Trent Reznor Facetimes Fan Onstage

Say what you will about him, but that was a pretty cool thing to do:

I have to admit I genuinely respect the man, despite the criticism he's gotten. I understand he's been through some rough times, including depression and substance abuse. But I was impressed with Hesitation Marks this year overall. Maybe he's not as edgy as he was in the '90s, but he's certainly matured and showed resilience as an artist i.m.h.o.

So wait...what's he doing with his phone? I couldn't understand what he was saying...

  On 11/21/2013 at 8:33 AM, MastaN8 said:

So wait...what's he doing with his phone? I couldn't understand what he was saying...

me either

I was thinking from the title that it was something more like this:

he's looking old

guess steroids don't "do a body good"

Transcript:

Uh blah buh buh eh uh uh beh. (Wooooooo.) Blah blah uh ha un ho hu lolo na no. (Wooooooo.) Uh han he hn pu a lot of fans uh hg ben heh. (Reznor, Reznor, Reznor, Reznor, Reznor.)

Apparently the guy is a die-hard fan dying of cancer and couldn't make the show, so Trent did this for him. A cool thing to do, indeed.

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Trent Reznor, leader of rock band Nine Inch Nails, was about to play "In This Twilight" for his audience at a recent Las Vegas concert. But first, he pulled out his phone to FaceTime.

Reznor told the crowd that fan and friend Andrew Youssef, a concert photographer with OC Weekly, has stage four colon cancer, and that he wanted to dedicate the song to him. Youssef picked up, and the audience began to chant, "Andrew! Andrew!" as Reznor turned his phone's screen toward the crowd.

 

"I just wanted to tell you that I miss you man," Reznor said. "I wish you were here."

Named after the Nine Inch Nails song, "In This Twilight" is the title of one of Youseff's blog posts for his column, "Last Shot," where he chronicles his experience with cancer.

Youssef called another one of his posts "Hopes of Seeing Nine Inch Nails One Last Time Pushes Me Forward." Reznor invited Youssef to join him on part of the band's tour after he heard about the photographer's ordeal and love for Nine Inch Nails. The two have been friends ever since then.

After writing about Nine Inch Nails in July, Youssef saw the band at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Nov. 8. He was too exhausted to make it to Las Vegas, but Youssef did get to hear the roar of the crowd.

 

 

 

That's real cool of him.

he definitely seems like a really nice guy

nevermind

  On 11/21/2013 at 11:33 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

nevermind

 

Edited by John Ehrlichman, Yesterday, 11:33 PM.

this requiers investigation

This is pretty awesome

Trent apparently tried to literally beat the cancer out of Youssef with his giant muscles but failed - FaceTime was a conciliation