Nine Inch Nails 1990.06.26

Received in mail-trade circa 2012. PAL format. Chapters at 5 minute intervals. Standalone menu screen.

Posted to Dime in January 2008 by gladcarrot, who had previously downloaded it from Demonoid. Chaptered with basic menu.

Digitised from low gen VHS by Shayne Stacy in January 2021. VHS from the collection of Gary Shurtleff.

Facts about this concert and technical specs of the video:

The Video Bar began playing tracks from “Pretty Hate Machine” from a cassette that was acquired at the new music seminar in June 1989 in New York City. Soon to follow were the promotional music videos from TVT records that made Nine Inch Nails a staple of the club. The heavy airplay at the popular nightclub and subsequent Airplay by local radio station KDGE The Edge broke Nine Inch Nails in a big way and the Dallas Fort Worth market.On the second leg of the Nine Inch Nails tour in 1990, The Video Bar was able to get an inside track on booking the show because of the early support. Nine Inch Nails played Dallas once before, opening up for Love and Rockets at the Arcadia Theater. The venue was way above capacity for the show and the air-conditioning could not keep up in the hot Texas summer causing it to be very uncomfortable inside with temperatures in the 90s. The opening act was a local industrial favorite called Lesson Seven. The band was made up of Wynne Martin, Scott Crow and David Starfire. The members of Lesson Seven can be seen onstage with Nine Inch Nails at the end of Head Like A Hole.

TECH SPECS—
The handheld camera downstage was a Sony DXC-3000 3CCD ENG camera connected to the house video system via RG-59 cable for live I-Mag and recording on a Sony VO-5850 ¾” U-Matic recorder. The fixed camera was a Canon E80 camcorder connected to the house video system with RG-59 and reordered on a Panasonic PV-A860 portable Hi-Fi VHS recorder with a soundboard audio feed. The video was edited using by using 2 SONY VO-5800 decks each with one of the camera feeds synchronized with a Sony RM-440 editing control unit. Each of the playback decks was connected to a Panasonic WJ-AVE5 digital video mixer with its output connected to a 3rd VO-5800 recorder with the audio feed directly from the Hi-Fi camera audio deck.Once the two decks were synchronized and playing, the show was mixed live with the digital video mixer doing dissolves and picture in picture.

DISTRIBUTION-
Produced in 1993 after the demise of The Video Bar, about 25 original VHS tapes were made from the master and sold to Bills Records in Richardson Texas. This was the only release from the original tapes, and all versions seen today are from that first handful of VHS copies, including the CD that is out there of this show.