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NIN IN SEATTLE
Current mood:  sore
Category: Writing and Poetry
Trent Reznor understands what it is to be a fan. He understands standing in the audience, body thrumming with excitement, with possibility, as you stare at a dark stage waiting for the band to make their entrance and blow your mind.
And he has never failed to do so.
Trent Reznor wants each live NIN show to be not just spectacular, not simply entertaining, but something you never forget. Brilliant musicianship, showmanship, and storytelling, innovative, relevant, and powerful.
A NIN performance is always that and more -- it presents ideas, views, and emotions that each person in the audience can connect with.
And, last night, in Seattle -- on the first true night of the Lights in the Sky tour, Trent Reznor transformed NIN and his music into a stunning story told in lights, with computers, breathtaking visuals and with the smoothest and most talented lineup in years.
NIN not only performed new material from The Slip and Year Zero and songs from previous albums, but they also performed material from the all instrumental Ghosts album. Cello. Xylophone. Just incredible and I wish I could've heard more of it.
Instead, I got to listen to a group of drunk and obnoxious louts talking loudly through all 3 GHOST selections.
These very same drunken louts loudly declared that they were going to the front, to the rail -- which was held by my friends, myself, a fan who traveled from France to attend not only this show, but the entire tour, and others.
Given how the sold-out crowd had surged forward when NIN hit the stage and we were (as to be expected on the rail) crushed together and struggling to keep our places, the only way the drunken bastards could accomplish their goal was to deliberately injure the people in front of them in hopes each injured individual would ask security to pull them out (which happened to their victims as they made their way to the front) and then said drunken wankers would simply take their place.
Now, I would like to point out these drunken prats weren't even NIN fans. They made many disparaging remarks about Trent Reznor and talked loudly through quiet songs.
May I also point out that said drunken motherf**kers were large, tall, and brain-dead?
So, one of them went to work on me, digging his elbows into my ribs and jabbing hard enough it was a struggle to breathe. He also went to work on my legs, trying to take them out from under me, then grinding his knee into the side of mine, etc and so on. My friends were also getting the shit beat out of them.
So, did the drunken bully boys succeed in brutalizing their way into the front row?
Hell, no. Even though we were jammed in so tight there was little we could do to defend ourselves, we gritted our teeth and hung on throughout the assault and the drunken wankers (love that word!) didn't get rid of any of us. So they never reached their goal.
And I have this to say: F**k you. How does it feel to know you couldn't punch and kick your way past a bunch of women?
One other thing, these drunken bastards are gonna get the beatdown they deserve in book three. Let's see how well their tactics work at one of Inferno's shows. Let's see just how Dante might deal with them.
Ah, I shall have my revenge! ;)
Of course, I always expect to be bruised and sore at a NIN show if I'm riding the rail (and I always am). That's a price I'm usually willing to pay. I also expect to take a few blows from crowdsurfers. I took three last night in addition to the damage from the drunken Clockwork Orange dimwits.
A friend received a concussion from a crowdsurfer. I'm finally to the point where I wish crowdsurfing could be banned. But that's another topic and one I really don't want to go into here.
BUT...despite the violence, the show was AMAZING! Trent Reznor always goes above and beyond to make each NIN show one you won't soon forget and immediately yearn for more.
I'll be attending the Oakland and Inglewood shows in September too.
And, yeah, I'll be on the rails -- but with the addition of goggles this time to protect my glasses. (Lesson learned.)
Rock on!!
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Release date: 2008-06-24
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