So what's new with me? Well, my autographed Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails guitar from the London, ON show is now hanging on my wall, along with my NIN guitar pic I got from a roadie at the Rochester NY show in March. There is a photo of me holding it in my photo gallery.

Where the heck have I been? Happily lost in the Spiral, that's where. I keep running out of time to post elsewhere... but I'm back for a quick update!

Earlier this week, I attended the Kitchener, ON Revolting Cocks / Ministry concert here at Elements night club. I went right up front and planted myself firmly on the rail slightly left of dead centre. These guys have been around for a couple decades now and were Trent Reznor's #1 musical influence. It was fantastic! If you get a chance to see this Ministry tour, do it! Apparently they will be releasing one more album and that's it. Ministry's set was decorated with all sorts of animal bones and skulls (including the microphones) and they were clad in black and eyeliner. It was an ominous looking stage. Behind them were video projections. The drummer was a goth type dude with long hair and a shiny black helmet with a spike on top! When Al came right forward during one of the songs he grabbed a few hands, including mine! :} Now I can say I exchanged sweat with both Al Jourgensen and Trent Reznor this year. Not bad.

Revolting Cocks, who were on before Ministry, is more of an experimental type of group (it's Al's side project) and Al played guitar during it. It was very theatrical with a guy in a penis suit crowd surfing, someone dressed in a blue cop mask, a guy with a functional strap-on dildo jizzing white crap all over the girls they brought onstage and on the people on front rail where I was, and lyrics shouted through a megaphone. Good stuff! I GOT A USED DRUMSTICK they handed out after the RevCo set! Boy was that thing dented and banged up. See a pic of it and us on the rail in my gallery. The...

So what's new with me? Well, my autographed Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails guitar from the London, ON show is now hanging on my wall, along with my NIN guitar pic I got from a roadie at the Rochester NY show in March. There is a photo of me holding it in my photo gallery.

Where the heck have I been? Happily lost in the Spiral, that's where. I keep running out of time to post elsewhere... but I'm back for a quick update!

Earlier this week, I attended the Kitchener, ON Revolting Cocks / Ministry concert here at Elements night club. I went right up front and planted myself firmly on the rail slightly left of dead centre. These guys have been around for a couple decades now and were Trent Reznor's #1 musical influence. It was fantastic! If you get a chance to see this Ministry tour, do it! Apparently they will be releasing one more album and that's it. Ministry's set was decorated with all sorts of animal bones and skulls (including the microphones) and they were clad in black and eyeliner. It was an ominous looking stage. Behind them were video projections. The drummer was a goth type dude with long hair and a shiny black helmet with a spike on top! When Al came right forward during one of the songs he grabbed a few hands, including mine! :} Now I can say I exchanged sweat with both Al Jourgensen and Trent Reznor this year. Not bad.

Revolting Cocks, who were on before Ministry, is more of an experimental type of group (it's Al's side project) and Al played guitar during it. It was very theatrical with a guy in a penis suit crowd surfing, someone dressed in a blue cop mask, a guy with a functional strap-on dildo jizzing white crap all over the girls they brought onstage and on the people on front rail where I was, and lyrics shouted through a megaphone. Good stuff! I GOT A USED DRUMSTICK they handed out after the RevCo set! Boy was that thing dented and banged up. See a pic of it and us on the rail in my gallery. The friendly band photographer took it for us since no cameras were allowed. Thank you, dude.

Most of the people I know locally from the Nine Inch Nails fan club were there, and one of them was parked right by his tour bus, so as we gathered by his van, we saw Al Jourgensen and his entourage come and go.

It was a good night. There's a lot more coming up though! Next weekend I'm flying to New York City and traveling with some out of town fans to two Nine Inch Nails shows. The weekend after that I'll be attending more NIN shows closer to home - the Toronto, ON and Detroit, MI shows. I have a mixture of GA tickets and very close seats (3rd and 8th row centre) so it should be a fucking blast. This is the last time NIN will be touring for a while.

A pic of Al from the Net: