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PODCAST: Episode 786 - Nine Inch Nails - "Peel It Back Tour" Review (SPOILERS!) · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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None. What's up everybody, it's your
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boy Kefi. Monday night in the world,
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All good things. So little spoiler warning.
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This is going to be a rare live review of a concert.
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I don't do enough of those. I wanted to do some more.
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And so, yeah, check out our website, itgoescalledmeg.com for
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all the things if you're interested.
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And we're going to do a live review.
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Spoilers included setlist. Maybe even a little video that I
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took of Nine Inch Nails. I was at the kick off show for
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the North American leg of the Peel It Back tour.
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It was absolutely fucking incredible.
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I have to be honest. Spoiler alert, it's incredible.
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But if you're a fan, you knew that already.
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Harriet, what up y'all? Good to see you.
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So yeah, all kinds of fun and good things.
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We are streaming everywhere, but especially the best experience
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for this is going to be Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and
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Instagram. If you want to see video and see
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my screen with the set list and stuff, you want to join us over
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there. I am also hanging out on TikTok,
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so feel free to hang out with us.
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This is a bonus live stream. I will do another one actually
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tomorrow. And our weekly show is every
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Thursday, the weekly ritual rock and metal news show.
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So let's get into it and do the damn thing.
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And so yeah, I made a little helper deck.
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We have not covered the tour formally, so I'm hoping later in
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the tour where we've applied to cover the tour and hopefully
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bring you actual concert photography and things like
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that. But we'll definitely get into
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the whole thing and talk about just all the things was an
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incredible experience. So really quick, just for
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starters, this the 9 inch nails, if you didn't know, has been on
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tour. They did all of Europe,
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basically every major city in Europe for the peel it back
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tour, leg one. This is an unusually great tour
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from the band because they are kind of in between albums,
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right? They're going to put out this
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Tron era soundtrack, which they did play as the the debut single
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off of in concert or at least a remix of it.
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And they the next time you see them, they're probably going to
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have a fuller album to promote either the soundtrack, video
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game soundtracks. They're working on the supposed
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new 9 Inch Nails record that we were told we might get later
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this year or early next year. So I'm stoked for this and feel
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free to drop in your questions. Again, this is going to be
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spoilery. So I will make that announcement
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a few times. If you don't want to hear about
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the 9 Inch Nails tour, if you want to, just if you're going
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and you want to go in cold, don't listen any further because
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I am going to drop Prow on the whole thing and I think you'll
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enjoy it. Actually, I don't do a lot of
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these and I'm hoping to now. So thanks for hanging out with
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us. Feel free to drop comments and
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check in and give us your thoughts.
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I have to say this was an incredible show.
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We'll be a hard pressed to see a better show for me this year.
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And I've already seen some bangers.
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I've mentioned a few times on our different live streams that
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I am, you know, definitely going to less shows than I used to.
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So less is more. And we're getting some comments
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here. Michael, you and Madden, you
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know, you know, all righty cool, cool and all that.
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Thanks for being here. So yeah, good times, good times.
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Let's get into it a little bit and just talk about this this
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tour. You know, we did a Nine Inch
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Nails live stream a few months ago when they announced the
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future Rubens Festival, looked into that and it was bananas.
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The ticket costs. So right this second I would say
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I am probably not going to go to that, but I would love to
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because I love, you know, I love composers and I love soundtrack
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stuff and I love all the 9 Inch Nails soundtrack stuff as well.
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I thought Challengers last year was one of the best things I had
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heard. And the vinyl version of that
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was phenomenal. And I'm really looking forward
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to Tron. I'm a huge sci-fi nerd.
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The Tron soundtrack comes out in September, which we'll talk
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about later in the show and also ahead of more touring for Trent,
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so I think this is a pretty good run for him.
