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This is the best video version that was also reworked by Kevin C. This is the best picture you will get for this performance, unless they release the original footage they captured. Blown away by the quality of what has been called NIN's best performance.

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This is the full (and complete) version of the Woodstock 1994 performance. An audio engineer, Kevin C., has looked over the audio and has made the audio 10 times better than what it originally was. It is absolutely flawless. When you download this, you can read about his whole process of the mastering process.

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This is ripped from the pay-per-view pro-shot video. This is from the original silver CD.

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I had seen this on discogs with only a few people owning copies. Luckily, blackbookpress (who may have the biggest NIN media collection) kindly let me borrow the VHS tape to transfer. I was hoping that this would be the definitive tape that we could get our hands on. Sadly, the quality was rather potato. It looked as though Interscope also recorded this off the PPV feed. I was really hoping this would be the back haul feed recorded directly to VHS. I still find that source 1 is the best. But I wanted to add this for archival purposes. I did not even keep the transfer that I captured due to it being such poor quality.

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Taken from YouTube of an interview that has some live snippets of the performance from Dusseldorf. Broadcasted on Kanal 4 Keynote program. I am hoping that there is possibly a recording out there somewhere in Kanal 4's archive.

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Recently purchased a PAL VHS off eBay that had both the first and third night recordings on it. I initially bought it so that I could get the DAT master audio off one of the recordings. It's a bit confusing which one it is. Is the DAT master audio the first night? or the third night that is the soundboard audio? There are a lot of errors on the cover of the bootleg VHS, which was presumably bought in the Camden market. Both audio sources have some hiss to them. So I am not sure which one it really could be. The video itself is a 1st gen video of both shows. The soundboard audio is synced to this night, but the video does not sync up and drifts throughout. After listening back, this sounds the best out of all the versions of this London 94 soundboard. One thing that is off putting is that this seems to be mono sourced. But as I said, it has the least amount of tape hiss on it and sounds very clear. This video has an audience audio recording for Pinion and the encore break, which I swapped the 'Pinion' and encore break audio soundboard track from "Hammering It Home." So again, it seems like there are a few versions of this recording and I would love to find a definitive board feed of this show that would include Pinion and the encore break. Like mentioned below, the silver CDs are missing all of 'Happiness In Slavery' due to keeping it to one CD. The encore break is also truncated on this and does not include Trent's, "thank you" right before they start Dead Souls. Which I also added to this release. Makes me think this is why the video has drift issues because the audio itself is too short at points. Overall, I believe this is the most full recording of this show. If you know who may have the master tape of this soundboard recording, please get in contact. I have a few things I would swap for the definitive copy of this recording, if so. It has been noted that NIN did record all of these London Forum shows, maybe for the release of 'Closure' as I assume some of this footage did make it in to it. But I can't be certain.

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Soundboard for the third night of the 3 night run in London. Very emotional set, and great sound from the recording. This is a cassette source from the soundboard recording. There is more hiss on this recording than the silver CDs, but the good thing about this version of the soundboard recording is that it is complete. "Happiness in Slavery" does not fade out. "Pinion" and until the first beat of "Terrible Lie" is audience sourced. Then it turns into the soundboard. A better version of this must circulate somehwere. Would love to obtain it for the archive.

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Soundboard source. Both of the Silver CDs are identical, there is nothing different about them. Just the titles. Incomplete, show fades out durng the breakdown of "Happiness In Slavery." Show is full soundboard source, whereas the cassette sourced soundboard copy's of "Pinion" is audience sourced.

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Soundboard source. Both of the Silver CDs are identical, there is nothing different about them. Just the titles. Incomplete, show fades out durng the breakdown of "Happiness In Slavery." Show is full soundboard source, whereas the cassette sourced soundboard copy's of "Pinion" is audience sourced.

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Absolutely blown away by this. Someone had just sent me the setlist and event details sheet via email. I posted it to Instagram and someone who followed the page tagged the DJ (Big Gordon) and he commented, "great night, I have the mixing feed on cassette." I didn't know if he was being full of it or legit. So I messaged them. They said it was in storage and they have no way of transferring it. At this point, I just tossed it up as a loss. Probably to never be heard. Maybe a week or so later, I got another message that they had indeed transferred it years ago and it was on a hard drive! Gordon sent over the raw 24bit/44.1kHZ transfer. Here is some info Gordon could add from the night. "Just to let you know the description says mics were cutting out ... They weren't. Trent and the boys were trashing the shit out of the equipment and the pops you hear etc are the mics being bounced about on stage - they also requested an industrial sized smoke machine which would have engulfed the room with one blast so the venue had to compromise with them. A lot of gear got wrecked with water being thrown about. Honestly, if they'd have gotten the spec they wanted of fog machine it would have probably rendered everyone unconscious. - 500 cap room but an arena sized machine, haha. After the show we took them all out to a local rock club which at that time was still big on all the 80s metal etc. The gig was just incredible. Like being in a gang fight to music." Now getting to the board feed. This is the only board feed available of "Now I'm Nothing." With there being no studio version of the song, this may be the closest thing we get. The quality is incredible. I hope that one day I will have the opportunity to transfer the tape. There was a lot of hiss on the cassette that could be reduced if on a proper deck with azimuth adjustment. The set is complete. Down In It was aborted, which the soundboard recording stops during that time. I have spliced in the audience tape from this show in to this release for that break. There is more stuff out there like this, I am sure. I do know of a San Francisco 1991 soundboard that I would love to preserve. Big thanks to Gordon for sharing this and allowing me to preserve this recording for the future. 30 years on, this finally sees the light. So amazing.

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I received this FM1 copy from a european NIN trader. He got this from a person who taped this off the radio. This is a better copy than the one that is circulating around the internet at this point. The other copy of this tape was definitely sourced from a higher gen cassette. These songs also are featured on the silver CDs, "A Demon Possessed" and "Solid Gold Hell." Each one of these CDs have varying quality of these songs, or some are missing. This also includes the two part intervews with Trent. I personally think this is the best source. I hope that someone is able to transcribe what the announcer is saying in dutch? I would really appreciate it if someone could help.

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This was taken from the Silver CD "A Demon Possessed." I assume this was used as filler for the bootleg CD. This is missing "Sin" from this radio broadcast. The FM rip we have on the archive is superior to this source, it also includes the interview with Trent.

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This was taken from the Silver CD "Solid Gold Hell." This is from the same FM broadcast that I have on cassette. A few of these songs are cut at the beginning or the end of them. Hence, why the FM broadcast cassette is the superior source. Still, the sound is very good and this is more complete than "A Demon Possessed."

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Sometimes, I am not sure why I forget to add things to the archive. But this was one of them. This is the soundboard audio that was ripped from the mp4 files I received from the DC Public Library archive of NIN's show at the 9:30 Club from Teresa Stub. The club's camera operator for the in-house feed. This is the only soundboard that is in circulation from the 1991 tour rotation.

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Out of everything I have added onto the archive, this may be my absolute favorite addition up to this point. Thanks to a NIN fan who emailed me about a news article of a woman who donated a handful of video tapes she recorded at the old 9:30 club to be preserved at the DC Public Library, there were two NIN tapes from the early days in there! To make a long story short (full story is in the text file) I was able to obtain the mp4 files from the DC Public Library of these in-house feeds! The first one being the 07/11/1990 footage that you can see on NIN's vimeo page for the re-release of 'Pretty Hate Machine' a few years back. These come from the 3/4" master tapes and were digitally tranferred by a company that specialized in AV archival preservation. Sadly, this tape is a bit beat up at points with wobbling and warping in the picture. But, the video can be very clear at times and the audio is from the stereo in-house feed! There is some static and dropouts in the audio, mainly during the first two tracks and at the end of the show. In the defense of the tape, these have basically not been played since 1991! The quality is excellent for how long it has been sitting. There could be more of these shows like this out there. As it can be implied that NIN would ask venues if they could have copies of their in-house feeds. As I would assume that was how the Video Bar Dallas recording got out there. I'd like to send a huge thanks to D for sending me the email about the Washington Post article, John Kelly for writing this piece and replying to my initial email, Michele from DCPL for helping me obtain the footage for the archive from their DC Punk Archive, and of course Teresa Stubs for filming the footage every night from 9:30 Club and donating these tapes to DCPL and allowing me to host them here at NIN Live. Enjoy the footage!

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Sometimes, I am not sure why I forget to add things to the archive. But this was one of them. This is the soundboard audio that was ripped from the mp4 files I received from the DC Public Library archive of NIN's show at the 9:30 Club from Teresa Stub. The club's camera operator for the in-house feed. Sadly, the video is complete. But the audio cuts out during 'Sanctified.' Not sure what the problem was. This is NIN's earliest soundboard in circulation. Just amazing to have here. Can't believe it took so long to get out there.

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What can I say? This may be my absolute favorite addition to the Nine Inch Nails live archive to this date! The story about these tapes all started when a NIN fan sent me a link to an article in the Washington Post about a woman who had just donated a bunch of tapes to the DC Public Library and their DC Punk Archive. Her name is Teresa Stubs and because the old 9:30 club had some bad vantage points, she climbed up into this camera pod in the rafters of the club and filmed for the in-house feed almost every night! You can read the article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/video-killed-the-radio-star-but-it-enlivened-the-old-930-club/2016/01/11/2a3824a6-b7d4-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html. As she stated, most of the nights, they were just passed through an empty deck to the monitors without recording. But some nights, she would ask the band if it was ok to record the show onto 3/4" tape as long as she provided a 1/2" tape for the band after the show. You can read below an email from Teresa to me about taping at 9:30 Club and NIN in particular. I assume the first time she was speaking of in her email was the 10/22/1989 show when NIN went out to support "Pretty Hate Machine." I was able to get the mp4 transfers of the two recordings that they had in their possession! The first one was the 07/11/1990 show that you actually see on NIN's vimeo page here: https://vimeo.com/17042945 (This was the source that was on the archive previous to this) As Teresa stated, if she could record the show on 3/4" for her own collection, she would give the band a 1/2" tape. So to imply, NIN got the tape from Teresa on 1/2" and her master tape's audio drops out during "Sanctified" so that is probably the same for NIN's copy, as the video on NIN's vimeo page stops after "SICNH." The video you see here is from that same footage from the NIN Pretty Hate Machine website. I am not sure where the nin camp got it from. But I doubt from the master tape. Or they did way back when if Teresa gave them a tape afterwards? Not too sure until I can ask the band. List of things I would want to ask. ha! Sadly, just like in the recording on the website, it's really only salvageable until Sanctified for soundboard audio. But the video is pristine, as I stated before. Just no audio, sadly. I cannott thank Teresa Stubs (for taping and donating this footage to DCPL), DCPL (Michele Castro) and the DC Punk Archive enough for allowing me to obtain this footage for the Nine Inch Nails archive. Like I said, this is one of the coolest pieces attained for it! I hope that you will enjoy the recording as much as I did watching it and preparing it for the archive.

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