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Posted at March 27, 2016, 5:12 pm: = Industrial, electronic, alternative, heavy metal, rock, synth pop; Members: Trent Reznor: keyboard, singer, guitar, synthesizer – he is the only official member and head of NIN. Members ‘with_teeth’-tour: (the members are changing from record to record, from tour to tour) Aaron North – guitar Jeordie White – bass Jerome Dillon – drums Alessandro Cortini - Keyboard Biography: birth, childhood, life until the release of his first album Nine Inch Nails is a one-man-band formed by Trent Reznor. Nine Inch Nails starts and ends with Trent Reznor and therefore you have to know Trent Reznor to understand Nine Inch Nails. In short: Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor. Michael Trent Reznor was born at 7:30 in the morning of May 17th, 1965 in Mercer, Pennsylvania, a small farming town with a population of about 2,500, in the state’s northwest corner. Mike Reznor, his dad, worked as a commercial artist and interior designer when he married Nancy Clark. They were both in their teens, not long before Trent’s birth. Michael Trent Reznor was called by his middle name, because there was already one Michael in the family. His parents broke soon after his sister Tera was born in 1971. After that, Trent lived with his grandparents, while his sister stayed with her mum. Like every child on earth who has to cope with divorced parents, Trent too suffered a lot from the divorce. This leads to his self-hatred and the feeling of being a misfit later on. He soon started to take piano lessons. This was very important for him, because he was always shy, felt uncomfortable when people were around, but the music helped him feel better. Through music he found a way to express his feelings and to get the satisfaction that he is good at doing something. At high-school he even played prominent roles –although he was very shy - in productions of Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas) and The Music Man (Professor Harold Hill). Therefore he was voted for “Best in Drama” by his classmates. The relationship between him and his father was very healthy. He had a major influence on young Trent because he provided little artistic inspiration in the form of a guitar and stuff like that. While growing up, he started to hate his home town more and more. Trent awaited the chance to leave, because he felt isolated from the outside world which he longed to see. The world outside, he got to know only through comics, television, movies and MTV. Reznor caught up attention by anything extreme. Movies that scared him, like The Exorcist he had seen while he was eleven, or scary comic books. But the band Kiss changed his world for ever. It seemed evil and scary for him. So he decided to make music on his own. His Dad bought him an electric piano and in the back room of the little music store, where his dad sold instruments, he started ,with a couple of other guys, jamming in terrible garage bands. Soon he started to take lessons for the guiter, but never became good at it. He graduated from Mercer High in 1983 and went at the Allegheny College, about ninety miles north of Pittsburgh, where he studied music and computer engineering and tried - unsuccessfully - to fit in socially. Once he said in an interview: “No one in my family ever finished school. I thought, okay, in hight school I was a ****in’ loser, I didn’t fit in. So I thought in college I’m going to make some friends, try to fit in. But I was banished instantly. I felt like a misfit.” Now eighteen-year-old he was still working with local groups, who covered MTV music as U2, Billy Idol and Tears of Fears. He experimented a lot with his keyboard, wrote songs and did gigs. His music was more melodic and less technological, because he hadn’t discovered industrial music yet. By the end of his first year at Allegheny, Trent had decided to put his academic efforts on the back burner, in order to focus on his musical career, because he put all his creative energies into the music and the music began to overtake the studies. Toward the end of that year, and during the second year of his college, he was doing three shows a week and was travelling a lot back and forth. Therefore he had to make a choice between college and music, because he wasn’t able to study and to make shows at once. So he decided to leave Allegheny and tried to get a job in a studio somewhere. Trent moved to Cleveland, because the band Exotic Birds, he was playing in, was playing there a lot. There he got a job in a music store with all the high-tech synthesizer that were coming out. During this time he realized, that there is a lot of music he never heard before. He started to hear industrial bands (so named because their mechanized beats echoed the din of heavy industry) like, Ministry and Skinny Puppy. He got influenced a lot by these bands and he was finding himself less and less interested in playing other people’s music and quit Exotic Birds. He signed on as an assistant at a local studio called Right Track, where he worked his way up to an engineer. This gave him the opportunity to get known with all the machinery and computer applications he would need to reproduce the sounds that he was hearing in his head. After some time the owner of Right Track gave him studio access to work on his own material during off-hours, because he was so impressed with Reznor’s talent. Reznor assembled a distinctive arsenal of noises and rhythms that suited the emotions his songs were exploring, mixing electronics with electric guitar. He put something together, thought about it, refined it, went back in and did it again. At this time Trent Reznor was a one-man band, who made every single sound with the help of a computer. Even today he is a one-man band and only on tours he had band members who play the instruments he first makes on the computer [His last record ‘With Teeth’ is the only exception so far]. But he has problems with lyrics. He didn’t know what to sing. After some experimenting