Wow, I missed that part when I saw them labor day weekend. The visuals were freaking amazing though, I got some good footage on my Jailbroken iPhone with Cycorder. To bad the cycorder sound enchantment was released until 5 days after.

orphic1

nice. but why tuck it in for half a second? but the BSD up for longer... say 10-25 seconds

fuzzymuffins

NIN sucks almost as much as Mac :)

Scott

Weird...

When I saw them at Lollapalooza TGD and Vessel ended up just fine. But that's pretty funnystrange.

HotFootMcCook

I saw that show a few weeks ago in Oklahoma City. Nothing short of visually amazing. Must've missed the BSoD though. Probably drinking my beers.

TableZero

Yeah I saw it at the Izod center show a few weeks ago... only up for a few seconds though. Cool stuff even though i like windows.... it rubs like the olyimpics....rub rub rub. BTW That show sucked.... worst NINtour ever. Im 20 so Ive been around for more of their newer stuff but they played no old songs with the exception of closer, head like a hole, and (a fantastic) reptilian performance.... other than that... major bummer. The with teeth show was way better back in 2006. I still have my hoodie to prove it

etaripamai

I saw the show here in Toronto.

There was no BSOD.

DaddysFavourite

@MFlick: Read the WHOLE post dude... Trent uses Macs like it's going out of style.

robot-shmobot

@PreachingLlama: Cause no matter how they tried, they couldn't get Vista to crash. It's invincible, I tell you! Invincible!

BasicBlack

@lldsandsll: Crawl out from underneath that rock and open your ears....

Jimbuck Bada' Bing!

@trendspotter:
Does your Mac fanboyism prevent you from reading the article and realizing this isnt real?

Bluesk1d

@DogStarMan: Cuz it's their blog and they like it, is why.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

This is a story, why?

DogStarMan

@Samifumi: Hmm... maybe too soon...?

homerjay

NIN is still alive?

lldsandsll

I wonder why they chose a Windows 9X BSOD. The NT BSOD looks completely different (though still blue ; )

PreachingLlama

The funny thing is that it is not an XP blue screen. Which if it is a real one, then their gear is ancient.

Skinnebrew

i love it. perfect for a NIN show

SleepingMartyr

That's what NINs get for having simulated screen effects and not some real pyrotechnics in the background like Great White.

Samifumi

I was at the Sep 2 concert and everything I saw was planned and working, and also freaking brilliant! The screens had a lot of fuzz/static/simulated broken images, and the BSOD. Reznor and co. found out how to go to 12! Best show I've seen them do ever, and in my top three best shows at Red Rocks ever. You need to see a clip of the electric ukelele in "Piggy". Genius.

Oh, and before I erased Windows Vista from my Dell 1520 I got a BSOD about once a month, half the time when the computer was sitting idle with maybe Outlook and a browser open. What a joke.

twalker920

Truly art imitating the obvious.

BasicBlack

NIN doesnt use Apples?? Maybe they should and maybe Apple should bring them in for a new round of Apple Ads?

MFlick

That's really awful. They should really (and this isn't my Mac fanboy speaking) figure out using another system for the screen... Oh, wait, maybe that is what Windows Mojave is all about! Now I see, thanks Bill & Jerry.

Olympics fail, as a refresher:
[www.geek.com]

trendspotter

I can't remember the last time I saw the BSOD...maybe back when XP was first released. This whole thing about Windows crashing to the point of no return is kinda bogus in my mind. I have both a Mac and Windows machine; one problem that is common with both of them is that they can come to a hault and close applications.

I'm sure there are plenty of people that have gotten viruses but if you're not going to random websites and have updated virus protection you should be fine. Macs are cool, but they are far from perfect. My Macbook Pro looked nice coming out the store but that first dent from tapping the corner sucked and heat issue that slow bends the aluminum is a design flaw.

DBX00

@Leviathant: Love your site man! Keep up the good work. Trent is the man.

Jimbuck Bada' Bing!

bsod?

huh... must be a mac thing...

JuiceDaddy

Hahahahaha. By the way - photo credit goes to Amy Randazzo, her brother Tony helps me out with theninhotline.net.

