Friday, March 17, 2006
Nine Inch Nails comes With Teeth to Tullio Arena
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By Jerry Pohl
humor editor
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A crowd of over 4000. including some
Behrend students. packed into the Erie
Civic Center to see Nine NA Nails last
Tuesday. The work began at 11 p.m. the
night before when the civic center crew
started con‘ertimi the Tullio Arena from
a hockey game setup to a concert venue.
They finished at 7 a.m., an hour before
the Nine Inch Nails road crew arrived.
The doors opened at 6:20 p.m. and the
opening act, poet Saul Williams, started
promptly at 7:30 p.m. The 25 minute set
ended at 7:55 before a 40 minute inter
mission. Sonic. of the fans in attendance
that night were caked with makeup,
appearing Emo or Goth, while others
decided to "be that guy" and wore NIN
shirts to the concert. The hand took the
stage at 8:35 p.m.: Josh Freese on drums,
Alessandro Corti on synthesizer, guitar,
and bass, Jordie White on guitar and bass,
Aaron North on guitar, and front man
Trent Ketnor.
The lighting was innovative, layered
and complex, using strobes, spots, towers
of colored bulbs and smoke machines to
enhance the visual effects. The use of sil
houettes on curtains cast giant shadows,
as though the band members were in a
backlit aquarium. At times, the lights
were pointed at the audience, flooding
them with the brightness. Detailed visu
als appeared on one giant screen behind
the hand and several smaller shaped LED
screens. The crowd on the floor was
jumping in the air. moshing, pumping
fists in the air as well as smoking ciga
rettes and marijuana. Few in the stands
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stayed seated for long, as the music
brought fans to their feet, jumping and
dancing. Throughout the show clothing
was thrown on stage and kicked back to
the audience.
Trent opened with "Mr. Self Destruct,"
getting the crowd excited for the show to
come. He then launched into the classic
hits "Sin" and "Terrible Lie." The first
song off the new album, With Teeth, was
"The Line Begins To Blur," followed by
the shout-filled "March of the Pigs" with
static and lines on LED screens. The
crowd held up lighters during the emo
tional "Something I Can Never Have. -
During "Closer," arguably Trent's most
popular song, started out on a platform
near the rear of the stage, eventually
coming to the front, as all screens were
filled with red clouds. The above lighting
tilted downward into a new position dur
ing "Burn. - a song from the "Natural
Born Killers" soundtrack.
After "Gave Up, - the curtain from the
beginning of the show returned for the
use of a video projector during ",raser,"
which featured video of microbes, biolo
gy, nature, war, money, oil, happy,people
and businessmen. In tune to "Right
Where It Belongs," the audience was
shown video of X-rays, animals and
humans, suburbs, dancing, war, dying
flowers, and George W. Bush. Abstract
images hit the curtain for "Beside You In
Time," near the end of the song, Trent
struck this image with microphone stand,
shattering it and removing the curtain.
During "Piggy," Trent got off stage and
close to the audience, as he did several
times that night.
After performing "Wish," Trent then
talked to the audience, saying that he is
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often asked in interviews where the pain,
anger, angst and depression in his music
comes from. He told the audience he
responds by saying "I spent 18 years in
Pennsylvania." This comment was greet
ed with cheers as Trent hegan the recent
single - Only," with slew static on screens
that zoomed in to pixilaty n as the song
progressed. Next was the upcoming sin
gle "Every Day Is Exactly The Same,"
featuring a barren landscape on the big
screen. Trent played tambourine during
that song and threw it into the audience
when he was through. At other times dur
ing the show, Trent threw the microphone
stand, bottled water, and guitar picks at
the crowd. At the end of Trent's perform
ance of "Reptile" he added the lyric
"Please don't hurt me." Trent then played
his only non-original song of the night
with "Dead Souls" by Joy Division,
describing it by saying "This is a song I
wish I wrote." As he did at several points
in the show, Trent began playing a new
guitar during the song "Suck."
During the crowd favorite, "Hurt,"
Trent played keyboard front and center as
the. audience brought their lighters out
again. During the chorus, the fans sang
along en masse, and some cheered during
the silent portions. Trent then brought the
excitement back up, imitating rhythmic
clapping in the crowd during "The Hand
That Feeds. - Trent closed the show with
"Head Like A Hole," leaving nearly two
hours on stage. The building emptied
quickly and Nine Inch Nails was packed
up and leaving town within hours.
Anyone who missed the show can see
Nine Inch Nails again at the end of June
when they perform in Cleveland and
Pittsburgh.
A piece of Behrend Greek Life history
was destroyed last week when the
original Sigma Kappa Nu Fraternity
house was demolished. The EKN
Fraternity, established in 1983, was
the first Greek organization chartered
on the Behrend campus and still exists
today in a different chapter house.
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Spring Break-ers discover disaster
By Keith Golembiewski
staff writer
krgso23o_l)psu.edu
Six spring breakers who
were looking for an exciting
and relaxing experience are
turned down by their hotel. In
frequent spring break party
spot and hot spring break des
tination North Mrtyle Beach,
South Carolina. Penn State
Erie student Rohan Ramanna,
one of the spring breakers,
explains "We booked our
reservations over the internet
a week in advance with Avista
Hotels and we planned on
staying down there for four
nights". The group of students
planned to take a Greyhound
bus to Myrtle Beach, which
came to $177 round trip for all
the students. Also, the hotel
rooms were going to cost them
$5OO costing the six $677 in
total. Everything was planned
and prepared in advance, but
the group ended up dealing
with much more than they bar
gained for.
Once they reached their
hotel, they were turned away
and denied their reservations.
The clerk told them they
would not allow anyone under
the age of 25 to rent out a
hotel room even though no
prior warning was issued on
the website or in brochures
which were readily available
in the hotel's lobby. Rami
Audeh, one of six spring
breakers said, "We were treat
ed pretty badly and unprofes
sionally by the staff". One
clerk was being very rude
until the manager helped find
a cheaper hotel to stay in.
Avista Hotels couldn't explain
why there were no warnings
on the website or brochures
that a party had to be at least
25 years of age. The students
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later found out that the hotel
had been denying reservations
to others who were under 25.
The frustrated group found a
hotel after two hours of hassle.
Explains Audeh, "Our first
hotel was really cheap, dirty
and nothing that we had
expected. The people were
nice but it wasn't what we
really wanted." While dealing
with the, complication of
things the group decided to go
for a walk to get some lunch.
They stopped at a hot dog
stand named the "Hot Diggity
Dog" and started to have a
conversation with the owner
of the food stand about their
reservations falling through at
Avista. The owner told them to
head over to the Ocean Drive
Hotel and mention his name to
get a new place to stay. The
Ocean Drive Hotel, which was
much nicer, was fairly similar
to the Avista Hotel, so they
leaped on the opportunity.
After speaking with the
clerks at Ocean Drive, they
were finally able to get a nice
place to stay along the beach.
Ramanna explained, "After we
checked in and got to our new
rooms, we were ecstatic. We
finally felt like we accom
plished our goal. The rooms
were located along the beach
front and also included a wrap
around balcony. It was a three
room suite that fitted six, plus
it came with two televisions, a
microwave, a stove, and even
kitchenware." The only other
disappointment was the
weather, which was in the low
60s preventing them from
swimming in the ocean.
Instead, they swam in an
indoor pool and relaxed in the
Jacuzzi. Everyone agreed that
their favorite memory was
munching out at seafood buf
fets.