Nine Inch Nails-The CRC Sessions Sep 25 '09    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Music Jersey Boys [Original Broadway Cast Recording] by Original Broadway Cast From $8 Mai by Eri Sugai From $4 The Bottom Line A Brilliant NIN Bootleg Where NIN Unplugs for a Bit & Deconstruct Some Classics. Throughout the entirety of their career, Nine Inch Nails has often been known as a band that meshed hard rock with dissonant electronic music that was tagged as industrial rock. By 1999's NIN went into a different direction that was more inspired by organic instruments while electronic arrangements were more fragmented in places. A lot of the ideas inspired NIN mastermind Trent Reznor to delve with more string-driven instruments like ukeleles, cellos, and other sounds that he felt were imperfect. A lot of the ideas from The Fragile would inspire future releases along with a rare radio session NIN did on April 27, 2000 in Chicago during the Fragility v 2.0 North American tour. The sessions at the Chicago Recording Company with a small audience presence saw the band play NIN songs in a stripped-down, deconstructed fashion that eventually became the popular bootleg called The CRC Sessions. The CRC Sessions is a seven-song performance where NIN played six songs (one played twice) in a sometimes-acoustic presentation with elements of atmospheric electronic music accompaniment. Featuring the live line-up from that tour that included Reznor, guitarist Robin Finck, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Danny Lohner, keyboardist Charlie Clouser, and drummer Jerome Dillon. It's a record that would serve as a precursor to an official NIN release in the 2002 Internet-only release EP called Still. While it might be tagged as NIN Unplugged, it's a record that shows Reznor's talents as a songwriter backed by his band as they present some NIN songs in an unconventional yet intimate fashion. Opening the record is Something I Can Never Have, the ballad from Pretty Hate Machine, as it's performed on a keyboard-piano by Reznor with Robin Finck accompanying Reznor on an acoustic guitar. The somber ballad with its dark, melancholic lyrics is a classic in its original form while its stripped-down version maintains the dark tone. Even as Danny Lohner adds a soft bass line to the track with Charlie Clouser's accompanying, bass-buzz keyboard. The Day The World Went Away is presented in a similar approach that later appeared in Still with both Lohner and Finck in acoustic instruments and Reznor on piano. The performance shows Finck and Lohner providing nice accompaniments in their acoustic instruments with Clouser adding a swooning atmosphere on the keyboard with Jerome Dillon adding a slow, bouncy drum accompaniment in the song's coda. Next is Hurt as it's presented on its first take. While it starts off well with Finck on a somber, acoustic guitar track and Reznor's calm vocal. The track is mostly calm with Reznor not hitting any dramatic vocal notes early on as it's just Reznor and Finck performing and singing. Even Deeper is led by Clouser's swirling textures of synthesizers as it's also accompanied by smooth, electronic beats. With Reznor singing some dark lyrics, the band plugs in a bit with Finck on an electric guitar and Dillon on live drums as they bring some edge to the performance but maintaining a sense of calm. The Big Come Down with its fierce, scratchy sound of synthesizers, growling guitars, and mid-tempo beats. With its haunting lyrics, it's one of the standout performance as NIN maintains a calm but intense presentation. The Fragile with a slow, steady beat and Lohner's low bass line, it is presented in an electro-rock presentation with swooning guitars and synthesizers in the background until the chorus is heard the second time and coda with Reznor's despaired lyrics sung throughout the performance. The last track is a second take on Hurt. The difference is a better vocal performance from Reznor along with a fuller mix in the track. The bootleg is considered essential among NIN fans and it is because it shows the idea of what NIN could do in an acoustic presentation while not having a lot of thing to back them up. Though there were some tracks performed with electric instruments, it does set the stage of what would come for Reznor in not just the 2002 Still EP but Ghosts I-IV in 2008. The CRC Sessions is really one of the most definitive bootlegs from NIN and a must-have for hardcore fans. NIN Reviews: Bootlegs: Purest Feeling - When the Whip Comes Down - Live Hate w/ David Bowie - Quake OST - Where Darkness Doubles, Where Light Pours In - Bridge School Concerts

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