Leviathant

thats awesome. go NIN

twomilesfromhome

sry, google chrome is being weird:
[sillydog.org]

daftrok

He should show this next:
[www.miguelcarrasco.net]].jpg

daftrok

NIN is dead. If With Teeth, Ghosts, and The Slip don't prove it, I don't know what will.

Kittenparade

I love NIN but The Slip blew, their live show is still amazing tho

rodsky

I see your problem there Trent, You're using Win95. LOL!

Seriously, would it have been that hard to crash an XP or vista machine and take a shot of that? Oh wait... it was? I see. Carry on with your 95 shenanigans.

Man, I haven't seen that screen in years. Apple keeps implying that windows crashes on a daily basis and don't get me wrong, it can and will, but only if your system is seriously F*k'd up. TBH, if you F*k'd up a Macs hardware/software by even a fraction of what the PC can tolerate it would just cease to function at all.

KLanD

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge:
x2

Don't be such a negative nancy if you haven't a thing to say.

HotFootMcCook

@DBX00: Yeah the only time I ever get the BSOD anymore is for legitimate hardware failures (nothing to do with Win).

Or when I attempt to restore corrupted back-up images (FCUK YOU ImageMagic!)

bpapa9013

@Scott: Heh, you're just biased against nails. You screw people are all the same.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

@etaripamai: "Yeah I saw it at the Izod center show"

NIN and Izod create a certain cognitive dissonance. I think something in my brain just squirted a little blood.

BasicBlack

Yeah thats deff a trent antic

Dooosh

@Kittenparade: I don't know that I would say "dead", but yeah, the slip and ghosts were pretty *not great*. Same for year_zero. I did, however, love with teeth and I've been there since 91. Dif'rent strokes, I guess.

5thAveCocaine

I didn't see it when he was at Rupp Arena on Aug. 31

Peppie

Wait, they're still around? I thought maybe a heroin overdose took them.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Unless there is a driver or hardware failure, you will probably never see a BSOD. Trent is lame.

Junginator

A lot of Windows apologists seem to be jumping the gun here. It's telling....

joestoner

@etaripamai:
The reson they are playing lost of new stuff is because its the tour for the new album!
I saw them on the tour just befor year zero and they played a ton of old stuff and only one new song.

despot

@DBX00: That's a Windows 95/98 BSOD. Only time I've seen it in XP or Vista has been related to disk failures.

spazztastic

I'm betting it's done on purpose, as other people are pointing out, it's a Windows 95/98/Me BSOD.

Polybius

I don't recall seeing it at the OKC show. I'll be sure to watch for it at the Tulsa show.

GutterIsATool

Epilepsy FTW!

oCfuu

@BasicBlack: Heh, I'm reading this wearing my tour shirt from that Izod Center show. Yeah it used to be the Continental Airlines Arena, and originally it was the Meadowlands, on the same grounds as Giant's Stadium. It has basically become "insert soul-less corporate sponsor who will pay us for a year" arena. Everyone basically still calls it the Meadowlands though. Bruce Dickinson was joking about that when Iron Maiden came into town. He said he refused to say "Scream for me Izod Center!"

noamjamski

Why can I never post?!

sbarstow226

I have been a PC User my whole computer using life, 15 years or so, and I have never personally had a BSOD on a Windows machine. I have worked as a tech guy at a software company for the past 5 years and I have seen about 7-8 BSODs. Each time I have seen one it has been after upgrading a computer's hardware, ie. RAM, video card, etc. In each case, after the hardware was removed, BSOD went away for good, therefor caused by faulty hardware. Also working as tech guy for a company with less Macs than PCs, I have noticed a lot more problems with the Macs crashing, get complaints weekly.

Now, personally, I like Linux, but for work I need to use XP or OSX 1.5. I choose XP, hands down. As long as you are a smart user, you will never have a problem with XP, can't say the same about OSX 1.5.

sbarstow226

@noamjamski: Where the hell am I SCREAM FOR ME NEW JERSEY...**SILENCE** ok F***it SCREAM FOR ME IZOD.... Iron maiden fans die a little bit...

