Like many great songwriters before him, Trent Reznor's childhood had a pivotal effect on his creative leanings. Raised by his grandparents from the age of 5 (after his parents, Nancy Clark and Mike Reznor, had divorced),Trent's sister Tera lived in New Castle which was right near by
with Trent's mother.
Trent's Dad took him for a cherry coke to tell him that he and his Mother would no longer be living together. Reznor grew up in the suffocating environs of a stereotypical small-town America, namely Mercer, a tiny farming outpost in Pittsburgh. Reznor's younger sister Tera ,born August 1 1970,did little to assuage his sense of loneliness,(Why strangers think they can make judgements on where other people's loneliness stems from is beyond me.Maybe it's just this empty world that makes us lonely.(I obviously didn't write this bio.) and he passed into his teens as an introverted and quiet child. Indeed, he was a member of the boy scouts and even enjoyed making model aeroplanes.Went fishing with his Grandfather liked Pinball. At this stage, his most left-field hobby was skateboarding, but that would soon change. meanwhile, at high school, he eventually became popular with his peers and was resolutely clean-cut - the first record he bought was the Partridge Family!
When punk broke, Reznor's docile location meant that he completely missed this fiery phenomenon. with no alternative records being stocked by any of the tiny stores in town, and with no college radio to speak of, punk passed him by. at this point, he delved instead into comics and science fiction.Trent played in the highschool band and starred in two plays,"Music Man"and "Jesus Christ Superstar"He was voted school Punk in his senior year.(I wonder who payed a
thousand dollars for A Mercer High Yearbook,It belonged to someone who went to school with Trent,It wasn't even Trent's if he was anything like me he probably never bought one for himself.)
(I'll just add a little bit more here.Trent had allergies and problems
with his ears.He had to wear a bathing cap while
swimming in the public pool,the other kids teased him.Later he had an
operation to correct his ear problems.His granparents on his father's side lived
in Florida untill 1983,just before Trent left Mercer.Trent's father remarried
his second wife's name is also Nancy,Not sure what year he remarried.
Not sure about his Mother.Trent went to sunday school and church with his Grandparents.
They were Presbyterian.
The Reznor's are pretty well known in Mercer.In Reznor
there's some stuff about Trent's family name and family tree on his father's side.
His grandfather, furniture salesman Bill Clark, encouraged him to play piano,
Trent started to learn how to play the piano when he was five, and pushed him towards a career as a professional concert performer - however, from an early age, Reznor's prediction was for the alternative.
His Dad bought him an electric organ when he was twelve for Christmas.
His piano teacher told him he could be a professinal pianist.
Trent though he said,(well you know what that sounds like.) Indeed, he managed to get hold of a cheap moog keyboard at high school that he begged his parents to buy him his Dad taught him how to play the guitar and began copying his favorite bands.
One of his earliest obsessions was with Kiss, although he moved away from their schlock horror soon afterwards and delved into Bowie's seminal low album, as well as the more peculiar edges of popular music such as Einsturzende Neubaten and the hyper-percussive test dept.
His musical landscape was broadened still further when he enrolled at Allegheny college to major in computer engineering. Although far from a loner, he found nothing of interest in the fraternity high jinx's and football player machismo around him, alienating himself somewhat from the more popular sections of college.(Wait this person left out some of Trent's earlier years,Sum it up lost his virginity at 15,first smoked pot at 15 with his Pony tail sporting Dad at an Eagles concert,said that was the coolest thing he'd ever done up to that point.Later had a christian girlfriend named Audrea Mulrain)
(okay I know this is going to sound stupid but I read once that Trent said he was,oh yeah had his first kiss at age 10,standing at the blackboard doing calculus
and had,(normal boy,purberty thing,)who the fuck does calculus at 10
man I'm still terrified of Algerbra,maybe they must have got the age wrong,)
Only adding this because I'm sure the real story is different)
Quit College after One year moved back in with his Dad who lived in the woods
played at a bar made $300.00 a week,got restless moved to Cleaveland...
His Dad was also a amuater blue grass Muscian...
Music provided him with companionship, and it was at this time that the first wave of popular electronic music was starting to make its mark. The more chart-oriented early 80's bands, like Human League and XTC, paved the way for new synthesizer technology to seep into popular music culture. At this early stage, experts argued about the validity of these machines and for some years there were competing schools of thought heralding or denying the death of 'real' music. Reznor, for his part, was fascinated.
By now, he was living in a disheveled flat in Cleveland alongside future nine inch nails musician Chris Vrenna. Working in a music store and then a studio, Reznor started to think more and more about his ideas with music. largely ostracized by his mainstream neighbors for his looks and lifestyle, Reznor reveled in this isolation to begin writing and creating the material that would later catapult him to global fame.
He fuelled his obsession with the usual run of dehumanizing day jobs, including shop assistant and even toilet cleaning in a local studio - he jokingly recalled to one journalist that at least he had probably wiped up a few "celebrities' pubes!"
As well as the historical influences he enjoyed (Bowie, lou reed, velvet underground, throbbing gristle) Reznor also found himself fascinated by the work of two relative contemporaries, skinny puppy and most notably, ministry. pioneers of what came to be conveniently labeled the 'industrial' sound, these two bands provided inspiration for the latent talents of Trent Reznor. ministry's striking and enigmatic front man, Al Jorgensen, was particularly revered. so, suitably moved to finally begin writing his own songs, Reznor, at the age of 23, called himself
Industrial Genesis ( Trent recorded it in London,lonely,thinking about some girl,She found a new boy making Trent more depressed helps him make better music..
With a rudimentary demo tape completed, reznor approached a few carefully selected record companies, who almost universally expressed some modicum of interest. one in particular, tvt, were captivated and quickly signed to that label.
Due to Reznor's intense work ethic and passion for his music.
Work was already underway on many of the songs that would make it on to nine inch nail's debut album.
The first release was the now-revered industrial noise of 'industrial nation', which garnered enough attention to win 
support slots with skinny puppy, jesus and mary chain and peter murphy.
The wealth of material being created meant that 1989 the debut album was ready for release.
With some production assistance reined in from talented names such as Adrian sherwood, flood and keith leblanc.
The record promised to be very interesting, even though at this early stage.
Reznor's profile was very low.
I remember hearing Trent on the radio at around four in the morning in 1989,he had just finished a show in Cleveland I used to listen to CFNY back then.
In 1994 he did
a live interiew with Kim Hughes.
They asked Trent why he chose that name and he said he thought it had a hard driving sound.
This debut album, entitled "Pretty Hate Machine"was a brutal, aggressive opening volley. It was recorded in just one month in England, with John Fryer.
The opening future single 'head like a hole' was perhaps the most accessible side of what was an uncompromising and venomous record.
Splattered with hyper-drumming, lacerated vocals, and speeding, screeching guitars.
The album coursed through track after track of what one observer called "techno terrorism."
Another future single, 'Down in it' drew funk into the bizarre cauldron of noises, whilst soul reared its head on the near-balladic 'Sanctified'. dance mixed with techno which clashed with myriad other styles in a kaleidoscopic musical pile-up, sheer aural carnage.
Lyrically, Reznor sang of broken relationships, insecurity, loneliness and many other cold, unsettling emotions.
Despite his grounding in more left-field industrialist music, it was clear, however, that Reznor had a sharp eye for accessibility, or at least tune-smithery.
Indeed, one of his reasons for liking ministry so much was that Al Jourgensen always managed to knit a melody into his barrage of noise.
This brought a degree of commercial appeal to pretty hate machine - although it was very far from a mainstream record, it was nowhere near as uninviting as some of the 'classic' early industrial works, many of which are verging on the un-listenable. Amazingly, despite its harsh nature, pretty hate machine almost breached the billboard top 100, and in the wake of nine inch nail's latter-day success, has since surpassed over one million sales. at this early stage, the record garnered some critical acclaim and certainly engendered curiosity for the forthcoming album tour.
On record Reznor's work was sever - on tour, it was simply spectacular.
As the unchallenged center of the band.
Reznor recruited a touring line-up of quality musicians who took part in a frenetic and, at times, violent stage show.
Reznor was know to smash his guitars to pieces, slam into his fellow band members and thrash around in apparently fury in-between, during and after songs.
To the uninitiated it was a frightening sight.
Reznor himself believes that live shows are almost a battle between the audience and the band, and he seeks to provoke them - if they are unresponsive, he becomes even more aggressive and the crowd-baiting winds up another notch.
Visually, on stage were a bizarre sight. daubed in black, reznor has worn fishnets, t-shirts, combats and all manner of other dark clothing.
the wild haircuts, black eyeliner and lipstick mixed with tones of white powder cover the band members, to create a pseudo-gothic, near-morbid sight.
I remember one show in July 1990,Trent was pissed that his bus driver was mugged and he said"Yeah welcome to New Jersey"and everyone cheered.
Trent didn't seem to thrilled.
Key dates in this early period included a legendary executive-scaring performance at the important New Music seminar in New York, and even a slot on the guns n' roses bill at the gigantic wembley stadium in England.
Reznor's profile, at the center of all this chaos, was growing. Although reserved and often reticent to engage in any depth in interviews, the music media nonetheless still found him a compelling figure - as sales of Pretty Hate Machine continued to grow, Reznor's star profile also grows
Problems For The Road Beast
This esclating celebrity received an enormous and key boost when were allotted a place on the 1991 lollapalooza tour, the mulit-band touring package concocted by jane's addiction's front man, Perry Farrell.
Designed to showcase a plethora of musical styles, as well as offer a forum for debate over topical issues effecting young people.
The mammoth touring beast set up stalls for greenpeace, civil liberties and fire-eaters alongside main stages which were filled with top alternative acts.
On this year's bill were nine inch nails, Ice T, living color and jane's addiction,Soixie and the Banshees, to name but a few.
With such revered peers on stage.
The odds were stacked against succeeding. However, night after night Reznor's performances captivated the festival crowds - an indication of his popularity came at the merchandise stall, where t-shirts were easily the best selling items on offer.(because their so nice.)
At one show the power went out and Trent and the boys just smahed up the stage for fifteen minutes.
Lollapalooza has, over the years, provided a critical launch pad for several massive bands - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and many others.
It also helped generate interest in the growing 'industrial' scene. ministry enjoyed rabidly received slots on these collaborative tours and other bands from that area, such as front 242, Skinny Puppy and Revolting Cocks all enjoyed much greater profile and focus as the result of the increased interest.
Although all of the bands were uncomfortable which such a media label, 'Industrial' music generally centered around hard, driven guitars, speeding double-bass rhythms, screaming, often megaphone-d vocals and thunderous drum machines. industrial bands and their followers often wore black, adorned themselves in tattoos and body piercings and moshed aggressively at gigs.
A cult of alternative communities was gathering around these bands, and right at the epicenter was Trent Reznor.
On the surface, Reznor's profile was developing strongly, and nine inch nails were perched to become one of the biggest bands of America, if not the world. behind the scenes, however, all was not well in the camp...
It would be over two years before the second Trent Reznor album was released, a worryingly long absence for a band still attempting to break through. unfortunately,
the lengthy sabbatical was largely enforced on Reznor, and for a while the details of the delay were gravely detrimental to ' progress. the initial problems arose with friction between Reznor, and his record company, tvt. Being so focused on his vision for
Reznor had begun to have reservations about how his artistic bent could be expressed on that label.
One specific example was when tvt disliked the idea of Reznor working with Al Jourgensen on a side project. The growing gulf was widened irreparably when Reznor found out the only way out of his contract was through the courts, probably incurring a massive legal bill in the process. at this point, and despite the very healthy sales of pretty hate machine, this was not a welcome option.
Feeling suffocated, Reznor even contemplated recording music and releasing it for free, but eventually he opted to try to break out of his contract with tvt. The legal war between the two parties that ensued was lengthy and protracted, and ultimately, Reznor was not able to break the signed agreement.
Mentally, this was very stressful for Reznor.
Rumors alleged he was near to a nervous breakdown, and industry insiders suggested he was becoming increasingly withdrawn and wary of the outside world.
