http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=911

yes and shes envied by fangirls everywhere.

LOLZORS!!!!111

Hey everyone, I was just on the fanclub message board and one of the members won tickets for the breakfast. He had said that the breakfast is tomorrow and it's going to air on Friday.

Can you ask him where it is?

They usually let a few extra people in if they can get to the place.

Dude, they'll take away his tickets if they find out he spilled about the location.

i hope it is at denny's

maybe a waffle house? but probably just mcdonalds drive through

Nah, Gold's Gym

You know they dont sell protein bars there damnit!

No, they won't.

It gets leaked every time they do this and usually allow the fans that wait at the door in.

It doesn't matter since it's already over.

can someone post Jason9's story once it's up at the Spiral (that is, if you dare dig into the thread). that just can't be a spiral exclusive...

Breakfast with Nine Inch Nails: Jason's Report
Finally home... exhausted... exhilarated. Where to begin...

A disclaimer: Due to my excitement, the sheer amount of things that happened while we were inside to remember, my current state of awareness, and my terrible memory, some items in my account may be inaccurate, paraphrased, or out of order. Hopefully, there won’t be much of that. Some of the information during the Q&A has certainly been answered before, but I tried to write down some information about all of the questions that I could remember being answered today anyway. We were to arrive by 3:30 pm. People were on time and orderly. We signed in, received our wristbands, and waited in line outside the building. I had put my cell phone in the car and my watch needs a new battery, so I didn’t keep careful track of time. I think we were let in about half an hour late. We were in a dark sound stage. Tape had been run across the floor; this was what separated the audience from the “stage”. The band’s instruments were set up on the floor, so we were to be eye level with the band. I was behind two girls center and I am 6” tall, so I had a great view in front of TR. After the 100+ member crowd had taken their places, Stryker was on the mic delineating how the event would proceed. We had been given 3x5 cards to write down a question, and some of them were chosen to be read on the air. He told us that the show would be recorded in a different order than it will be aired; during the broadcast, there will be interview questions between songs. However, the music was to be performed first, 5 songs, followed by the Q&A with only Trent. Soon after that, the lights were darkened…

Jeordie, Alessandro, Aaron, and Josh appeared and walked to their instruments to our delight. They were followed by Trent, who took his mic and kicked off the show. I had so many things to experience and remember that hopefully I can leave most descriptions of clothing to the other Spiral members who attended, as I’m a guy and don't always remember that kind of stuff with accuracy. I believe that Trent was wearing a greenish shirt with blue jeans, torn by the lower right shin, and black combat boots. Aaron had a red t-shirt, and Josh had a greenish shirt… oh yeah, as I said, I’ll leave that description to others. It seemed like Trent’s hair is even slightly shorter than the last time I saw him, but lighting conditions at the event were very different than then so perhaps I'm wrong.

Still in shock but extremely happy, I took in the show. The sound stage has an interesting effect on the music. The sound absorbent quality of the walls in the venue keeps reverberations down, and the sound is a bit deader than at normal concert venues. However, I could hear speakers behind us as well as hearing sound from directly in front of me from the band’s amps. That isn’t too dissimilar from being in the front for other shows. So, you’re asking… what did they play??

Only was the first selection… a nice tight performance… Trent’s voice was sounding great, and the band was right on. Only some of us seemed to really be into the performance… dancing, headbanging, and other reactions to the music weren’t really the forte of some of the audience I suppose. I overheard one conversation before we were let in outside where the winner said that she was calling this week to request a song, but found out she was the 20th caller… still, the audience on the whole seemed happy to be there… perhaps some could have been a bit more thrilled. Trent said after the song that they had been rehearsing at the sound stage, and they thought it would be nice if we could come out and see them.

Right Where It Belongs was the second song played… I thoroughly enjoyed the song, as always, but it was also a bit different to watch this live without the screen. Continuing to play newer material, we were treated to Non-Entity and Not So Pretty Now. It was great to see that it wouldn’t just be “one hit after another”, to paraphrase TR at Cabazon, but I don’t think everyone in attendance knew what was being played. The audience was more responsive to Hurt, which followed these songs up. Instead of the 5 songs that Stryker had promised, we got a sixth – The Hand That Feeds. I reflexively pulled out my cell phone, frantically dialing KROQ… oh wait, I had to leave that in the car and I had already somehow won… *whew*!

The place was rocking, we were having a great time, and then… the show was over. Trent waved to the audience, and they left the stage. The first half of the event was over, but the second was about to begin…

The rest of the band was not part of the Q&A. Three stools were lined up in the front… one for Kevin, one for Bean, and one for Trent. Trent was given the cordless mic and joked that K&B had stuck him with it, but they made Trent stay plugged in. The first several people had been called for questions, and Yolanda (ms. webb) was one of them! Kevin and Bean ended up asking my question, and one of the attendees who was picked to answer a question asked my other question, so my only time on the air will end up being last night when I won. First, however, Kevin and Bean had their own questions to ask. They said it was funny that no one crossed the strip of tape and asked if it was strange to have the audience that close. Trent said that he had some feeling of invasion of their space. He was asked something about whether it is exciting to keep performing during this tour or if it is becoming mundane, and he responded that he is glad the tour is close to done as it is becoming a bit tedious. However, he did discuss the fact that he has been writing a lot and the new album should be finished by the fall, for a possible release around the “top of 2007”. The discussion turned to what he has been doing during the tour, and he mentioned watching movies and writing songs with Saul Williams as well as his co-producer role on his new album. He said that he originally was turned on to Saul when he saw his video for “List of Demands”. K&B asked what song means the most; Trent ended up settling on Hurt as the song that is still most meaningful to him… after performing it hundreds of times, he is still transported back to the place he was when he wrote it, and it was one of the easiest songs to write that he has created.

