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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 told consistently presented by the band in an interviews as being a spontaneous mud fight that happened just before they took the stage [httphttps://www.theninhotline.netcom/archives/articles/rip1display/587] [https://www.youtube.shtml interviewcom/watch?v=COhmEzEFJcI] with ''RIP'' magazine: <blockquote>We were right out . However, backstage footage, shot by the big mud pit Woolley and watchin' everybodyuploaded in 2024, I thought, "well, this looks like a lot of fun." At revealed that time there wasn't that many people that were muddy, but the people that *were* in the mud looked like they were having look was actually a great time pre-planned and we thought "fuckcarefully calculated act, y'know, we kinda can't actually do that." But we didn't have showers backstage at that time either, so we went back and hung out backstage, and it was just in order to leave a real nervous day. Then stronger impression on the way to the stage I pushed Danny audience.[Lohner], our guitar player, and he just fell face-first into the mud. Then he tackled me and it turned into a kind of all-male mud wrestling thing. It was actually really funnyhttps://www. After we did that, all nervousness kind of subsidedyoutube.<com/blockquote>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.
==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 by Kevin Carafa and reposted on the official Nine Inch Nails tumblr page in August of the following year for the show's 20th anniversary.[httphttps://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/94687120700/nine-inch-nails-at-woodstock-94-20-years-ago] This was subsequently removed and a substitute source was uploaded by Part of the performance also appears in the YouTube channel Music Vault.Appendage of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lbFfiLAj_AClosure]]''.
==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/watchplaylist?vlist=ZfV7NLCWiiU 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]