From: mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat)
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: Secret info on Trent- READ THIS
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:13:27 GMT
Organization: Amherst College
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Here is something which got mailed to me by a guy who meant to post it :
From MSZABO@kentvm.kent.edu  

 

 

Subject: Re: NIN

Organization: Kent State Univ.

 

 

 

Lee Miller/8192;PennState-Fayette (lpm@fert2.fe.psu.edu) wrote:

: In article <1992Nov5.170701.8093@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> scupin@rintintin.Colorado.

I'd just like to say that I am 13 and like most pop/top 40 but i think trent

rezer is the coolest of all time because in the first song on broken he says

fist fuck.

 

"I tried...I gave up" is so stressful. trent has so much cool angst. He

reflects the troubles of young teenagers in this dark age. SOmetimes i drool

and wet myself with glee because there is someone like Trent that i can

relate with.

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  I live in the Cleveland, Ohio area... the place Trent Reznor was born

and raised...   I know MANY people who know him personally (I admit I don't).

Of those people, not ONE of them LIKE Trent Reznor.  In fact, a close friend

grew up with him through high school and was dating him for about 1 year or

so...  She can go on for hours about the ways he would manipulate people

(her included) and was generally an all-around asshole.

 

I have never met him, as I said...  But I will probably meet him next time

they are in the area... I AM looking forward to it, as I really love his

music alot, but I have very low expecations of the mans personality and

"charm".  *sigh*

 

But anyway, my point is not yet made...

   My friend and I talk alot about the band as she was there when it

was started.  She told me about the very first demo tape that Trent ever

put out.  There were only two copies of the tape which Trent let out (to

those other than agents) and she had one of them.  The music was not at all

what you hear today.  It was the same lyrics but it was a very hip-hop

house beat.  "Very cheesy," she says.  In fact, the 'Down In It (Demo)'

from the 'Head Like A Hole' 12" CD is NOT the actual demo!  When Trent

got a record deal and needed a band for a tour, he needed a guitar player.

Well...  This girl knew a friend, Rich, who played guitar, and even though

she was told not to let anyone have it, she gave the NIN demo to Rich.

Rich, then auditioned for the band without this girl knowing about it.

From what I understand, Rich made a comment at the audition about already

knowing the material and Trent almost shit.

  Trent asked for the tape back to destroy it, but Rich wouldnt give it to him

because he wanted to give it back to who gave it to him.  Anyway... I dont

understand how it happened, but Trent got the tape back and retaped a NEWER

version of the song over itand gave it back to my friend (I am not telling

her name, although it WOULD have made the story easier to tell...).

  Well...  As far as Trent knows, there are now no surviving versions of

the ORIGINAL demo; the one he was signed with.  BUT!  My friend had made

a copy of it before giving it to Rich.   The tape still survives to this

although it is partial taped over by accident...  This is something everyone

should hear!

 

   My friend (Ok, Ill give her a fake name of Jen) also tells me about

how even though Trent's lyrics seem to be something he feels inside, many of

his songs are ficticious.  Knowing this, she relates a rather funny story

to me of a time when Trent was back in town for a concert and she was

backstage after the show.  She was also involved with Rich for a short time

after Trent which was always fuel for a rivalry between the three.  Trent

came up to her and was talking to her about his rotten life and how women

suck and how he hates everybody here, etc...  'Jen' then looks at him

directly in the eyes, touches his arm and says 'Put that anger into

MUSIC, Trent...'

 

  Well... I know much of this is hard to believe, but I think most of it

is true.  Of course, in the transition between his version, her version,

and now, my version, some truths get lost and mixed up, but I trust

'Jen' a lot and would trust Trent a lot less...

 

  Just thought I could let you in on a 'little secret' you won't read about

in the 'Alternative Press' interview...

 

 

Point   <--- Live from Kent State University!
sorry about the spaces. there was probably a better way to do this. But I'm
evil so I don'r
fuck this is an evil program. hope you enjoyed the trent.data
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