I went to the friday night show, I don't know if NIN announced that the were not going to have the vertical lighting panels for these shows, but since this was the only show that I was seeing on this tour I wanted to see the full production. Aside from that the show was awesome and even with the vertical lighting panels missing the lighting effects were still a spectacle. I was in one of the suites on the first balcony just simply because I didn't feel like standing or being pushed around by the GA crowd. "Alvetica" wrote how two people near them talked to each other showed up late and left early and I had a similar experience in my suite two guys who didn't appear to be NIN fans and looked more like they were given free tickets by the casino seemed to be interested in everything else but what was going on, on the stage. They also talked the whole time, they were annoying. I guess you run into that when casinos give their best players tickets to shows they don't care for.
Okay so two annoying guys and no vertical lighting screens it was still a great show, Trent Reznor had a ton of energy and it funny during March Of The Pigs during the quiet part and the audience sang "and everything is alright" before Trent could he just paused and looked at the audience. The band Ilan is a monster drummer so much power in his playing, Pino does a great job, its great to Alessandro back, and Robin well Robin is Robin and I mean that in the most complimentary way. The back up singers seem to work for the new material but I'm not sure if they are really needed for the older stuff. Lisa Fischer, has been singing back up for the Rolling Stones for years I think since 1989.
The setlist was great we had I'm Afraid Of Americans, Burn, and All The Love In The World, I personally really wanted to see Into The Void and Somewhat Damaged. I really dug seeing Burn and The Big Come Down. My personal highlights of the show were Various Methods Of Escape, Came Back Haunted, The Big Come Down, Survivalism, and Burn. I have to say Copy Of A comes across so much heavier live. It was a great show as somebody mentioned I would love to see Sunspots and more off of The Fragile.