Trent Reznor Email

[WiizerFanboy]

Hello everyone.

I'd like to thank everyone for a very successful year so far in the world of Nine Inch Nails. I'm enjoying my couple of weeks off between legs of our Lights In The Sky tour and got to thinking... "wouldn't it be fun to send out a survey to everyone that's shown interest in NIN?" Well, that's not exactly how it went, but regardless - here it is. "As we've moved from the familiar world of record labels and BS into the unknown world of doing everything yourself, we've realized it would benefit us and our ability to interact with you if we knew more about what you want, what you like, what you look like naked, etc. I know it's a pain in the ass but we'd truly appreciate it if you'd take a minute and help us out. As an incentive, everyone who completes the survey will be able to download a video of live performance from this most recent tour (and I know what's going through your little minds right now: "I'll just grab this off a torrent site and not have to fill out the survey!!!" and guess what? You will be able to do just that and BEAT THE SYSTEM!!!! NIN=pwn3d!!!)

BUT

What if we were to select some of those that DO complete the survey and provide them with something really cool? I'm not saying we'll ever get around to it, but if we did maybe something like signed stuff, flying someone to a show somewhere in the world, a magic amulet that makes you invisible, a date with Jeordie White (condoms supplied of course), you know - something cool. See, you'd miss that opportunity AND be a cheater.
Do the right thing - help us out. You'll feel better.

Thank you and I've had too much caffeine this morning,
Trent "

https://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1049187

Is Trent Reznor not THE man?

[Mericks]

Everything that I just read entertained me very much, yep yep.

[Typheus]

Who's this Trent guy?

If he's actually a part of NIN...jesus christ, I'd never expect a band member to say "pwned"

[WiizerFanboy]

Who's this Trent guy?

[Mericks]

Who's this Trent guy?

If he's actually a part of NIN...jesus christ, I'd never expect a band member to say "pwned"

Ok, with all the NIN talk on these forums you shouldn't even have THOUGHT that.

[WiizerFanboy]

Who's this Trent guy?

If he's actually a part of NIN...jesus christ, I'd never expect a band member to say "pwned"

Ok, with all the NIN talk on these forums you shouldn't even have THOUGHT that.

[Typheus]

...Who's Trent?

[Mericks]

Wiki his name.

[WiizerFanboy]

[BreakmanX]

...Who's Trent?

Trent Reznor, basically, IS Nine Inch Nails. He writes the songs almost completely himself and plays most of the instruments (usually all but drums) and sings on the albums. He is also the only person in NIN to be in the group from the beginning. He is this generation's Beethoven/Bach/Mozart etc.

[WiizerFanboy]

The only time other people actually play in the band are during live shows, where he assembles the group of people.

[BreakmanX]

Well, he does play most of the recorded stuff. He rarely plays drums on the recordings, and the other instruments occasionally have other people on them. Ghosts had a lot of other artists playing too.

It is safe to say that Trent is the driving force. I mean it is basically his project, and most of the stuff the other people play he directs them too play.

[WiizerFanboy]

Indeed. He's married to his art form.

I'm still wondering whether Typheus was just trolling or being serious.

[Typheus]

Dude..I've listened to ONE NIN song before, and that was The Hand That Feeds.

If you have any other good ones, I'll listen, but, either ways...I never cared about the individual people in a band. I just cared if they put out good songs.

[WiizerFanboy]

It's hard to recommend individual songs from NIN, since most of the time It's an acquired taste. I didn't really like certain NIN songs at first and then I fell in love with them. I'd say probably listen to some songs from the "Year Zero" album, or "The Slip" album.