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1. 999,999 [Intro]
2. 1,000,000
3. Letting You
4. Discipline
5. March Of The Pigs
6. Head Down
7. The Frail
8. Reptile
9. Closer [The Only Time Breakdown]
10. Gave Up
11. The Warning
12. Vessel
13. Ghosts 5
14. Ghosts 17
15. Ghosts 19
16. Piggy [Ghosts]
17. The Greater Good
18. Pinion [Interlude]
19. Wish
20. Terrible Lie
21. Survivalism
22. The Big Come Down
23. Ghosts 31
24. Only
25. The Hand That Feeds
26. Head Like A Hole
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27. Echoplex
28. God Given
29. The Good Soldier
30. Hurt
31. In This Twilight
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The show was fucking brilliant. I think I'm in shock for how awesome it was.

Setlist:
Edit: Snake beat me to it.

I have a bunch of pictures and a video of echoplex/speech/beginning of god given. Gunna upload soon.

-CEJ
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Amazing show!!! Just about everything I could of hoped for

edit: someone beat me to the setlist



My thoughts: The slip songs sounded pretty good but the show didn't really take off until March of the Pigs, the debut of The Frail/Reptile for this tour at least, I was disappointed that they didn't play the Wretched but Reptile more than made up for it, would of loved to hear Meet Your Master because I think it would of been 20 times better than the Good Soldier and was also very sad not to hear the Great Destroyer, but they can't play everything you exactly want to hear so maybe I'll make my way down to philly
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Am I the only one who thinks Help Me I am in Hell sounds just like 17 Ghosts 2
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set list is looking better but encores are still weak imo
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Awesome show! So much better than Mohegan Sun! Trent came out with so much energy and looked and sounded like he was having an awesome time! Trent said that he felt like talking tonight and said that he had been looking forward to tonight's show and that it meant alot that the songs that he wrote for himself mean something to us too. He also mentioned that he is very proud of this show and can't wait to blow our fucking minds! He thanked band and crew for putting it all together and putting up with him.
The night started out so fun, looking for a ? with grafxdesin, we didn't find it, but we saw an AWESOME show tonight! Very nice meeting you, Papalogash and your friend.
grafxdesin you are my NIN partner for life!
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It's going to take some time to process all this. I've been on my feet for almost 7 hours.

It was an amazing show. I've been to a lot of shows in my time, but this one, I believe, tops them. It doesn't beat the best TIME I had at a show, that goes to Maiden with friends years ago, but the show itself was badass.

I was in front and to the right of the soundboard in rear GA. A small mosh pit formed a few times. Nobody was hurt.

Met Reptileseven and scaredsqee from here. R7 I met briefly to buy her GA tix (thanks a million!) and scaredsquee bought my Section 127 ticket. Squee was great to talk to.

And if Steve and Dana are reading this, /wave. I hope Dana wasn't too bruised.

I have pics and vids, but it's just too late to post them now. I'll do it all tomorrow.
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Yea I looked through plenty of Mens Rooms and found nothing
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Something in the air tonight...Trent was on fire...the croud was on fire...great show! 4th NIN show and best so far!! Trent did a lot of talking and said how the fans appreciating his music makes his day! Was one of the few people to look for the mistery ? today but it was fun anyway and meet some great people! Reptile...nough said!!! I'm tired and going to bed!
Bluefish22 Any NIN concert you know I am thier with you!!
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AWESOME SHOW TRENT!!!! CAN'T WAIT FOR PHILLY!

THIS SHOW WAS AMAZING!!!!! My first show....WOW.

so many great and notable things from tonight. place seemed to be completely filled up by the time NIN were well into their performance (excluding the upper deck).

Does It Offend You, Yeah? weren't too bad really. there were 2 or 3 songs i rather enjoyed by em.

Then nin went on and kicked off the show. it's amazing....31 songs....2 hours and 10 minutes was the length of the show. Trent gave a terrific little speech....and they were wonderfull/meaninfull words. i love the band...everybody was amazing tonight. Josh has to be the best drummer i've ever seen. JMJ was awesome...Ally looked terrific..Robin was amazing. At one point during Survivalism i think...robin threw his water bottle into the front of the crowd and the chicks swapped at it and didn't catch it. so he went back right away and threw another bottle at the same girls in a slower/more laughable tone and they caught it. love Robin!

