Nine Inch Nails Information

NIN has changed it's line up many times over the years:

Currently, the live band is composed of:

Trent Reznor: vocals, guitars, keyboard, etc.
Danny Lohner: guitars, bass, keyboard.
Sean Beavan: sound man, who can almost be considered an extra live band member.
Jerome dillon: drums.
Robin Finck: guitars, from 1991-1996. Left to work with the Cirque Du Soleil, returned in 1999.
Charlie Clouser: keyboards and drums
                    
Past members:

Chris Vrenna: drums, and official 2nd member of the band. Chris left in late 1996/early 1997 to pursue some other interests. he currently does still work with reznor on his projects.
James Woolley: keyboardist through most of the 94-95 tour.
Richard Patrick: guitars for 89-91 tours. Now in Filter, with Brian 'Moonking' Liesegang, who also has done
production work with NIN.
Jeff Ward: drums, rest in peace. Was also in Ministry, Lard, Low Pop Suicide.
Martin Atkins: It has been said that Atkins drummed at a few shows.

NIN proper got its start in 1987, when Reznor--then working as a salesman at Pi Keyboards --shopped around a demo tape that got him signed to the TVT label (known for putting out TV jingle compilations). This led to Pretty Hate Machine, Reznor's 1989 debut LP, a record of danceable industrial numbers co-produced by Flood (U2 and Depeche Mode's longtime producer). Over three years of touring followed, paying off with several radio hits, MTV play and a slot on the 1991 Lollapalooza tour. This break led to bigger and better things for Reznor. Four follow-up records (Broken, '92; Fixed, '92; The Downward Spiral, '94--recorded in the L.A. house where Sharon Tate and several others were murdered by
Charles Manson, and Further Down the Spiral, '95) soared to critical and commercial success and let to several sold-out tours. In addition to making music, Reznor, who left Cleveland for New Orleans, also went into business: Interscope gave him his own subsidiary, Nothing, in 1992, which his subsequent releases were put out on, and he also co-owns his own T-shirt and merchandise company. Reznor has also gotten into producing, working with fellow Cleveland expatriate Prick (also on Nothing), among others, and putting together the soundtracks for
several movies, including Oliver Stone's 1994 Natural Born Killers and David Lynch's 1997 Lost Highway.  Reznor's most recent project is "The Fragile", the double cd released in September of 1999.

You can write NIN in the U.S.A. at:

Nine Inch Nails
P.O. Box 16681
Cleveland, OH USA 44116