BTW Maiden rocked that place out... sick show!!!

etaripamai

@Jory: BTW...slip sucks

etaripamai

@efenili: They definitely DO crash and DO get slow ALL THE TIME!

Do you even own a mac? Be honest, now.

Phenostar

Did you guys who are commenting even watch the video (the first one is not working for me)? In the second video (the one that works for me) it's like a subliminal message... it pops up there fore a fraction of a second. Obviously it's not the system having a BSOD moment, it's just a quick screen shot image flash to take a stab at Microsoft (as the Giz article states). And if you didn't see it at your concert, I ask how could you be expected to? Jeese... it's so quick that if you weren't expecting to see it and looking for it, you'd surely miss it.

Of course, maybe the first video shows the screen for much longer and my comment becomes null and void.

SockMonkey

You guys act as if Apple computers don't get slow or don't crash....GET OVER YOURSELVES. They definitely DO crash and DO get slow ALL THE TIME!
Arrogance amazes me.

But back to the post, I think it is a funny jab. Not sure if it fits into the whole show though...kind of annoying they would use that situation to take a jab at Microsoft of all people...even though it wasn't even up for a half a second

efenili

I bluescreened a few times in Vista. Ironically the first time I saw one was the first time I tried installing Vista.
Kind of like it was a warning. "Do not go through with this!"

Kayonesoft

I've seen the BSOD with Vista a few times... but if I want to keep score, my iphone 3G has crashed more in one month than all of my PCs over the last 15 years combined.

halfkorean

@noamjamski: I was at that show as well, in the pit, it was definitely one of the best concerts I've seen in a while.

Jory

@Leviathant: True story, I followed that site for a long time, esp. meathead perspective... Turns out, I used to talk to Meathead's cousin for a long time. lolz.

lpranal

@5thAveCocaine: You're nuts, The Slip is fucking awesome. With Teeth was too mainstream, though I enjoy it.

Jory

It's art people, get over yourselves.

MagnoliaBoy

@CubsPride: so funny, yet so true :(

catfewd

@imTheKing: er... nevermind... i thought you were saying your MAC crashes more. I had a BSOD in vista just the other day, from a virus. I thought vista was secure enough that I could install some other things before installing antivirus. I thought wrong.

lpranal

@imTheKing: Might want to have your mac looked at. I had kernel panic when I first got my Macbook Pro (like , first day). Turns out, it needed a new logic board. Has been fine ever since.

lpranal

@efenili: I will give you partial benefit that Mac's do have problems... BUT I have to admit, Windows does tend to crap out much more. It's gotten much better with XP2 update and now XP3 but Windows still crashes more on me than my Mac and I use the Mac probably 70% of the time.

Either way, usually if machines are used properly, they won't crash / freeze / slow down.

imTheKing

Just like Nine Inch Nails BSOD has not been relevant since the mid 90s.

CubsPride

@DBX00: These days Windows doesn't BSOD, it just reboots. But my latest set of crashes can be blamed on Cisco's VPN client. Truth is whatever the platform, bad drivers are usually the cause of OS crashes.

twilight-arc

This is as much of a BSOD as the world was going to collapse yesterday.

Hesus Kriste, I come here for tech news, not for some 7-year-style blabber.

Pretolo

Boy, that was definitely a "blink and you'll miss it" BSOD

chillywilly

you would think they got enough money to reformat or buy a new computer...

urbanturban666

Where in the hell are all their amps at?

dead_red_eyes

@Phenostar: Absolutely...I have a Macbook Pro...I think its a great machine. I am just saying if you used a PC with half a brain you would rarely get blue screens.
Neither of my machines crash so I am mainly speaking from my experience helping friends out or just friends stories.

I just don't get the whole "Apple doesnt get viruses" or "Apple never crashes" and yet "PCs always crash" or "PCs have a bajillion viruses" thinking of some people....90% of the population with problems on the computers usually caused them through some stupid move, thats on both platforms

efenili

As was allready said BSOD is a hardware issue. if mac acctualy supported the sheer ammout of hardware that windows can, they would not have the time or money to babysit all the manufacturers, and would have just as many Kernel panics. its the price of flexibility that PC users pay. I for one am happy to pay it.

mightybob

@JEmlay: So that's why we always see Toyota Camries all broken down on the side of the road, right?