A split from a longtime girlfriend exacerbated Reznor's worries and the sheer physical demands of their exhausting live show ' heavy touring helped fund the legal battle) gave him little physical respite.
broken part 1|part 2
To seal the extremity of the project, he recorded a video promo from 'Happiness in Slavery' that was without doubt one of the most graphic and shocking videos clips ever filmed.
Featuring performance artist The Late Bob Flanagan(he has since succumbed to cystic-fibrositis,a disease he had since childhood) in scenes of apparent torture and supposed mutilation, the video was a dead-cert to appall the moral majority in America, and, sure enough, mtv banned it.
Over in the uk, the censors demanded that the video be immediately taken back to the record company headquarters and never duplicated under any circumstances.
(The director was on too much for much,by telephone in 1992 saying it was some kind of fantasy for Trent I was expecting something different,though I thought sin was worse,If you just look at happiness in slavery like a horror movie,or short.
Nevermind The Broken Movie.
By contrast, wish went on to win a grammy for best metal performance in the same year.
(Saw a clip of him accepting the award pre show.If I'm remembering correctly he said something to the effect
"Thanks ,not sure I'm heavy metal")
Behind the scenes, Reznor's career was still balanced on a knife-edge, but a glimmer of hope arrived when Jimmy Lovine, part-owner of Interscope Records (home to Marky Mark and Gerardo) expressed a love for Reznor's music.
Aware of the intricate legal battles between Reznor and tvt, Lovine simply bought the company. He promptly gave Reznor his own label, Nothing Records, and a free license to let his unique genius out to play. free at last, Reznor set about completing the next phase on the way to global domination...
Pig Spirals
Already earmarked as an anti-establishment figure, Reznor's choice of studio for his next album merely stirred up further controversy.
The sessions for the next album were completed at 10050, Celio drive in Los Angeles, the notorious house where, nearly 25 years earlier, Charles Manson and his followers had brutally killed Sharon Tate, the pregnant actress wife of Roman Polanski, as well as four other people.
Manson had hoped to incite a race war by fooling people into thinking it was a murder by the black panthers activist group.
however, when it became apparent what had happened, the whole of America was horrified.
So, for Reznor to now use this site for recording music was clearly going to provoke trouble, despite his protestations that he knew nothing of the house's history when he decided to record there.
(And that's really believable,Even when I heard about that,I knew he recorded there for the ghost's in the house,)(later Trent admit's to it) the beautiful view, its close proximity to sunset boulevard and the nearby famous whiskey night club were his reasons for locating there.
The recording process was a lengthy and difficult time for Reznor.
At first, he suffered from an almost impenetrable writers block, and progress was slow and labored, even though he would spend fifteen hours or more each day locked away in isolation.
Fortunately, a conversation with close friend and music mogul Rick Rubin fired Reznor's creative juices and a torrent of incredible material began to flow.
Over the next few months, the album began to take shape, and by 1994 was ready for release to a frantically expectant public.
's second album was, in short, a masterpiece.
Loosely based around the concept of a man struggling to throw off all the shackles of his life - religion, work, ego, everything - the album took the listener on a harrowing and dark journey into the depths of one man's decimated soul.
Filled with despair, self-loathing, desperation, sex, violence and self-destruction, it was a difficult record to live with.
It was also quite brilliant. 'piggy' was unnerving in its simplicity, 'hurt' was epic and shocking, while 'big man with a gun' was brooding and disturbing.
The scores of cleverly meshed samples, noises, synth breaks and vocal manipulation made for a highly complex and yet brutally direct result (interestingly, the mellotron sampler used by John Lennon on 'strawberry fields forever' was utilized by reznor on this album). Twisted, shocking, compelling and awesome: the downward spiral was unquestionably a modern classic.
Incredibly, even allowing for the extreme flavor of the album, the downward spiral was a massive global hit.
Anticipation was so great by the time Reznor finally put the record out that it smashed into the billboard top 100 album listings at no. 2, a truly remarkable feat. Journalists who had previously been somewhat bemused by the whole scene now flooded nine inch nail's press archives with hundreds of fawning reviews.
