I was watching clips of the new ministry '12 tour and thought it was kinda boring which led me to dig through old nin, which like most i think put on the best shows, but when you look at some of there shows with drunk trent, which besides the whole serious fucked up his life thing etc. he’s fuckin funny, plus he’s sober and all now anyway this according to c.clouser was trent really fucked up in japan the band had a no touching trent policy which they broke on this show (watch the march of the pigs video) you can see why most quit or got fired after this tour
sin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMASRdWRSQE
so really from a i want to enjoy the music songs played well perspective new nin is were it’s at. and, like a true old nin fan i get alil pissed when the crowd laughs when trent gets beat up/fall’s on his face…tho it is pretty funny
I was watching clips of the new ministry '12 tour and thought it was kinda boring which led me to dig through old nin, which like most i think put on the best shows, but when you look at some of there shows with drunk trent, which besides the whole serious fucked up his life thing etc. he’s fuckin funny, plus he’s sober and all now anyway this according to c.clouser was trent really fucked up in japan the band had a no touching trent policy which they broke on this show (watch the march of the pigs video) you can see why most quit or got fired after this tour
sin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMASRdWRSQE
so really from a i want to enjoy the music songs played well perspective new nin is were it’s at. and, like a true old nin fan i get alil pissed when the crowd laughs when trent gets beat up/fall’s on his face…tho it is pretty funny
I see Trent and Atticus Ross won a Grammy for Best Score for their excellent Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, well deserved. It added a hefty amount of atmosphere to an already suffocating movie.
Trent does not need to get back on drugs. He’s done some of my favorite NIN work and put on 2 of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen while being sober.
i disagree completely :P. i saw them twice around 2007-2009 and they were two of the most disappointing shows i’ve ever been to in my life. he’s put out some decent stuff since sobriety, but nothing close to the masterpieces he used to make. imho anyway :P.
The guitarist Trent used circa 2006 was a total loser. He tried so hard to look like the rock-star bad boy, thrashing his guitar on stage. I think he might have swapped his guitar for a toy one (or a guitar that easily breaks) because he didn’t have the muscular functions to be able to actually smash a guitar. He was a noodle-armed choir boy.
Trent made right though by 2009 when I saw NIN again (he had Finck back) and they were class. Don’t think it’s a case where they’ve been crap overall for certain periods, more so they might have off days/nights.
I see Trent and Atticus Ross won a Grammy for Best Score for their excellent Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, well deserved. It added a hefty amount of atmosphere to an already suffocating movie.
Agreed. I’d be happy if he just focused on doing film scores and instrumentals for the rest of his career. This particular soundtrack is one my favorites. Very Coil-esque.
Yeah, that guitar player, Aaron North i think he was called, was a pathetic little turd. He thought he was amazing, a real pompous, arrogant fuck. I could have got up onstage and played every one of the songs better than he did, i’m not even joking or being bigheaded either. He was that fucking bad. He made a mess of everything he attempted to play. I saw them in 2005 and it put me off them for good pretty much. I saw them in 94 and it blew my tiny mind, so to see that crappy show in 05 was a real kick in the balls.
I was never much of a fan of NIN. I saw them in 91 on the Lollapalooza tour. They were stomping around and knocking into each other and the keyboard player kept throwing his keyboard on the ground and everyone else was doing similar shenanigans. Maybe they were really effed up and/or fighting with each other, but it just seemed way too deliberate and planned for my taste . . . . like a really bad low-rent bunch of Townsend wannabes.
Seeing them during daylight didn’t help the experience any either. Some bands just shouldn’t ever have time slots before sundown (Front 242 suffered a similar fate at Lollapalooza 3).
I saw NIN 2006. They played behind a metal gate. It made me think of them locked away in a store at the mall and they were breaking things. They played Into the Void and some guy looked at me. My neck stopped popping the next day and I’m better now.