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money from our affiliate partners and things like that
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and some ads. But if you want to donate, feel
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free to drop a link and I'll drop the you know the content
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where you can drop us a tip. So let's begin this for a
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second. These are all the things I
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normally plug this a little bit harder on the regular show on
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Thursday, but plugging it a little bit more now and here is
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this bad boy. This is where you can find all
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our stuff. We update our link for you every
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day with all our things. So glad to have you here.
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Here's the thing. So just a reminder, a little bit
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more housekeeping on our other podcast, the Glacially Musical
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Podcast, which usually airs every Friday.
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We are in the midst of the series on Ozzy.
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Was already planned that we were going to do an Ozzy series for
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his solo career, but we are giving away bundles of vinyl and
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C DS1 each and that contest is coming to a close soon.
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So you want to check that out. It says here.
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Nice to see you. Hopefully you are getting closer
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to your show and checking in. Let us know you could DM me.
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So I'm just doing a live stream review of the 9 inch nail show.
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Again, there will be spoilers so if you don't want it spoiled for
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you, check out now if you want it.
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If you're OK with spoilers or you're curious, I think it will
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be helpful. Obviously the big news leading
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into the tour. Literally, the tour ended and
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Elon Rubin, it was reported by Variety that he had quit 9 Inch
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Nails and he had been contracted to do the next leg of the tour.
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I know his wife is imminently about to give birth.
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So, you know, maybe there was something to do with that if he
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got to sort of, you know, take a paycheck from Foo Fighters, who
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were apparently his new band, and they're not going to have a
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show for a few more months. So maybe it was an opportunity
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for him to be with his wife, which, you know, family first
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always. Music industry is not fun or,
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you know, easy or cheap to do. And then Josh Breeze just
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welcomed back with a with a social media post.
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Let's fucking go now. I don't know if they had already
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contacted Josh. I talked a bit about this
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previously on another live stream where I said, you know,
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maybe Josh was going to come fill in anyway.
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He was fired by Foo Fighters back in the spring.
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Still scratching our heads about that one.
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Looks like Elon is going to be the new drummer for Foo
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Fighters. So I know a lot of people like
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liking this to a sports trade. It's not exactly A1 for one.
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But you know, obviously Josh had been in Nine Inch Nails from
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2005. His last show actually with the
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band was December 2008, which is wild if you think about it and
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but you know, absolutely excited to have him back.
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The crowd was excited to have Josh back and I will tell you
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about that. I was personally excited.
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Josh is a crushing, awesome drummer.
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I've seen him with Devo, I've seen him with Vandals, Someone
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with a Perfect Circle a few times, and I had seen him with 9
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Inch Nails once before. So, you know, we've covered the
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band for years and years. Obviously I've been a fan much
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longer than Ghost Cult has been around 9 Inch Nails, has been
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around Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a couple of years ago.
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We've covered them tours and festivals and things like that
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across the world. So I'm always, you know,
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grateful to get to see them. I went to this tour.
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A ticket was bought from me by my wonderful girlfriend,
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Melissa. And you know, life is not about
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material things, but when a person gets you and knows you,
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they they make things happen to make you happy.
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So this was amazing. I'm glad I got to go.
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It was so awesome. I went with my friend Lori here
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from San Francisco, one of my regular concert buddies.
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So yeah, these are just some photos we've shot of Nine Inch
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Nails over the years, and hopefully there'll be some more.
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There's Atticus. You saw some pictures of Trent
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if you were on the stream yard channels.
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These are all pretty great photos.
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We use them. You've seen them.
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So just really quick. This was my view of the start of
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the show. So just really quickly.
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I live in San Francisco. Oakland Arena is a short train
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ride away. We took the train over to
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Oakland. Then it's about a mile walk by
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the old baseball stadium where the A's used to play.
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And then the arena is next to the baseball stadium around the
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corner from the Oakland Coliseum.
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It's also where the Raiders played for a long time for U Bay
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Area and sports people. But it's quite a bit of a long
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walk around the one facility to the other.
