NINE INCH NAILS: WITH TEETH 2005-2006
MORRISON, CO [RED ROCKS AMPITHEATRE]
5.30.06
 (2 Reviews)

By n o t h i n g



Here is a brief account, from my point of view, of NIN @ Red Rocks as witnessed live, Tuesday, 05/30/2006...

I'll start with the set list...

1) Somewhat Damaged
2) Know What You Are
3) Sin
4) Terrible Lie
5) March of the Pigs
6) Something I Can Never Have
7) Closer (with Down In It outro)
8) Burn
9) Gave Up
10) Help Me I Am In Hell
11) Non-Entity
12) Only
13) Wish
14) Adrift and at Peace or La Mer (reduced) [still clarifying/debating]
15) Into The Void
16) The Big Comedown
17) Suck
18) Hurt
19) The Hand That Feeds
20) Head Like a Hole

The show started at 9:25pm and ended at 10:55pm - it was a very tight set list with little to no gaps or fucking around between songs. Trent did say 'thank you' a few times, and broke for a minute after playing 'Hurt' to explain to the crowd how he really felt connected to the time emotionally, (when he wrote the song) during the night's performance, and subsequently thanked us for participating etc. Overall, you could tell that Trent was excited to be playing at Red Rocks, thru his jumping, flexing, posing, smashing, and singing... Make no mistake people, the new, clean, sober, muscular, head-shaven Trent does in fact, rock us harder than ever before!!! He even gave the official NIN fist-pump motion twice... once with a running start in profile!!! Now that's what I call WITH BEEF!!!

Aside from the fact that TRENT REZNOR is ALL that is man, the rest of the band stepped up their participation levels, and they sufficiently rocked out with their respective cocks out as well. I was especially pleased with Jeordie's performance (I still like to call him Twiggy), who I haven't seen rock out that hard since his days with Marilyn Manson. Aaron was all over the place, practically falling off of the stage and into the crowd on more than one occasion. I've always loved watching Josh play the drums for A Perfect Circle, as he seems VERY connected to the music he plays, in an almost trance-like state at the drum-kit; with NIN though, he is definitely more aggressive!!! He raises his arms high into the air and pounds the kit with a demonic fury I've not seen from him before. He may be the most visually impressive drummer I've watched live and is definitely in my top five list of favorite/best drummers, period!

Overall, the entire band was VERY energetic and aggressive... Trent killed three mics/micstands, smashed one guitar completely, attacked Josh's drum kit more than once, and Aaron used his guitar to stab and smash his amp all within the first four songs of the set!!!

Lights... Trank Razzle NEVER disappoints... This being my fifth NIN show, he has never put on a show that lacked a creative and visually impressive lighting setup. This time he used at least three big LED panels in the background (think slightly smaller/thinner versions of what was used for Fragility 2.0) that were closer together, making it more like one giant screen above and behind the stage set... There were all new visuals this time, used in conjunction with a metal, cage-like grating that was lowered down in three sections in front of the stage. (I compare it to a giant sized version of the gates that are pulled down in front of indoor mall stores when they're closed.) It was covered entirely in multi colored LED's and was used throughout the show in sections and at different heights to accentuate the variety of the many-colored, swivel, spot, and strobe lights that were above and to the sides of the stage. All these dark suckers were being raised and lowered in a slow, mechanical, throbbing motion that made the rock stage feel like it was alive and reacting to the music, or even itself performing in time with the band and reacting to the crowd... at it's tamest point leaving the stage dark, smoke filled and cold, or at times teeming with life, completely swallowing up the musicians, gear and some of the crowd in a blinding spectrum of furious white hot luminescence!!! SHOCK and AWE muthafuckers!!!

Unfortunately, the best description I can provide cannot even come close to explaining or effectively conveying the emotional connection felt during this living, breathing event of a lifetime! I feel so fortunate to have experienced this with a close group of long-time friends, and I will remember it as one of the most incredibly great shows of my life! I only wish that those of you who were absent could have experienced it with me.



By Squigy

I arrived at the actual venue at about 1:30 in the morning, but the park didn't open till 5 am so we drove over to the park and ride and slept until 4:30. By five o'clock, we were up the mountain trying to find out where the Spiral entrance would be. We knew the entrance, just not where.

We finally got a hold of Red Rocks and they got us in line. We sat around trying to nap, playing cards and talking. The roadies started to unload the stage stuff for NIN and semi-broke one of the light panels.

So, 11 hours in line and we finally get our tickets from Brandi and we hear over the radio about a sound check. We file in the venue and wait for 40 minutes while they tune the drums and we watched Trent walk his dog around Red Rocks. We get in for the sound check. We heard Wish and Non-Entity. Trent then said we'll see you in a minute and we got a meet and greet. I freaked out and basically started to cry (weeping fan girl I am).

The meet and greet was a surprise to everyone. So mostly it was shirts, body parts and tickets for everyone. I got the band to sign my rubber duck. Most of the band got a nice chuckle at the fact they were signing a rubber duck. Then I got the balls up to ask Jeordie for a hug. (best day of my life.)

So we sat down in the second row because the first was handicapped and waited for the show to actually start and for the general public to come in. Once they were in TV On The Radio started and they were okay, they had a lot of energy and some of the strangest stage things I ever saw. Well this very scary woman beside me started dancing and you could see on side stage all of Nine Inch Nails laughing at her as she tried to entice the bad with her chubby ass. (I would have felt bad but she was a bitch and got in my way most of the concert. So I couldn't see much but her arms.) Bauhaus was pretty good I never really listed to them before but I think I'll pick some up. I enjoyed their set. But I was mesmerized watching Jeordie walk around the stage and take pictures of them.

Set list: Somewhat Damaged
Know What You Are?
Sin
Terrible Lie
March Of The Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
Closer (The Only Time)
Burn
Gave Up
Help Me I Am In Hell
Non-Entity
Only
Wish
La Mer
Into The Void
The Big Comedown
Suck
Hurt
(speech) - He talked about how playing Hurt still reminded him of the dark part of his life, and how sharing it with us was great (and the crowd wouldn't really let him talk.)
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Hole

The show was great minus the metal light screen fucking up for a bit because of the drop and a few sound fuck ups the crowd was really pumped and so was the band. Trent fell on Josh's Drums after Sin. Aaron tried to stage dive but the venue's crowd control was totally stupid, we had a little slide on rope barricade then handicapped people in front of us and we had to hold back 9000 or so people. It was worrying.

The band had great energy and during sound check Jeordie looked really tired, but by the time the show hit, he was running around, jumping, and having a great time. It was a big change from when I saw APC at Red Rocks with him, but he had the same amount of energy. Alessandro and him had some sort of joke about a water bottle at one point because Jeordie knocked it over then Alessandro grabbed it and stuck his tongue out.

The show was great and very fun, and the band looked like they were having a great time at the amphitheater. It was a beautiful place to have such a marvelous concert.