Nine Inch Nails Leader Trent Reznor feud with Marilyn Manson
0:00 - Trent Reznor's Early Life
1:36 - Reznor Meets Manson
3:25 - Reznor Works With Manson
8:10 - Reznor Reunites With Manson
9:47 - Feud Escalates
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It’s hard to believe that Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor had a decades long ffeud considering how they used to work together and shared similar traits. Today lets explore the feud between the pair.
Trent Reznor had an early aptitude for music playing piano age the age of 12 with his grandfather telling people magazine in 1995 "[Reznor] was a good kid [...] a Boy Scout who loved to skateboard, build model planes, and play the piano. Music was his life, from the time he was a wee boy. He was so gifted."
Growing up in Pennsylvania, Reznor found excitement through music, horror movies and television shows to escape the boredom of small town life. It would be music that allowed himself to reinvent himself later in his life. He would play jazz was in the marching band and was part of the drama club in high school playing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. A strange coincidence that he’d work with Marilyn Manson’s on his Antichrist Superstar album years later.
Reznor would end up moving to Cleveland Ohio in 1985, when he was 23 and worked as a janitor and assistant engineer in a local studio. During his days off he was allowed to record material in the studio and that would result in Nine Inch Nails debut record 1989’s Pretty Hate Machine. The album was a success going gold. Reznor’s follow up 1992’s EP broken went in a heavier direction and it resulted in a prolonged legal battle with his label TVT Records over creative control over Nine Inch Nails sound. Reznor eventually signed with major label interscope.
Reznor would meet Marilyn Manson around 1989 when Manson interviewed Reznor while he worked as a journalist for a south florida publication called the 25th parallel. They would meet at a club in Florida and according to Manson’s biography Reznor wasn’t very friendly initially as he was moping in the corner but as they chatted things seemed to warm up. Manson would tell Guitar World in 1992 "Trent and I met around the same time that Marilyn Manson was formed,". "We became friends. We had a lot in common."
By the early 90’s they would meet again when Manson’s band the Spooky Kids were opening for Nine inch nails at a club in Florida. . Manson by his own admission was tripping on acid and went to reznor asking him for feedback on the band’s performance. Reznor hadn’t watched the show, but took a tape from Manson of his band. Reznor and Manson would end up collaborating on the video for the song ‘gave up’ from the Nine Inch Nails EP Broken. There would be three different versions of the video for the song with one version featuring footage of Manson recording the song with the band
It was around this time that Reznor had formed his own label named Nothing Records under Interscope & it wasn’t too long after that Manson would end up hearing from Reznor’s manager asking for him to send him more material. Manson would be the first artist Reznor signed to his new label. By this point in time Reznor was working on nine inch nails second LP The Downward Spiral at 10050 Cielo (see ello) Drive. It was the same home that actress sharon tate was murdered in by followers of cult leader Charles Manson.
Manson soon began work on his first album for nothing records initially titled the manson family album. Originally linked to the project would be producer Roli Massoman who had worked with the Swans. But after several months of work in the studio over the summer of 1993 Manson wasn’t happy with the results. He felt that the recordings were too polished and didn’t capture the energy of the band’s live shows. By October of 1993 Trent Reznor stepped in the producer chair and brought in some of his session players from Nine Inch Nails to finish up the recording over a 2 month period with Manson telling the Miami new Times "We spent seven weeks redoing, fixing, sometimes starting from scratch. That was our band's first experience in a real studio on a project this big. We didn't kno