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Stage Presence

jallenbass

jallenbass

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May 17, 2005
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#1
Justin

The first time that I saw you play was with Beck on SNL a long time ago. Your physical energy was all over your side of the stage. It certainly got my attention. In recent videos you seem more subdued. What are your thoughts on how you present yourself in a concert?
 
#4
Hard for me to speak on this subjectively, but I will try. Well, with NIN it was sometimes decidedly more low key, but in a specific way that also had intensity. Circumstances are different. The NIN persona for instance calls for a wildly different temperament than the Beck persona. Times during NIN were extremely animated, but with a greater intensity that comes across darker/more reserved. I think you'd have to look through a bunch more NIN footage to see the range of what I did there. With Beck of yore, or my own band Ima Robot I feel/felt far more loose and easy to be a freak. Totally different scene.
 
#5
If I may offer my own observation, which agrees with what JMJ said, it would be that there is no lack of "stage presence" with NIN. I'm glad he wasn't walking around the stage being random with NIN, but he was absolutely a huge part of the live show, with awesome presence and not low key in any way, shape or form. This is from having watched literally the entire concert.
 
#6
OK, on the subject of stage presence and NIN I must know something. In Pittsburgh, NINJA concert, Trent yanked over the PolyEvolver after the solo in The Becoming. I cried a little keyboard tear when it happened, but it looked awesome. There were all the eBay auctions after the tour and it seemed like there were quite a few PolyE's and loads of extra keys...

Was that a "show moment" on the tour? It would be really fun to be afforded an opportunity to calculatedly destroy gear on stage to the thunderous applauds of your fans. Ha ha ha!!
 
#7
Lorenzini said:
If I may offer my own observation, which agrees with what JMJ said, it would be that there is no lack of "stage presence" with NIN. I'm glad he wasn't walking around the stage being random with NIN, but he was absolutely a huge part of the live show, with awesome presence and not low key in any way, shape or form. This is from having watched literally the entire concert.
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I think the "When in Rome" rule applies here.
 
#9
Talk about intense moments at SNL - I sat front row, center stage in the balcony (right in front of the musical guest). Basically, I had Henry Rollins, dressed only in gym shorts, staring directly at me while he yelled angry things into the microphone.
I was afraid to break eye contact.
That was like 13 years ago, and I was just getting over it - until you brought up SNL again - thanks.
 

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