19 years ago today........

[billpulsipher]

the greatest concert in NIN history took place.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOaksbDV81A

[thevoid99]

Where Woodstock '69 made the Who superstars despite the fact that they thought it was one of their worst shows. Woodstock '94 made Trent Reznor into a superstar himself.

[Krazy]

Big pimpin'....

"Nine Inch Nails were considered to have the largest crowd density at the event, overshadowing many of the more mainstream bands of the time."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_'94

[Kyle]

Most important I'll grant you. Greatest is definitely pushing it.

[RGM81]

It was definitely a breakthrough performance, but it's tough to overlook those EPIC sets played during the Wave Goodbye tour.

[AlanMorlock]

Full set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mWWsJnUbIc

[allegro]

This mostly reminds me that my ex husband had a really good cable pirate box so I watched all of Woodstock for free. Sorry, but my primary memory is still Dave Navarro in a light bulb costume.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aoUqSPQQuW4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaoUqSPQQuW4


Oh, and Perry's Porno for Pyros doing "Pets" so awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEn8EyM_A-U


It was definitely a breakthrough performance, but it's tough to overlook those EPIC sets played during the Wave Goodbye tour.
The WITH TEETH tour is still most epic for me.

[FULLMETAL]

Ugh, I wish whoever owns the Polygram library would pull out that NHK prototype HD recording and release it. I have a clip from that feed somewhere in my work archive and it looks so much better than the PPV feed.

[Fred]

I still think this is a great performance to watch. Sure, it's a bit sloppy (in a charming "we're so angry we can't play our instruments properly"-way) and the PPV sound mix honestly isn't very good. But the energy and "danger" put on display here are still absolutely unmatched. No wonder it was their major breakthrough performance.

Coincidentally, I stumbled upon a DVD-R of this gig a few days ago. I was looking for Closure, and I didn't realise I still had this lying around. Might give it a spin later in honour of the anniversary!

[Max Leo]

But where is the tambourine? And where are the "heys" and the clap alongs? Is this really NIN??? :p



PS: Put your headphones:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBaQMCE9aQ

That sounds so much better than other youtube videos for this show...

The rest of the serlist:

http://www.youtube.com/user/headlikeabowl?feature=watch

[m0reta]

The only thing I remember about Woodstock is the MTV coverage and thinking Trent had some serious chicken legs.

Now look at how our boy has grown! *sniffles with weird misplaced pride*

[reseen_lamenti]

PS: Put your headphones:

http://www.youtube.com/user/headlikeabowl?feature=watch

That sounds so much better than other youtube videos for this show...


Has anyone gotten in touch with headlikeabowl ever since their uploads as to where he sourced his particularly incredible quality audio?

[spiralhate]

This site http://industrialskads.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/nine-inch-nails-1994-live-at-woodstock.html seems to have a link for the torrent of this 'remastered edition' but I don't know if it's working.
Can someone check? I'd love to get my hands on this version

[slave2thewage]

I remember buying a bootleg of this ON CASSETTE in Dublin about ten years ago. I thought it was the closest I'd ever get to seeing NIN live. Oh, how wrong I was *goes back to prepping for shows #18 and #19*.

[dlb]

Where to download the definite audio of this? I doubt that the mud pigs bootleg is the best source available anymore. Thanks for a link etc.! :)

[kevinbeetle]

i remember watching this on pay per view with my girlfriend at the time. right after i graduated college. she recorded it all on vhs, then we broke up in the fall. was pissed for years that i never got a copy made. then, 10 years or so later, i got a dvd copy. i still get douche chills when i see trent crawling out on stage.

[hobochic]

Gotta love Danny Lohner's live intensity. He makes every guitar strum or keyboard hit feel like a good old punch in the balls.

[Fred]

This site http://industrialskads.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/nine-inch-nails-1994-live-at-woodstock.html seems to have a link for the torrent of this 'remastered edition' but I don't know if it's working.
Can someone check? I'd love to get my hands on this version

It seems to throw me into an infinite loop of captchas and ads, so no, not on my end.

Besides, judging from the YouTube videos, I'm not sure what to make of the remastered version. Video is the same as always, and the audio sounds as if the person responsible just throw it into iZoTope Ozone or similar mastering tool and jacked everything up so everything's louder than everything else. Sure, it sounds less hollow and more in-your-face than before, but only because the audio is compressed to smithereens. Sounds great on computer speakers. Probably sounds like hard lumps of shit hitting a brick wall on your stereo. So as a semi-audiophile, I'd personally hate it if this "remastered" and "superior" version was the only one circulating in 20 years...

