Weird new photo from NIN.com has Chinese Democracy in it!!!

[Mutherfunker]

look in the upper right hand corner, see anything familar??

this is directly from NIN.com

Notice how whover took the picture is focusing toward the sign?? The guy furthest left is almost cut out.? If it were a group photo, wouldn't Reznor be more of the focus, or in the middle of the pic?? Hmm...

Actually, I think that sign has nothing to do with the taking of the picture. The guy on the left is the same distance from the edge of the picture as is the guy on the right. Part of the sign is even cut off.

This doesn't look orchestrated in any way - I just wonder what the fuck that sign is - it doesn't look temporary, and if GN'R were working in there, wouldn't it say Guns N' Roses?

Weird.

@#$%Funker

Edit: Actually the sign is probablt some joke amongst the guys in NIN and may have been there a while if it's somewhere they work a lot. Quite funny actually.

[jarmo]

The current drummer in NIN is Josh Freese... Guess what band he's been in in the past....



/jarmo

[shaun]

If that's the door to the studio where CD is being recorded, what a depressing looking place. No wonder the first thing a band does when they make some cash is have their own studio built in their homes. I thought Trent used his own home studio anyhow, what's he doing there (where ever that photo was shot).

[holtzmn73]

Just a wishfull thinking here:

4) Axl and Trent has been very good friends in the past.

No they weren't, they didn't hate each other but they sure weren't "very good friends."

[Woooo!]

It will just be the studio for Chinese Democracy. It's nothing huge and it is not a sumbliminal message. It was probably just that they had a photo shoot in the same building. There is probably many bands recording there and they put the project names on the door.

[Olorin]

I think it is just another attack on robin for choosing to stick with Axl and not return to Reznor for his new project.

Reznor was very bitter about it remember.

They all look pretty pissed off in that picture.

Its the old saying - "There's the door....."

[RichardNixon]

It will just be the studio for Chinese Democracy. It's nothing huge and it is not a sumbliminal message. It was probably just that they had a photo shoot in the same building. There is probably many bands recording there and they put the project names on the door.

I don't buy that. NIN put the "Chinese Democracy" sign in there for a reason...I could mean nothing, but they made sure it was there.

[W. Adam S]

It actally looks like an elevator door, now does this mean CD going down or up?

[vernset]

Just a wishfull thinking here:

4) Axl and Trent has been very good friends in the past.

No they weren't, they didn't hate each other but they sure weren't "very good friends."

Well, maybe not "very good" just they were friendly with each other

Put forward by none other than Axl Rose himself and frequently championed by the GUNS N' ROSES frontman NINE INCH NAILS actually toured Europe in 1991 as support to Axl's all conquering crew

Back in the early 90s, W. Axl Rose used to rave about Pretty Hate Machine to any interviewer who would listen to him.


Reznor Speaks:

Island (UK) was waiting until we said that we'd come over, they had lined something up for us to do which would cost a lot of money for us to do it and it was like `if you are into us, then lets split the cost and make it affordable to do.' So we said we're not going to do this, and they said fine, we won't promote the record and we said fine `Fuck you'.

So I came back and G'N'R asked us to open for them at a couple of dates in Europe and now the record company is like `Oh..'.

Nine inch Nails supporting Guns `n' Roses, what's going on?

It was shocking to me, so I figured it would shock a lot of people, especially those who think we are a total synth band. Axl started showing up at a lot of gigs and said that he liked us and we sort of became friends and said `If you guys ever want to open for us, let me know `. We said `Maybe in Europe or something'.


 

[jameslofton29]

It actally looks like an elevator door, now does this mean CD going down or up?

Maybe it means the elevator is no longer in service.

[shaun]

Using some state of the art distortion and skewing options in Photoshop I?ve reached the conclusion that the sign is in fact a no smoking sign. Originally it looked like a bed, a no sleeping sign, and that made zero sense 

[god of thunder]

Nine Inch Nails played a show in Toledo, Ohio on february 21st 2006 in the Toledo Sports Arena.
http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=16063&sid=6b5c64fad4cf78eaa8b7c24d53af028c

So I guess this is where the picture was taken and not in a record studio as some people are thinking. The Chinese Democracy sign still stays a mystery though.

[GnFnR87]

The current drummer in NIN is Josh Freese... Guess what band he's been in in the past....



/jarmo

omg ur right i forgot he was in Guns N' Roses too.... hes been in so many that i forgot lol.

[NiGhTrAiN?]

Very interesting replies to this post.
Question. Is that what posting in forums does to you ?  ==> 

[crofty]

look in the upper right hand corner, see anything familar??

this is directly from NIN.com

they (GNR) are puttin out clues for us.lets say from this clue we get the number 9,as in NINE inch nails.maybe CD will be released on the 9th of a month.we will have to look for a clue to give us the month.ha ha,lock me back in my room please coz my head hurts and im starting to froth at the mouth again.noooooooooooooo not the white jacket 

Well, there are 5 guys in the picture and May is the fifth month. Put that with the "Nine" from Nine Inch Nails and you get May 9th, which is a TUESDAY!!!!!!  Dear lord, now I'm insane.

And my birthday!

[Nytunz]

this sure is waird.. Maybe they heard the album and thinks it sound great, and wanna help Axl promote abit 

[PhillyRiot]

From the article I read in my old SPIN magaine Axl LOVES NIN.  So I am not sure what this means....

[DeN]

maybe it's a just a trent's joke to call a room "chinese democracy"...

[Fortus]

the drummer is josh Freese!!!!when Josh joined NIN?

[Jessica]

So it's either very genuine and a way to tell us to hold on

OR

they despise us and want to fuck with our heads

but one way or another,

I TOLD YAS MANY FAMOUS 40'S SURF WAAAAAYYYYY TOO MUCH TO DO BLOODY MUSIC