Originally Posted by
magnolia
Easily the best of the three nights in my opinion, but I was also looking forward to it the most, of course.
My husband and I brought our boys all the way to New Orleans for this show because this city is very special to us, so we wanted them to not just see their first concert and it be Nine Inch Nails, but we also wanted it to be in this city we love. They bounced and jumped around and sang and absolutely loved it. I couldn't be prouder of them or more happy with how the night went.
We didn't get there until about 830, and I was sad to see the posters were already gone, but luckily I got one from Dave Kloc's website yesterday. We were able to grab the very last two event shirts available for the night, though. Only wish there had been one song played that night that they had already played Friday night, so I knew it probably wouldn't happen again, and that's I'm Afraid of Americans - my younger one has been singing that since he was 3, and I had told him about how NIN sometimes plays that live, so he was hoping to hear it. Bummer on that. But can't say I'm sorry that we got Subterraneans that night instead, so. Getting AATCHB was the highlight for me, of course. I was completely surprised, because once they started into The Good Soldier, my heart sank, and I was sure it wasn't going to happen. Then they broke between songs and Trent said they were going to "pull another rarity out of the bag of tricks", and my heart started pounding. I cried. It was perfection.
My little one was absolutely positive that he was going to get to meet Trent and the band and get their autograph just by going to the show, which was funny and I tried to explain all the reasons why that probably wouldn't happen, but he was set on it, so after the show we took them around to the side of the building and waited for them to come out. Of course, when Trent came out, he rushed straight to the car, so after my kids saw that, they shrugged their shoulders and we went on our merry way to get a midnight snack.
We were met with a lot of high fives and thumbs up, lots of smiles when people looked down and saw the kids there with us. Lots of people stopped them to say "you're going to love this!" or "you're so lucky, I wish my first concert had been this cool", etc, etc. Lots of nice comments, which made my kids feel happy and more excited for the evening, and I was grateful for everyone that did that. I'm a pretty typical, protective parent in lots of ways, but not about music. I know not everyone thinks you should take your kids to a show like Nine Inch Nails when they're 7 and 10 years old, but the thing is... I could not give a fuck. My kids love listening to NIN with me. We've bonded over it. They love the music, regardless of what they really understand about the meaning of the songs or not, and yes, they sometimes have questions, but for the most part they just take it at face value. Their first show pretty much had to be this - they've asked repeatedly for me to take them for the last year every time I told them I was going to see NIN again. It turned out to be incredible, and I know they'll have great memories of it to take on with them once I'm long gone. I have zero regrets about it.