New band mates with the exception of Chris Vrenna,James Woolley was still there for the"Self destruct Tour"later
James Woolley was replaced by Charles Clouser.Personal opinion,Filter sucks had one good song at the beginning,obviously we all know who had the talent.
Chris
left by the time of the Fragility tour.
Replaced by Jerome Dillion.Hopefully
Robin comes back for the next tour.The way the band was for Fragility
was the best.
The tour to promote the album was similarly a huge success. Tickets were in high demand, such that the 60,000 seats for the massive show in Chicago sold out in an unbelievable 220 seconds. For those who had seen on mtv and then bought concert tickets, a shock lay in store as the infamous and now even mightier live show trawled the downward spiral trauma across the USA and the rest of the globe.
At a time when grunge had been ruling the world for some years, this even more severe music made seattle's guitar gods seem like they were playing child's music.
Before Trent releases
his cd's he always sends a copy to each of his parent's and tell's them he's okay.
As with many celebrities, as soon as they are successful they suffer a backlash. Fortunately, Reznor's self-belief is such that he is able to treat the more cutting remarks with suitable scorn. however, some critics insisted that his pained, against-ridden material, shocking image and live shows were all fake, a manufactured image and pose intended to capture the American mass market.
Observers berated the albums as devoid of any positivity and some consigned and Reznor to the realms of near-pantomime.
Reznor, whilst ridiculing these comments as inaccurate and cynical, is happy to acknowledge that the performance side of
is indeed, highly charged - he told one writer that "essentiallyis theater.
What we do is closer to Alice Cooper than Pearl Jam."
Internationally, Reznor's second major album met with similar acclaim. in Britain the massively over-subscribed tour dates had to be extended. in the far east the support was fanatical. back in the US, meanwhile, played two supposedly 'secret' warm-up shows on the west coast which were swamped with fans frantic to get in. The violence of the live shows continued - keyboardist James Woolley had been nearly knocked out on a previous tour and on these dates had his hand broken during an onstage melée. All around the world, by the time the band reached the traditional set-closer of "Terrible Lie", the crowd had been through a draining ecstatic experience.Now terrible
lie opens the show,even on the Bowie tour.Hurt's nice at the end.
Killer Soundtrack
One of the best gigs at this time was also one of the greatest festival performances of all-time. Woodstock II had been conceived with the intention to revoke the sense of unity and friendship that was generated by the very first woodstock show, way back in 1969.
Then, flower power and the swinging '60's had meant that free love, psychedelia and love-ins were the order of the day. Twenty-five years later, 350,000 kids turned up to a mud soaked field in saugerties, below the catskill mountains of upstate New York, to a very different experience.
The night before due to all the rain a tree fell on the tour bus and Trent
told the other guys not to touch anything electrical.
They had to get out of the bus and David Crosby saw him walking around in his underpants.(lucky him)
was nervous - unused to such enormous crowds, they were unsure how the fans would react, particularly as the rain-drenched, muddy crowd were not exactly feeling comfortable themselves.
On the way to the stage, however,
Reznor pushed Danny Lohner into the mud face first - a huge mud fight ensued such that when nine inch nails went on stage they were absolutely plastered in filth! their nerves had disappeared and the set that day was simply breath-taking.
In many ways, it was the ultimate irony - a festival based around a heritage of love and peace, which saw ' bile and venom steal the show, perhaps the ultimate paradox. The frenzy around the band increased another notch..
Courting controversy was something that Reznor seemed a natural at doing, so it was not surprising to see him producing the soundtrack to one of the most talked about films of all time,
Oliver Stone's damning take on American society, natural born killers. following the deadly exploits of a maniacal couple in love and on a killing spree (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), the superbly directed fable outraged mainstream sections of society all around the world. the inherent intricacies and mocking of the american media machine found in the script were lost in a campaign of censorship that demanded the film be banned.
In some territories this worked to a degree 0 it is still not available on video on the uk - and there were even alleged 'copycat' murders screaming from tabloid pages, but virtually everywhere the cinema takings for the movie were enormous.
Part of the natural born killers' stunning filmography was the tremendous soundtrack, seamlessly fitted through the complex and swift narrative.