The setlist was terrific. after the frail..i was hoping for the wretched...if not, i was well prepaired to Closer....BAM...Reptile...that was a surprise!

Crowd was terrific. Not much screaming during Hurt etc...

the only bad thing i saw was these 3 HUGE muscular bald guys in the left part of the pit...they were literally going COMPLETELY BERZERK...pushing, punching...from the seats..i literally saw a big hole in the GA were these three large bald guys were going at it...and destroying everyone around them. The entire show i felt sorry for everyone even near them...couldn't security do something about them?

all in all....this was an experience i'll NEVER forget!!!! AMAZING!
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bryan987 wrote:
set list is looking better but encores are still weak imo


Nonsense. The Encore was fucking brilliant. Tough to explain unless you experience it.

'In This Twilight' really is a nice way to close it out.

It's amazing that after all these years 'Hurt' still carries so much emotion live.

Josh Freese's drums are still ringing in my ears.

Will write more tomorrow, but it was a GREAT show.
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Awesome show. Just wow. Spent before the show wondering what the IR Camera was doing on the stage looking at me. Then discovered I was on the screen for Survivalism. It was nice that Trent actually was looking forward to this show. It really makes me feel good to know he thinks playing in this area is special.

Amazing set list. I have a TON of pictures and videos. I'll upload them as soon as possible. God I hope for some bootleg goodies.

Also.....anyone have any information about why there were so many video cameras and crews recording songs? One of the security guards told me MTV was having a special and was grabbing some footage. Which is fucking sweet if true!

Edit: Some Video Clips Up.

http://www.vimeo.com/1616660 - 19 Ghosts III
http://www.vimeo.com/1616750 - In This Twilight
http://www.vimeo.com/1616829 - Trent's First Speech
http://www.vimeo.com/1616862 - Trent's Second Speech
http://www.vimeo.com/1616908 - Vessel

A bunch more clips are up on my vimeo profile:
http://www.vimeo.com/user659236

Pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58524167@N00/sets/72157607001958227/
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My "premium" seats were in Section 120 seats 3 & 4. My wife & I were not pleased when we saw our side obstructed view. We saw them in Mohegan and knew we would miss all the visuals. So we complained to the venue and were allowed to move to 209. Yes it was much farther away but we were able to see everything. For the most part we were the only people standing up the entire time. A big fuck you to the assholes behind us who smoked pot all night and had cell phone conversations during the show.


Anyone else have the same problem with section 120?

Next stops NH & MA. Can't wait. I have work in like 6 hours.......Of course I'm never disappointed after a show. This was number eight for us.
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EDIT -- I was also in section 120. I stayed there though. I didn't really mind. We did try to coerce some staff into letting us into the Pit, but that didn't happen Razz

First show of this tour for me, 3rd time seeing NIN.

I very much enjoyed the show, despite my extremely-off to the side angle. My seat was close enough, but I missed out on the full experience of the visuals. I was on Robin's side.

Trent was really chatty. He said the band was looking forward to this show for quite some time (anyone know why? I guess NY/NJ shows are usually a big stop for a tour?)... and gave a little speech saying how great it felt to make personal music for himself, and then get it out there, and then having people actually listen to his music and go to his shows. He's really sincere and he said he was really proud to put on the show and couldn't wait to blow our minds away tonight.


Highlights:

REPTILE-- Best song of the night. Robin kicked ass.
Head Down -- Trent went crazy on some little keyboard.
1,000,000 -- Really great opener.
God Given
Gave Up
Ghosts Piggy! The upright bass was awesome.
Big Come Down
So, so glad they played Pinion before Wish. Smile


I was really impressed with the Slip stuff in general, the songs translate really well live. Ghosts was very good, but slowed down the set considerably. I'm not complaining (although Ghosts 5 is REALLY REALLY slow. Not much happens in this song.. heh), but a lot of people left during this section or started talking. Slightly less impressive was the Year Zero material. Well, let me rephrase.. some of it. The Warning sounded good but did not kick my ass like Terrible Lie, Wish, Reptile, Gave Up, Head Down, etc. Same goes for Vessel, which had a very long cool breakdown but seemed like an appetizer compared to some of the other amazing performances. The Greater Good had nice visuals going for it (remember, I was off to the side though!), but the song is too mellow and repetitive to work in a concert IMO. Especially since we got tons of other slow songs. God Given on the other hand... was INCREDIBLE. And Good Soldier / In This Twilight are definitely great live.

