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When Nine Inch Nails was Jewish

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Slam Bamboo (sometimes as Slam Bam Boo) was a 1980s synthpop band from Cleveland that formed in 1984 following the dissolution of new wave group Boy Wonder. Their first single, "House on Fire", was released in early 1987.[1] Trent Reznor played keyboards for the band, first as a guest performer in March 1987 (while still with Exotic Birds) [2], and then on a permanent basis, replacing Steve Harte on keyboards, after the dissolution of Exotic Birds.

The band appeared on AM Cleveland, a local morning show hosted by Scott Newell, sometime in 1987. In April 1988, Slam Bamboo released their third single, "White Lies". [3] Reznor left Slam Bamboo in early 1988 to join Lucky Pierre [4], but also to focus on writing for his new music project, Nine Inch Nails [5], Reznor recruited Slam Bamboo dummer Ron Musarra for the live version of NIN in October 1988. Slam Bamboo broke up in 1989 as a result of Reznor and Musarra's departures. [6]
 

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to join Lucky Pierre
I don't know why I knew this, but was sure it meant something:

Lucky Pierre

  • The person in the middle position of a three person threesome. To achieve the status of Lucky Pierre they must be both penetrated by the person behind them and penetrating the person in front of them simultaneously.

This is not an exclusively homosexual act
 

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More like Nine Inch Nose.

:colin_sm:

Nothing beats Pantera's genuinely awful glam/hair metal "phase" that lasted years and years. People say "Nah I unironically like this" but it's legitimately retarded bullshit. Sometimes it's so retarded I have to laugh. There are zero redeeming qualities. Every element sucks, even Dime's riffs. It's crazy lmao
 
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Always a delight to find out a musician started out in a completely different genre than the one he became famous for, like Billy Joel making hard rock or Rivers Cuomo being in a hair band before Weezer.

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re: that Atilla album. IIRC kinda Jon Lord-esque vibe. Only song name I remember is "Amplifier Fire" or something silly like that. A friend pulled it out at a party way back. I had never heard of it.

Had no idea about Slam Bamboo. Back in the Napster days I came across an Exotic Birds cover of "Day After Day". Not sure if Trent was on it.
 
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Nothing beats Pantera's genuinely awful glam/hair metal "phase" that lasted years and years. People say "Nah I unironically like this" but it's legitimately retarded bullshit. Sometimes it's so retarded I have to laugh. There are zero redeeming qualities. Every element sucks, even Dime's riffs. It's crazy lmao
Oh it was so, so bad. As bad as it gets. It made Ratt sound like Eyehategod.
 

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Always a delight to find out a musician started out in a completely different genre than the one he became famous for, like Billy Joel making hard rock or Rivers Cuomo being in a hair band before Weezer.
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It's gotta be a huge blackpill for any band, that Skrillex could basically ditch his entire crew, start playing records, and go from doing shows for fifty people to doing shows for 50,000 people.

It didn't even take long for him to build an audience; IIRC, he was releasing singles on beatport the same time he was still the lead singer for "From First to Last."

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The Ministry situation is even funnier, because the band obviously can't stand their early material, but they never bothered to change their name, so their fans want to hear it. This is particularly ironic, since the very same band did something like six side projects to evade record deals. While Trent Reznor was complaining about his record contract in "Happiness in Slavery," Ministry was like "fuck it, we'll just release albums with the same band and a different name." (I'm guessing Wax Trax (that Ministry was on) was a lot less litigious than TV Tunes (which Nine Inch Nails was on.))

Off the top of my head: Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Acid Horse, 1000 Homo DJs, and Skinny Puppy all shared band members. RevCo and Ministry were nearly the same lineup.

TV Tunes wound up going bankrupt when the (((folks))) over at Nothing records managed to get Nine Inch Nails and Doctor Dre out of their recording contracts. (Dre was on Ruthless Records, IIRC)

It just occurred to me that Jimmy Iovine's career has been defined by "getting people in bands out of contracts." IIRC, Tupac was also in a shitty deal at the time. Vanilla Ice was famously cheated out of his royalties when someone tried to KILL HIM.
 
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It's gotta be a huge blackpill for any band, that Skrillex could basically ditch his entire crew, start playing records, and go from doing shows for fifty people to doing shows for 50,000 people.

It didn't even take long for him to build an audience; IIRC, he was releasing singles on beatport the same time he was still the lead singer for "From First to Last."

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The Ministry situation is even funnier, because the band obviously can't stand their early material, but they never bothered to change their name, so their fans want to hear it. This is particularly ironic, since the very same band did something like six side projects to evade record deals. While Trent Reznor was complaining about his record contract in "Happiness in Slavery," Ministry was like "fuck it, we'll just release albums with the same band and a different name." (I'm guessing Wax Trax (that Ministry was on) was a lot less litigious than TV Tunes (which Nine Inch Nails was on.))

Off the top of my head: Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Acid Horse, 1000 Homo DJs, and Skinny Puppy all shared band members. RevCo and Ministry were nearly the same lineup.