Phenostar

You know, I love how every time everyone shows the BSOD, its not you know one of the current ones, its from like win 98/2000. I haven't seen that screen in years. Like win XP pre SP1!

CTJoyce

"Trent is a Mac man-so this is obviously a subliminal jab at Windows"

That's all Apple ever has....

Why do you see Windows BSoD's? Shear numbers.

JEmlay

"We all know Trent is a Mac man."

*deletes all his NIN Albums

*washes hands and ears

Klappstuhl

@efenili:

This just isn't true. The problem with BSOD's is they are almost always hardware issues caused by drivers. Unfortunately for MS drivers are something that they have to rely on a third party for. It is one of the plagues of Windows because it is something that is at the whim of manufacturers. I remember how great it was when creatives drivers would just randomly cause BSOD's with particularly graphics chipsets. Were not talking cheap shit either, but a 200 dollar sound card causing system failures just because you used a top of the line video card. This only gets worse as you go don the hardware chain. The wonderful thing is even if you buy hardware and it works initially it just takes a driver update for it to shit itself.

No amount of intelligence can help that. It is part luck and part research, and often research isn't good enough. Ever had a lab with a series of motherboards that would crash when plugging in certain USB thumb drives but not others? I have. Sure Windows might not be responsible, but people interface with the OS and not the hardware so the OS is going to take the blame.

Macs get Kernel panics, which are more or less the same thing, but they tend to me less common since Apple has a target hardware platform. Most of the time when you start getting regular kernel panics it doesn't mean a driver issue, but a oncoming hardware failure.

There is a reason Microsoft made the default behavior in XP be a system reboot without displaying the blue screen message.

juriko

@dead_red_eyes: For a lot of acts, it's all run through the PA nowadays. Haven't you seen Geddy Lee's "amp" setup lately?

middy

At the CLE show, they didn't do the BSOD
Instead, they used a 3x3 CCTV display of the venue (Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena) showing various known entry points displaying CCTV footage throughout the song's performance. The video were of men dressed in "The Q" security garb, harrassing and physically assualting "fans". Yes it was brutal. Yes it was awesome. And yes, the audience seemed to think it was real. When the crowd grew restless, they switched the video feed to a camera on stage facing the band members, and various cameras on the floor pointed at fans.

BSOD would have been the funny too, but I liked how they did it in CLE

toddkravos

@max11221:

I am not a computer expert , but I can tell you this...if you are having problems with Vista it is because you are a moron and would screw up any system.

This all really depends on how esoteric your requirements are, doesn't it?

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

@max11221: Its you.... I've owned numerous PC's...I oftentimes get dragged to various family members homes to help with various PC related headaches.

I recently switched....I was floored by how easy the transition was. I now politely suggest to folks that they make the switch.

Lights in the Sky Summer 2008 was over the top amazing. I didnt see any BSOD screens at the LA forum stop....but they didn't play Great Destroyer live, my guess is its a subversive (intentional) dig at Micro$soft.

Also dear Gizmodo....the tour ended last friday. How about some topical items....

smitherssocal

Is it just me or is it only the people that currently use Macs "claim" to have gotten BSOD on Vista or XP? They always seem to be fervent Mac/Apple people but, "used MS in the PAST"?

I have 3 computers and have never personally owned a Mac OS (though use a friends on occasion). I have however had every MS operating system since Win95.

I have always had 3 or more computers including laptops, desktops and HTPCs doing just about everything you can do with a computer and have NEVER had a BSOD or lockup problems on any of them since installing XP or later OS. I even go to "shady" web sites on occasion!

Like another poster however I had lockups on my iPhone and iPods frequently.(still love them, but please...they don't "just work")

I am not a computer expert , but I can tell you this...if you are having problems with Vista it is because you are a moron and would screw up any system.

max11221

wow - the number of people here who didn't read the article!!! LOL - it was a jab at Windows by Reznor who is a Mac Fanboy.

A: it's not a real BSOD (as has been mentioned - it's from Win9x)
B: if it was real, it would not be there for a split second, it would hang OR it would immediately reboot and not just go on with the show.

