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Last night Nine Inch Nails played the second of the 4 final dates of the Wave Goodbye Tour at The EchoPlex in Los Angeles, CA in front of a sold out house of about 700 fans. Last night’s venue was supposed to be the last one of the tour but due to illness and rescheduling, it became the 3rd to last show of the tour:

As you might expect, Trent Reznor brought not only a blistering set of songs but also brought out a special guest to perform with NIN on stage … providing a rock solid, raucous show for the audience. After the jump, check out a few of the photos I took at last night’s concert, see the full show setlist and watch video of NIN performing I Die: You Die with Gary Numan on vocals …

Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails is the focus of an article published in this week’s issue of The New Yorker which reviews one of the NIN shows that recently took place at Terminal 5 in NYC and expounds more broadly on TR‘s career in music. The piece is a very good one for introducing those unfortunately unfamiliar with Nine Inch Nails (all 5 of you out there) and is, IMHO, a nice send off now that NIN won’t be performing live at the close of the Wave Goodbye Tour. Here are some exerpts from the New Yorker article on Nine Inch Nails:

In 1988, a twenty-three-year-old Cleveland resident named Trent Reznor decided to record several demos of his songs. He’d been playing in local bands since 1984, and had learned a fair amount about recording at a local studio named Right Track, where he’d started as a janitor and eventually become an engineer. Reznor was hoping to be signed to the independent Chicago label Wax Trax and to put out records alongside the aggressive electronic-music bands he admired, like Front 242 and Ministry. Instead, Reznor’s demos became the bulk of an album called “Pretty Hate Machine,” which was released on the TVT label under the band name Nine Inch Nails and went on to sell more than three million copies. Over the past twenty years, Reznor has produced seven Nine Inch Nails albums, and has written, played, and engineered almost all of the music himself. (Additional drummers have appeared on some of the albums, along with a smattering of guest instrumentalists and singers) … Nine Inch Nails and bands in their loose cohort have not traditionally been given much room on the radio; aside from a few hits on MTV, this is music that for the past two decades has lived in the headphones of angry teens. The typical Reznor topics are loathing and self-loathing. “Meet Your Master,” from “Year Zero” (2007), sounds like the cry of a downtrodden nation, or, at least, a downtrodden high-school basketball team: “You’ll do as you’re told, used to be the leader, now comes the time to serve. Maybe we’ll show some mercy, maybe you’ll get what you deserve.” It’s a direct echo of lines from a song on “Pretty Hate Machine”: “Head like a hole, black as your soul, I’d rather die than give you control. Bow down before the one you serve, you’re going to get what you deserve.” Reznor doesn’t have a particularly grim backstory—he grew up with his grandparents, liked to pole fish with his grandfather, took piano lessons, and played Judas Iscariot in his high school’s production of “Jesus Christ Superstar”—but he has written some very durable “Fuck you, Man!” songs … Reznor is completing a brief tour, which he has dubbed the “Wave Goodbye” tour; he claims that these will be the last Nine Inch Nails live shows for a long time. Sick of “repeating the same day over and over again,” he will concentrate on writing music and on developing a futuristic TV series based on “Year Zero.” Because his songs rely so heavily on looped samples and relentless, machine-made rhythms, Reznor has had to find musicians skillful enough to play along with lockstep noise. For this tour, he has assembled his strongest lineup yet. His current drummer, twenty-one-year-old Ilan Rubin, auditioned for Reznor last year by sending video clips of himself performing Nine Inch Nails songs. At Terminal 5, all I could see of Rubin was a mane of curly brown hair and long arms whipping through the air. (Reznor told the crowd, “I haven’t been able to find a set list yet that can kill him.”) The bassist, Justin Meldal-Johnson, switches easily between various electric and acoustic basses, and also plays keyboards and guitar with the more reserved stage presence of someone raised on indie rock. Robin Finck, who played guitar in one incarnation of Guns N’ Roses, reproduces some of the dozens of harsh guitar tones Reznor has written over the years, and is not averse to swinging his guitar on its strap like a pendulum and skipping across the stage when Reznor isn’t using it. Reznor spends most of each show planted at the front of the stage with his legs in a runner’s stance, gripping the microphone stand with both hands, now and then pogoing with the crowd. He takes phenomenal care in creating his myriad sonic hues, and presents them onstage without pauses or missteps. He’s not big on improvisation—a Nine Inch Nails performance has the smooth continuity of a Broadway show or a well-executed airlift. When the band played “March of the Pigs,” the guitars and screams and strobe lights all fired at the same moment: “Step right up! March! Push! Crawl right up on your knees!” Songs like “March of the Pigs” typify Reznor’s particular talents: lyrics and beats that are simple enough to encourage a visceral response, set against a structured noise that is strange enough to keep things from becoming too predictable.

