Monday, 3/08/10

This One Is On Us presents: Another Version of the Truth - Las Vegas

From thisoneisonus.org:

Las Vegas is the final part of the Another Version of the Truth collection, and is exclusively community-created.




Filmed entirely by fans and co-ordinated by Alex Gamble, this release saw the community fly in from around the world, donate technology, skill, and even airfare (fans raised money to send chaonatic, a valued taper, to the concert) to document the final performance of Nine Inch Nails' stunning 2008 tour. Over 200GB of footage was collected, which was meticulously edited together by a team comprising of people from all over the world.




This disc is available in a variety of formats including:

Over the coming weeks people from across the community will create several more formats for their peers. Please check here for any further download options. Please seed releases for as long as possible



More details about this and other ThisOneIsOnUs releases can be found here

PDF booklet and artwork for the Another Version of the Truth collection can be found here

Reported by icklekitty at 17:38

Stage casualty Fragility guitar might actually sell for less than $9000

Fragility GuitarAnother small batch of NIN tour items is up on eBay again, including a busticated Fragility Guitar (pictured), custom keyboard stands from recent tours, some cymbals, and another hypersonic extremely-directional speaker. This stuff never gets old to me.

Reported by leviathant at 12:09

Monday, 3/01/10

New batch of NIN gear on eBay slightly more affordable, less interesting

Amongst the drum sticks, guitar stands, and drum cases, there are still a few gems, like this Dave Smith Instruments Evolver, and the standard-issue already over $1000 guitar. There are also a few stage casualty guitars, although is actually repairable. Some of this stuff isn't quite as exciting as, say, a Fragility guitar, but they're certainly more affordable. See the whole pile of 'em on eBay. Happy hunting!

Reported by leviathant at 16:34

Saturday, 2/27/10

Download patches from the NIN Nord Modular

Hotline ImageHotline ImageOne of the items that I bid on a few months ago during the ongoing NIN eBay yard sale was a functional, if slightly damaged Nord Modular. As luck would have it, the high bidder was one Jesse Jensen of The J Directorate, who very kindly took the time to grab the patches off of the Nord Mod, zipped them up, and sent them to us to share. He had the following to say about the process and the patches:

After a fair amount of technical problems (ancient midi systems!), I finally got the patches off the synth. The bad(?) news is that it was most definitely Clouser's live synth, which means there's not much of interest there - the starfuckers patch, for example, is a pretty basic vocoder setup, as described in the Fragile-era keyboard magazine interview - but it is interesting to open it up and take a look nonetheless!

"Yeah, yeah, where can I get those patches?" Right here! Hope you Nord owners out there enjoy!

In somewhat related news, another member of the NIN community got in touch after being the high bidder on this "14 song comp reel" promo DVD, which is unique in that it's the only 'official' DVD I think I've seen from Universal with all these NIN videos (through AATCHB) in one place. If all goes well, he'll be sending scans to NINcatalog.com, and will be uploading the DVD ISO image somewhere so you can grab it if you'd like.

Reported by leviathant at 03:23

Thursday, 2/25/10

Motion City Soundtrack to cover Nine Inch Nails at Hoodwink Festival

live4music wrote in to let us know that the band Motion City Soundtrack will be doing a Nine Inch Nails cover set at their appearance at the Hoodwink Festival.

Reported by ItsJustDave at 18:43

Monday, 2/22/10

"Trash" drum set, custom keyboard stands on eBay

nin ebay auctionsWhen Nine Inch Nails performed tracks from the Ghosts album on tour, Josh Freese had a very large array of percussion instruments to work with. Besides his standard drum kit, he had a 'junk' kit, which apparently had a water cooler bottle, frying pan, a beer bucket, a mailbox, a trash can or two, and even a wash bin.

Well, these kit pieces have hit the auction block, along with keyboards, custom keyboard stands, guitars (including the last unbroken Gibson Les Paul Classic 1960 Reissue in the lot), and a whole pile of cymbals.

You can find the whole list here, or simply check out the sidebar on your right, which automatically populates with NIN ebay auctions as they come up. Good luck!

Reported by leviathant at 01:12

Monday, 2/15/10

Narrowcasting speaker, mixer, guitars, miscellany listed on eBay

nine inch nails ebay auctionThe great NIN yard sale continues, and this batch has the usual cadre of guitars, a 32-channel Mackie mixer, and perhaps most interestingly, a Hypersound model H, a VERY directional speaker, which may not have been used in concert, but was mentioned in interviews as a possible vector for broadcasting (narrowcasting, really) Year Zero ARG clues to individual people in a crowd.

As usual, we're syndicating the auctions in our sidebar to the right, and I believe they're sorted by which item's newest. Good luck!

Reported by leviathant at 15:42

Tuesday, 2/09/10

Where's Waldo? New studio photo uploaded to nin.com

We're pretty sure they're not hiding anything in the details of the photo this time, but that's not going to stop you from looking, is it? The patch cables are out in full force again, and there's an out-of-focus shot on Nine Inch Nails' website documenting that. Thanks to Josh and TrooperThorn for writing in so quickly on this one, and I kind of stole the headline idea from juniperus' Twitter post.

Reported by leviathant at 16:07

Saturday, 2/06/10

Wikipedia features Ghosts I-IV today

Sometime last night, the front page of Wikipedia (in English) posted their featured article for the day: Ghosts I-IV. Congratulations are in order for Drewcifer3000 and everyone involved in editing together another article to the standards required to make it to the front page of Wikipedia.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know!

