Nine Inch Nails & David Bowie - The Classic Collaborations: Broadcast Rarities & Obscurities

The US leg of the Outside Tour, with David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails co-headlining, opened on September 14, 1995 at Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, CT. In a 2012 Rolling Stone reader’s poll, the tour (pairing Nine Inch Nails with Bowie) was named one of the top 10 opening acts in rock history. The tour was Bowie’s first since he retired his hits with his previous Sound+Vision Tour (1990). He said at the time, “We’re going to play some older material, sure, but not obvious things. I found, while rehearsing for the [Outside] tour, that older songs I haven’t played for years suddenly fit in with this new material quite well – things like … ‘Joe the Lion.’ So, I’m quite looking forward to it”. Other songs from Bowie’s back catalogue that he performed during the tour include ‘Scary Monsters’, ‘Look Back in Anger’, ‘Andy Warhol’ and ‘Breaking Glass’. Bowie discussed later why he chose to tour with Nine Inch Nails: “I personally did like the combination of NIN and me, but my fans didn’t. B