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In ordinary life, Reznor is reserved, but a kind of fury overtakes him in performance. Art by Ian Wright.Art by Ian Wright
Sometimes when Trent Reznor has a fragment of music that might become a song, he drives around Los Angeles, where he lives, with the fragment playing over and over. Often, he makes his way to upper Mullholland Drive, which winds through the hills and feels “optimistic and hopeful,” he told me. Since it is a single lane, he can turn the music up loud without worrying that someone in a car beside him is listening. The melodies and phrases that occur to him he records himself singing, regardless of whether the words make sense or are actually words. Reznor also writes songs with a guitar or sitting at a piano, but the method is not natural to him, and it can make him feel like a folksinger, he says, or as if he were imitating Billy Joel. Reznor is more a composer than a songwriter anyway. Rather than melodies and chords, he thinks of lines accompanying each other, as they might in an orchestral score.
Since 1989, Reznor has sold sixteen million records as the vehement, brainy, obstinate, and modernist one-man band Nine Inch Nails. Aficionados who like to categorize popular music have had a hard time categorizing Nine Inch Nails. It has been inaptly desc
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Watch Trent Reznor on Keyboards in Pre-Nine Inch Nails ’80s Synth Pop Band Slam Bamboo
The darkness of Trent Reznor might not have been on display quite yet, but the talent of the musician had him landing gigs in several pre-Nine Inch Nails bands in the mid-to-late '80s. One of those was a synth-pop group called Slam Bamboo and footage of his performance with the band on a local Cleveland show has surfaced online (as tipped by Metal Hammer).
The performance was posted online by Scott Hanson, frontman for the late '80s band, as they appeared on AM Cleveland in 1987 with host Scott Newell. The group definitely has touchtones of that late '80s synth pop sound that had been so popular at the time, and it's easy to see where they showed promise. During a mid-performance interview with Newell, Hanson reveals that they had opened for such top acts of the day as The Bangles, Glass Tiger, The Models, Starship and Michael Stanley.
While much of the band is styled as many musicians would be in the '80s, Reznor was already cultivating his look, placed back toward the back of the staging on keyboards with his jet black hair, a black T-shirt and black leather jacket, a look he's continued to keep over the years.
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Before there was Trent Reznor, the pensive muso brilliance behind Digit Inch Nails, there was Trent Reznor, the contemplative muso mastermind… stood arse cheesy ’80s pop accouterments Slam Bamboo.
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