K&B asked about some of his older, well-known associations… “do you talk to Marilyn Manson still?” “No”… “Tori?” Trent said something about K&B really bringing up the good old days. They asked about Zack de la Rocha, and Trent said that he was great to work with in New Orleans, but it seemed that Zack wasn’t completely comfortable with the direction he was going musically with the project. K&B remarked that it was questionable if he would ever be comfortable with any musical direction whatsoever. Trent was asked about playing songs like HLAH and Closer over and over and whether that gets repetitious. He responded that a lot of bands like to play the new material because it’s where they are at that point and it is what they are excited about; however, there is a responsibility to the fans to not just play every song off of the new album, since they may have certain expectations for a show that they purchase tickets to. Asked about the writing process, he said that he doesn’t have it all down and it is trial and error, but he thinks he is better now than he used to be. He stated that he likes to change his approach to writing music between each album so that he doesn’t keep writing the same song again and again.

An attendee asked about his thoughts on Bauhaus opening the tour. He said that it was similar to performing with David Bowie… he was selling more tickets than Bowie at the time, but he couldn’t have David open for him. He had heard that Bauhaus was interested in touring with NIN, and that they were a great influence and he has nothing but respect for him. ms. webb asked if working with Saul Williams has inspired him. Trent said that Saul is much better with writing lyrics as he comes from a poetry and spoken word perspective. He said that his strengths are elsewhere, and writing lyrics is the tough part. K&B asked a question about how easily people can compose songs using computers these days. Trent said that he is annoyed by people who are afraid of the technology, and that computers are just a tool. He stressed that since they are a tool, they don't make music better on their own. He said that it seems like most music today is bad, which garnered some loud applause from the audience… I wonder if KROQ will keep that bit in for Friday! K&B said that there are bands out there that have kept the same lineup for 25 years, but that doesn’t seem to work for you… why? Trent’s answer was pretty funny and I don’t remember the whole thing, but one of the reasons he mentioned is that they might join Guns and Roses. Poor Robin... Another listener asked about Johnny Cash covering Hurt (yeah, some of these questions were pretty common). The more interesting part of the response aside from, “yeah, never heard that question before”, was the more serious comment that to see JC cover his song, make it part of his recollections of his past life in the video, and sort of being evocative of the final months leading up to his death, it helped TR to get out of a period of feeling self-critical about his songwriting.

K&B asked about how he likes living in LA. He said there are some good things about it, like never having rain, but he’s kind of neutral about it so far. He said that he hasn’t actually been in the area enough recently to have a stronger opinion since he’s been touring most of the time. He said that New Orleans felt like home to him, but that a lot of the city was damaged or destroyed and is not coming back. Many of his favorite restaurants and other establishments have not been fixed up or even boarded up. Conversation somehow returned to the new album, but Trent said that his next record has a “new thing going on” and he does not want to discuss it in more detail at this time. I think an attendee asked about it seeming like Trent’s current band members always seem to have hair styles similar to older hair styles that Trent used to have, which cracked him up. He stated that he was sure that no one would end up wanting to use his current hair style. Another person asked if he would want to work on a video game or film project in the future. Trent said that he isn’t that interested, unless it was a creative situation rather than having a rock song thrown into a stupid movie or for a tyrannical director telling him what to do. K&B said that David Lynch would be a good choice for that… Trent mentioned that David Cronenberg would be a situation to consider as well.

That was a synopsis of most of the questions asked… *whew*! The interview ended, Trent waved to us and left the stage, and K&B with Lightning got some recordings of us cheering or clapping at varying levels of intensity to help them edit everything together. We were let go, still in some denial over what we had just seen…

On the way out, ms. webb found me, as she had recognized me from my avatar. We had a very fun conversation about the event and the tour before we were all tired and hungry enough to drive home. Hopefully she can fill in some of the gaps in my memory about the event! She is definitely another very cool Spiral member. I believe the friend and Spiral member I ended up going with will post some of her observations about the event as well. Sorry for the late posting, but I figured I’d have to just write my account all at once and see if it helps give those who weren’t there a taste of what the event was like… Friday’s broadcast should help much more with that, of course.

That's awesome that he played Non-Entity and Not So Pretty Now.

I can't wait for bootlegs, even though NSPN is pure shit.

It's too bad that it was one-on-one with Trent, although with Aaron and Jeordie there we likely would end up with a lot of jokish bullshit answers.

"Top of 2007" eh? Does that mean early 2007?

Generally, yes.

All this collaborating with Saul Williams really has me excited about the new albums, interms of lyrical content. This is also the first time that he's given anything that could be considered a release date for the new material.

WHERE THE HELL IS THE FOOD!!

It was done at 4:30pm and the term "Breakfast with..." just means it will be broadcast during breakfast-time on Friday. Relax. There is no food involved.

yea, it was a joke but thanks..

its sucks the rest of the band couldn't do the Q&A...it would have been funny.....

Are the people who run KROQ on drugs or something?

'Breakfast With'= Afternoon, no breakfast
'Almost Acoustic Xmas' = Full electric sets.

Wacky Americans.