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I have known about this recording for over a decade. I haven't added it to the source page because I just keep forgetting. This won't be released from said person unless asked by Trent. Basically, this person had befriended a person on the crew and at the end of the tour they were given a mic used by TR and this CD copy. On their list it says 50 minutes. So I assume this was incomplete? As Sal's recording above was just over 64 minutes. Will this ever be archived? Probably not. Which is a shame. But we must be happy with how many other recordings there are on the archive. This is just a place holder.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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This is the only soundboard available from 1990 and notably the earliest soundboard recording of NIN. This is from the silver CD's "Hammer Hard." There is some hiss in the recording. I am guessing because this audio source is ripped from the Pro-Shot video that they did this night as well. I bet if you got this from the actual DAT/Cassette soundboard master it will sound flawless. Another note is that many list this as being the Detroit, St. Andrews Hall show in July of 1990. This is not true and its mislabeled. But nonetheless this is an essential tape to own if you are a NIN fan. Highlighted on RITC's NIN Recording of the Week.

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Back in 2018, The Master Tape Network released the "new" master tape transfer of this tape. It was upscaled to 720p as well as to 60fps. I reached out to the MTN (it hasn't been updated in a handful of years) for a copy of it. They wanted money, but they'd throw this in if I bought a few other tapes from them. Thinking I would get the raw trasfner of it. I just received the YouTube rip of it. Very disappointed. It is great to know that the master tape exists somewhere. This definitely is the better version of the two.

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This is the video that goes along with the soundboard audio. It clearly states at the beginning of the video that it was recorded in Dallas at the video bar. It was a E-Ron production (maybe someone knows who this is)? The video is somewhat grainy and it is sometimes hard to see the band members because of the high generation this tape must be. There is a picture in picture screen at the bottom and there is a lot of mixing shots together. If you're in to how this tape came about (thanks to user on DIME): "The Video Bar was set up with a basic camera rig, so that they could show the acts on close-circuit TV and so that some of the footage could be used on their cable access show, VideoBah Television. This show happened shortly before the club closed, and the reason Trent mentions it being so hot is because the air-conditioning unit had been stolen off the roof. I think it was over 100 degrees inside, I know that I was so exhausted by the heat that I could barely stand for the show once NIN came on (after one of their notoriously long set-ups). The story I heard about how the tape got circulated was this: Shortly after the club closed, one of the people who was part of the staff sold off some of the masters of shows there, including this set. The show was duped off (very professionally) and sold in your typical notorious mom and pop record stores in the DFW area, where it then leaked to a wider audience."

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Released on YouTube by Vidcab. It is a channel that has been archiving tons of Cincinnati shows from the early 90s. Seems like this person(s) was an FOH engineer for Bogarts and other venues around the city during that time. Some shows have video with soundboard audio. Some are just board feeds. From the description, it looks like they are raw board feeds that were either recorded on to S-VHS or cassette. This recording had little to no hiss on it. Very cool. The recording uploaded to YouTube had some pitch issues, which dmlivewiki sorted out quickly for this. Always appreciated! The intro to Terrible Lie was not recorded, or at least not posted on the video. At this point in time, this is the earliest NIN soundboard that is on the archive and first one that is from the support tours. I have reached out to the best of my ability to VidCab to try and get a lossless copy of it. But for now, the YouTube rip will do. Enjoy! It's killer!