CaliBoom

@Scott: So... not at all?

DJP3DRO

I took some video at the St Louis show on the 20th, here's the clip of the BSOD at that show (it's a bit better quality):

[supernaut.biz]

chaonatic

@juriko: You make plenty of great points, but I still maintain the belief that if most people actually knew how to use their computer rather than just know how to use 4-5 software programs you could eliminate 90% of the failures

efenili

Funny, his "tech guy" was a PC user then became a Mac user when he started working for Trent.

LVP

I didn't see anything in either of the videos

gamecrazychris

Funny as that is, I wonder what if anything Microsoft would/could do to twart an obvious and intentional jab at them. I've seen Mac halt screens before, so it's not impervious to system crashes, and it's not any less annoying to have happen. Errors happen, move along.

yougottabekidding

man thats good...
there's somebody in the front, waving their hat... then their shirt... then their bra... lol.

Charging_Mooses

Wow. Hmm, Sean, I think you need to look up the meaning of the word "subliminal". Are Gizmodo's editors on vacation or something?

Your writing and / or vocabulary may be subliminal, but the fake BSOD definitely doesn't qualify.

Lou Zucaro

And in the year of 2020 the cold war between Mac and IBM via it's proxy Microsoft became hot. Sides were chosen and there was much bloodshed. In the end old people and stoners lost the war and IBM formed the first world government...

Crowbot

Is everyone so quick to pick an OS side that they're missing the point of the song? Maybe if you listened to the song "The Great Destroyer" or even read the "Fake Fail" title then you understand the point.

tc2

This is obviously a part of the show. The fact that people are commenting on it as if it were a slip up only speaks to their intelligence. Not only is it an old BSOD, but when those appear it's for good; Until you reboot.

It is a part of the show and has direct correlation to the song 'The Great Destroyer.' If you can't figure that out then at least read the title of the article.

tc2

i get the blue screen of death at least 5 times a day on my 1 year old hp notebook... it pisses me off at the best of times.

dj_sid

@etaripamai: I was at the very same show and they played more than those songs: March of the Pigs, Terrible Lie, Sin, Starfuckers, Inc. too, so in all they played about 7 "old songs" out of a 2 hour set isn't bad. Don't forget Trent has to promote 3 albums "Year Zero" "Ghosts" & "The Slip" on this tour.

heroesandmartyrs

The best part about Trent is that not only does he love Macs, he's fucking old school; Pretty Hate Machine was put together in large part on a Mac SE.

Can't wait till Nov 3rd, gonna go see him in concert.

DaiMacculate

@Phenostar: Just had to do a complete OS reinstall on my iMac because it had slowed down to the point it was barely usable. The most common graphic/animation I saw was the spinning beachball. Much better since the reinstall. Yes, Macs certainly do slow down. I have never had a Windows machine require a reinstall.

jimtravis

hehe I saw a good caption on frostfirezoo.com:

NINE INCH FAILS

daath

This is hilarious. Mad props to NIN

wolfenstein-3d

So all of you people who have to ask if Nine Inch Nails uses Windows or not obviously missed the point of this Fake BSOD.

Trent has always favored the mac crowd, releasing the first multi-track song in Garage Band format, and if you've seen any pictures of his studio (They are everywhere) then you should know they use all mac software.

Hell, the entire Ghosts Album was recorded and mixed on a Macbook Pro.

This who statement is almost irrelevant, however, seeing as how it's purely a fake BSOD, and not an actual error.

Some people, I mean seriously.

s k e t h

I was getting a constant BSOD with Vista for about a month and a half. Turns out it was just bad RAM (let Memtest86 run over night to find it), identified the stick and removed it, never got a BSOD again. Sometimes it's the hardware's fault (It was 1 gig Corsair XMS2 RAM I believe).

JacksonDane

Very rarely will you receive a BSOD because Windows is having an issue. The majority of BSOD's happen because of misuse of a computer, faulty computer connections or a failed computer piece. As the company that only makes the software that says "X has failed" you really can't blame them for the issue.

Or you could keep shooting the messenger.

cleotheo

@Phenostar:
Not sure exactly what your point was. I see broken down Camery's all the time. Was there a point?

JEmlay