1:32 Charlie Clouser is seen playing Theremin in this track. Here is what Charlie said on Reddit AMA: "Well, TR and all of us owe a huge debt and lots of love to Bob Moog, and were lucky enough to know him and call him a friend and enthusiastic supporter. So we had absolutely every piece of gear he ever made, which of course included a few of his EtherWave Theremins. While I can't definitively say whether or not one got used on The Fragile album, when we were prepping for the tour and figuring out how to render those songs live, TR said, "Chumpy, you've got less than nothing to do on this song, so instead of just standing on your riser looking like a dork, break out a Theremin and see if you can make a sound that doesn't suck ass." Now the Theremin is basically impossible to play. You have to stand absolutely still and have it mounted very securely, otherwise just the thing wiggling on it's stand will be enough to mess up your pitch. I knew this would look lame on stage, so something had to be done. What inspired me then (and still does) is Jimmy Page's epic Theremin tomfoolery on Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same live album and film. I'm a huge Zeppelin fan (fuck the h8ers), and seeing that movie for the first time in high school I was like, "WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING TO MAKE THOSE EPIC PSYCHO SOUNDS?!?!" So I broke out a Theremin, got my hands on an Antares ATR-1, which is basically a rack-mount hardware unit with Auto-Tune inside. I set it so that it would only allow three or four notes in an octave, notes which would work within the scale of a solo I wanted to play, and set the "grab time" or "glide time" of the unit so it would take it half a second to one second to lock onto the pitch and pull it into tune. This prevented any "stair-stepping" of the pitch like you hear on a Two Chains vocal or whatever, so you could get wild and wiggly pitch sweeps, but once you landed on a pitch it would pull you into tune. Take the clean, dry output of the Theremin right into the ATR-1, and since a Theremin's raw output is basically a single sine or sawtooth wave, the ATR-1 has no problem at all locking onto it, and produces no weird formants or other artifacts on the output. Take the output of the ATR-1 to a TC Electronics FireWorx multi-effects unit for tons of distortion, delay, and reverb, and boom. Wild-n-wiggly Theremin solos that are still in tune with the song. The way the ATR-1 works is you define which of the twelve notes in the octave are "permitted" and which are "not permitted", and then the input is always forced to conform to one of the permitted notes, and that grid repeats across all the octaves so you can play low, you can play high, doesn't matter - the output will always glide to the nearest permitted note in whatever octave you happen to be in. It. Works. Perfectly. Bob Moog came down to a show when we were near Asheville, and I could see his big fluffy white head of hair bobbing up and down at the front of house mix position the whole time, and he'd elbow his companions and point whenever I lit up the Theremin. Afterward the show in the dressing room he was like, "It's amazing you can have such good pitch control on the Theremin even while you're swinging the thing around like that!" and I was like, "Well, sorry to admit this, but I'm using an Auto-Tune unit" and then I described the process. For a second I thought he'd be disappointed that I was "cheating" but he laughed and said, "That's a fantastic idea! And it works perfectly!" Years later, Moog came out with the ThereMini (the white plastic, UFO-looking Theremin) and it has a similar Auto-Tune feature BUILT-IN! So apparently it was a good idea after all. As to how we would replicate unique or weird things from the records, we really had to keep the gear on stage as simple and fool-proof (and waterproof) as possible, so we used samplers for just about everything. Only the keyboard solo that TR plays on "Happiness In Slavery" was triggering the actual synth that made that sound on the record (the Prophet VS) because it had to be a legato+glide type of sound that is difficult or impossible to replicate with a sampler. You can get close, but it's not exact, so we'd bring a real Prophet VS out and it would sit safely offstage while TR played it from the remote keyboard on stage. But everything else (not guitars or drums obv) was coming out of rackmount samplers mounted safely offstage. On the Self Destruct tour these were Emax II units with internal hard drives, on the Fragility tours we upgraded to E-Mu E4 units. All of the keyboards on stage were original (brown) Yamaha DX7 synths, just used as MIDI controllers. There are a zillion DX7's out there and you can find more in any small-town pawn shop or music store, and we did go through a lot of them - smashing an average to two or three per show. But how to replicate tricky sequences etc. on stage using just a keyboard and a sampler? What I'd do sometimes is sample the actual riff from the album multitrack tapes, and then chop it up into little pieces and lay them out on the keyboard. That way, if you play the keys in the right order and with accurate timing, you can replicate just about any weird thing that was on the album. Like the drum machine/bassline thing on Starfuckers - I chopped it into "kick piece" and "snare piece" and just hammered away at the keyboard in time to what Jerome was playing on the live drums. Simpler than it sounds, and it works perfectly."