Rarely had a film been so dove-tailed with its musical backdrop to breathtaking effect. Trent Reznor was in charge of this soundtrack, and it is possibly one of the greatest albums of its kind... ever.
Previously, soundtracks had been only modestly popular formats - however when terminator 2 featured guns n' roses and The Crow garnered some of the finest alternative acts of the day (The Cure,Violent Femmes,Helmet, Rage against the Machine, Pantera) together for their albums, the form began to change. If these films and a few others started to change the idea of a soundtrack,(The Crow had a brilliant soundtrack.) Reznor's work on Natural Born Killers completely redefined it.
It was perhaps ironic, but Reznor had been phoned up by Stone himself only to see if he objected to some nine inch nails material being used on the film. when reznor saw a private viewing of the footage, he was so stunned he even released it on his nothing records label
(who had now gone to sign seminal brit-sampling-rock-lunatics pop will eat itself, whom Reznor himself credited with much of his early inspiration, as well as coil, plug, prick and marilyn manson). with no neat track layouts,
and with artists such as L7, Patti Smith, lard, Jello Biafra and Dr. Dre included, the soundtrack was absolutely brilliant.A lot more brilliant then the movie.
Interestingly, the only nine inch nails track featured in the film was 'burn', which was written especially for the movie and appeared over the final credits.
Also of note is the fact that Reznor wrote and compiled much of the album whilst on tour in europe for spiral, making his amazing patchwork of sounds in hotel bedrooms and the back of tour buses.
In all, he watched natural born killers over seventy times before completing the project.
Ending the whirlwind year. Trent's beloved Maisie three year old golden retriever who,unfortunatly,died ,when she broke her back.
Trent returned home to Mercer for Christmas ,213 S Erie st,his chidhood home were his grandparents still lived,There's a map in Mercer and a picture of the hotel
where Trent stayed,his Grandmother was sick and worried about Trent,(I hope she never watched that broken movie..)Heard that Trent took drugs,Tried herion once,a former band member "Jeff Ward"died from Carbon Mionoxide ,took his own life because he was unable to get off of herion.Trent liked to drink Tequila.
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1995 started with yet more tour dates, before Reznor started to unwind from the sprawling behemoth that had been the downward spiral tour. some of these dates were with the Jim Rose circus,
the incredible modern-day circus sideshow, which featured some of the world's most bizarre acts, including mr. lifto, who could raise heavy objects with his testicles, a completely tattooed man and other unsettling stars.
Amazingly, reports backstage suggested that the /Jim Rose circus partying was as astonishing as the onstage fireworks! some of their alleged antics have now gone down in rock n' roll history.
Trent said it's not like they were having sex with woman backstage,Chris was going to swallow glass one night and Trent said to him "What are you doing?"
"Chris said"Jim says it's okay"Trent said"That's because he's not the one doing it."Trent went on six week tour with David Bowie.
By now, Reznor was classed as a sex symbol by millions of women worldwide.
unfortunately, he was about to enter another difficult period, with legal battles and other distractions destined to delay the nine inch nails album massively.
The camp was rocked when Reznor was landed with a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, and although this was eventually thrown out, the ensuing delays and difficulties this created proved a huge inconvenience to work on the next record.
Whilst the public waited with baited breath for the third album, Reznor was actually very busy with music.
He completed production duties for his own nothing records signings marilyn manson an their album antichrist superstar, which took longer than the expected two month schedule.
Tour dates with this band also reinforced a bond that has led to Manson becoming a possible successor to nine inch nails in terms of global success.
Part of this album was recorded at Reznor's new studio in New Orleans, which had previously been a funeral parlor.
The studio allegedly contains the actual door of the tate mansion on which The Manson Family once scrawled the word "pig" in blood.
Trent said he took it because of the high rent he had to pay there.
Trent met Sharon Tate's sister once who asked him why he was staying there which made him think about the whole thing,that night he later cried. Other bands who have recorded there include Pantera and Coil. having moved to New Orleans from Cleveland, Reznor was disappointed to find his new home on the front page, including his address, on his first day in town! his palatial residence is also home to two pet dogs, and one cat, which is supposedly called fuckhop!