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But honestly, I went very early and getting through was mad
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easy, to be honest with you. I was a pretty quick and
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painless process to get through. Was happy that this is one of
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the venues where my phone worked and there wasn't the lack of
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cell phone coverage. So it was pretty cool.
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And again, it seemed like a lot of people's good for people
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watching. A lot of people had come out,
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some old Goths, some younger fans, some parents with their
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kids, but no real little kids. You know, generally speaking,
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Oakland arenas, and I've never been, but it was now I have.
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It's was a very nice venue. It seemed pretty modern.
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And it's technically the Oracle Arena in Oakland.
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Oracle also is the name of the baseball stadium here in San
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Francisco for the Giants. Nick Kenneth is here.
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What's up, Kenneth and Lori is here.
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Lori Chamberlain. So thanks for being here.
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Elrod Carter Q Cruise All in all, thank you.
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So you know we I got in it's pretty steep to go climb up to
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the seats. I had what I consider to be a
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very good view in the corner there, beautiful sound, more or
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less, except for a few technical issues I'll talk about.
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And it was a very creative yo. And I'll get into that really
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deeply about how wildly creative this show was because it really
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was like every show I've ever seen, 9 Inch Nails has been at
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least excellent. But visually, this is a band
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that is, you know, one of the best in the world to do it.
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And I will say the last three or four times that I've seen 9 Inch
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Nails happens to coincide with the Trent's sobriety the last 10
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to 15 years. And those shows are so much
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better than even the earlier ones that I had seen.
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Like Woodstock 94 was insane, but you knew the band was like
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absolutely out of their mind on whatever.
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So yeah, wild, wild stuff. So I wanted to get to this point
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in the show and before I do the set list and things like that,
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let's let me set the stage for you.
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So Poison Noise was the opener. I was my, you know, moderately
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familiar with them. Trent is obviously a huge fan.
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These are bands that are, you know, nobody is buying on to
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play 9 Inch Nails. He you're on the tour because he
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wants you to be there. He's clearly a fan.
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They admire each other's work. He's remixed them.
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They remixed him. So we were sitting facing the
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stage and the stage is covered with a big curtain.
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And then there's this smaller, what I found out to be a smaller
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stage, and this is the spoilery part of the video here.
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So again, if you're into it, cool.
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If you're not, I hate spoilers myself, and I don't want to
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spoil anything for anybody if you don't want it to be spoiled.
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But on the other hand, I think it's super interesting to talk
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about this setting the bar for a lot of tours the rest of this
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year. So there was a smaller stage
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that was covered by this, I guess this square box curtain
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and boys noise was playing from within the square.
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And what I think happened is the the audience around the square
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and facing the square with their backs to the stage, they were
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able to watch them. I was not able to really see
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them, but we heard them. And interestingly enough, they
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played for a full hour, almost a whole hour, just straight up
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didn't talk to the crowd, just jammed, which was fun.
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You know, DJ playing basically synth wave and hard electronic
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music live. And some of the songs seem
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familiar, and it turned out that some of them were very familiar.
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It was a very heavy step on originals and covers, which is
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fun. I think it kind of reminded me
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of an MTV Unplugged set where the artists always, you know,
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would show you who their influences are by covering a lot
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of bands, which I thought was hella interesting.
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Yo, what's up, Ken? Appreciate you, Kenneth.
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So, yeah, it was really, it was a really interesting and cool
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set, to be honest with you. I think it was.
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It was very well constructed. And I'll talk about their set
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list in a second. And then basically that box that
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covered the stage came up and it was only like a couple of
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minutes changeover before 9 Inch Nails came on.
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So before I do anything else, let's talk about the setlist.
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I have the 9 inch Nail setlist here, but what I'm going to do
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is first bring up the boys noise setlist and just run the real
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quick in case you're a fan, you might be a fan.
