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You know, if Trent Reznor was going to go through all the trouble to link up with Jane's Addiction for an alt-rock veterans' tour, would it really have been that much trouble to turn it into a full-blown Lollapalooza '91 reunion? Is Ice-T's acting career keeping him so busy that he couldn't take a couple of months off? What about Living Colour? Or the Butthole Surfers? Those guys are probably all anxiously waiting by the phone just in case Reznor feels a sudden wave of nostalgic goodwill.

Even without Siouxsie and the Banshees or the Rollins Band, though, this NIN/JA jaunt is a beast of a tour, and we're already getting our devil sticks and "Censorship Is Unamerican" T-shirts out of mothballs. And since Reznor has written that he's ready to "disappear for a while" after this tour, this could be our last chance to experience the inevitable arena-wide hush when the first notes of "Something I Can Never Have" chime out.

Last month, we reported that both bands would serve as headliners for this year's Sasquatch Festival. And last night, Reznor announced the first wave of dates on the Nine Inch Nails website. Here's how they look:

(Note: Jane's Addiction aren't playing with Nine Inch Nails on the Chicago stop on the tour, which means they are probably playing this year's Lollapalooza. - Ed.)
Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction dates:

05-08 West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
05-09 Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
05-10 Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre
05-14 Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
05-15 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
05-16 Chula Vista, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
05-18 Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
05-20 Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine Meadows
05-22 Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
05-23-25 Quincy, WA - Sasquatch Festival
05-26 Englewood, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
05-27 Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
05-29 Chicago, IL - Charter One Pavilion *
05-30 Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
05-31 Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Center
06-02 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre
06-03 Darien Lake, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheatre
06-05 Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
06-06 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
06-07 Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
06-09 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
06-10 Burgettstown, PA - Post-Gazette Pavilion
06-12 Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

* NIN without Jane's Addiction