TV Tunes wound up going bankrupt when the (((folks))) over at Nothing records managed to get Nine Inch Nails and Doctor Dre out of their recording contracts. (Dre was on Ruthless Records, IIRC)

It just occurred to me that Jimmy Iovine's career has been defined by "getting people in bands out of contracts." IIRC, Tupac was also in a shitty deal at the time. Vanilla Ice was famously cheated out of his royalties when someone tried to KILL HIM.
Crackhead Al has warmed up to the earlier stuff recently. I love the early stuff, faux british accent and all. He did a shit ton of remixes and re recordings of Everyday Is Halloween a few years ago and they were all dogshit. I think he wants to do the same for the first album. Paul Barker and Chris Connelly are so much more graceful.
 

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Crackhead Al has warmed up to the earlier stuff recently. I love the early stuff, faux british accent and all. He did a shit ton of remixes and re recordings of Everyday Is Halloween a few years ago and they were all dogshit. I think he wants to do the same for the first album. Paul Barker and Chris Connelly are so much more graceful.

The recent kerfuffle with Jane's Addiction has me appreciating Paul Barker and Chris Connelly so much.

Just dudes showing up and kicking ass and not hogging the spotlight.

Chris Connelly screaming on the live version of "So What" by Ministry is maybe one of the best live tracks ever. Took me a looooong time to get into that song, because it's sooooo long, but it's incredible.
 
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The recent kerfuffle with Jane's Addiction has me appreciating Paul Barker and Chris Connelly so much.

Just dudes showing up and kicking ass and not hogging the spotlight.

Chris Connelly screaming on the live version of "So What" by Ministry is maybe one of the best live tracks ever. Took me a looooong time to get into that song, because it's sooooo long, but it's incredible.
Chris Connelly's solo stuff is pretty good. More singer songerwriter material than industrial. At least the later stuff. Paul Barker was the hidden genius of Ministry. Al is very talented and driven, but the moment Barker joined Ministry's legacy was cemented. Barker's post Ministry projects are all pretty good.
 

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Yep.

One might even say that Al Jourgensen was better at steering the ship than making music. I have no idea if he had the best drugs in the universe, or an army of whores, or what. But I can't think of any time in musical history when ONE DUDE managed to bring together people from nearly every band in existence, in a particular genre. Jourgensen did songs with Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Gibby (Butthole Surfers), Ogre (Skinny Puppy), Trent (Nine Inch Nails), and half a dozen people I forgot.

Probably the only thing that was comparable was that Bob Geldof corralled dozens of rock stars to make "Do They Know It's Christmas."

I know you already know this (based on your comment) but just putting it out there in case anyone wants to check out some great early 90s music.
 
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Yep.

One might even say that Al Jourgensen was better at steering the ship than making music. I have no idea if he had the best drugs in the universe, or an army of whores, or what. But I can't think of any time in musical history when ONE DUDE managed to bring together people from nearly every band in existence, in a particular genre. Jourgensen did songs with Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Gibby (Butthole Surfers), Ogre (Skinny Puppy), Trent (Nine Inch Nails), and half a dozen people I forgot.

Probably the only thing that was comparable was that Bob Geldof corralled dozens of rock stars to make "Do They Know It's Christmas."

I know you already know this (based on your comment) but just putting it out there in case anyone wants to check out some great early 90s music.
The craziest side project was Pailhead. Ian MacKye who is a straight edge icon and Al who is literally the opposite in every way. There was a documentary called Fix that showed him at his most strung out. You can almost excuse all his batty behavior since 2010 with the constant break up and reunions for his projects. The guys endurance is impressive. I think he lost a toe from an infection too. That said Antifa is one of the saddest songs I ever heard. Not because I disagree with the message, which is very lame and gay, but how adolescent and childish it is from the goddamn Ministry guy.
 

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The Ministry situation is even funnier, because the band obviously can't stand their early material, but they never bothered to change their name, so their fans want to hear it. This is particularly ironic, since the very same band did something like six side projects to evade record deals. While Trent Reznor was complaining about his record contract in "Happiness in Slavery," Ministry was like "fuck it, we'll just release albums with the same band and a different name." (I'm guessing Wax Trax (that Ministry was on) was a lot less litigious than TV Tunes (which Nine Inch Nails was on.))
I only know Ministry's album The Land of Rape and Honey, it's fucking great. Is that one of their earlier stuff? You Know What You Are is my favourite song of theirs.
 

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The craziest side project was Pailhead. Ian MacKye who is a straight edge icon and Al who is literally the opposite in every way. There was a documentary called Fix that showed him at his most strung out. You can almost excuse all his batty behavior since 2010 with the constant break up and reunions for his projects. The guys endurance is impressive. I think he lost a toe from an infection too. That said Antifa is one of the saddest songs I ever heard. Not because I disagree with the message, which is very lame and gay, but how adolescent and childish it is from the goddamn Ministry guy.

And there's even an Opie and Anthony connection! On one of his appearances, he talked about how the doctors were trying to chop things off, because of his diabetes. I think he did the show 2-3 times iirc.
 

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More like Nine Inch Nose.

:colin_sm:

Nothing beats Pantera's genuinely awful glam/hair metal "phase" that lasted years and years. People say "Nah I unironically like this" but it's legitimately retarded bullshit. Sometimes it's so retarded I have to laugh. There are zero redeeming qualities. Every element sucks, even Dime's riffs. It's crazy lmao
It's funny how you saying this made me look up early pantera and realize

Is the ending of

Which features an anselmo cameo btw
 
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