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What was it about the 'Fragility v2.0' tour that made you want to document it with an album and
home video?
"In the midst of this tour, I was walking around the stage before a show, which is when I'd
normally be nervous. But instead, I was feeling very proud of how we were playing as a band. A lot
of the songs have really mutated since their inception: The 'Pretty Hate Machine' tunes have
toughened up and turned into better arranged songs, while the songs from 'The Fragile' have become a
bit less delicate. And since a tour is a finite thing, I thought it would be a good thing to
document it."
Why did you decide to film it yourself
"When we were on 'The Downward Spiral' tour, we hired a film company that specialized in
concert filming. I remember watching the raw footage and thinking, 'this is terrible.' So this
time, I went and bought a bunch of mini DV [digital video] cameras, and we handed some out to
various crew members, and others we set up on tripods in corners or up where the spotlight guys
were. And sometimes the camera would move, and it'd film the wall for the whole show. I wasn't
concerned with it being this professional-looking video - I wanted it to look like you were there."
How did you decide which performances of the songs to use?
"An early decision was made to not try and fool you into thinking it was one concert. In every
song, you might be jumping around from ten to 20 places cut together. Which is why you'll notice
that Robin [Finck], our guitar player, his haircut changes in every shot. So we recorded the audio
over several nights, then picked the best version of each song, and cut the video to fit that."
Why did you then decide to put the video together on your own?
"The main thing was that I'm interested in how it's done. I also know that when I'm involved
in the process, I come up with ideas that I wouldn't if I just hand it to someone else to do. Could
someone else have put this together in less time? Absolutely. But there's something home-made about
it that gives it more soul and character. It's cool that you can do all this stuff on your own now.
A few years ago, I was considering getting an Avid video editing system, because every time we do a
video we have to re-edit it and re-edit it, and I thought it would be great if I could just do it in
my studio. But computers have become so powerful now that you don't need all that extra hardware.
Which is what made us wonder if we could do this whole thing ourselves."
Given Nine Inch Nails' reputation as musical innovators, how important was it that the DVD also
be innovative?
"We just thought DVD was a format that was cool and wondered what could we do with it. It
wasn't like we were thinking, 'Well, we're expected to really put out a great one...' It was more
like, 'I think it's cool, how do I use it?'"
Besides the regular version of the live album, you're also releasing a second special disc,
'Still', that will be sold on your website, nin.com, and also in a deluxe audio package. What will
be on that disc?
"We did a radio show in Chicago, where we did such songs as 'The Fragile' and 'Hurt', that were
stripped down, though it was not us with acoustic guitars, singing Poison songs. So I took those
performances and added some other ones we'd done in the studio, several new instrumental tracks, a
new song called 'And All That Could've Been', and worked it into a heavily melancholic suite for a
rainy, fall, Sunday afternoon."
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