In september 1996, a frantically received three nights of gigs at irving plaza showcased acts on the nothing records roster - in light of nine inch nails' profile and marilyn manson's(then they were good,now they suck too)
future colossal status, these were truly awesome gigs.
Reznor was also involved in several other side projects during the hiatus between second and third albums. as a big fan of the doom video game, he was delighted to create the soundtrack to the much-awaited sequel, namely quake.When asked how he came up with the name He said he had over 200 name ideas
for what to call his band but most only lasted a couple of days, whereas lasted two weeks and sounded hard!It works so well,Ninfo from the Ninernet,for all the Ninnies
Sites and chat rooms on the Internet, dubbed the 'Ninternet', also reflected the fact that although no new album was yet forthcoming, Reznor was still a source of fascination for millions of fans. The two-set video release, entitled closer, which included footage of the 'self destruct' tour and singles promos, helped to tide Reznor's fans over further still. During this time, Reznor also worked with his hero, David Bowie.
The two seemed to have much in common, particularly producing the unexpected, despite Bowie's seniority in years.
Reznor worked on the track 'I'm afraid of Americans' and toured with him in 1996 - the two have since become good friends.
Reznor has also been working with a band called tapeworm, which is an offshoot of nine inch nails in some ways - ideas that might be inappropriate for one band can be used in the other.
Tapeworm involves Reznor with Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser. The latter two are heavily involved in the music and the project is much more of a collaborative forum than , Something new for Reznor.Yeah we all saw how well that went,Maybe soon. Other projects that have been mooted include working on re-mixes with goldie and puff daddy.
If David Bowie was Reznor's musical hero, then David Lynch, of Twin Peaks fame, was his film hero. Reznor had tried to get in touch with Lynch to see if they could work together for some time, but with no success. then, ironically, Lynch got in touch with Interscope and said he like to work with Reznor on the soundtrack for his new film, the Lost Highway.
Lynch traveled to New Orleans and when they met in the studio, he asked Reznor to come up with music having only verbally described the scene in the film - no footage, only a script! needless to say, the end music was incredible! a spin-off from this soundtrack was the first fresh piece of music for some time.
'the perfect drug', a stunning, hard piece of post-industrial drum and bass mania, was released as a single, with accompanying expensive video, in which Trent looked superb.
Strangely, this fantastic piece of music only featured for ten seconds at the end of the lost highway.
"Without you everything falls apart"
"Take me with you"
The new album itself clearly poses a few creative challenges for Reznor. he has reportedly expressed concerns about nine inch nails slipping into self-parody and has said that he is tired of industrial music in general. This is reflected in his work with Rick Rubin.
who is penciled in to produce the next album.(Didn't happen) one story suggests that Reznor even phoned bono of U2 to talk about how to move his music forward under such a severe global spotlight,
whilst still keeping his creative integrity intact. With his hints that the new record will be more drum and bass influenced that industrial and proclamations that it will alienate many nine inch nails hardcore fans, Reznor is already laying the foundations for a drastically different sound.
This should come as no surprise - pretty hate machine redefined industrial music and set new parameters for dance music; broken won critical acclaim despite being a far harder record that its predecessor;
the downward spiral was a notable move towards more guitar and drum-driven music.
with the insinuation that the new album will be more song-oriented, possibly jungle/hop hop-based, the world can only guess at what Trent Reznor will produce next.(End of Article-1997)~~
Trent's grandmother"Clara-Belle Clark",(she had a twin brother named Clarence)
dies August 12 1997.Trent's family still lives in Mercer County,his Sister,Tera has two children,Damion,and Briona.(as of 1997)
At this time Trent was battling with depression.He starts to see Psychiartrist.Trent's told he has a chemical imbalance and needs to be on anti-depressants.Trent doesn't like how the medication makes him feel so he takes himself off them.
In 1999 Trent releases his long awaited follow up to the downward spiral.
THE FRAGILE
An epic double abulm masterpeice.The Fragile is well recieved by the critics but sales do not go as well as expected.Trent and the band go on tour.
After touring for The Fragile Trent now says he was too sick to tour and knew he would have to confront his demons and get sober.
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