Nine Inch Nails: Lights in the Sky Tour

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Spoilers.

This was without a shadowvadoubt the best stage show I have ever seen in my entire life. They just added a San Antonio show in October, and I highly recommend even the slightest NIN fan to buy tickets to this amazing show.

Trent said when he retooled the band that he was going to aim for something new, something never done before.
Me being me, I was highly skeptical over what it was he could do. But I was blown away by the 2nd song.
Theres no way even the best of concert critics can properly explain how the stage show was set up but I will try to give you a quick idea without ruining too much. Basically they had two transparent screens that could show lights in pretty much any pattern with high resolution, and an opaque screen in the very back with the same capabilities. All of them could move up to be out of the line of sight. They sometimes played between the screens, sometimes in front of them, to give really different effects for each song. Each song was a trip in itself. They also had the typical rotating color changing strobe lights. The screens were what made the show though. At one point they were playing between two sand dunes on a desert, and used the multiple screens to give the effect that clouds were rushing right at you, the viewer. At another point they played in front of the screens and looked like computer animated shadows.

I'm already trying to think of some BS way I can try to make the SA show, which is on a Thursday I believe.
I highly recommend this show, because there is no doubt in my mind that every band that can afford it (most notably the ty bubble gum bands) are going to rip this stage show idea off, and it will become commonplace within a few years. (CBF prediction, I will be bumping this in a few years, I swear it)

As for the setlist....it was packed with alot of The Slip (which was actually a very good thing, the songs sounded amazing live, they are so garage-bandesque that each song kind of slaps you in the face), and played like 4 or 5 Ghosts, as well as all the classics. Even busted out Down In It and The Big Come Down (the highlight of the show for me). When they played ghosts it was pretty much a setlist in itself, with Trent playing a giant xzylophone and the bassist using a stand up classical. Every time I've seen them play its been better than the show before, and this was the most mindblowing concert experience of all time. It made a TOOL show look like Evanescence. Add the fact that Robin Fincke is back on guitar, and you have the ultimate rendition of every NIN song in front of the most cutting edge stage show in the history of human civilization.

For real. Go see this show. Buy tickets now. You will not regret it.

[Shelly]

My husband went to the Houston show and said it was their best concert yet. And he's seen them a gazillion times.

[Soul_Patch]

Id love to see them, but i think id be way out of place at a NIN show now. I think i graduated from that crowd after the downward spiral was released.

[Slinkyman]

Show is tonight, anyone else here going? Anyone know what time NIN takes the stage?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I'd love to hear what any of you thought of the show. In retrospect, it was indeed the greatest show I've ever seen. I cannot wait to ing see this band again. The version of Closer they are playing is by far the best version I've ever heard, of any NIN era.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

yeah. i'm still mad at myself for not checking them out at American Airlines a few months ago. i've heard and read nothing but good things about this tour. i remember checking the Fragile 2.0 show when A Perfect Circle came out and that show floored me. i think it was more the visuals and light show. i've heard this tour's is 100x better. i was hoping for a dvd, but he just put one out and i haven't been able to find a torrent yet.

[Slinkyman]

So i have to say that was the most ing badass show i've ever seen, completely blown away. Pretty much everything CBF said was spot on, the screens were just amazing. Favorite part was when a stagehand came on stage with a flash light and "erased" the imagine on the screen with the flash light. I don't know if that makes since but it was amazing. Only down side is that every show i see from now on is going to get compared with this show, which is unfair to them but oh well.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

LOLOL
At least one ing poster on this blog responds to this. People really do not understand because I tend to be very superlative---THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE GREATEST, TRIPPIEST, MOST MINDBLOWING STAGE SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION.

My favorite part was The Big Comedown, they had a fence-like animation in front, and like twenty vertical devices swinging left to right with 5 flashing circular lights on each vertical device. They were swinging with the beat. I swear I almost came.

Did he play that one song where the entire screen was like a snowy tv and you his entire face was obscurely being shown through the snow? It was that slow song from Year Zero, "The Greater Good". Weird half images kept showing through the snow, then when you realized it was actually him holding the mic, the entire crowd went crazy. Very very cool.

I'm pretty dissapointed in the spurstalk community though. I made this thread specifically to spread the word of how awesome this show was, not to be a drama queen and be like look at me, i saw NIN. When NIN toured for [Awitha_Teetha] like 5 or 6 spurstalkers went to that concert. I made this thread to encourage them to encourage themselves and others to see this. Because we don't know if NIN will do this again, and more than likely other tier bands will copy them, as tier bands have copied original stage shows since the start.

