Nine Inch Nails performs "I'm Afraid of Americans" in Toronto on June 2nd, 2009. Be sure to select "HD" for the best viewing experience. Filmed by Rob Sheridan with the Canon 5D Mark II. Audio mix by Blumpy.
I’m afraid of liberals and socialists. So fuck you both respectively coming from a proud conservative American. Also congrats Texas love from California.
As soon as Trump was elected prez, this song just crept its way back into my head and wouldn't leave. But yeah, in principle it has always been true, regardless of who holds office.
Holy hell, I feel like Bowie was there! What an excellent performance! And despite having just one cameraman, it was captured well. So raw. My favorite thing about this is how each instrumental part was interpreted uniquely for a live performance. Vocal emphasis... that lead synth! ...drums that had to be the live equivalent of an already larger-than-life amen break style drum n' bass sample (nailed it!), and of course the guitar as well, shined through at just the right parts. Bass - nice tonality. For this show, I am: Afraid of Americans / jealous of Canadians.
Nine Inch Nails is what started it all for me, before I was just listening to Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, and Pantera, which I still do here and there, ... and then I heard The Downward Spiral in '95 when I was about 14, 15 and then everything changed, I learned every lyric within a week and went to the Coca-Cola ampitheater show in Atlanta with David Bowie where I smoked marijuana for the second time, but got stoned for the first time 'cause it didn't work the first time.
,Man I liked The Slip line up a lot ..... Josh Freese on drums and Alessandro Cortini on bass/synth (he`s current I think).... The bassist in this video, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, I saw him playing with Beck on SNL, I guess that`s a good gig instead of waiting around for Trent to stop hanging out with Dr. Dre and Apple douchebags, and making music for shitty movies instead of fronting one of the best bands ever.
I was at this concert. Closest I can say I ever came to seeing Bowie live. It was literally the most popular part of the show. His voice still cannot compare but it's such a great 90's song.
The drummer is really good - Cracking live performance of I'm Afraid of Americans - Bowie knew these dudes were very special as they enhanced each other with their musical genius - A song for modern day America.
@@MiguelMorales85 I miss him all the time... He was a brilliant musician, humanitarian, actor, artist... He was very much alive during the recording of this video. You're an idiot doood!
@Marque Markofthebeast I know the news is no longer news... Now it's "infotainment" with a hard slant in whatever the corporate oligarchs want the direction in both left and right! But you gotta reel it back in my man... Start going off that Alex Jones deep end and we will have to get you back on your meds like Google Mail!
@Burner666 Agreed. That was definetly a show for the fans. The entire setlist just blew me away. I left this show torn because I couldn't decide if this or the previous lights in the sky show was the best concert I had ever been to. Lights in the sky visually was just mindblowing, bu the setlist here was like a wishlist of songs that I had never seen performed live but had always wanted to.
@4:30 - 4:35 that synth line and the trade between the guitar is sweet. If you’re a musician you know that look @4:24 when you transition and your both on point and your into it, pretty sweet.
actually bowie and brian eno did the original then trent remixed it and that completely overshadowed the original which is fine because this version is 100 times better
+Jason Mcnea I went to the one in Jones Beach on the same tour. So many people were leaving after NIN that the staff were reminding people there was another band haha
Soon Forget I’ve seen that happen at shows too- kinda sad and funny at the same time. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have seen some incredible opening bands I would have never known about.
Brilliant live vid - thx for uploading. I love this track - musically - unfortunately it also reflects - as a UK citizen - how I feel about Americans :(
@@dopey473 No it wasn't. It was an original song by David Bowie and Brian Eno, it was left over from the '1.Outside' sessions, and Bowie re-recorded it for the 'Earthling'album. NIN had nothing to do with it's creation, but did do a decent remix and performed with Bowie in the video.
@@scottwoodward8022 yeah I know I just found out very late after making my original comment, listened to the full album and yeah it's so weird to hear the original
I've seen NIN more than any other band and I have to say that it was weird seeing everything performed in the light (I was quite surprised that they went on before Jane's Addiction.) I saw them in Detroit this past summer.
the 2013-2014 tour Trent and everyone seemed so much younger and more energetic and even Trent's voice seemed younger and livelier. how the hell did they do that? aren't you supposed to get older with time????
The comments on the other video with David Bowie have been "disabled",, I'm Native American, and I'm fuckin afraid of Americans. Welcome to the new Rez, FEMA.
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