This superbly written piece can be read in full HERE and I urge all NIN fans, whether they are familiar with The New Yorker or not, to check out this piece. While many feel that Trent Reznor and NIN speak to the disenfranchised and angry, I think it’s important to clarify that that aggressive clarity comes from a place of intelligence … which The New Yorker highlights adeptly. It’s a great read and I am so happy that The New Yorker decided to review the Terminal 5 show and enlighten on NIN as a whole. Having my favorite magazine publish a favorable article on my favorite band is quite a treat!!

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David’s parents Marla and Mark arrived in SoCal yesterday and we got to spend the entire evening with them showing them our wonderful neighborhood. Because the Nine Inch Nails show at the Henry Fonda Theater was canceled (postponed?) last night, I was able to spend more time with the parentals. We did dinner at Hugo’s and then settled in for some catching up. It’s really great having them here, they are seriously a couple of the coolest people I have the pleasure to know. They’ll be with us thru the weekend so I’m looking forward to spending more time with them.

This afternoon, I’m having all of my hair cut off … I tried to grow it out but I just can’t do it. It’s been driving me crazy for weeks now so I’ve decided to cut it all off.

I’m happy to pass along that Trent Reznor has messaged fans on Twitter that he is “still alive” and will be updating show info soon (click HERE to read the latest message posted to the official Nine Inch Nails Twitter profile) so it looks like the shows at The Wiltern and The EchoPlex on Saturday and Sunday (respectively) are still on. I’m not sure the status of my interview with TR considering his health issues but I’m gonna try and still make it happen if he’s game. Let the weekend commence!!

UPDATE: Trent Reznor just posted the rescheduled dates for the remaining Nine Inch Nails shows in LA:

9.4.09: NEW FAREWELL SCHEDULE
** The Wiltern show scheduled for Saturday Sept 5th is now happening on Thursday Sept 10th – this is now the final show **

Hello all-

Sorry about the hassles with the show not happening last night and tomorrow’s rescheduling. If it would have been possible to pull these off, I would have. Anyway, here’s the new plan. I appreciate your patience and understanding – we’re attempting to make sure that everyone has the best experience possible and we’re at full power.

NEW FAREWELL SCHEDULE FOR LOS ANGELES:

9/6 Echoplex (unchanged)

9/8 Henry Fonda (rescheduled date)

9/10 The Wiltern (rescheduled date)

Once again, sorry for any inconvenience. Full refunds are available for those unable to switch things around. For refunds, please contact
nintix@musictoday.com.

Trent

Sounds good to me … TR gets a couple extra days of rest and will bring the awesomeness on these new dates. Woot!!

Last night Nine Inch Nails played the first of their final batch of shows on their Wave Goodbye Tour and ended up putting on one of the greatest shows they’ve ever performed. As you may recall, NIN performed the entirety of their epic album The Downward Spiral live at Webster Hall in NYC, NY last week … and they decided to do it again for the West Coast crowd. Because the Webster Hall show was not recorded professionally by the band, methinks Trent Reznor wanted to do it again for the record.

Last night’s show was, IMHO, superior to the Webster Hall performance primarily because not only did we get TDS in full but we also got a guest performance by Gary Numan, who TR brought on stage for a couple of songs. After the jump, check out a few of my photos from last night’s show, see the full setlist, watch video of some of the songs performed last night (including A Warm Place, which was performed live for only the second time ever) and find out which celeb were in the hiz to see NIN perform at the Hollywood Palladium last night …

Nine Inch Nails was the headlining act at the Virgin Festival in Toronto, Ontario last night at the Molson Amphitheater, which was the final international performance by the band before they end their Wave Goodbye Tour later this week. After completing their string of dates in NYC last week and a couple of dates in Chicago this past weekend, NIN made their way up to Toronto to play their final international date. Here are a couple pics from last night’s raucous performance:

Altho he was fighting off illness, Trent Reznor pulled out all the stops for last night’s performance and ended up destroying some of his equipment on stage during the performance of Terrible Lie … which hearkened back to the days when NIN would routinely destroy equipment on stage back in the day. After the jump, check out a few more photos from last night’s gig (including a pic of one of TR‘s destroyed keyboards), see the full setlist from last night’s show, find out what the festival caterers whipped up especially for the band and watch video of TR tearing shit up during Terrible Lie …

Nine Inch Nails played the last of 2 dates scheduled at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL last night which are said to be the last NIN concerts ever for that region of the country. The band has already made their way to Toronto, ON for a headlining performance at the Virgin Festival ’09 at the Molson Amphitheater tonight (the final international date for Nine Inch Nails) … but here is a shot taken by NIN photographer Rob Sheridan of the fans filing out of the Aragon Ballroom after last night’s performance:

Next up for Nine Inch Nails, the last 4 dates of the Wave Goodbye Tour which will all take place at different venues in Los Angeles, CA (The Palladium, The Henry Fonda Theatre, The Wiltern and Echoplex). Trent Reznor gave an interview to The Los Angeles Times about these final, final shows … here is a portion of that interview:

There was something about a Nine Inch Nails show in the daylight that just felt wrong. “Maybe,” Trent Reznor said in a sly murmur, “it was the fact that it wasn’t dark.” Reznor, the angst auteur behind Nine Inch Nails, toured this summer with Jane’s Addiction with every intention of retiring from the road. The plan, Reznor had said, was to put the band’s concert life on hiatus for a decade or so and to say farewell with a twist, as the opening act for the elder Jane’s latest reunion. But there was all that sunshine. “I chose for us to play first; I thought it would be a respectful thing for Jane’s and also be interesting for us to have the challenge of playing often and in daylight,” Reznor said. “But then, well, these were the last shows we were doing. We could pull off something better than that, something that leaves a better taste in our mouths.” That something is now the hottest ticket in town — four sold-out L.A. shows in the next eight days, all in venues that vary from small to tiny in comparison to the band’s usual arena settings. On Wednesday, it’s the refurbished Hollywood Palladium; the next night, it’s the Henry Fonda Theater. On Sept. 5, Nails will play the Wiltern Theatre and Sept. 6, the EchoPlex, the downstairs dance hall below the Echo club. The 44-year-old music star said the goal was “a very, very limited run of shows and that each would be special and more fan-orientated and not in cavernous arenas, but places where you actually like to see bands. It seemed like a way for fans to wish us off.”

After the jump, read another portion of TR‘s interview with The LA Times and see the full set list from last night’s performance at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL …

And so … my NYC NINventure has come to a close. Last night, Nine Inch Nails played their second show at Terminal 5, which was their last in NYC for the foreseeable future. It’s hard to believe that all 4 NYC shows are over already but the band are already on their way to Chicago, IL for the 2 shows there before they make their way to Canada for their final festival performance there. Last night’s Terminal 5 show clocked in at about 2 hours and 45 minutes and provided a raucously fun send off for the NYC fans:

Peter Murphy was, once again, a special guest performer for last night’s show but he managed to out do his surprise appearance at Tuesday night’s show. After the jump, check out a few of my photos, check out the full 32 song setlist and watch video of NIN performing the amazing song Something I Can Never Have …

Last night I attended the third NYC show of the final leg of the Nine Inch Nails tour Wave Goodbye. Last Saturday night’s performance took place at the Bowery Ballroom and Sunday night’s performance took place at Webster Hall … last night’s venue was Terminal 5:

In addition to an amazing setlist performed with intense precision by Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy was brought out on stage to duet with the band on 3 songs. It was an especially fun night for me as I was able to meet up with Trent Reznor, his adorable fiancée Mariqueen and the rest of the NIN crew before the show … where I even got to meet Peter Murphy as well. TR has agreed to give me another interview back in LA at the close of the Wave Goodbye Tour but I’ll get to that in a bit. After the jump, check out a few of the photos I snapped last night, see the full setlist performed and watch video of Nine Inch Nails featuring Peter Murphy on the NIN song Dead Souls …

