2007/04/18 Los Angeles, CA

About

This show was the first Live Open Source Resistance Event.

Lineup

• Guitar/Vocals: Trent Reznor
• Guitar: Aaron North
• Bass: Jeordie White
• Keyboards: Alessandro Cortini
• Drums: Josh Freese

Setlist

1. The Beginning of the end
   
2. Survivalism
   
3. Last
   
4. March Of The Pigs
   
5. Were In This Together
   
6. The Frail
   

Video

Video available on http://www.opensourceresistance.net/. Includes pre-concert meeting footage.

Eye Witness Accounts

"I was there. We got a phone call telling us to go to a parking lot. We got to sign a release form saying that we didn't know where we were going or what we were doing and that we were over 18 and ok with being filmed. We were searched (all electronics were put back in the car; I at least got the name of the person frisking me this time, unlike the listening party) and then loaded on a rickety bus, in which all of the windows and doors had been blacked out. We pulled up to an abandoned warehouse looking place; there were random people standing on the roof and around the entrance. We were led inside; there were more people and more cameras (there was a hand held camera on the bus, high quality ones inside). Neil Czarno (or whoever is playing him) gave a talk about how we should give a shit and change the world, and how we were stupid for allowing them to herd us like cattle onto a bus to who knows where with no form of communication (and for carrying around cellphones like tracking devices) and that we'd be dead if they were really after us. After his talk, we were led over the river and through the woods (the warehouse complex was really, really big). We were stopped briefly before we entered a room with lots of light and equipment. Next thing I knew, the opening notes of TBOTE were playing, and I was 3 feet away from Jeordie White on the far end of the line (and 10ft away from Trent Reznor, that's the closest that I'll ever get to NIN). There were about 50 people there, so it was a very small, intimate show. They then played Survivalism, Last (it was marvelous), MOTP, WITT (it was marvelous as well), and then The Frail. There were people there filming the show with cameras, and Rob was taking shots of the band. I knew that something was going to happen because you could see flashing lights outside. Policemen in riot gear entered the building and pushed us all out (they also had a few flash grenade thingies). There seemed to be a few people detained, but I'm not quite sure how they were detained; I was right where the police entered and made it out (and I was wearing a bright red sweater, so I wasn't hard to miss in the sea of black). I should have known that something was going to happen after I saw the 20 song set list that included The Perfect Drug Wink. We were herded back on the bus after a run through the complex and driven back to our cars. People still have their cellphones, so they should be in contact with them. There weren't any clues (and I saw the porta potty, there wasn't anything interesting in there)." "I'm pretty sure that the footage will be used to demonstrate the secret police busting up a secret show featuring non-BoM approved music. The riot police looked like the ones in the Survivalism video. I saw some of the guys who were handing out stuff on Friday at the show, as well as the guy with glasses who was giving out pins.

The room had the AIR flag stenciled on the wall; there were multiple AIR flags hanging from the roof in the first room where Neil Czarno talked to us. Also, at the end, they told us to be on the look out for more graffiti, murals, ads, etc."

-[cynicmuse]