Poster: DAVID BOWIE Nine Inch Nails Mint 1st Printing Mint Original 1995 Poster w/COA

DAVID BOWIE Nine Inch Nails Mint 1st Printing Original Poster Oct 21, 1995 Includes COA

Performers: David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Prick, David Bowie/Nine Inch Nails

Artist: Rex Ray

Date: Oct 21, 1995

Venue: Shoreline Amphitheater (Mountain View, CA)
Size: 20" x 28"

Condition: Mint, 1st Press

Released in September of 1995, David Bowie's Outside album would inspire a tour that would both confuse and confound his existing fan base at the time, yet has since been re-evaluated as one of his most daring moves. It was a tour containing many of the most frighteningly intense performances of his career, and to up the ante he would invite Nine Inch Nails to co-headline. The previous year, Bowie had begin collaborating with Brian Eno again, revisiting the experimental territory they first explored during the late 1970s on Bowie's now famous Berlin Trilogy of Low, Heroes, and Lodger. In many ways these albums, which contained proton-industrial elements and the searing guitar work of Robert Fripp, were a precursor to Nine Inch Nails, so road working it together wasn't as outrageous as it may have seemed to fans of both camps at the time. Outside was essentially a concept album, revolving around the story a detective on the hunt for an art killer. It was a tale of murder in a noir setting and was clearly more artistic than anything Bowie had attempted for a long time. It also embraced an angrier industrial pallet of sound for Bowie, and by 1995, Nine Inch Nails, who were riding high on the success of The Downward Spiral, had become the absolute masters of the raging industrial sound. With singles like "Closer" and "Hurt" now embraced by the alternative scene as well as MTV, they were arguably more popular than Bowie at the time. However, front man Trent Reznor reportedly felt uncomfortable having one of his major influences open, so they developed a program that featured Bowie and his band members joining NIN toward the end of their set which would then directly segue into Bowie's set without a break or intermission. Bowie would recruit into his band two key collaborators from the '70s and '80s, guitarist Carlos Alomar and pianist Mike Garson, in addition to guitarist Reeves Gabrel, a critical element in the sound of Bowie's early 1990s project, Tin Machine. Together, they were a serious force and Bowie, who many now perceived as lost in a sea of commercial trends, had suddenly becoming relevant again while rebelling against his own superstardom. The Outside/Dissonance tour began on September 14, 1995 at the Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford Connecticut and pummeled its way across the country. One of the most memorable performances of the tour occurred five weeks later when the tour landed at the scenic outdoor Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.