he realized that the only thing he could sing about, were his own personal experiencies, feelings, relationships and religion. His songs are an insight into his most intimate and personal feelings and his self-hatred. He made some Demos and gave the tape John A. Malm Jr., a young veteran of the Cleveland scene who had managed several local bands. He was very impressed by this tape on which he could hear only three songs. Malm sent the demos to ten labels and they were so impressed by it, that they got eight responses, even from Wax Trax! the label from Ministry and Skinny Puppy. Reznor was approached by TVT Records, a small New York label, which owner and founder was Steve Gottlieb. Meanwhile Trent was working on more songs for his first release. The first song he completed was Down In It, the first song from his debut album Pretty Hate Machine, he released 1989. The single reached the Number One slot on Rolling Stone’s dance chart and placing in the Top 20 of Billboard’s Top 20 club chart. His one-man band he called Nine Inch Nails. Another song from the album, Head Like a Hole, was one of the most requested songs at the time and made Trent a star. Pretty Hate Machine became the first “industrial” album which was sold million times and got platinum in 1991. Until this time Trent was still a one-man band and when he had to go on tour, he had a real problem because all the sound he made, were coming from the computer. He couldn’t play all the songs alone and he didn’t want to go on tour alone. So he decided to recruit some impressive musicians from the Cleveland scene, gave them the songs and showed them their parts, which they had to learn. In the end there were a real drum, a keyboard and some guitars on the stage playing the songs and the electronic part came out of the computer. Note: In the words of Trent : I don't know if you've ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it's stupid. I had about 200 of those. Nine inch nails lasted the two-week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily. It really doesn't have any literal meaning. It seemed kind of frightening. It's a curse trying to come up with band names. Original of the message was taken from http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/ Replies:Major releases: Note: The Halo numbers appear on every official NIN r...The Fragile (LP) - HALO 14: released September 1999 CD1: 1. His work (with others): Nothing Records: After The Downward Spira... First post and I am suprised these havnt been done earlier. They are a really good band. great write up, i love NIN. Incredible writeup. good job, very interesting. is it just my Broken version or all of the versions have like A LOT of... Broken only has eight tracks. yes, but Broken is really awesome!! i really like it. I just finished reading the it, great write up dude, and i never imagi... Excellent write up. it has like 99 tracks of nothing that lead up to the last two I've neve heard it. Great Job. According to what Repcak wrote, its just a way to keep them in order i wrote it down. I think he means, why did Trent use the word 'Halo' as opposed to anot... Oh alright. Great write up. That is a BIG mother writeup. The Fragile > The Downward Spiral > Pretty Hate Machine > Wit... I was never big on NIN, but that doesn't take away from how good this ... NIN took awhile, wait, no. The Fragile > The Downward Spiral > With Teeth > Pretty Hate ... My favorite NIN songs are Ruiner, We're In This Together, and Perfect ... My Favorite songs are Hurt, A Warm Place, The Frail, We're In This Tog... The Fragile will always be my favorite Nails album. When ever i listen to The Frail, i get goosebumps. I found it like a short masterpiece, well i love good instrumentals. Me too, that's such a perfect piano piece. The Fragile > The Downward Spiral > Still > . fantastic write up. I love NIN. yea they are a good band bla bla Yep, thanks a lot for asking, man. "The Great Below" remains my favourite song. My favorite by them at the moment is Please. [quote=daven]I just finished reading the it, great write up dude, and ... I actually think that "Just Like You Imagined" is one of my ... I heard so many great things about NIN like how great the song The Han... Well, the Hand That Feeds isn't a very good song, first of all. THTF is the song i hate most from all NIN-songs!! I put it only in the... I love THTF. I like it too That song seriously disappointed me. i will upload some nin-songs when i will get a faster and unlimited in... Thats alot of writing you've done. Something I Can Never Have has to be one of the most depressing songs ... Great read. You know what else Tori Amos said about Trent Reznor? Something along... as far as i know trent reznor had an affair with tori amos. NIN rules; I've loved them since TDS, altough I do have to say that Wi... I don't think it has for any of us, unfortunately. Broken/fixed Was Pretty Awesome Fdts Was Ok I super-agree. Nobody who wanna get an album by NIN (or at least some songs) i tho... This is pretty lame, but i think Trent Reznor is the modern Bob Dylan,... Awesome Job on the Bio. today my own homepage went online (its in german). i never really liked NIN. What's wrong with being the only member in a band? Nice man. hell, yeah. I heard that Trent used to be a Morman Missionary at one point. never heard this before. I agree. No, there's no chance in hell Trent was a missionary. Just finished reading your bio anout Trent. Wrong, The Hand that Feeds is. yes, i know. WOW NIN was AMAZING live. He tried to use a picture of George W. i know, but how i said: i think Trent did this only for publicity re... Maybe Bush is his good buddy and the song is dedicated to his friends. I really doubt it. political person = maybe yes political songs = no repcak, can you please leave the link on your website up for another 2... ok, i will. Rep, I finally got to your website, and was very pleased to find that ... Will do. hey, great!! i'm glad for you. @Kage: Do you remember my review of my NIN concert in vienna? i said ... |