2009.05.27 Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, MO

Mudget · Post by **Mudget** » Fri May 29, 2009 10:51 am

Good fucking lord. That was way too long. No one's going to read it. lol

Oh well. Got it all out.

Oh, some of my friends got some great shots. I hope I can upload them here soon.

As for the recording ... um. Hm. Fail, I think. I recorded one SSSC tune, and the whole of NIN and JA's sets, but when I listened to it later, it really is just so bass-y and distorted, it'll take some real audio-manipulation to get it to sound right.

I will work on that, but I left my connector cord up in KC (DOH!) so I can't even get it on the computer today. Fuck.

Post by **hydro** » Fri May 29, 2009 11:17 am

seriously the best review ive ever read!!
Im so happy for you that you got to hear the songs that you had hoped for,gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes!!
Thank you Mudget for typing all that up to share with us

Mudget · Post by **Mudget** » Fri May 29, 2009 12:03 pm

Thanks Hydro! Wow thanks for taking the time to read it!

I am long-winded.

Mudget · Post by **Mudget** » Fri May 29, 2009 1:45 pm

I did not record these, just found them on YouTube.

Street Sweeper Social Club

The Oath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QotfWARzbs

Nobody Move
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_DmNa3fa5A

Paper Planes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBY1yzs2YZk

Promenade
(Tom Morello, OMG)
(this is the song i didn't know the name of but needed to find out. found out. note louis gosset jr. usher nodding head along and andy dick drumming. but mainly - tom morello. omfg.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYfuNpGOOu0

Nine Inch Nails

Now I'm Nothing/Terrible Lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqRt8-BUqqQ

March of the Pigs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdzoMu8K7_4

The Frail/The Wretched
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8AvKcOaeAE

Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1he8ghIpCas

Jane's Addiction

Small clip of Three Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5tZv9E67nI

Clip of the end of Three Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEQFwj9-Nc

Clip of the end of Pigs in Zen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfDtFNHnkwI

Ain't No Right (clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxYbzhBDFg

Mountain Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxaX9E2eiwM

Been Caught Stealing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20EGUr-N5_k

Ted, Just Admit It (with Perry rant about suicide and fucking girls all the way to Chicago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH1Ro0ZBpqM

most of Ocean Size (at the end - Perry talks about taking a fall)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IC5orO2qt0

Stop! (Hi-Def) ("It's okay, it's all in a day's work")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPDh1yg-ilE

Jane Says (follows the Stop clip perfectly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-QJ7wJUoQ

Can't wait to see Had a Dad, Whores, Then She Did. They'll turn up.

ESFOS · Post by **ESFOS** » Fri May 29, 2009 3:50 pm

Post by **hydro** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:58 am

**WARNING** may make you scream,cry,feel pain or fall deeper in love or all the above
F*%K this is not easy to watch but just shows Perry is the Man!!

"Ocean Size"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4hrouaJeU

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:01 pm

WOW Mudget!

I finally had time to read your review.
Matter of fact I've read it twice now and I'm blown away.
You have great command of the english language and are able to put your thoughts into writing in a way I really wish I could.

Bravo and thank you!

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:35 pm

hydro wrote:**WARNING** may make you scream,cry,feel pain or fall deeper in love or all the above
F*%K this is not easy to watch but just shows Perry is the Man!!

"Ocean Size"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4hrouaJeU

Holy shit that definitely looked like it freaking hurt!

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:39 pm

Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction: Thunderous rock at Starlight

By TIMOTHY FINN
The Kansas City STar

It was billed as a reunion show and a farewell tour.

Nine Inch Nails is reportedly calling it quits after 20-plus years (at least that’s what Trent Reznor says), and Jane’s Addiction is saying hello again after a hiatus of almost five years. The bands famously toured together on the first Lollapalooza in 1991. So there was some nostalgia in the air.

This was also one of those co-headlining shows, which meant someone had to go first. On Wednesday night at Starlight Theatre, that was Nine Inch Nails, who took the stage well before the light of a cool gray day had disappeared. As expected, they proved to be a tough act to follow.