@adamblister60059 жыл бұрын
Charlie Clouser on that goddamn theremin is the most badass thing I've ever seen!
@hectorwallace50838 жыл бұрын
+Pete Agassi Charlie is actually considered one of the top professional theremin players to date. I just bought one a while back and he makes it look so easy. Then again, I'm not playing live with Nine Inch Nails...
@ShadyAcacia6 жыл бұрын
I air theremin during that part
@h4724-q6j4 жыл бұрын
@@hectorwallace5083 He recently answered a question about that in an AMA thread on Reddit: "Well, TR and all of us owe a huge debt and lots of love to Bob Moog, and were lucky enough to know him and call him a friend and enthusiastic supporter. So we had absolutely every piece of gear he ever made, which of course included a few of his EtherWave Theremins. While I can't definitively say whether or not one got used on The Fragile album, when we were prepping for the tour and figuring out how to render those songs live, TR said, "Chumpy, you've got less than nothing to do on this song, so instead of just standing on your riser looking like a dork, break out a Theremin and see if you can make a sound that doesn't suck ass." Now the Theremin is basically impossible to play. You have to stand absolutely still and have it mounted very securely, otherwise just the thing wiggling on it's stand will be enough to mess up your pitch. I knew this would look lame on stage, so something had to be done. What inspired me then (and still does) is Jimmy Page's epic Theremin tomfoolery on Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same live album and film. I'm a huge Zeppelin fan (fuck the h8ers), and seeing that movie for the first time in high school I was like, "WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING TO MAKE THOSE EPIC PSYCHO SOUNDS?!?!" So I broke out a Theremin, got my hands on an Antares ATR-1, which is basically a rack-mount hardware unit with Auto-Tune inside. I set it so that it would only allow three or four notes in an octave, notes which would work within the scale of a solo I wanted to play, and set the "grab time" or "glide time" of the unit so it would take it half a second to one second to lock onto the pitch and pull it into tune. This prevented any "stair-stepping" of the pitch like you hear on a Two Chains vocal or whatever, so you could get wild and wiggly pitch sweeps, but once you landed on a pitch it would pull you into tune. Take the clean, dry output of the Theremin right into the ATR-1, and since a Theremin's raw output is basically a single sine or sawtooth wave, the ATR-1 has no problem at all locking onto it, and produces no weird formants or other artifacts on the output. Take the output of the ATR-1 to a TC Electronics FireWorx multi-effects unit for tons of distortion, delay, and reverb, and boom. Wild-n-wiggly Theremin solos that are still in tune with the song. The way the ATR-1 works is you define which of the twelve notes in the octave are "permitted" and which are "not permitted", and then the input is always forced to conform to one of the permitted notes, and that grid repeats across all the octaves so you can play low, you can play high, doesn't matter - the output will always glide to the nearest permitted note in whatever octave you happen to be in. It. Works. Perfectly." www.reddit.com/r/nin/comments/gkf9r7/im_charlie_clouser_a_long_time_ago_i_played/fqrht79?context=3
@Arenow3 жыл бұрын
@@h4724-q6j This is amazing to read! I got obsessed with this song back in the day, loved this live version because it made a great show on a cerebral instrumental song. Thank you for sharing, this comment should be pinned!
