2CDIn the autumn of 1995, two generations of sonic revolutionaries collided in an audacious experiment that defied genre, alienated expectations – and quietly rewrote the rules of live performance.Captured here across two landmark shows Homespun brings you the live remastered radio broadcasts from KLLT-FM on October 11th at the Riverport Amphitheatre in St.Louis, and Syndicated Radio’s October 21st show at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View – a fearless portrait of transformation, tension, and artistic risk.Opening each night with a ferocious set, Nine Inch Nails delivered their industrial gospel in full fury – cathartic, confrontational, and razor sharp.But what followed was unprecedented: rather than a break or an encore, Trent Reznor and his band stayed on stage to merge directly into David Bowie’s set.The handoff was gradual, ghostly, almost ritualistic.Bowie emerged from the shadows as the noise subsided, guiding the audience into his Outside world of post-apocalyptic noir and fractured identity.The Riverport show pulses with raw, unfiltered energy.NIN’s set scorches, and Bowie responds with urgency–leaning hard into the surreal textures of “Hallo Spaceboy,” “Scary Monsters,” and a haunting duet of “Hurt” that still chills.Ten days later, at Shoreline, the dynamic shifts: Reznor’s set crackles with precise intensity, but it’s Bowie’s theatrical arc–from “The Hearts Filthy Lesson” to “Strangers When We Meet”–that leaves an unexpected emotional crater.The collaborative pieces remain the highlight, especially “Reptile” and “Subterraneans,” where worlds collide and dissolve.Culturally, these shows were misunderstood in their time – but prophetic in hindsight.They bridged old and new, glam and goth, Berlin and Cleveland.Bowie embraced the chaos of a digital, decaying world; Reznor mirrored it in machine rhythm and human despair.Together, they didn’t just perform – they transmitted.These recordings are more than concerts.They’re documents of mutation – caught at the seam between decades, where sound evolved and masks came off.
