Nine Inch Nails: Why Richard Patrick Quit The Band & The Story Behind Filter's Hey Man Nice Shot

Nine Inch Nails: Why Richard Patrick Quit the Band and formed Filter and the story behind Hey Man Nice Shot

Correction - Wish was from Broken EP not Pretty Hate Machine LP

0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Nine Inch Nails Early Days
2:05 - Nine Inch Nail's Inequality
3:00 - Beginnings of Filter
4:10 - Filter's success
5:55 - Patrick & Reznor's Relationship Today

CORRECTION: Wish was on "Broken EP', not Pretty Hate Machine

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Prior to forming the band Filter in 1993 and Army of Anyone with the DeLeo brothers from Stone Temple Pilots, Richard Patrick would play guitar in the band Nine Inch Nails. While Trent Reznor would lead the band, Patrick would play on their debut album, appear in their early music videos and tour with the band over the course of 4 years from 1989 to 1993.Today, lets talk about his time in the band, how Filter’s first big hit almost became a nine inch nails song and why he quit the band.Stay tuned for the full story.
Prior to finding industrial rock music, Trent Reznor was just another unknown musician who had a background in classical piano. Born in Rural Pennsylvania, he would move to Ohio after his first year in college and started playing in local bands. One of Reznor’s early bands, wasn’t industrial, it was a new wave pop act called Exotic Birds. A musician who was in Reznor’s circle at ths time was guitarist Richard Patrick who played in another nu-wave band called Act. They would soon strike a friendship and started going to Skinny Puppy and Ministry concerts. In fact one of Reznor’s earliest gigs was working as a Roadie for Ministry. Soon enough, Reznor stared to record his own music hoping to land a major record deal.

Patrick would tell Spin Magazine “Trent had a collection of songs he was fishing around. He was curious; he tried things. He was like, “I think I can rap a little,” and so he does on “Down in It.” He was like, “I like Depeche Mode,” and he writes “Terrible Lie.”. Reznor would end up signing a deal with TVT Records who would put out the band’s debut record Pretty Hate Machine in 1989.
Reznor asked Patrick to join the band and the guitarist would contribute on the band's debut record, even if it was minimal, playing the guitar feedback part at the end of track “Sanctified”.
Patrick also appeared in the videos Nine Inch Nails did for Pretty Hate Machine including "Down in It", "Head Like a Hole", and Wish. The album would also set a record becoming one of the first independently released album at the time, to go platinum selling in excess of 3 million copies.
While the band was riding high off the success of Nine Inch Nails debut album and playing the first lollapalooza in 1991, Patrick soon realized their was a great amount of inequality and disparity in the band. He would tell Spin Magazine.

there was a point in time where Trent just kind of looked at me, and I said, ‘Wow, you’re going down to New Orleans to go live in this beautiful house that you’re getting, and I’m gonna go back to my mom and dad’s house.’ Patrick would reveal to author jon wiederhorn that he was making about $400 a month playing in Nine Inch Nails, Meanwhile he would frequently see Reznor destroy tens of thousands of dollars of equipment.

When Patrick revealed his concerns about not making enough money, Reznor told the guitarist according to Stop, Drop and Talk Podcast, ‘Hey, listen, Rich, I know you need some extra cash. Listen. Down at the end of [the street], there’s a little pizzeria, and they need drivers. So maybe you can go make some extra cash over there. And I’m, like, ‘Wow!’

At the same time, Trent would urge Patrick to write his own record to get out of his awful financial situation and not solely rely on Nine Inch Nails. Patrick would take that advice and started to record his own music. He would tell The Stop, Drop and Talk Podcast

I got close to kind of getting a record deal, and [Trent] didn’t know it at the time, but I had already lined up Warner Brothers. And I was in Los Angeles to kind of work on [Nine Inch Nails‘] ‘The Downward Spiral‘ [album]. I’m only getting on this ball one time, and if I don’t step out on my own now, I’m never gonna do it he'd say.

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