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[[Image:WoodstockHappiness.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Danny Lohner]] and [[Trent Reznor]] during "[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]." Reznor's keyboard eventually broke down, then he slammed the rest with his microphone stand.]]
On August 13th, 1994 [[Nine Inch Nails]] took part in Woodstock '94 at Winston Farm in Saugerties, NYas the final date of the [[Self Destruct Tour]]. Their performance is considered one of the best in the band's history, despite the band's opinion that it was one of their worst. They took the stage covered head-to-toe in mud. This single performance is widely accepted as the one that made the band famous.
The other acts that played the festival on the same day as NIN were Joe Cocker, Blind Melon, Cypress Hill, Rollins Band, Melissa Etheridge, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Metallica, Aerosmith, Nenad Bach, The Cranberries, Zucchero, Youssou N'Dour, The Band, Primus and Salt 'N Pepa.
Then, "[[Dead Souls]]" began, and Reznor said:
This is something we did for ''[[The Crow Soundtrack|The Crow]].''
During the intro to "[[Suck]]", Reznor said:
Nine Inch Nails were considered to have the largest crowd density at the event, overshadowing many of the more mainstream bands of the time. In the interview after their performance, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor claimed he thought his band's performance was "terrible". Reznor admitted that while he disliked playing at such a large show, it was done for the money: "To be quite frank, it's basically to offset the cost of the tour we're doing right now."
The story behind the band being covered in mud was consistently presented by the band in interviews as being a spontaneous mud fight that happened just before they took the stage [https://www.theninhotline.com/archives/articles/display/587] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COhmEzEFJcI]. However, backstage footage, shot by Woolley and uploaded in 2024, revealed that the mud look was actually a pre-planned and carefully calculated act, in order to leave a stronger impression on the audience.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMowK3OkWc]
According to ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Reznor's mud-covered stage outfit from the show is now part of the collection at the [[Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame]].[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-nine-inch-nails-play-mud-caked-set-at-woodstock-94-20130606] With NIN's induction in 2020, an exhibit about the concert was also installed.
==Lineup==
==Video==
Woodstock '94 was broadcast in the US on pay-per-view, including Nine Inch Nails' entire performance. VHS recordings of the performance were well-circulated in bootleg trading circles. In September 2013 , a remastered video of the full broadcast was posted on Youtube YouTube by Kevin Carafa and reposted on the official Nine Inch Nails tumblr page in August of the following yearfor the show's 20th anniversary.[httphttps://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/94687120700/nine-inch-nails-at-woodstock-94-20-years-ago] Part of the performance also appears in the Appendage of ''[[Closure]]''.
==Bootlegs==
Many bootlegs exist for this performance, because of the high-quality audio obtained from the pay-per-view broadcast. On one such bootleg, titled ''When The Whip Come Comes Down,'' , the liner notes contain the following description:
:''Like creatures from the black lagoon they slunk on stage, caked head to toe in mud looking like they had just risen from the pits of hell. Nine Inch Nails, without doubt, proved to be the most successful show of the entire festival. They went hell for leather like there was no tomorrow, nothing could stop Trent Reznor and his crew, it was Apocalypse Now brought to life in a field in Saugerties and being transmitted worldwide by pay as you view cable to millions in the safe confines of their own homes. You had to be there as the rain fell to appreciate the sheer beauty of the Nine Inch Nails killing machine on its own out of control rampage. Take no prisoners was the saying of the day as victims fell on all side. Any act that makes even David Letterman sit up and take notice has got to be doing something right. Nine Inch Nails are like taking a helter skelter ride through a tunnel of broken glass. Nine Inch Nails will shred your soul.''
==External Links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30Zpkr-l-5JS2-PpaeuFWy_jWr-Rgrxs Woodstock '94 on YouTube]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12LLAnirTc Stories from the show at cleveland.com on YouTube]
{{Tour
| date = 1994/08/13
| title = [[Woodstock '94]]
| previous = N[[1994/A: first show08/11 Fairfax, VA]]
| following = N/A: last show
}}