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Closer to TR and the NIN
Sep. 7th, 2008 01:58 pmWell, not exactly. Although, I'm as exhausted as if I had. Feel vaguely hung over, too, but I didn't drink not a lick of alcohol. Not one single solitary beer. I had fun, anyway.
I went to the Nine Inch Nails concert last night. C-Dogg's boyfriend is their Tour Manager and scored us Club seats at the Forum and VIP All-Access passes. Because of the passes we actually watched the show from the floor by the sound booth. It was the best place to be because the lights and the motion graphics were phenomenal and you've got to see them. Trent Reznor puts on a fine, fine show and I highly recommend it.
It was very good times. The first set was the newer rock stuff and then it segued into the very new instrumental stuff (which I highly recommend. I'd heard some of it on KROQ so wasn't surprised) and then back into the rock. They played straight and did five songs on the encore. It was really, really good. TR comes up with all the concepts and the guy's pretty brilliant.
It was my first concert, guys! Can you believe it? I'm claustrophobic, which is usually not a big deal, but the idea of large crowds kinda wig me out a little. We stayed far enough in the back to avoid the sea of people sardined on the first half of the floor AND get the best view of the stage. Crowd energy was awesome and the sound guy was rocking out from note one. He was almost as entertaining to watch as the show itself. The opening act, a small time Georgia band called Deerhunter, was pretty uninteresting. A lot mistakes in the sound cues, a little off-key, no stage presence to speak of. But that's not what people were there for and we only had to sit through maybe three or four songs.
We were supposed to get to meet the band, but Reznor cancelled all the meet and greets, etc, on account of being sick. He also cancelled all of his interviews and what not and some shows over the last few weeks. By the end of the show you could hear the strain in his voice, but it was still excellent.
I went to the Nine Inch Nails concert last night. C-Dogg's boyfriend is their Tour Manager and scored us Club seats at the Forum and VIP All-Access passes. Because of the passes we actually watched the show from the floor by the sound booth. It was the best place to be because the lights and the motion graphics were phenomenal and you've got to see them. Trent Reznor puts on a fine, fine show and I highly recommend it.
It was very good times. The first set was the newer rock stuff and then it segued into the very new instrumental stuff (which I highly recommend. I'd heard some of it on KROQ so wasn't surprised) and then back into the rock. They played straight and did five songs on the encore. It was really, really good. TR comes up with all the concepts and the guy's pretty brilliant.
It was my first concert, guys! Can you believe it? I'm claustrophobic, which is usually not a big deal, but the idea of large crowds kinda wig me out a little. We stayed far enough in the back to avoid the sea of people sardined on the first half of the floor AND get the best view of the stage. Crowd energy was awesome and the sound guy was rocking out from note one. He was almost as entertaining to watch as the show itself. The opening act, a small time Georgia band called Deerhunter, was pretty uninteresting. A lot mistakes in the sound cues, a little off-key, no stage presence to speak of. But that's not what people were there for and we only had to sit through maybe three or four songs.
We were supposed to get to meet the band, but Reznor cancelled all the meet and greets, etc, on account of being sick. He also cancelled all of his interviews and what not and some shows over the last few weeks. By the end of the show you could hear the strain in his voice, but it was still excellent.
