2009.06.05 Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ

Post by **hydro** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:59 am

Have a kick ass time everyone!!!

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:46 pm

Phillyist Playlist: Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction

Tonight, get yourself over the bridge to the Susquehanna Bank Center. Not in seventeen years have Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction shared the same stage together—and we're not talking any old conglomeration of Jane's Addiction—this is the original lineup. Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins, just as we remember them from the historic Lollapalooza festival back in '91. Adding in the NIN lineup of Trent Reznor, Robin Finck, Justin Meldal-Johnsen and newest member IIan Rubin on drums and keys makes this a rock event not to be missed.

NIN's lineup for this tour was inspired by a pair of club shows toward the end of last year's Lights in the Sky tour. They stripped down the stage, left the huge production behind, and just played the music—leaving room for some unpredictable moments throughout the show. Reznor was given the opportunity to produce Jane's Addiction's 2008 recordings after they re-formed the original lineup and from there this new tour was born. Funny, but NIN got their touring start with a series of gigs opening up for Jane's Addiction.

Support for all NIN/JA dates will be Street Sweeper, a collaboration between Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine/The Nightwatchman and Boots Riley of The Coup. Some tickets are still available but get them quickly: with the weather being so crappy, Phillyist doubts there will be too many seats left indoors.

Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction
TONIGHT, 06/05/09
7:30 p.m.
Susquehanna Bank Center
Tickets: $25-99

http://phillyist.com/2009/06/05/phillyi ... _nails.php

Christina · Post by **Christina** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:55 pm

Oh how I wish I could be there! I have a friend who is going to the NJ show tomorrow

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:14 am

Todd Newman posted a bunch of pics from tonight's show on Twitter,

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Setlist:
Three Days
Whores
Ain't No Right
Pig's In Zen
Then She Did...
Up The Beach
Mountain Song
Been Caught Stealing
Had A Dad
Ocean Size
Ted, Just Admit It...
Summertime Rolls
Stop!
Jane Says

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:27 am

Post by **Mike** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:59 pm

1% from rehearsal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP9ibSOAEbY

OzMic · Post by **OzMic** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:11 pm

Awesome Time... !!! Much Love

OzMic · Post by **OzMic** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:13 pm

Nothing's Shocking wrote:1% from rehearsal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP9ibSOAEbY

Nice !!!

Post by **Mike** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:04 pm

NINJA: A Review of Nine Inch Nails & Jane's Addiction in Concert

June 07, 2009 by Lucy Tonic

On my list of band's to see before I die, Nine Inch Nails definitely made the cut.

Although I've always been a fan of Jane's Addiction, I honestly never considered them, if only because I didn't expect to see them tour again after 2004, not to mention with an original line-up.

Well, at June 5th's show at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ, both bands blew me away, and without knowing it initially, I witnessed what just might've been the last hoorah for both genius acts.

To my surprise, Nine Inch Nails was the first to perform on this "co-headlining" tour, opening up with "Home," "The Beginning of the End," and "1,000,000."

While I was totally psyched to see Trent, I could tell that something was off with his energy. Eventually he revealed, "You super fans might notice that I have been making a lot of mistakes; my mind is on other things. I'll sing the rest of the songs extra good."

Either way, the crowd was lovin' it, immersing themselves completely in mud and sweat by mid-set.

"The Line Begins to Blur" and "The Downward Spiral" were personal highlights for me, while the last five tracks of this 20 song-long set were arguably the best of the night.

The ending of "Mr. Self Destruct" led perfectly into "The Day the World Went Away," followed up by "Physical," "The Hand That Feeds," and "Head like a Hole."
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"Bow down before the one you serve," took on new meaning coming from a mob of roaring fans, and I was extremely pleased that he closed with this song.

Reznor only played two songs from his newest album, The Slip, and I thought the song choices were appropriate ones incase NIN does decide to go on a permanent hiatus after this tour.

Trent's heaviness played out perfectly for the ethereal vibes to come....

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"At this moment, you should be with us, feeling like we do... like you loved to... but never will again..."

It was here when my heart stopped. Perry and the boys decided to open up with "Three Days," arguably the band's most epic song by any standards.