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Let's find out. So yeah, here's the boys Noise
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set here. You can watch this now.
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Should be seeing it. So the boys noise settler list
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they came out. I immediately recognized
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hamburger lady from throbbing grizzle.
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I'm a huge fan. So that was on tape and it was
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pretty loud and the lights came down and it was just all this
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red and it for a long time it was just solid red and a
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pummeling of industrial and you know, hard beats.
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So they opened up there with their originals Greenpoint, girl
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crush, close and revolt. I feel like Greenpoint and Girl
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Crush are also their two best known songs.
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Take my breath. They did a little cover of the
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weekend. I wasn't really familiar with
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the song but it was cool people did seem to acknowledge it.
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A split second cover was done next by the song Flash Voices
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from Neon fortified by Curses. Fatal Error. self-titled song.
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Usually a song named for band is not as good and Sal review pass
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by What up, what up and then waiting for a surprise, which
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was a red axis cover, a few more originals curses, a Trenton
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Atticus song. I know a Nitsareb cover and just
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lost a Nitsareb vocalist Doug McCarthy mega core for pulse
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Reiner and a couple of other things.
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So a very long set, like 18 songs in, in about 50 minutes,
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55 minutes that they played. And it was really barely a
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changeover, to be honest with you.
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It was pretty startling. But again, then we got back, you
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know, like, the lights went down for just a few seconds and the,
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you know, a light sort of a spotlight was on the little B
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stage. And it turned out to be Trent
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just alone with a keyboard. And he came out was really
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surprising. I think people were caught off
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guard that he just started the show just solo piano and himself
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kind of the way he started 9 Inch Nails, to be honest with
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you. And, you know, he says often
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that he, you know, he often, you know, thought that he might just
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never make it in other music and just be a, you know, just be a
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composer and and, you know, obviously 9 Inch Nails opened up
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a lot of doors for him, which is wild.
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But yeah, so Trent comes out alone.
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I think people were so stunned. The majority of people were not
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filming. There was only a smattering of
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cameras through the your phones, cameras through the venue.
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Most people were just like, what is happening?
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He's just up there by himself, Elton John and Billy Joel in
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this thing. But it was amazing actually, to
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be honest with you. It was really interesting and
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clever choice. And the back bigger stage was
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kind of smoky and covered with lights and still with the big
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curtain. And Trent started out and I'll
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share this screen here again with the 9 Inch Nails setlist.
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And again, spoilers for the 9 Inch Nails setlist in Oakland
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and this tour. I know they did a slightly
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different set list every night in Europe and it seems like they
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are playing different songs, but this is, you know, like they're
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doing the set list in stages. 9 inch nails.
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So there's a small baby, the B stage with the smaller stage and
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then the mainstage and then back to the B stage and then back to
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the mainstage. So he opened up with the right
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where It belongs acoustic piano version with a little somewhat
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damaged in there at the outro. Then he did like 3/4 of the song
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Ruiner, which is one of the most raw and awesome songs on The
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Downward Spiral, which turned 30 last year.
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Hard to Believe and Electric Wizard, What up?
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Karate Steve Band, What up that Salad reviews and Skull Basher,
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what up, what up? Good to see you all.
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Everybody's chiming in and checking it out.
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And so yeah, pretty wild set list here.
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So we're going to talk, we're going to talk about this set
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list now because it's I'm personally like, I'm amazed
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frankly, about this set list. So let's see.
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Yeah. So the whole set list just so
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you can get a flavor for it started with the right where it
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belongs. Did this acoustic version of
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Ruiner. And then kind of by the end of
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Ruiner, it became the Ruiner we all know.
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And then Piggy was also like a little bit dynamic or it was
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soft and then obviously, you know, as a creepy, sinister part
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to it. That was really fantastic.
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And then they he just ended up going to the bigger stage and
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the curtain came up and they came on full bore with Wish and
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it was pretty incredible. The second set of the songs were
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clearly heavier, clearly meant to showcase the band.
