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Re: The NINE INCH NAILS Thread
A new press photo of the band. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first press photo of this line-up.
It makes me laugh a little. The all-in-black tough guy looks. Anyways, it goes: Robin Finck, Trent Reznor, Josh Freese, Alessandro Cortini, Justin Meldal-Johnson.
Re: The NINE INCH NAILS Thread
If memory serves me correctly, this is THE first real promo band pic in Finck's career.
Cool that Trent seems to be giving these guys a bit more breathing room. Its not ALL about Trent now.
Also serves to say that Finck is going to be in NIN for a while.
Great for him. His talent deserves to be touring the country putting on amazing shows and releasing music. 
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Re: The NINE INCH NAILS Thread
A new nin.com forum on the way
Hello everyone, it's Rob from nin.com. With everything that's been going on, the process of upgrading the official site has taken far longer than we'd hoped, but the good news is our developers are about ready to launch a public beta of the first wave of new features for nin.com. Since we're launching a new public community, I wanted to get the information out to this forum in addition to The Spiral. I'll be posting the URLs for the public beta in this thread as soon as they're ready. In the meantime, here's a brief introduction to what's going to be happening with the site:
What you'll have access to shortly are the first pieces of a very ambitious vision of nin.com that is going to take a while to come together, but will ultimately be incredibly cool. Here's some info:
PROFILES: Your new nin.com profile is a customizable page with a modular design, allowing us to easily add new profile features as nin.com grows. Aside from the usual editable information and photo, your profile can currently display remixes you've contributed and rated at remix.nin.com, and will eventually display photos, videos, blog posts, which shows you've attended or plan to attend, and a lot more.
FORUMS: We're starting a brand new forum from scratch - a public forum, unlike the private Spiral boards. It ties in seamlessly with your profiles and the rest of nin.com, unlike the clunky double-login at The Spiral. We've stripped the forum of almost everything except basic functionality, so it's a nice clean environment for discussion - I'm sure we'll eventually add some more bells and whistles as the community grows, but for now we're going to keep it simple and see how it goes.
CHAT: Our developers have set up an IRC server that can be accessed through any IRC client of your choice, or through a great Flash frontend that displays profiles and avatars from nin.com. The server is locked to nin.com's user database, assuring a unified community with the rest of the site, and also assuring that if a band member decides to drop in there, you'll know it's them.
This is all just the beginning. The next phase of the site is an expanded tour database which will allow you to post photos and videos for specific shows, past and present, which can be tagged and rated by the community. You'll be able to see which other users attended past shows, or are planning to attend future shows. Eventually everything around the site will begin to be united with tags and wiki entries, using a non-linear database that lets you have an experience like this one: You click on a past tour date. Amidst photos, videos, and reviews for that show, you also see a set list and other wiki information. You click on Terrible Lie in the set list. You then see wiki information for Terrible Lie, including lyrics and release notes, and you can also see every show that Terrible Lie was ever performed at, and every video of Terrible Lie live that's been contributed to the site. From there you could browse every forum post that mentioned Terrible Lie, or see all the remixes of Terrible Lie from the remix site. That's just an example, and it's a long way off, but you get the idea.
All of this is going to be achieved through aggregation of data from pre-existing services, like Flickr and YouTube. When we launch the photo section, you'll associate your nin.com account with your Flickr account (we'll probably have support for other photo services, as well). Then, if you took photos at a specific show, check that show's unique ID on nin.com and tag all your Flickr photos with that unique ID. Those photos will then show up in nin.com's tour database, posted by your nin.com username. Although hosted by Flickr, the photos will be displayed in nin.com's shell, and will be separately rated, tagged, and commented by the nin.com community. Videos and blog entries will work more or less the same way. This allows us work seamlessly with popular services you probably already use, and to display an unlimited amount of content on nin.com without the nightmare of huge bandwidth costs or developing proprietary technologies. In the end, we're envisioning the ultimate resource for Nine Inch Nails media and information on the internet - most of it created, organized, and rated by the fan community. This is of course a monumental task for our small team of developers, so you're going to see the site develop bit by bit over time - but each upgrade will bring a host of new features to play with.
One more thing: We need some new moderators for both chat and the forums. If you're interested, send me a PM with some information about yourself, your nin.com username, and whether you're interested in forums or chat. If there is someone you think would make a great moderator, nominate them by PMing me their username on this board, and why you think they'd be great. We're looking for responsible, mature, fair individuals who want to help keep the new community organized, peaceful, and running smoothly.
Watch this thread for the link to the beta forums once they're open! Also, please keep this information contained within this community and The Spiral for now - as in, don't quote this on your blogs or other sites. We want to keep the beta launch at least somewhat contained until we get all the bugs worked out. Thanks!
I bolded the part that is the coolest to me. This is a PUBLIC forum, not like The Spiral which was private and you had to pay for. This sounds cool if it can get off the ground. One of the bigger draw-backs to NIN has been their website - they update it regularly and it looks decent, but it never ran real well. And downloading Ghosts was hell in a handbasket.
Re: The NINE INCH NAILS Thread
This tour is never gonna end. Safe to say Finck said bye bye to the GNR games....
10.28.08 Orlando, FL UCF Arena (map) on sale: TBA
10.29.08 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena (map) on
10.31.08 Nashville, TN Sommet Center (map) on sale: TBA
11.01.08 Greenville, SC Bi-Lo Center (map) on sale: TBA
11.03.08 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex (map) on sale:
11.05.08 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena (map) on sale: TBA
11.08.08 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena (map) on sale: tba
11.09.08 Worchester, MA DCU Center (map) on sale: click here
11.11.08 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place (map) on sale: TBA
11.12.08 Montreal, QC Bell Centre (map) on sale: TBA
11.14.08 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum (map) on sale: TBA
11.15.08 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena (map) on sale: TBA
11.17.08 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center (map) on sale: TBA
11.18.08 Fort Wayne, IN Memorial Coliseum (map) on sale: TBA
11.20.08 Cedar Rapids, IA US Cellular Center (map) on sale: TBA
11.21.08 Columbia, MO Mizzou Arena (map) on sale: TBA
11.22.08 Tulsa, OK BOK Center (map) on sale: 23 Aug 08
11.25.08 Minneapolis, MN Target Center (map) on sale: click here
11.26.08 Council Bluffs, IA Mid-America Center (map) on sale: TBA
11.28.08 Rapid City, SD Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Arena (map) on sale:
11.29.08 Billings, MT MetraPark Arena (map) on sale: TBA
12.01.08 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre (map) on sale: TBA
12.04.08 Kelowna, BC Prospera Place (map) on sale: TBA
12.05.08 Victoria, BC Save On Foods Memorial Centre (map) on sale:
12.07.08 Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena (map) on sale: TBA
12.08.08 Nampa, ID Idaho Center (map) on sale: TBA
12.12.08 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena (map) on sale: TBA
12.13.08 Las Vegas, NV Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino (map)
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I'm gonna sell my Oakland tickets and go to the Sac show instead. Arco is my favorite arena, and I always wind up spending money I don't have on trips to the Bay area.
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Re: The NINE INCH NAILS Thread
No Buffalo or Rochester shows. Boo! Oh well, they played Toronto and they're going to do Hamilton, so I guess that counts for them being close enough. After this, they may leave NA and hit SA or Europe like they did in 07.
Long ass tour, though.
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Re: The NINE INCH NAILS Thread
^ Did you not even check the top of the page? C'mon sic, that's a rookie mistake!