@backfru3 ай бұрын
What the hell is a theremin? How did I get here? I can't get out of the internet and talk to Molly Please help me bring up my emails
@wyattoutlaw23702 жыл бұрын
Love Clouser’s theremin solo! It does the track justice in the absence of Garson.
@terry85mar19 күн бұрын
Not a solo but still cool.
@dondre30009 жыл бұрын
It's the versatility that does it for me. Trent's range in terms of ***what*** he can do is second to none in rock music. Voice has never been the best, but when you build so much around the voice, it matters less. Pure genius. MJK has Danny, Adam, and Justin writing all that great music for him to sing over. Very different.
@carissageorge81957 жыл бұрын
Donald Austin His voice is great. Pure fuckin' genius.
@agnieszkam960510 жыл бұрын
Just like I imagined
@aenima-tool94187 жыл бұрын
Agnieszka M its The Perfect Drug... 😉😊👌
@aenima-tool94187 жыл бұрын
Agnieszka M. I Wish I was there.....😛
@aenima-tool94187 жыл бұрын
Agnieszka M. The Mark. Has Been Made here.... most diff.
@ShadyAcacia6 жыл бұрын
Just like we imagined
@vrlc92334 жыл бұрын
You are an Angel with a Halo!
@VuotoPneumaNN2 жыл бұрын
I don't care if Rubin or Alessandro are better musicians, this will forever be my NIN lineup.
@gilbertsalazar9823 Жыл бұрын
Just different eras of NIN!!
@terry85mar19 күн бұрын
Nobody said they're better because they're not.
@BegToDiffah7 жыл бұрын
Holy crap, are you kidding me? How did I ever miss this?
@fadjeb8254 Жыл бұрын
This song or the actual performance?
@Tistouyou6 жыл бұрын
2:06 to 2:23 gave me some of the strongest goosebumps i've ever had
@TheLiquidflight4 жыл бұрын
Every fucking time. Their voices add so much in that exact spot in that exact way. Mind blowing.
@MarcelGrieder4 жыл бұрын
That bit was in the teaser video back then, way before youtube was existing. It's one of NIN's best moments.
@namelessthing58583 жыл бұрын
@@MarcelGrieder holy crap, i think i remember those Greetings and well wishes from san jose california
@michaelcaccuitto6434 Жыл бұрын
Wow, me too. That’s crazy.
@bnan42245 жыл бұрын
This and la mer always give me goosebumps
@kisslena Жыл бұрын
Same here!
@adamblister60059 жыл бұрын
I'm convinced Trent Reznor is an evolved being from another planet. Humans can't make music like this.
@soulcrusher259 жыл бұрын
Pete Agassi I like to think of it more as if aliens ever attacked us, we could use his music to defeat them.
@adamblister60059 жыл бұрын
WarMachine 1776 Not defeat them, because we in no way could do that. But we could certainly appease them with a NIN live show.
@ShadyAcacia6 жыл бұрын
Adam Blister ghosts 31 would be my track for the invasion
@noktuloespa20836 жыл бұрын
Excellent choice of music, sir!
@shb19786 жыл бұрын
+TheStormfall I LIKE WHAT YOU GOT! GOOD JOB!
@pl-boostcreep Жыл бұрын
It was just like I imagined !
@SuperKeybored2 ай бұрын
the best live version
@melissarey29733 жыл бұрын
A theramin. Hahahaha. Beautiful.
@michaelplurad86704 жыл бұрын
“This is where we fight! This is where they die!”
@vrlc92334 жыл бұрын
Still rocking in 2020
@amandagillis88412 жыл бұрын
I love the thumbnail 😍
@matthewchaney8550Ай бұрын
Words get in the way.
@robertomaclean11403 жыл бұрын
I have seen this video very times and still bristles the skin
@oSitaRuSo12 жыл бұрын
Just Perfect !!!
