Perry gave a shoutout to Seth last night

Those photos are insane.  Has to be a camera, not just an iPhone,  no? 

Bags wrote:
Those photos are insane.  Has to be a camera, not just an iPhone,  no? 

yeap, they relaxed the camera policy for this tour, glad you liked the pics!

I left my seat during NIN to go for a walk and ended up playing Dolly Parton pinball (for serious, people) over in the arcade.  Tom Morello and the black guy from Street Sweeper pulled in next to me and started playing the Rolling Stones pinball machine.  We talked for a minute and both guys were very nice.  Outside of his Lord of the Rings t-shirt, Tom Morello looked like he was wearing clothes from an LL Bean catalog. 

I was really excited to See Jane's Addiction again, but maybe I set the bar too high. I thought Perry was just going through the motions. He picked it up for a few songs, but I was disappointed overall. I have always found his theatrics to be entertaining, but last night felt a little "shticky".  Maybe forced is a better word.
I did like the shout out to Seth.

britton wrote:
I left my seat during NIN to go for a walk and ended up playing Dolly Parton pinball (for serious, people) over in the arcade.  Tom Morello and the black guy from Street Sweeper pulled in next to me and started playing the Rolling Stones pinball machine.  We talked for a minute and both guys were very nice.  Outside of his Lord of the Rings t-shirt, Tom Morello looked like he was wearing clothes from an LL Bean catalog. 

Couldn't you also call Tom Morello a black guy from Street Sweeper?

Awesome show. NIN was great and Jane's . . . Jane's is no joke! . . . Eric Avery's massive rolling basslines put the balls back in the songs and everything fell back into place . . .everyone was in top form and ridiculously well preserved . . . and Merriweather, again, was the perfect place for this show

lagas wrote:

Bags wrote:
Those photos are insane.  Has to be a camera, not just an iPhone,  no? 

yeap, they relaxed the camera policy for this tour, glad you liked the pics!

Can I ask what kind of camera? 

Great shots!

LOL @ Josh not looking amused with Perry leaning into the crowd.


Thought the show was awesome for NIN and Janes just kinda went through the motions would be the best way to describe it.

I was amused at some girl asking me about where I got my Chemlab shirt only for her to point to her arm showing me her Chemlab tattoo.

I didn't have my memory card so I only got about 8 or so pics during NIN performance, and the girl's tattoo :)

Fuck Art, Let's Kill

eros wrote:

lagas wrote:

Bags wrote:
Those photos are insane.  Has to be a camera, not just an iPhone,  no? 

yeap, they relaxed the camera policy for this tour, glad you liked the pics!

Can I ask what kind of camera? 

Great shots!

Sure, Nikon D60

here a couple more I have taken before

MindCage wrote:
LOL @ Josh not looking amused with Perry leaning into the crowd.

i wouldn't say "not amused."  i'd say "professionally concerned for his well being."  gotta watch the crowd a little harder when the talent is that close.  there are crazies out there.  not counting perry.

Review in the Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061003551.html

Show didn't feel forced to me at all, Perry was in great form..

Got wrote:
Fuck Art, Let's Kill

That would be the one :)

LOL @ guy flipping off Trent

Jane's was awesome. "Up The Beach" was brilliant and my fave moment of the evening.

Even out on the lawn at dusk (dark orange sky after storms moved on), I had to close my eyes repeatedly for the NIN lightshow blinking, and i could still see the whole thing thru my eyelids, lol. The soundguys for these things (facing the stage every night) probably have to wear welder's mask tinted glasses to not burn their eyes out. One interesting twist for NIN was the inclusion of some extra non-typical instruments: standup bass bowed, xylophone/vibes, lap/pedal steel slide guitar.

Opening band was ok and fun, nothing special; I wanted to see morello so we got there early. No blankets allowed; wtf is that about? -especially b'cuz once you get inside, there's 25 blankets allowed in anyway that folks were sitting on. Great sound the whole night and the rain thankfully cooled things down by 10 degrees.

jeffnar wrote:
Jane's was awesome. "Up The Beach" was brilliant and my fave moment of the evening.

I was surprised how some of their other material "Up.." , "Summertime Rolls", "Then She Did"… had an effect on me..  They just came off with a huge connection to my past that was very special.

It seemed like a performance for me that couldn't go wrong and luckily didn't in terms of material and execution.  Up really was fantastic cause I was not expecting to hear that tune at all but it did sound awesome…

I saw Jane's 3 time on their rise, the old 930, Ritchey Coleseum and Lollapalooza.  I was second guessing going tuesday thinking it might tarnish those memories.  But it was a great show, it was worth it, it wasn't something half-assed.

thatguy wrote:there are crazies out there.  not counting perry.