Reported by leviathant at 16:20

Friday, 2/05/10

Believer Magazine interviews Trent Reznor

In this month's issue of the typically great 'magazine' (quotes around magazine because Believer has no photos and maybe has three ads in an issue) The Believer, Brandon Bussolini publishes an interview with Trent Reznor that took place on the night of the final Nine Inch Nails show. The preceeding link has an excerpt of the article, but for the full text, you're going to have to grab a copy online, or (preferably) seek out a print copy at a bookseller near you.

Reported by leviathant at 20:59

Thursday, 2/04/10

Ghosts Limited Edition on sale - wait, no, sold out

The nine inch nails twitter account just announced that a very limited number of copies of the $300 Ghosts Boxed set are for sale at the nin:ghosts website. "These had been held aside from the original run of 2500 for promotional use, but we did not end up needing them. Yes, they are signed." They may also be sold out by the time you read this. The last copy of this that sold on eBay went for $400... this is as cheap as a new copy will probably ever come. Good luck!

Update: Within a half hour, this new-old-stock of Ghosts LE boxed sets sold out.

Reported by leviathant at 15:46

Wednesday, 2/03/10

TOIOU and RITC present: Lights in the Sky - rehearsals DVD

Following on from the exclusive footage found on Another Version of the Truth: Bonus comes 30 minutes of never before seen footage from the Lights in the Sky rehearsals show at the LA Forum.

On July 19th 2008, Nine Inch Nails kicked off their Lights In The Sky with a very intimate performance in front of a small crowd of less than 300 lucky fans.

Security was very tight, as Trent didn't want to spoil the surprise of the great visuals effects, which he knew would be all over YouTube minutes after the first official show. We managed to uncover extremely rare, partial HD footage of this show. We used some of it as backup footage on Vegas, and now we're making it all available to you guys.
- Ash512, Editor

Put together by Ash512 and distributed by our friends at Reflecting in the Chrome (head over for a full summary of the DVD) this is the first longform high quality representation of the show in the public domain.

DVD TORRENT LINK

Youtube

Reported by icklekitty at 15:25

Monday, 2/01/10

This One Is On Us presents AVOTT : Bonus

ThisOneIsOnUs.org has recently released the Bonus disc to Another Version Of The Truth in a variety of formats.

This disc of extra material contains a lot of never-before-seen footage which we made a lot of effort to gather over the last year. You'll find a making-of featurette, TV interviews, bonus songs that aren't either on The Gift of Vegas, Alternate/Deleted visuals, and much, much more.

Here is an example of the stuff you can find on it. Rob Sheridan posted on ETS about this original idea they had for the visuals of The Hand That Feeds, which was performed only once. We managed to collect great HD footage of it:



#avottbonus is available in three formats:

    DVD-Torrent - SD-DVD image file with all bonus content plus easter eggs that are exclusive to this format.


    iPod - All bonus content in a continuous file separated by chapter markes.


    YouTube Playlist - All content, many of which is in HD. The playlist also includes a 30 minutes featurette documenting the very first show of the Lights In The Sky, the private rehearsal in Los Angeles. The feature is exclusive to YouTube


Look out for the release of the final disc of AVOTT, "Vegas", on February 25th.

Reported by ash512 at 15:23

Tuesday, 1/26/10

Exclusive Q+A with Moment Factory

A little update from ThisOneIsOnUs.org,

On March 19th 2010, we will be holding a quite unique screening of "Another Version Of The Truth" in Montréal, Québec, at L'Hémisphère Gauche. For the occasion, we're pleased to announce we will have special guests straight from Moment Factory.

If you remember correctly, Moment Factory are the tech wizards behind the Lights In The Sky tour's incredible video system which allowed the band actual interactivity with the video content, something no one had ever done in a touring rock show.

After the screening, we will be holding a 30 minutes interview with the kind folks of MF. We will be asking them your questions. You may submit your questions right now at avott.montreal@gmail.com

The interview will be recorded in its entierety and will subsequently be available on YouTube and possibly as a DVD-Torrent on ThisOneIsOnUs.org.

You may remember the short documentary featurette the company previously released on YouTube a while ago. Well, about a year ago I contacted them because I was trying to gather bonus material for AVOTT, and they generously gave us an exclusive HD copy of an extended cut of that same documentary. This 9 minutes version is featured on our Bonus Disc, to be released over the next few days as a digital download. In order to motivate your imagination and hopefully produce relevant questions, here is that documentary.



We're eagerly awaiting your questions. You can check out other screenings of AVOTT around the world on our screenings page. And look out for the release of the bonus disc on Twitter, which will feature more of the same kind of amazing stuff.

EDIT : While we prepare the DVD torrent, all of the bonus material is currently being added to YouTube. Use this playlist.

Reported by ash512 at 15:53

Friday, 1/22/10

Video for "The Passenger" remix from the Book of Eli Soundtrack

Hot on the heels of our feature on the Book of Eli Soundtrack, I've received a link to this video of a previously unremix of the track "The Passenger", with visuals by Rupert Sanders, whose work you may have seen somewhat recently in the form of those gritty live-action Halo 3 ODST commercials. If you pre-order the vinyl copy of the album from BookOfEliMusic.com, you'll get a digital copy of this remix. (Don't say it, I know what you're thinking.) The vinyl edition of the soundtrack comes out February 16th, and is no doubt going to be a very limited run.

Without any further adieu, here's the video clip as hosted on Brightcove, so watch it while you still can.


Reported by leviathant at 12:56


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