Nine Inch Nails Reunite With Former Members For Epic Hometown Performance: Watch

“We yet f-cking made it here,” Trent Reznor told the assemblage astatine the Blossom Music Center successful Cuyahoga Falls, a abbreviated thrust southbound of Cleveland, Ohio, connected Sept. 24. The amusement — noted by Cleveland.com arsenic being a delayed solemnisation of Nine Inch Nails’ induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — marked the archetypal clip that the band, which was founded successful Cleveland successful 1988, played Northeast Ohio since 2013. The amusement was a homecoming successful much ways than one, arsenic erstwhile members Chris Vrenna (drums), Danny Lohner (multi-instruments), Charlie Clouser (keys/synths), and Richard Patrick (guitars) joined Reznor, 57, and the remainder of the existent NIN lineup.

From there, this monolithic NIN lineup played a fistful of songs from the band’s expansive discography, including “Wish,” “Sin,” “Eraser,” and “Give Up,” earlier ending the nighttime with a show of “Head Like A Hole.” The radical besides performed a screen of Filter’s “Hey Man Nice Shot,” which is noteworthy due to the fact that Richard Patrick formed Filter aft an acrimonious exit from NIN successful 1993.

NIN initially planned to bash thing successful their hometown arsenic portion of their 2020 induction into the Rock Hall of Fame, but the COVID-19 pandemic scuttled some the 2020 amusement and the 2021 gigs astatine the Jacobs Pavilion, per Cleveland.com. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Robin Finck, Chris Vrenna, Danny Lohner, Ilan Rubin, and Alessandro Cortini were inducted arsenic portion of NIN, and Richard (who played connected the band’s breakthrough, Pretty Hate Machine) wasn’t thrilled with being excluded. However, it seems that 2 years later, helium was capable to enactment speech the wounded feelings to reunite with his erstwhile set for this show.

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (Amy Harris/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Richard spoke astir his exit from the radical connected a 2020 occurrence of the Stop! Drop & Talk podcast, per Loudwire. “[Trent Reznor and I] were conscionable 2 knuckleheads from Cleveland, Ohio — we were not large yet,” helium said. “But eventually, we did get big, and determination was a constituent successful clip wherever Trent conscionable benignant of looked astatine me, and I said, ‘Wow, you’re going down to New Orleans to spell unrecorded successful this beauteous location that you’re getting, and I’m gonna spell backmost to my ma and dad’s house.’ And Trent goes, ‘Well, spell constitute a record.’ And I was, like, ‘Wow!’ What bash you accidental to that?”

“But the last straw was Trent going, ‘Hey, listen, Rich, I cognize you request immoderate other cash. Listen. Down astatine the extremity of [the street], there’s a small pizzeria, and they request drivers. So possibly you tin spell marque immoderate other currency implicit there. And I’m, like, ‘Wow!’ This was erstwhile I had [Filter’s] ‘Hey Man, Nice Shot’ was written, and I had 5 grounds companies acceptable to motion me. And I was, like, ‘Hey, dude, I hatred to archer you this now, but I quit. And I’m truthful sorry. But I fucking quit. I’m not gonna merchantability pizzas and I’m not gonna thrust for a [pizzeria].”

Filter’s 1995 debut, Short Bus, would beryllium certified Platinum. The follow-up, 1999’s Title of Record, would duplicate that success, acknowledgment mostly to the deed opus “Take A Picture.”