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To get right to the point and completely without any bit of hyperbole, I have to declare that yesterday was among the best days of my life. The things my friends and I got to experience at the NIN/JA 2009 Tour stop here in the metro Detroit, MI area yesterday are pretty much the things that I will remember and cherish for the rest of my life. I’ll try to be concise and not ramble but, seriously, the day was too epic to adequately describe. Sarah, Mark, David and I arrived at DTE Energy Center Pine Knob early in the afternoon so that we could participate in the meet and greet festivities that came with donating money to help fund Eric De La Cruz‘s heart transplant. We met a bunch of great Detroiters, including Pink readers Monique and Brandon, and all got to share the experience together. I’m gonna put the many, many photos I want to share behind the cut so that only those of you interested can check them out. I will post this awesome photo of the “Bodypaint Girls” who came to the show wearing no tops, only airbrushed bodypaint to cover their bodies:

Believe me, they looked more amazing in person. You can see what they looked like from the front HERE.

After the jump, check out photos and video from the NIN soundcheck, pics of some of us with Nine Inch Nails and some of the photos of the show that I got to snap while I was ON STAGE with the band during their performance …

Trent Reznor has been updating the official Nine Inch Nails website NIN.com for the past few days with new photos of various members of the current incarnation of NIN (including Robin Finck, Justin Meldal-Johnsen and new drummer Ilan Rubin) doing a bit of rehearsing in the studio for their new upcoming tour. As you may recall, TR informed us that the band would be touring this year as a pared down 4-piece and would be playing festivals and outdoor theaters in Europe, the Pacific Rim and North America thruout 2009 … by the looks of these new photos, Trent and boys have been hard at work on their new ’09 project(s?):

I am THRILLED that we have more Live NIN to look forward to this coming year. I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of US tourdates … which might come as soon as the band packs up and begins playing shows overseas. Woot!

In other NIN news, the kids at ThisOnesOnUs.org have been hard at work putting together a live tour DVD for NIN‘s last major outing Lights In The Sky Over North America and are currently having fans vote for the artwork for the fanmade DVD, which has been titled Another Version of the Truth. I understand the final product will be completed and ready for dissemination to fans very soon. There is no word of any new NIN material to be released this year … but the new NIN.com photos do show Trent and his cohorts working on — something. It could be plans for the new tour or it could be something else entirely … I guess time will tell. I, for one, am just glad that NIN is still active right now … I’m really not looking forward to the band taking a break from touring and/or music for any stretch of time to come.

UPDATE: Pink reader Angie gives me the head’s up that Trent Reznor is on Twitter, click HERE for his profile :) Now we can follow him together :)

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