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I mean, Wish just rips. Josh just thundered away.
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I think Elon Rubin is an incredible drummer also, but
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just really amazing job by Josh. So then they followed with Wish,
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March of the Pigs, Reptile RC copy of A, which is a great
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song. Gave up.
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These are just unbelievable bangers all in a row.
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And then there was, you know, we talked a little bit to this, to
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the crowd, just how you doing? How's everybody feeling?
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Thanks for coming. And didn't talk too much the
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rest of the show, just here and there.
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Then they popped back up on the B stage and which I found super
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interesting. The B stage.
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He was joined by boys noise for like a mini set with them.
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So they played Vessel as Alive as You Need Me to Be, which was
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kind of like an extended remix of the track with Boys Noise.
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That's the Tron Airy song, which has got very OG 9 Inch Nails
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vibes. And then this really cool, kind
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of like a live remix of Sin from Pretty Hate Machine along with
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the Boys Noise song Cerebral. So they were kind of like going
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at the same time. And then toward the end of the
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song, some water just spilled on Trent, like he got doused his
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keyboard and him this kind of actually really interesting.
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He was like, what is happening? I just got soaked with water.
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Is there a toilet up there? It's pretty funny.
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I think it was just kind of like an air, air conditioning run off
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because it's been so hot in the East Bay of Layton has not been
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hot at all here in San Francisco.
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Nice and cool. He did have some microphone
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issues during the show, occasionally his mic cut out,
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but there was a very nice job of sort of backup singing by the
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other members of the band and himself.
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I will play a little bit of this sin remix from a video I have,
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see if you guys enjoy it. And then also came back haunted
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with boys noise. And then he left and he hit the
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mainstage, which I will bring back and talk about the end of
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the setlist in a little while. Yeah, let's just for a second,
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let's see if I can call up this video that I am, and I may at
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some point upload it. I should have had this video
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ready, but I didn't. But this is the only full song I
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videoed. I wanted to really be present
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and watch the show. So unfortunately you guys aren't
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sick for not seeing this, but everybody else is going to see
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kind of what this mini stage looks like in front of the big
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state. So we didn't really know it was
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the song Sin until we heard the sample at the beginning.
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Now this is just absolutely stunning.
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You can hear the crowd acknowledging what the sound is
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and and cheering around. Pretty fun.
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Just watch this for a second. You
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can kind of see when the smaller stage is illuminated.
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There's videographers all over the arena and the stage
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screaming the live video on the big canvas of the stage and the
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screen. The band is up there also kind
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of playing at different times, but this is just boys noise.
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And Trent here at the bottom of the image so you can hear him
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singing it now. So good.
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This is kind of a fun treat for fans to get this kind of version
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of the song. I thought this was hella good.
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And you can see kind of, again, there's like so much going on,
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multiple lighting sources. The sound was actually pretty
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Immaculate. Obviously the cell phone video
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is not going to do it justice, but there was a sometimes you
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couldn't tell if it was a projection, if it was smoke and
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lights. That was so creative and
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interesting and I really like this boy's noise.
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Like I really thought this mini set with Trent and boys noise
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was a lot of fun. Trenton Atticus, by the way,
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both on stage with boys noise. So that was really cool.
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And again, occasionally there was some audible problems with
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trans Mike and obviously him getting wet or what doused with
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water. That kind of sucked for him.
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But you know, he was pretty funny.
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And after the boys noise set, he went back to he went back to the
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big stage. Kenneth, this is actually live
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on YouTube as well right now. That's that's the best
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experience for this is YouTube and and twitch and stuff.
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But Instagram has the small version.
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So if you want to come over and and see what I showed, I'm
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trying to get demonetized, but I am trying to share my experience
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with everybody. So again he rejoined the big
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stage and then again he he went basically all bangers to the end
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of the set. So let's just look at the set
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list one more time. And so the end of the set comes
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up after the boys noise break of four songs.
