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Release Date
12 May 2001
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Length
25 tracks
And All That Could Have Been (also known as Halo 17 CD1) is a Nine Inch Nails live album and film from the Fragility 2.0 tour of 2000. It was released on CD, DVD and VHS on January 22, 2002.
Its release was originally planned for November of 2000. It was then slated for December 11, 2001, as shown on various teaser ads running in the months leading up to its eventual release. A promotional website (now defunct) for the release was set up at andallthatcouldhavebeen.com.
The Deluxe CD version comes in a fabric-covered slipcase and includes Still, a CD of stripped down renditions of old and new songs, as well as several instrumentals.
The album, named after "And All That Could Have Been" from Still, went through many possible names, all lyric excerpts from The Fragile.
The film was directed and edited by Rob Sheridan and the entire project was done in-house. The NIN camp purchased several Canon XL1 mini-DV cameras to film each night of the tour from multiple positions, and the material in the final cut was taken from multiple shows and edited together to seem like one performance. While the video footage comes from the entire tour, the audio was taken from only four or five shows. The video was edited with Final Cut Pro and the audio was mixed with Pro Tools. This approach was groundbreaking for its time, producing a completely DIY, yet professional-quality product by harnessing the newest available consumer-level technology.
The overall And All That Could Have Been release was dedicated to the memory of Rodney Robertson, a close friend and employee of Reznor's who was murdered in 2001. Reznor was too deep in his addictions to attend Robertson's funeral, and he saw this as the impetus to fully get clean and sober.
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