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Awesome Concert Volume VII -- Nine Inch Nails -- E Center 09/03/2008

Nine Inch Nails graced the E-Center last Wednesday to a not so packed house and brought us a spectacular show like always. The production value of NIN's shows brings Trent Reznors' music to life. There were many effects and visualizations that captured the emotion of each performed song. The play list included Singles from the new album The Slip. The show started with the instrumental 999,999 and pushed to 1,000,000 (both from The Slip).

This was the first time I saw music from his fully instrumental album from Ghosts I-IV. It was an odd reception from my friend Phil who was not expecting songs from that album to be performed. The style of those songs are more of a Jazz odyssey/Industrial fusion (stand up bass, Xylophone and all). I expected NIN to perform these songs and it gave me time to feel and see these songs in the way only Trent can. The picture above was not taken by me but I yanked it from the NIN forums from SLC. While I have mentioned earlier the E-Center was not nearly packed. The tickets were reduced to $20 for one weekend. Trent came out during an encore and expressed his feelings on seeing a half-full arena. He thanked us for attending and being his "True Fans". For this being my sophomore NIN concert and I expect to see them again and again and will see them when he is near again. I Thank you Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for Coming to Salt Lake and I cannot wait to experience this again.


p.s. The opening band Deerhunter sucked ass. I just wanted to say that :)