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It wasn't really an air mission or anything.
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And they came back with somewhat damage, less than a very long
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version of closer with the only time in the breakdown in the
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middle. I also kind of thought I heard a
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little bit of that's what I get in there.
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I'm not sure if it was formally that's what I get, but it
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sounded like it. The sample and the singing The
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Perfect Drug, which is an absolute banger and a really
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difficult song kind of to do Breath wise is so wordy and
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verbose that I think that it's a really challenging song to do
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live. Also The Hand That Feeds so
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amazing. And then closing out with Head
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Like a Hole and Hurt of course. And the final closing song, sort
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of the walk off tape is Laura Palmer's theme from Twin Peaks
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by Angelo Balamenti, who's clearly an inspiration.
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The Trenton worked with Angelo on Lost Highway and just a
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phenomenal, phenomenal set list, right?
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20 songs, basically the stuff I know that you could probably put
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a set list together or stuff that was left out, but it's
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mostly from the Downward Spiral and Pretty Hate Machine with
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every other record represented a little bit, including the Tron
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Heiress song. So it's kind of, you know,
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really cool, except for Ghosts and those those records, not
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everything was represented, but pretty amazing I have to say.
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And again, I was pretty amusing when Trent introduced the band
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which has banned. Hey, Dre 22 K7.
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Hopefully this review, this spoiler review doesn't spoil it
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for you. You know, Mike Fonsec is passing
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by. Tell me.
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Oh, yeah, we're big David Lynch people and big Twin Peaks
28:28
people. Here it goes cold.
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Tell me, like, if you're going to go see a show, do you watch
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live videos? You know, I know right now it's
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very controversial. People who I videoed that one
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whole song and a couple of other snippets, but I really didn't
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take my phone out too much during the show.
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I really was present and enjoyed myself.
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We're covering Ghost tonight in Phoenix and you know that's a no
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phones experience, even though people are still ripping open
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those pouches. You know, Maynard James Keenan,
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the city doesn't like people with their phones.
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But I really felt like for a good portion of the show people
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were really present and not on their phones.
29:05
It seemed like not to me, as many people as I expected were
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on their phones. One interesting thing about the
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venue is they kept running out of the good beer.
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They kept running out of craft beer.
29:16
My friend went to get beer and it took them 45 minutes to get a
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beer. And even, you know, like we're
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talking about Lagunitas. I don't really want to spend
29:24
arena beer prices on a Coors Light or Modello, But if you
29:27
had, if that's your thing, cool. But I don't know if you do your
29:32
homework before you go see a show and listen to music and
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watch videos and look at the set list.
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And you know, I didn't look at the setlist before.
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I thought I had been looking at the setlists in Europe as a
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comparison, and they are similar.
29:46
But yeah, Trent introduced the band, which in case you didn't
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know, of course, Trenton Atticus for us, are really the only
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permanent members now. And so in addition to Josh, who
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we've talked a lot about, and I'll talk about him one more
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time in a second because he was really phenomenal.
29:59
Obviously Robin Fink and Alessandro Cortini have been
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with the band for a very long time, including overlapping the
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time Josh was in before briefly. So he has had, you know,
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obviously Atticus has been in the band since 2016.
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Live, Robin and Alessandro have been touring consistently since
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2013 and parts before that. And obviously Josh was in from
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2005 to 2008 and now he's back. And when he introduced the whole
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band, people were, you know, cheering and such.
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And when they cheat, when Josh was announced, like the whole
30:39
place erupted in its cheer for two solid minutes, which, you
30:44
know, I think is is super interesting that, you know, Josh
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was highlighted like that. I think it was really nice,
30:51
honestly. So, you know, it was an
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incredible show. Again, the sound was pretty
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great. The visuals were stunning.
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Probably some of the best visuals I've seen in years.