I find that I am still trying to wrap my head around last night’s Nine Inch Nails show at Webster Hall here in NYC, NY where the band played the entirety of the masterpiece album The Downward Spiral LIVE for the first and only time. Of the 20+ NIN shows I’ve seen since 1994, I gotta say that last night’s has to be the best … if for sheer content alone. Little did I know when I was going inside the venue last night that I would be among the lucky few NIN fans to bear witness to a truly legendary concert experience:

I realize that this may sound like extreme hyperbolic nonsense, especially to non-NIN fans, but I can assure you, the epic nature of last night’s show will truly be remembered for all time by Nine Inch Nails fans the world over. Whether you were there last night or just heard about it online, it’s all any NIN fan can talk about today (and prolly will talk about for many years to come). After the jump, check out a few of the photos that I snapped last night along with the full setlist (yes, they played a bunch of amazing songs after they completed TDS: Live) and find out where you can watch video of some of the songs performed last night …

Fans who attended the Nine Inch Nails concert at Webster Hall here in NYC, NY last night were treated to a truly historic performance. For the first and only time, according to Trent Reznor himself, the entirety of NIN‘s masterpiece album The Downward Spiral (halo 8, originally released in March 1994) was performed live in concert. As some of you are well aware, NIN are currently on the final leg of their Wave Goodbye Tour which is, reportedly, the last batch of live performances from Nine Inch Nails. Clearly, TR wants to make these last shows ever ones for the record books because an historic show like the one that took place last night was really a very special one. Before the show began, NIN announced on its official Twitter profile that there was gonna be a “cool setlist” for last night’s show … “cool” doesn’t begin to describe:

Of course, fans who have seen the band perform live since The Downward Spiral was released in ’94 have heard many if not all of the songs from the album performed live (me included, especially on the Self Destruct Tour 94-95, tho I understand that A Warm Place has never been performed live in concert before) … but NEVER has the album been performed live, in sequential order. To be honest, I had been made privy to the plan for one of the final Wave Goodbye Tour shows to feature a live performance of The Downward Spiral but A.) I couldn’t let myself believe that such an amazing occurrence would really happen because I’d be so crushed if it never came to be and B.) even if I truly believed such an occurrence would happen, I thought for sure it wouldn’t happen so soon (last night’s Webster Hall show was only the 2nd of the final batch of shows). NIN played a show at Bowery Ballroom on Saturday August 22 and that show was filmed by 5 different cameras, earlier yesterday NIN announced via its official Twitter profile that because of Livenation‘s exorbitant usage fees (they own Webster Hall) they would not be able to officially film the Webster Hall show … which sucks ENTIRELY considering the epic nature of the event. I suspect the audio of last night’s show was recorded at least and fans were allowed to record the show with their own video cameras in the audience so hopefully a video record of last night’s show will make its way to fans at some point. It is my hope that as many fans as possible were able to attend the concert last night (NIN also announced via Twitter that a small number of tickets were available for sale at the last minute before the start of last night’s show) because, as any NIN fan knows, the Webster Hall concert will prolly exist for all time as THE Nine Inch Nails show you didn’t want to miss.

Trent Reznor did not stop to speak to the audience at any time during the portion that the band played The Downward Spiral but once they finished the final song from the album, he did pause to address the crowd, saying:

“I always wanted to play that whole record. That’s the only time we’re going to do it.”

The band then launched the next batch of songs that included Terrible Lie, Metal, Burn, Suck, Physical and more. Actually, the songs played after the TDS songs made up a pretty kickass setlist of its own. Altho TR closed his personal Twitter account, he did use the official NIN Twitter account to post a message to fans after last night’s performance:

That was a FUN (and exhausting) show to play tonight! Thanks to all who attended. (TR)

And to Trent Reznor, I say THANK YOU for a truly unforgettable concert experience. The Webster Hall show will be tough to beat (if that is even possible) but I cannot wait to see what is in store for the rest of the Wave Goodbye shows. Will NIN perform other albums (perhaps Pretty Hate Machine, The Fragile and/or Year Zero) in their entirety? What about special guest appearances (folks keep hoping David Bowie will show up on stage)? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I will post my full personal review of the show (including my photos and video) later on today but a truly legendary performance like the one I witnessed last night deserves a special post all its own.