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About This Page: This is a discussion on Media, Movies and Music within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Anyone going on the 6th to see Nine Inch Nails at the Forum?
If anyone even has a marginal interests in NIN and enjoy a truely spectacular light/video screen show, you really OWE it to yourself to go see them at the Forum. Granted I haven't been around forever, but their live presentation is visually the most stunning I've ever seen PERIOD. There's been 3 new albums (Year Zero, Ghosts I-IV, The Slip) since they toured the US last, and all the material is great live IMO (especially Year Zero and Ghosts), and frankly, the band plays tighter and sounds better than ever. Here's some pics to entice if they will, and don't worry, I'm not spoiling anything, these don't do the show justice...
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Last edited by BDTR; August 25th, 2008 at 08:49 AM.
Looks incredible! I hope they pull off some interesting lighting during the first three songs because that is all I can shoot for. Nearly every shot above is a silhouette, should be challenging to say the least.
Looks incredible! I hope they pull off some interesting lighting during the first three songs because that is all I can shoot for. Nearly every shot above is a silhouette, should be challenging to say the least.
I don't know if this constitutes as a spoiler (it doesn't really), but just in case...
*SPOILER*
The really cool s*** light/screen wise begins after the first 1/3 of the concert about 8-9 songs in, but there will still be some decent lighting during the first three songs.. but just standard procedure for a rock band of their stature.
I'm hoping that my seats are decent so I can hopefully get some shots of the crazy lighting after I get thrown out of the pit.
From the way it looks you could probably get some killer shots even from the last row.
the biggest drawback here is not the band, even though i know you guys thought i was going to give another f*** you to Reznor, but the Forum sounds like what it would smell like if someone puked out the bowl of a**hole soup they just ate.
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the biggest drawback here is not the band, even though i know you guys thought i was going to give another f*** you to Reznor, but the Forum sounds like what it would smell like if someone puked out the bowl of a**hole soup they just ate.
+1. Both shows I've seen there sounded murky as hell, but it helps immensly if you're in the pit or just close to the speakers in general (one of them was a secret NIN warm up show in August, the other was Metallica in 03.. Metallica in the nosebleeds was much poorer sound quality).
And yes, I DEFINITELY thought you were about to give the digital finger to Turk Reznik and his merry men when I saw your handle in the recent post box; kudos for being full of surprises
+1. Both shows I've seen there sounded murky as hell, but it helps immensly if you're in the pit or just close to the speakers in general (one of them was a secret NIN warm up show in August, the other was Metallica in 03.. Metallica in the nosebleeds was much poorer sound quality).
And yes, I DEFINITELY thought you were about to give the digital finger to Turk Reznik and his merry men when I saw your handle in the recent post box; kudos for being full of surprises
hey man, to this day, one of the absolute best songs i have EVER personally seen performed live was Nails doing Get Down Make Love at Helter Skelter back in like 1990 or something... and that was a helluva show.
Reznor was also very entertaining when he toured with Revolting Cocks for the Beers, Steers, and Queers tour.
i've seen NIN play in some lousy places... the last time i saw him was at some college arena in San Diego with that god awful Maynard James Keenan side-project opening (whatever THAT piece of s*** was called). whenever that was ('99 maybe?). that one was NOT a great show. it rained that night too.
i think both the Helter Skelter show and the Revolting Cocks show preceded that first Lollapalooza festival.
my opinion is just that i think he was more interesting early on and better with Richard Patrick in his fold... besides, we used to always see Richard's brother, T-1000 at all those early gigs.
hey man, to this day, one of the absolute best songs i have EVER personally seen performed live was Nails doing Get Down Make Love at Helter Skelter back in like 1990 or something... and that was a helluva show.
Reznor was also very entertaining when he toured with Revolting Cocks for the Beers, Steers, and Queers tour.
i've seen NIN play in some lousy places... the last time i saw him was at some college arena in San Diego with that god awful Maynard James Keenan side-project opening (whatever THAT piece of s*** was called). whenever that was ('99 maybe?). that one was NOT a great show. it rained that night too.
i think both the Helter Skelter show and the Revolting Cocks show preceded that first Lollapalooza festival.
my opinion is just that i think he was more interesting early on and better with Richard Patrick in his fold... besides, we used to always see Richard's brother, T-1000 at all those early gigs.
Ahhhh, you lucky bastard! I would have killed to see NIN in their first few incarnations (anytime between 88 and 95), as their concert footage from those days is so raucous and out of control... sadly I was too young to see them then. Did you ever see the bootlegged fake snuff film they made with Sleazy called the Broken Movie? Robert Patrick has a quick cameo as a police officer who vomits after seeing someone's head in a refrigerator, it's delightfully tasteful as you can imagine
The last time you saw NIN was on the Fragility tour, and A Perfect Circle was MJK's side project that opened for them. At that time Trent was a big time junkie bent out of his head (on his actual downward spiral... life imitating art you might say) which culminated when he almost killed himself accidentally Pulp Fiction style (snorted a bag of H that he thought was coke). Needless to say, you were seeing him preform at his absolute worst mental and physical state and I don't blame you for thinking the show sucked (The Fragile, ironically, might still be my favorite album of theirs/his). Also, APC had just come out with their first album which really just sounded like a mediocre Tool coverband that tried to write alt rock songs, and I wasn't too into it either. But their second album, 13th Step, is actually pretty good. It was their one album where they defined their own sound, and they made it much more ambient and gave it ample breathing room to make it sound like an album as opposed to a collection of songs. It wont knock your top off, and there's a few tracks I don't care for too much off it, but I think it's worth checking out (at least as a torrent download).
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Last edited by BDTR; August 27th, 2008 at 01:40 AM.
NIN on Saturday night @ the Forum 
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