31:04
And I always say that 9 Inch Nails is one of those bands that
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it really sets the bar for a visual concert experience.
31:10
It's not just all these great songs that are meaningful and
31:13
bangers and all this other stuff.
31:15
And it's really kind of create this really great curated show.
31:19
Visually, it is an astounding show.
31:23
Like whatever the tickets cost, it's worth it.
31:25
The high production value. Merch was OK.
31:30
I will upload a merch video later on tonight or tomorrow.
31:36
It was all right. It was pretty pricey for, you
31:38
know, the Live Nation Arena venue.
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And I wasn't like, I didn't need to have anything that was there
31:45
had some dad hats. They had long sleeve and short
31:47
sleeve shirts. Short sleeve shirts for about 45
31:50
bucks. Only two variations, red and
31:53
black with the two dates and a long sleeve that was like, I'm
31:58
going to say $65 and hoodies were 90 and they were both
32:02
pullover hoodies, which I only like zip zip up hoodies.
32:05
But that's just me personally. It was a tote bag for 30.
32:09
There was a few other tchotchkes and this and that, but not
32:12
really a great amount of merch. But maybe they sold most of it
32:15
in Europe and they don't have a lot for the US store.
32:18
But it seemed like they had a ton of stuff.
32:20
I just didn't love the selection.
32:23
I don't know, but yeah, just to keep it 100 on the 9 inch nails
32:28
stuff, I am really like I said this, this it was really well
32:34
done. Like really well done
32:38
surprisingly so. So just really quick.
32:44
So we have what's coming up for 9 Inch Nails this tour.
32:47
Tron Error is soundtrack, Tron Errors movie.
32:50
So I think that's a lot of things to get excited about.
32:54
This Future Ruins festival again is taking place in November at
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the Aquarian Equestrian Center in Los Angeles.
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And it's all composers and we're not 100% sure what Trenton
33:06
Atticus are going to do visually or musically, but it's art and
33:10
music. I mean Danny Elfman, Goblin,
33:15
Howard Shore, who has never really performed live, John
33:18
Carpenter, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, Mark Mothersboro
33:22
of Devo Questlove doing the the Superfly soundtrack with a with
33:28
a band and maybe an orchestra. Volker Breidleman and Hauschka
33:35
Terrence Blanchard, who is also really only done limited
33:38
conducting and things like this. So this is really cool and I
33:42
think it's probably worth going to see.
33:43
And then like I said, Tron Eras is coming out.
33:46
The soundtrack comes out 9/19 the week of my birth.
33:49
And then the Tron Eras movie is coming out in October, and there
33:54
was a preview of it at Comic Con this last weekend.
33:57
So again, here's the Peel It Back door.
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If you have a chance to go, definitely go see it.
34:02
Hopefully we will get lucky enough to cover the tour
34:04
formally with a concert review and 10 and photographs.
34:08
I may yet add this kind of review our website with a little
34:12
write up, but I'm really glad I got to go.
34:14
Thanks again to my girl Melissa. Love you, thank you, and what an
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incredible time to be alive that we have this 9 Inch Nails tour
34:23
that is really a lot of deep cuts and interesting stuff.
34:28
Like it's not, you know, a lot of other bands just run paint by
34:31
numbers obviously had like a Hole in Hurt Order and Closer
34:34
are in there. I think there's been shows where
34:37
Closer is played toward the beginning of the set.
34:39
I think there were shows in Europe.
34:41
But basically everything else can change.
34:44
But I'd like a Hole in Hurt are always your closers and just a
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phenomenal, phenomenal experience for me personally.
34:53
That's it for now. We'll be back tomorrow with
34:55
another live stream. I have a special surprise live
34:58
stream tomorrow for you guys. Not a surprise, but what it is,
35:01
what the topic is going to be a surprise.
35:03
And then we do our regular weekly live stream every
35:06
Thursday. Please tune in.
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35:17
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