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February 20, 2006 at 09:22 am
Nine Inch Nails (photos and video)...
Nine Inch Nails, Saturday night, was fun. Kemper Arena isn’t one of the greatest places to see any band, but NIN (as I’ve heard) never disappoints. (I’m sure they pay dearly for their sound engineers when touring places like this.)
The show was good. Trent Reznor threw out enough classics to keep me happy and played the newer songs with a heaviness not heard on the albums. At one point, Trent even played a couple of verses of Carly Simon‘s “You’re So Vain.” Pretty cool.
Here are some photos from the show:
And, some video of an oldie-but-a-goodie (QT, 2.5MB):
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Comments (14)
Aw… I won’t hold it against you. 
(And, yeah, I agree about the song!)
(And, yeah, I agree about the song!)
» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on February 23, 2006 at 8:15 pm
I just had an epileptic seizure from your video clip.
I heard that Kenny G was the supporting act. Is that right?
I heard that Kenny G was the supporting act. Is that right?
» Comment by Andy (URL), on February 24, 2006 at 07:59 am
Seizures aside, Kenny G rocked! No, actually, the opening band was some band called Moving Units — who we were too busy drinking beer at the River Market Brewery to see.
» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on February 24, 2006 at 08:53 am
mmmmmmm beer.
» Comment by Jean , on February 24, 2006 at 8:11 pm
mmmmmmmm saxophone!
» Comment by Andy (URL), on February 25, 2006 at 07:59 am
Sorry guys, as a saxophone player myself hearing the term “Kenny G rocked” just seems strange. Many jazz saxophonists, like myself, just don’t agree with regard to how well he plays (except how long he plays a note and we know one note doesn’t make a musician :)) My personal preferences are David Sanborn, Eric Marienthal, Joshua Redman, Branford (not Wynton) Marsalis, Coltrane and the lead saxophonists on the SNL band starting with Michael Brecker. The average jazz saxophonists would not place Kenny G anywhere near the greats.
On an interesting note I took lessons from Gary Foster in college, who was the incredible lead saxophonist in Henry Mancini’s band, who also happened to be Kenny G’s music instructor. Gary told me that after a year of lessons that Kenny G said “I think I’m ready to go pro.” Mr. Foster mentioned to me that he told Kenny in a tactful way how he need further instruction. What was funny was that Gary later said “now look at him, today he gets paid millions of dollars to play arpegios and scales”. At which point he just shook his head.
I guess this proves the point Tim, that you said a while back, that the greatest musicians are many times not the most popular. :)
On an interesting note I took lessons from Gary Foster in college, who was the incredible lead saxophonist in Henry Mancini’s band, who also happened to be Kenny G’s music instructor. Gary told me that after a year of lessons that Kenny G said “I think I’m ready to go pro.” Mr. Foster mentioned to me that he told Kenny in a tactful way how he need further instruction. What was funny was that Gary later said “now look at him, today he gets paid millions of dollars to play arpegios and scales”. At which point he just shook his head.
I guess this proves the point Tim, that you said a while back, that the greatest musicians are many times not the most popular. :)
» Comment by dh () , on February 27, 2006 at 11:42 am
Um, Doug… Do you know that we were joking about Kenny G? And, that this post really has nothing to do with saxaphones?
» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on February 27, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Yeah, I knew you guys were joking. :) Someone mentioned Kenny G within this post and I thought I would state some personal experience on it as part of the conversation. Kind of like a sidebar. Oh well, many times sidebars can very humorous. At least I was trying. :)
» Comment by dh () , on February 27, 2006 at 1:39 pm
i just saw NIN Live: with teeth 2006 in Austin, TX a couple days ago, really really great show. I’d recommend seeing them live anyday! Great Show.
» Comment by joe () (URL), on March 31, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I want mp3 player. What will advise?
» Comment by http://www.digitalcameras-store.info () , on April 03, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Yep. They were awesome. We saw them at the hollywood bowl… would def see them again. loved the show.
» Comment by DennistheMenace () , on June 24, 2006 at 11:38 am
i told you. That was one of the best shows i’ve seen… they rocked. And the new album is great, stop it!
» Comment by Dennis the Menace () , on September 01, 2008 at 3:03 pm
AC,
trying to keep his envy in check