same wrote:i saw the green bay show of this tour and it's true, the attendance was pretty dismal. it was like fifteen people crowded around the stage and three of them were these high school kids wearing nine inch nails shirts that stood like three feet in front of albini and sang along to every lyric until he stopped a song half way through and told him they were annoying.
It was more like eighty people, really, it's just that the Concert Cafe was a large space, and eighty doesn't look like much. More than fifteen, though. And the guy directly in front of Steve was no high schooler with an NIN shirt, he was my drummer (and still is), and I swore I had played him the "Billiardspielerlied" single. Oh well.
My big memories of that show include the longest-I've-ever-seen "Billiard Player Song," during which Bob looked seriously bored. And I finally got to ask if anyone ever found the coat. Also, one of the crazy people came up to me, grabbed me on the shoulder and yelled in my ear. I couldn't understand what she was saying, but my shoulder burned for a few days. That was creepy.