[Max Leo]

Maybe I'm asking too much or even the impossible, but couldn't the TOIOU people remaster this show somehow like that youtube guy did, but maybe even better?

Sadly, I have no idea about audio and video manipulation, but I guess that the people working on the TOIOU project know how to do these kind of things, they have done it not only with "The Gift" stuff but also with tons of videos from youtube or from fan recordings, so I guess they know how to do something similar to that remaster but maybe even better (I'm not an audiophile, for me that remaster sounds great just because it sounds louder, and I was used to the crappy vhs bootlegs sound and when I bought a dvd bootleg I thought that it sounded amazing in comparison, and that dvd sounds pretty bad compared to those "remastered" youtube videos).

I know that the TOIOU people are busy with other HTDA/NIN related stuff, but maybe a supercool remastered edition for the 20th anniversary would be pretty great. Because there is no chance for an Interscope/UMG official release for said anniversary, right?

[Blackbookpress1984]

Trent has actually stated that the bands performance the day off Woodstock 94 was particularly sub par.

[Fred]

@Max Leo (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=1390): I reckon the possibilities for improvements are rather limited. A VHS tape from 1994 can only be made to look and sound so good. Did it even look substantially better to begin with? I'm not an expert either, but the old saying about polishing a turd definitely applies.

If a master tape was somehow unearthed, maybe. But god knows where that is. The rough state of the Woodstock footage on the official Closure Appendage indicates the band hasn't been able to utilise one. So I think we're stuck with the off-air-sources. Which is fortunately more than good enough, in my opinion.

[billpulsipher]

Trent has actually stated that the bands performance the day off Woodstock 94 was particularly sub par.
I think he was referring to the fact the show was very sloppy etc....In recent interviews he has praised that performance saying it's one of the most memorable

[SM Rollinger]

Hell yes, i just found a pressed bootleg of "When the whip comes down" the other day too. Glad you mentioned this, as this is my favorite NIN live show too.

And for those who dont know, it was this performance of Happiness In Slavery that was featured on the Woodstock 94 live compilation, that won TR a Best Metal Performance Grammy.

[Max Leo]

Fred: Yeah, I understand that a remaster would hardly look like the BYIT blu-ray. XD :-(

But I would be happy if something similar to what "Headlikeabow" has uploaded on youtube was eventually released in a dvd format as a torrent.



Blackbookpress1984: Trent said that, but Woodstock 94 is undoubtly a classic performance that deserves something better than what is available right now (imo).

[Pyract]

@Max Leo (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=1390): I reckon the possibilities for improvements are rather limited. A VHS tape from 1994 can only be made to look and sound so good. Did it even look substantially better to begin with? I'm not an expert either, but the old saying about polishing a turd definitely applies.

If a master tape was somehow unearthed, maybe. But god knows where that is. The rough state of the Woodstock footage on the official Closure Appendage indicates the band hasn't been able to utilise one. So I think we're stuck with the off-air-sources. Which is fortunately more than good enough, in my opinion.
Have you by chance seen Collected? There was a Woodstock clip on there (Reptile) and it was very clear, which indicates they at least had access to some kind of master tape for Collected. My theory is if Closure would have actually been released commercially, the clip there would've been replaced with one from a master.

[Fred]

I have, but don't remember that clip being clearer than the usual. You could be right about Closure. Too bad sharing a copy straight from the master is probably too hot for Trent.

[Papagolash]

But where is the tambourine? And where are the "heys" and the clap alongs? Is this really NIN??? :p



PS: Put your headphones:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBaQMCE9aQ

That sounds so much better than other youtube videos for this show...

The rest of the serlist:

http://www.youtube.com/user/headlikeabowl?feature=watch

This has by far, and always will be the best performance of Terrible Lie ever. Absofuckinglutely love it.

[pigpen]

And all you miserable muddy fuckheads are alright!!!

[Conan The Barbarian]

Awww man.

This brings so many memories back into the mix.

This was pretty much the beginning of me getting serious into music.

We had a black box so I got to watch the whole festival.

This and green day's gig were my favorite.

I miss the 90's.

[Halo Infinity]

I'm still very much addicted to this performance. It's what I usually look up every time I search for Nine Inch Nails on YouTube. My most favorite songs from that gig would have to be Terrible Lie, Down In It, The Only Time, Happiness In Slavery, Closer, and Reptile.