Overall, I'm a big fan of this setlist. It's a really diverse set of songs.. one second they're kicking your ass with a song like Letting You and then they're on a completely different set of instruments, playing a hauntingly beautiful slow instrumental over an eerie backdrop. Then they're in hardcore electronic mode with Vessel. NIN has so many songs, and as fans we could all think of fantasy setlists that we'd prefer, but Trent managed to squeeze in plenty of material from both of his new albums, play all of his hits, and still give us some bonuses.


No NIN fan should skip out on this tour.
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Whoever did the sound for Does It Offend You, Yeah? sucked. All you could hear was a snare drum and some other noise. The drummer was playing the cymbals...couldn't even hear it. Actually, I found this quite funny. At one point, the drummer's stick broke and he stopped playing to get another stick and you couldn't even tell he had stopped playing.

But nin rocked. That's all that counted.

-CEJ
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Great show...great crowd.

Uhhhh...HORNS UP Rob. What what in da butt

*waves goodbye*
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oh yea I don't know if this has ever been discussed but The Greater Good is just the recording of the album version except for Trent's singing at the end and it was funny how my seat was at the furthest side of the stage because I could see all the crew setting up and Josh leaving the stage during the YZ parts where all everyone else sees is the visuals
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Goddamn that was good. Just amazing. One of the highlights was absolutely Trent giving some very sincere and moving words about making music and the relationship it has with the fans. Also nice to see he was very kind/supportive in regards to Does It Offend You, Yeah? who were a lot of fun. DIOY,Y? were also notably appreciative of the crowd, who they repeatedly said were the nicest they've experienced.

"God Given" was just as good as I'd hoped (probably my favorite of the night)

"Only" had some incredible visuals (neat intro, too)

I loved how Robin (who was in top fucking form), was the only one left on stage after the screen dropped behind him at the end of "Gave Up"

I like how Trent seems to be changing Alessandro's occupation each time he introduces the band (who he also introduced as his friends tonight): "Wires, Gadgets, Good Looks: Alessandro Cortini."

The beginning of "1,000,000": Each band member gets lit up... when it gets to JMJ, he's just standing completely still like he's the FUCKING MAN. Extremely badass on his part.

Even if this wasn't my favorite NIN show (my 4th - yay!), this unquestionably had the best ending I've seen. "In This Twilight" combined with individual band member exits was immensely classy. Well done, guys. You were amazing, and we hope you come back soon. Thanks for a show that most definitely blew my mind.
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120 treated the missus and i well...then again, i had the two seats next to me to myself to thrash away during some of the better moments (reptile, big comedown, the greater good, vessel, etc.)-----but i think rockin99 was sitting there just before? row 10 for us, if so. friday's show will be further back, so i reckon we'll get the full screen experience.

anyway...i was definitely pleased, and though i've been reading all setlists for the tour, there were still some unexpected treats- reptile and its placement being the best, naturally...and even all the spoilers were still exciting to watch unfold. otherwise, god given has grown on me in a big, big way, and robin's perfect whispering earned a few cheers from our direction...

as far as the staples: hurt is better this time around...the intro to only is nice n'pretty, and terrible lie & gave up never fail to move me. otherwise, was happy for a very diverse setlist, and the ghosts songs were probably the most impressive. missing the fragile, but still very very satisfied.

will be uploading some decent point & click photos tomorrow...and will be gearing up for a few extra treats in philly!


edit: i was expecting to absolutely LOATHE does it offend you, yeah?, but we were impressed, and i may give them a second shot...i thought they were charming, and their songs translated well live.

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