I saw Nine Inch Nails + Meat Beat Manifesto...
And Dudes Fell From the Balcony!by Benjamin Holcomb on 16. Jun, 2009 | 4 Comments
Performer: Nine Inch Nails + Meat Beat Manifesto Venue: St. Andrew's Hall Year: 1990 City: Detroit State: Michigan Country: United States
Nine Inch Nails (1990)
I don’t remember a lot about this show, except the following:
1) A Sea of Black clothes
2) Sweat. Lots and lots of sweat
3) Some jackass imitating Eddie Vedder by doing the backwards “dead fall” from the balcony into the crowd.
OK, #3 was actually pretty cool. I, myself, have a dubious history of crowd-involved histrionics (see my earlier blog about the Transvision Vamp show… sigh). But this dude, the one at the NIN show, was just fearless.
I am very happy I saw this early show, as I also had tickets for NIN opening up for Peter Murphy the following year, but I ended up in the hospital on the day of the show… I hate that I missed that show! I also enjoyed NIN at Lollapalooza in ‘92, but that’s just not the same thing as seeing such a cool band in a tiny venue like St. Andrew’s Hall.
Oh! One other memory: When opening act Meat Beat Manifesto took the stage, some dude was dancing around the stage, dressed like a giant crocodile. Or dinosaur. Or maybe Barney. I don’t think it was Jack Dangers, but it might have been. Pretty funny, looking back.
straightinat37
Jun 17th, 2009
Add me to the list of people who was at this show. I had totally forgotten about the dancing dino / croc thing, WOW.
WorldsGreatestToys
Jun 17th, 2009
How cool is that?! Do you remember the dude diving off the balcony, too?
p.s. LOVE the username… big ups to The Beautiful South!
straightinat37
Jun 17th, 2009
I don’t remember the balcony dive, could have been making out with my hot gothy girlfriend.
Thanks, I’ve been using it for years. One band I never saw live that I will always be bummed about.
WorldsGreatestToys
Jun 17th, 2009
LOL. Totally. TBS are the best live… I’ve been fortunate to see them several times, the *best* being in Detroit as they supported “0898″ (around ‘92, I recall). It’s the only time I saw them WITH Brianna Corrigan doing background vocals! I have that ticket stub, so I’ll definitely post a blog about the show.
Do you have any Stella Katsoudis (sp?) ephemera?! I’d love to see that posted here!