NIN and Gear Destruction

moster78

I've been a longtime fan of NIN and I've always known for the propensity to destroy their gear during or at the end of a performance, but after seeing them last night at the Garden, it was definitely entertaining, and in someways painful to see them do it. Up close and personal too, I was directly on the guitarists side, maybe 10 rows back, if that. Great view.

The mic stand throwing and the occasional knocking over of am amp I expected. After the first song or two Trent just chucked/slide his guitar behind the stage towards the drum kit. They closed off with Head Like A Hole, and when it was all said and done, the guitarist was standing on top of the keyboard stand, knocked that over. Trent threw his guitar at least twenty feet in the air with reckless abandon, and then proceeded to smash the drums with a mic stand. The best, and yet most painful, was once the keyboards were knocked over, the guitarist took his Black Fat Strat and bashed the shit out of it against the keyboards until both were decimated. Keys went flying and some lucky fan in the front of the pit got the courtesy of having the Strat's body tossed to them. Nice souvenir.

The funniest was that all the while this was going on, the bassist just gently puts his bass on the stage and walks away.

Great show. Anyone else go? Best show I've seen all year next to Pearl Jam in Montreal.

exhausted

it's sad. so much gear.

they've been auctioning off the broken husks of trent's dean evos for charity.

moster78

exhausted wrote:

it's sad. so much gear.

they've been auctioning off the broken husks of trent's dean evos for charity.

I saw that. I think they can add one or two more after last night. what a way to end the show though.

Pacomc79

exhausted wrote:

it's sad. so much gear.

they've been auctioning off the broken husks of trent's dean evos for charity.

Dean Evo's should be given away, for firewood.

moster78

Pacomc79 wrote:

Dean Evo's should be given away, for firewood.

Would explain why he has no issue with tossing one up 20 feet in the air with reckless abandon. Although my acoustic is a Dean and it served me well.

Pacomc79

moster78 wrote:

Would explain why he has no issue with tossing one up 20 feet in the air with reckless abandon. Although my acoustic is a Dean and it served me well.

I was being silly, Dean makes fine stuff. I bet your Dean and my Fender Acoustics were made int he same factory over in Korea.

moster78

Pacomc79 wrote:

I was being silly, Dean makes fine stuff. I bet your Dean and my Fender Acoustics were made int he same factory over in Korea.

I figured, but I'm sure he feels better about trashing a Dean than the Les Paul's I've seen them use a lot in the past. Although seeing that Fender get annihilated was half joy and half heartbreak.

exhausted

trent claims to not care about guitars. a guitar's a guitar to him.

which sorta irked me until i remember that, with the level of processing he does, it really doesn't matter what he's playing.

colorsblend

I was at last night's show, my seats were the section above yours, 220, row D. Fantastic show!! The whole 'let's destroy the gear' was hilarious.

Pearl Jam and toast

lmao.

awesome