah. Wow awesome. So i guess that lady wasn't kidding. Awesome.

Got a ton of pics from the show, uploaded to SmugMug ..> [franklin64.smugmug.com]

I hastily went through all my shots and flagged ones that looked good so there are a ton up there, probably over 500 or so, alot of dupes but I was trying to get the best shot with the available lighting, so it may take a lil while to go through them all.

Also I haven't had any time to edit the shots so none are cropped or fixed or anything, send me a PM if you would like the raw files or any of the shots cleaned up.

Some awesome close-up shots of Trent in the gallery. I'm still just in a haze regarding the show, and listening to nails and going through the gallery brought me right back!

Enjoy!

-Franklin

alphakry posted:

Looking for a quality photo of the back of the T-Shirt for this night to use as Cover Art for the Audio files. Anyone that has one or can take one, that'd be great. I didn't pick up a shirt from this night because I had one from the night before.

Took this real quick, larger size is on my smugmug gallery , lemme know if this one works for ya.