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Associated album
  
With Teeth

End date
  
July 8, 2006

Period
  
2005 – 8 July 2006

Start date
  
March 23, 2005

Legs
  
5

Leg
  
5

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No. of shows
  
163 131 in North America 4 in South America 22 in Europe 2 in Asia 4 in Australia 5 cancelled

Live: With Teeth Tour was a concert tour in support of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' With Teeth album, which took place in early 2005, running until mid-2006, and was broken into five legs.

Contents

The Spring Arena and Summer Amphitheater legs were filmed for the Beside You in Time DVD, which was released in early 2007.

Band line-up

  • Trent Reznor – Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, tambourine, mbira
  • Aaron North – Guitar, backup vocals
  • Jeordie White – Bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, backup vocals
  • Alessandro Cortini – Keyboards, programming, guitar, bass guitar, backup vocals
  • Jerome Dillon – Drums (March 23, 2005 – October 1, 2005)
  • Alex Carapetis – Drums (October 7, 2005 – December 1, 2005)
  • Josh Freese – Drums (October 4, 2005 – October 5, 2005; December 6, 2005 – July 8, 2006)
  • Stage setup

    The production for the club tour was minimal. Due to this, the band was able to change setlist often and move some songs up and down from show to show.

    Support acts

  • Carre Callaway
  • The Dresden Dolls
  • Stage setup

    Same as above.

    Support acts

  • The Dresden Dolls
  • Eagles of Death Metal
  • Saul Williams
  • Stage setup

    Same as above.

    Support acts

  • Bird Blobs
  • The Follow
  • Stage setup

    This leg incorporated a very elaborate visual display, incorporating a screen behind the stage, light columns, geometric light monitors, a grid of overhead lights, and a sheer silver screen that would drop in front of the stage. Each show began with the screen dropped down in front of the stage and would be raised as the second song in the set began. It would drop down again halfway through the set for "Eraser", "Right Where It Belongs", and "Beside You in Time", with film footage projected onto the screen for the former two songs.

    Roy Bennett and Martin Phillips were responsible for the lighting design and stage design respectively. Bennett explained in a 2005 interview that much of the lighting was done using a series of LED lights arranged in "stalactites or stalagmites [formations] to tie in to the album artwork". DLP projectors were also used to project images onto a gauze screen in front of the stage. Using the gauze projection-screen, Phillips, Trent Reznor, and Rob Sheridan devised a "gag" where they projected "a sheet of glass shattering onto a downstage kabuki scrim that would drop as the glass shatters fell. ... We settled on Trent swinging his guitar at the gauze [and] shattering it, but with all the pieces falling up as the [screen] flew out".

    Support acts

  • Queens of the Stone Age
  • Autolux
  • Death from Above 1979
  • The Standard
  • Stage setup

    Same as above.

    Support acts

  • Moving Units
  • Saul Williams
  • Stage setup

    The lighting for the summer Amphitheater tour was a change from the arena shows' "teeth" panels. A grid of Versa RAY pixel lights arranged in a cage hung over the stage, occasionally moving down and up to display visuals, through which the band may be seen. Seven large, vertical, immobile rectangular panels were in the background akin to the three mobile ones from Fragility v2.0. Each performance on this leg (except 5/26 in George, WA) had a unique poster for sale.

    Support acts

  • Saul Williams
  • Bauhaus
  • TV on the Radio
  • Peaches
  • References

    Live: With Teeth Tour Wikipedia