Went to go see NIN during the week. The concert was pretty awesome and filled with tons of new material since Year Zero, Ghosts and The Slip have all been released since they last came to town. Not a good a show as the Foos, but nothing will ever be that good 
. Their stage set up had 3 super wide screens that, through the wonders of technology, were transparent. They did some pretty cool visual tricks with them like creating auras around the band members and a rainy environment. The set list was:
01 999,999 – The Slip
02 1,000,000 – The Slip
03 Letting You – The Slip
04 Discipline – The Slip
05 March of the Pigs – The Downward Spiral
06 Head Down – The Slip
07 The Frail – The Fragile
08 Closer – The Downward Spiral
09 Gave Up – Broken
10 The Warning – Year Zero
11 Vessel – Year Zero
12 Ghosts 5 – Ghosts
13 Ghosts 6 – Ghosts
14 Ghosts 19 – Ghosts
15 Piggy – The Downward Spiral
16 The Greater Good – Year Zero
17 Pinion – Broken
18 Wish – Broken
19 Terrible Lie – Pretty Hate Machine
20 Survivalism – Year Zero
21 The Big Come Down – The Fragile
22 Ghosts 31 – Ghosts
23 Only – With Teeth
24 The Hand That Feeds – With Teeth
25 Head Like A Hole – Pretty Hate Machine
26 Echoplex – The Slip
27 God Given – Year Zero
28 The Good Soldier – Year Zero
29 Hurt – The Downward Spiral
30 In This Twilight – Year Zero
spanning roughly two and a half hours. Kudos to whoever figured out the titles for the Ghost tracks, they all sound the same to me. Then again I don’t even think I’ve really listened to that album.
The ticket purchasing process was pretty cool for this show as well. Registered users of nin.com go a special presale that netted them a super sweet looking special ticket with their name on it. Hopefully I’ll remember to scan or take a picture of it soon and add it to this post for prosperity. This of course was to foil scalpers and get try fans good tickets. The sad thing was that while I was supposed to present ID to pick up the tickets and bring the credit card that was used for the purchase, they guy at the box office window didn’t care to see my ID or my credit card – he only cared about the the confirmation email printout. I didn’t even have to show ID when I used the ticket to enter the venue. I’m guessing the idea was that it would be a pain for a scalper/eBayer to sell a ticket that they didn’t have prior to the day of the show I would have loved to see them not only ask for my ID when the tickets were used but also ensuring that I entered the venue but I guess that could be somewhat ballbreaking for the legitimate concert goer.
All in all, a great experience though 
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