I don't think the audience was prepared to be taken to such a state of transcendence after just being rocked out of their angry heads by Reznor. Many around me were puzzled, wiping mud off their knees or shuffling to find fire for a cigarette, but there were choirs of ecstasy ringing in my head for the entire duration of this ten+ minute-long song. It was at this point where I wished I had come more prepared with visual enhancements, while Perry shared his first of many interactions with the crowd, requesting, "Let's be lovers..."

They followed up with "Whores," "Ain't No Right," and "Pigs in Zen," followed by two more of my favorites, "Then She Did..." and "Up the Beach."

"Mountain Song," "Been Caught Stealing," and "Had a Dad" helped wake up the crowd from their ignorant slumber, especially when Perry asked, "Would you follow us into Hell? ... How about Death? Would you follow us into Death?"

"Ted, Just Admit It..." was definitely the most visually enticing moment of the entire show.

Besides the already fascinating backdrop of two naked she-devils and the knowledge that this song was essentially about serial killer Ted Bundy, the band increased theatrics ten-fold by playing a series of repeating images from Natural Born Killers and other provoking stills of smoke, sex and violence, perfectly accompanying Perry's soft howl of "nothing's shocking..."

The band re-entered the stage after "Ocean Size" to perform "Summertime Rolls," and you had to be an absolute fool not to let yourself drown in Navarro's numbing guitar on this wet June evening. This romantic song of mystic proportions had strangers slow-dancing and individuals lighting joints left and right. Even so-called non-fans were swaying along, (the same ones who said they were going to leave after the NIN set.)

After revving up the crowd again with "Stop!", the band closed sweetly and softly with an acoustic-laden version of "Jane Says."

Perry's vocals were flawless and his stage presence unique and eccentric as ever; not too bad for a 50 year old. Navarro's skills and dynamic allowed him to slide up on my list of guitar heroes, while bassist Eric Avery, (who hasn't toured with the band since 91') easily stole the show.

And while most artists usually bitch about having to play in a shady area like Camden, not to mention play for a bunch of stubborn Philly fans who can make or break you, Perry and the boys handled the crowd surprisingly well, at one point stating, "We love playing here...This is a working man's town, and we are working men..."

I must say, my only disappointment of the night was Jane's Addiction not having a longer set.... and all those Trent Reznor wannabe's whining over the fact that they didn't hear "Closer."

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Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:18 am

Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction keep on rebelling

By Sam Adams
For The Inquirer

Rebellion was a hot commodity at the Susquehanna Bank Center on Friday night, as Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails raged against enemies real and imagined.
In the midst of its second reunion, Jane's Addiction has lost whatever frail sense of purpose once held it together. Prancing around a stage adorned with Italianate curlicues, singer Perry Farrell came off as a self-satisfied pied piper, canary feathers poking out of the sides of his smirking mouth.

Drawing its set almost entirely from the early '90s albums Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual (and avoiding the product of its first reunion, Strays of 2003), the band sashayed lazily through quasi-alternative hits like "Been Caught Stealing," a pro-shoplifting anthem that packages adolescent entitlement as iconoclasm. Farrell's voice was slathered in thick delay, with an onstage mixer that swallowed the song's tenuous melody and reduced it to a sour soup.

Trent Reznor, by contrast, was all business. Playing long and with far more conviction than the ostensible headliner, the Nine Inch Nails singer and mastermind took the stage in jeans and a black T-shirt strained by his massive biceps. Evidently he's been working out his angst in the weight room as well as the studio.

As recorded, Reznor's music is clattering and claustrophobic, but on stage he stripped it down to its skeleton, his three-piece band overdriving massive riffs that pierced the dry-ice smoke. Songs like "March of the Pigs" shared superficialities with Jane's Addiction's hedonist antiauthoritarianism, but Reznor's anger was more cauterizing, his targets more substantial. The chorus of "Heresy" induced a full arena to shout along with him: "God is dead and no one cares. If there is a hell, I'll see you there."

Muddling teenage pique and political protest have been a mainstay of Tom Morello's career. As the guitarist in Rage Against the Machine, and now in opener Street Sweeper Social Club, his songs proffer generic rants that could as easily be directed against stern parents as repressive regimes. The new band, at least, has a far more incisive voice at its core: The Coup's rapper Boots Riley, who galvanized early arrivals with "Fight! Smash! Win!" and a cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes." But the three-piece band's metal crunch was geared more toward head-banging than machine-smashing, its rhythms too flat to provoke real unrest.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine ... lling.html