Talk:"Pretty Hate Machine" Promotional Tour

Evidence

Vancouver

Here's the evidence for the Luv-a-Fair date in Vancouver. Unfortunately, no exact date other than "the week before PHM was released."

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.music.nin/LJgnMG-46MI/eNGzGe5gQ8IJ
http://www.vancouverneon.com/page_q/luv_a_fair.htm
https://nsmb.com/forum/forum/nbr-not-biking-related-9/topic/best-concert-you-have-seen-58657/?page=9

Update: "the week before PHM was released" means the Canadian release date, not the US date. The Canadian CD of PHM was glass mastered in May 1990. [1] So, if PHM was released in June 1990 (haven't been able to find any documentation of the release date, besides the glass mastering code), then the week before its Canada release means the Luv-a-Fair show took place on May, 30, 1990, as this ticket stub shows, and not in 1989. That also jibes with the 2nd article above where NIN was paid $5000 for the concert. It's much more likely that they would be paid that much money in May 1990, when they were just getting hot, as opposed to 1989 when no one had heard of them.

Pittsburgh

The dance-a-thon occurred from Nov. 10-12:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/94903870/

According to this first-hand recollection on ninhistorian:
http://theninhotline.net/nin_historian/tour_dates.html
the performance was on a Friday night, which would make the date Nov. 10.

Update: It was actually in 1988, not 1989. I had just assumed 1988 on ninhistorian was a typo, but HIH found this newspaper article, confirming 1988:
https://happinessinheresy.com/nine-inch-nails-concert/pittsburgh-november-11-1988/

Keyboard player

Information confirming that Nick Rushe was the main keyboard player for this tour:

• He is present in live footage from December 9, 1989
• Article from December 1989 that shows Nick in photo [2]
• Article from December 1989 that mentions Nick [3]
• Interview with Trent that mentions Nick being hired in the summer of 1989 [4]