I can't see NIN not releasing a DVD for this tour though. If they don't, then we begin the long, arduous, annoying task of scouring the net for bootleg footage...

[Slinkyman]

Did he play that one song where the entire screen was like a snowy tv and you his entire face was obscurely being shown through the snow? It was that slow song from Year Zero, "The Greater Good". Weird half images kept showing through the snow, then when you realized it was actually him holding the mic, the entire crowd went crazy. Very very cool.

yes and it was badass, another cool part was during "only" the screen in front of everyone was static like tv static and when trent sing there would be a hole in the static where he was, pretty ing cool.

[romad_20]

LOLOL
At least one ing poster on this blog responds to this. People really do not understand because I tend to be very superlative---THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE GREATEST, TRIPPIEST, MOST MINDBLOWING STAGE SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION.

My favorite part was The Big Comedown, they had a fence-like animation in front, and like twenty vertical devices swinging left to right with 5 flashing circular lights on each vertical device. They were swinging with the beat. I swear I almost came.

Did he play that one song where the entire screen was like a snowy tv and you his entire face was obscurely being shown through the snow? It was that slow song from Year Zero, "The Greater Good". Weird half images kept showing through the snow, then when you realized it was actually him holding the mic, the entire crowd went crazy. Very very cool.

I'm pretty dissapointed in the spurstalk community though. I made this thread specifically to spread the word of how awesome this show was, not to be a drama queen and be like look at me, i saw NIN. When NIN toured for [Awitha_Teetha] like 5 or 6 spurstalkers went to that concert. I made this thread to encourage them to encourage themselves and others to see this. Because we don't know if NIN will do this again, and more than likely other tier bands will copy them, as tier bands have copied original stage shows since the start.

I can't see NIN not releasing a DVD for this tour though. If they don't, then we begin the long, arduous, annoying task of scouring the net for bootleg footage...

Nails is my favorite band. There is no better live show. I wish I would have seen this go around but all of their shows have been great.

[CuckingFunt]

[Awitha_Teetha]

For the record, I had a realization that I spend to much time here when this exact spelling of "With Teeth" was the first thing to flash in my mind when the song popped up on my iPod this afternoon.

[spyder]

HOLY BALLS!! That concert was in bad ass..best concert I've been to..I also liked that part that slinky man was talking about..pretty in sweet..Went with my sis and my nephew..it was his first concert..he couldn't believe how bad ass it was..glad we took him..NIN IN ROCKS

[Slinkyman]

Here's some pics i took with my phone, sorry about the bad quality.

[Strike]

My friend and I have tickets for the December 7th show in Portland. It will be my 3rd NIN show. Trent completely f'ing delivered at both other shows I've attended and I expect he will again.

I'm not gay, but I think Trent Reznor is the only man on the planet whom I would let have me.

[BlackSwordsMan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwV5cWLFM9U

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Only a naked youtube of Gina Carano could possibly own that vid.

[BlackSwordsMan]

Only a naked youtube of Gina Carano could possibly own that vid.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhOOO5_hzPw&NR=1

Awesome The Frail + Closer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLznJ...eature=related
This is The Big Come Down, not as good quality, but its in the Dallas show I went to. Totally bubodally krossed out.

[spurs_2108]

I found audio from the show. http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-d....php?id=225512

Gotta me a member tho. Doesn't take much of an effort to get an account. Still looking for a video.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I still cannot believe NIN called it quits. Would have bent over backwards to go to that Austin NINJA show had I known it would be the last time they were in Texas.

Finally found some bad ass video/audio to The Big Comedown from the LITS tour. This song was incredible. This guy has HD version of the entire show on youtubes. TELL me ya'll who missed out wouldn't have had an amazing time at this show. Even if you didn't like NIN. This was the best stage show in the history of mankind.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

"they" didn't call it quits. NIN is basically Trent. He's all in love. Getting or got married and is doing that whole thing. Have you seen his tweets? Pretty lovey dovey for the man that brought us Broken. I went to that Austin show at the last minute and wasn't aware it was his last for a while. It was an awesome show. Got some vids off my phone. There's tons of videos from this all the way to the final show on torrent sites. Dimeadozen is a good place to start.

[clambake]

saw them do this concert on palladia [sp] channel.

they sound very good live.

[romad_20]

This show is now on Bluray and DVD for those who are interested. I didn't get to go, and I'm sure the bluray doesn't do it justice but it got me pumped up just watching at home. Trent Reznor

http://nin.thisoneisonus.org/node/34

[BlackSwordsMan]

I was like oh NIN back on tour than I saw the post date.

[koriwhat]

i hadn't heard nin since like 2000 but i went and saw them on tour like 2 yrs ago and that was amazing!