@paulwisham594311 ай бұрын
Still great
@mailliw86472 жыл бұрын
Greatest one word ...eeeeeaaaaaarrrrrgggg!!!...song ever written
@LexXaoc2 жыл бұрын
My favorite.
@FernandoPCasas6 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece like a Picaso Picture
@kisslena Жыл бұрын
Amazing Concert! Pure Art!❤️🔥
@leosvt88447 жыл бұрын
wonderful!
@jagod77 жыл бұрын
Zio Benny nkkkkIU
@peterk98182 жыл бұрын
Song gives me the fuckn chills!👌🤘☝️
@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida4 жыл бұрын
one of few places i feel at home
@vrlc92334 жыл бұрын
Another one of those NIN classics! Fuckin' beautiful mate!
@nerdyjuice71532 жыл бұрын
ufff en el cielo cuando escucho esta canción
@franklingarcia47124 жыл бұрын
God, I love this song!!
@prassicaa4 жыл бұрын
Time travel needs to become a thing.
@michaelgoodyear93692 жыл бұрын
So badass
@thebrigadier2712 жыл бұрын
awesome!
@marcobrugnaro91504 жыл бұрын
Perfection
@dogbono16612 жыл бұрын
Thank you gurufs2, great job ;)
@mesghenna20123 жыл бұрын
we about to die we salute you ✊🏿9
@MrAlejandroiltopo4 жыл бұрын
i love you
@odonnemt6 жыл бұрын
Fucking legendary
@TheLiquidflight4 жыл бұрын
OMG this is sooo fucking EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
@lqe.49634 жыл бұрын
I wonder how much of any overdubs were done to this. A lot of parts sound just like the studio version.
@PacificCoastAuto3 жыл бұрын
Here for the theremin.
@klido1311 жыл бұрын
300
@darkdanny99 жыл бұрын
only 10k views that explains all the ignorance and blindness in this world if only regular humans humans could get this expressions...
@alexandermitros76977 жыл бұрын
well, I think that if everyone could listen to NIN, it wouldn't be that good..
@redprince94 жыл бұрын
on another note (totally unrelated, of course;), it would be absolutely epic if self-described intelligent entities would quit using (among other things) the inputs they derive the most value from as a basis for subjecting others to degrading perceptions while elevating themselves to some sort of psuedo-uber-human/sentience by route of disillusions of grandeur as a means of coping with their own lack of confidence and/or self-worth instead of actually doing something that fucking matters, because that shizz be hard work yo! It's so much easier to just tear others down and sit on a hollow throne of bullshit.
@stefanocoggi4487 ай бұрын
Johann Sebastian Bach reincarnation ❤❤🎸🎸
@phobiazzzero49352 жыл бұрын
THISISSPARTA
@veemon92803 жыл бұрын
A pheromone in a rock song....dang
@charlesbelindevregille74654 жыл бұрын
What's left to hear after that?
@Woutje862 жыл бұрын
What count is this? Like 9/10 or something?
@Sreiko13 жыл бұрын
Изеђено!
@gfdhghfjjhjjhhk6 жыл бұрын
This is Spartaaaa.. 😂
@adamblister60059 жыл бұрын
What the hell is that sound at 1:20 and what fucking instrument is that?
@benditmer66279 жыл бұрын
Its a theremin (mind the spelling) also used at the start of 'sin'
@adamblister60059 жыл бұрын
Ben Ditmer Wow! Thanks! Just looked it up and it's bonkers! Played without touching! WTF?! This is why I love Nine Inch Nails -- always original and unique sounds!
@benditmer66279 жыл бұрын
No probs. Seen some trippy vids on here of people playing them
@JakeLaraFX9 жыл бұрын
+Pete Agassi it's actually been used before in a band, it isn't original. Led zeppelin used it in their song "Whole Lotta love" and some other songs