Recordings
Recording Details
- Length: 58 minutes
- Complete: Yes
- Rating:
- Taper(s): Teresa Stubs
- Lineage: Soundboard Audio from in-house feed
- Added: 2019-02-17
Notes
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.
Recording Details
- Length: 58 minutes
- Complete: Yes
- Rating:
- Taper(s): Teresa Stubs
- Lineage: In-house feed w/ soundboard audio
- Added: 2016-04-26
Downloads
Notes
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!
Recording Details
- Length: 20 minutes - Incomplete
- Complete: Yes
- Rating:
- Taper(s): Teresa Stubs
- Lineage: Soundboard Audio from in-house feed
- Added: 2019-02-17
Notes
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.
Recording Details
- Length: 60 minutes
- Complete: Yes
- Rating:
- Taper(s): Teresa Stubs
- Lineage: In-house feed w/ soundboard audio
- Added: 2019-02-17
Downloads
Notes
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.