Those who attended the NIN show in Columbia in November had to adjust their expectations. That tour included some of the most spectacular video and visual displays ever shown at a rock show. For this show, Reznor and the band brought nothing but some strobe lights and their instruments. The stripped-down approach turned the focus more heavily on the band, which was fierce, and Reznor’s songs, which can be a fantastic mix of the hard and heavy along with some melody and industrial groove.

They opened with something vintage, “Terrible Lie” from “Pretty Hate Machine,” then spent the next 75 minutes or so revisiting the diverse NIN catalog. The highlights: the band itself, especially Reznor, who played guitar and keys all night and reasserted himself as one of the more dynamic frontmen in rock.

He didn’t say much — he declared it wouldn’t rain (and it didn’t, for the most part) and issued a few genuine and humble thank-yous to the crowd. And he said goodbye as if he meant it.

Otherwise, he let his band (Robin Finck, Justin Meldal-Johnsen and Ilan Rubin), his own playing and his songs do the talking. Some spoke louder than others, such as “The Wretched,” “Survivalism,” “The Hand That Feeds You” and “Head Like a Hole.” He finished with “Hurt,” which prompted an outbreak of raised cell phones, turning Starlight into a bowl of bobbing lights.

After a relatively brief stage makeover, Jane’s Addiction entered with some fanfare: A screen in front of the stage showed some film footage, including a scene from the movie “The River Wild,” in which Kevin Bacon talks about his Lollapalooza hat.

From there, the band segued into “Three Days,” launching a set that lasted about 85 minutes and included pretty much everything most fans came to hear, which ended up being the brightest highlights: “Summertime Rolls, ” “Mountain Song, ” “Been Caught Stealing” and “Jane Says.” The crowd also went batty after “Ted, Just Admit It….” The difference in music style and presentation was jarring at first: JA is much more psychotropic than NIN and much jammy-er (the first track lasted about 10 minutes and included a brief drum solo); and Perry Farrell is much more theatrical than Reznor. (OK, he’s a male diva.) JA also brought more visual (and vocal) effects.

But the band, especially drummer Stephen Perkins, is just as fierce. Dave Navarro was in chest-bared rock-star pose most of the night and drawing plenty of attention from the fawning mob up front, tossing off solos like he was throwing change at the homeless.

Farrell wore a glossy gold suit and danced/pranced and hopped around the stage. He also made it clear he knew where he was, addressing the crowd as “Missouri” and invoking the “Show Me” nickname several times.

While dismounting the stage late in the show, he slipped and fell on his rear. He recovered during that song. But before the encore, he pretended he was a P.A. announcer and told the crowd he’d been paralyzed during the fall and the show was over. He re-emerged, confessing: “I’m not gonna lie. That hurt ….”

They ended with an unplugged/acoustic version of “Jane Says,” in which Navarro and bassist Eric Avery took seats and strummed acoustic guitars while Perkins provided some light percussion. For a night that included so much thunder, it turned out to be a relatively mellow but satisfying ending.

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SETLISTS
NIN: Terrible Lie, Discipline, March of the Pigs, The Wretched, Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now), The Becoming, Burn, Gave Up, Echoplex, The Fragile, The Way Out Is Through, Wish, Survivalism, Physical (You’re So), The Hand That Feeds, Head Like a Hole, Hurt.

Jane’s Addiction: Three Days, Whores, Ain’t No Right, Pigs in Zen, Then She Did, Mountain Song, Had a Dad, Been Caught Stealing, Ted, Just Admit It …, Ocean Size, Summertime Rolls, Stop!, Jane Says.

http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment ... 23631.html

Mudget · Post by **Mudget** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:22 am

Nothing's Shocking wrote:WOW Mudget!

I finally had time to read your review.
Matter of fact I've read it twice now and I'm blown away.
You have great command of the english language and are able to put your thoughts into writing in a way I really wish I could.

Bravo and thank you!

Thanks a lot, NS

Very kind.

Sometimes it's ok to be long-winded. hehe

As for that fall - yeah, owch - he went right into that monitor. Perry Farrell is the ultimate rock frontman.... just kept on going. Motherfucking took that pain.