This made me LOL.

:)

Hello wrote:
Is Perry still annoying when he speaks?

oh yeah

It's been an interesting experiment over the last couple of years or so. Faced with leaving the infrastructure of traditional record labels and figuring out what the right thing to do is in this new world - I found myself realizing that for me to have any concept of how to interact with the community and know what they might want / what they find appropriate, I need to immerse myself in that world and live it for a while.
The reason no record label knows how to market anything to new media is they don't live there. They don't get it because they don't use it. What you've seen happen with the marketing and presentation of NIN over the last years is a direct result of living next to you, listening to you, consuming with you and interacting with you. Directly. There's no handlers or PR people here, it's me and my guys - that's it. There's no real plan, even - it's just trying to do the right thing that respects you the fan, the music, and me the artist. That's the goal - a mutual and shared respect.
When Twitter made it's way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I thought it through and in light of where I was / am in my career I decided to lower the curtain a bit and let you see more of my personality. I watched some of you get more engaged because you started to realize there's a person (flaws and all) back there, and I watched some of you recoil in horror because I'm not what you projected on me. All expected. I'm not as concerned about "breaking" your idea of NIN at this point. It is what it is and I am what I am. The relationship between artist and fan is changing if you haven't noticed, along with the way we consume and experience music and even communicate since the internet arrived.
The problem with really getting engaged in a community is getting through the clutter and noise. In a closed environment like nin.com a lot of this can be moderated away, or code can be implemented to make it more difficult for troublemakers to persist. It's tedious and feels like wasted energy doing that shit, but some people exist to ruin it for others - and they are the ones who have nothing better to do with their time. Example: on nin.com, there's 3-4 different people that each send me between 50 - 100 message per day of delusional, often threatening nonsense. We can delete them, but they just sign back up and start again. Yes, we are implementing several changes to address this, but the point is it quickly gets very old weeding through that stuff.
Back to Twitter. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and "human". I was not expecting to broadcast details of my love life there, but it happened because I'm in love and it's all I think about and that's that. If this has bummed you out or destroyed what you've projected on me, fair enough - it's probably time for you to leave. You are right, I'm not the same person I was in 1994 (and I'm happy about that). Are you?

Looks like the Metal Sludge contingency has discover Twitter! Finally! For those of you that don't know what this is, please let me explain. Metal Sludge is the home of the absolutely worst people I've ever come across. It's populated mainly by unattractive plump females who publicly fantasize about having sex with guys in bands. Kind of like a role-playing game where people NOBODY will fuck make up stories about their incredible sexual encounters with people they WISH they could fuck. It would be kind of funny in a sad and pathetic way except the fun doesn't stop there - hate and good old-fashioned outright blatant racism are also encouraged to spice things up and remind you how truly ugly these scourges are. TRULY ugly on the inside (the outside is obvious).
Cutter's tip for my friends there: remember to cut along the length of vein, not across. Bigger payoff.
So when you see the new accounts that pop up daily on Twitter spewing exactly the kind of thing I just discussed, usually from picture-less creatively named profiles, spewing hate at Mariqueen and I, take a moment to visualize the sad couple people behind them.
A few years ago some people tuned me in to that world and when I figured out who these people were, I was amazed that I'd been seeing them in the front rows of the shows for months. I really don't understand what kind of "fan" spends that kind of time and money to travel across the country seeing a band, to then dedicate an incredible amount of time and energy into non-stop hate diatribes online. That one puzzles me a little.

Anyway, I'm bored on a long bus drive and there's no real moral to the story here, just writing. I will be tuning out of the social networking sites because at the end of the day it's now doing more harm than good in the bigger picture and the experiment seems to have yielded a result. Idiots rule.

I had thought a while ago about attempting to start a mainstream public forum that required real verification of it's participants for purposes of context. The idea was to have a place where you can actually discuss whatever and have some idea of who you're conversing with. For example, if we were discussing drumming techniques and you can see that someone participating in the discussion is a drum instructor vs. a 13 year old kid Googling answers, you'd have the proper context in which to have a potentially valid discussion. If we were discussing EDLC's heart condition and a real cardiologist speaks up, I'd value his opinion over, say FredFuckFaceWhateverHisLastFuckingNameIs's "opinion". Know what I mean? Anyway, we're in a world where the mainstream social networks want any and all people to boost user numbers for the big selloff and are not concerned with the quality of experience.

With all of that said, I have business in the real world to attend to including wrapping up the live version of NIN, DOING some cool new shit and spending as much time as possible with the most amazing woman in the world.

Trent Reznor rage quits Twitter