I WANT MY NIN-TV: Pigs can fly and hell has frozen over. Nothing Records confirmed rumors recently that Trent Reznor/NIN will make their first live television appearance as performers on the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards show, set to be beamed out over the airwaves to the world the night of September 9, 1999. The band lineup for the performance will reportedly include Reznor, guitarist Danny Lohner and keyboardist Charlie Clouser, both of whom have been working with Reznor on completing the upcoming new double album, Robin Finck, who previously toured with NIN and is returning after a recent stint as guitarist with Guns N' Roses, and Jerome Dillon on drums.
The MTV Video Music Awards has a very swank locale this year, from which they'll be broadcasting live. They'll be setting up at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City. Does this mean we'll be seeing the NIN boys all decked out in tuxedos? Don't hold your breath. Though it's an interesting thought. Other performers for the evening will include such a diverse group as Latino heart throb Ricky Martin, another hot property of the year Lauryn Hill, the pre-teen girls dreams The Backstreet Boys, TLC, Jay-Z, DMX, and another MTV heavy rotation fave this year, Kid Rock, who survived the looting and carnage of the recent Woodstock '99 event. If you can picture that group sharing backstage accommodations in perfect peace and harmony, you've got one up on me. Then again, considering MTV closed with Marilyn Manson's bare butt last year instead of a rousing group rendition of "We Are The World", sweet harmony obviously isn't the thing that's uppermost in everyone's minds.
What some of us are wondering, considering Trent's long avowed disdain for much of the music that MTV has chosen to promote heavily over the years, is what and why are the reasons that he's coming out of his semi-seclusion and agreed to play an event that he has never felt the least bit inclined in the past
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