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| "The New Music in New Orleans" transcription shown on MM USA, 7/22/02 hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos the show starts off with george briefly talking about new orleans and then there are four clipbits of the featured guests breifly talkign about new orleans. trent- it's just a strange cultural, weird - you know - it's a weird kinda atmosphere here that i think i've drawn upon. goes to anne rice and master p breifly. george - right, and someone who has made his home in new orleans and it seemed to fit is trent reznor from nine inch nails. not only made his home their home here but their work here behind these doors is where the Fragile was painstakingly put together for a couple years. ive cd, live dvd and of course the next album in the works. funeral home turned into a music studio, it's trent reznor. goes into nothing records and then in studio where trent reznor is trent - she's ready for her closeup mr. ma(?) (talking about his dog) george - which one of these [buttons] launches the shuttle? trent- ahhh lots of buttons here. actually i've never been in this room it's all prop. we just set this up so you guys think i'm smart. this is where it all happens. nothing studios in new orleans. just accumalatedalot of umm interesting studio type trickery that we found some worked better for some things, other things. . . It's funny when i'm working with alan moulder and we're playing guitar or some thing i'll be sitting in this zone all this guitar stuff around here and ahh i'll be playing a part, it's a good part, and i'm trying to talk and play at the same time and he'll be on his knees plugging petals together and it's just this mad scienctist feel. so i'm. .. this room just reflects the way we like to work. cuts to closer video with text Nine inch nails was formed in cleveland, ohio in 1989. they released the groundbreaking pretty hate machine in 1989 and they have gone on to sell 10 million albums worldwide. george - is there a downside just personally to your soul and your craft because you just get so swamped in one you know you're in this amazing building but. . trent - i think i - i mean - that's a good point you bring up, take the Fragile for example, i was kinda in a position, a point in my life, that record was all done right in this room literally for 2 years,in some ways it's an interesting kind of journey, it's like i am able to stop other parts of my life to really just see what happens if you go as far as you can go down a certain path and that path might lead to something else and yes nothing is holding me back to try that. umm the expen-the price you pay kind of you become unbalanced as a human being and you also start to realize in a kinda retrospect that maybe you're doing that because you're running away from the life you don't know how to live there's all these things that oh i'll get to that one day, liek a family, or real friends or you know learning other things or how to do other things in life you know. george - or dealign with this thing you haven't dealt with trent - yeah that i've been running away by hiding in this studio so i am much more consciously aware of those things i do. cut to a live clip with text the downward spiral went on to sell over five million albums worldwide and nine inch nials embarked on a tour that almost killed them. trent - we get off this tour bus 2 1/2 years later and in my head i'm thinking i'm going to return to being the real me but the real me isn't the real me and maybe never was me and who am i now, am i the guy on stage that i read about and my whole personality been disorted and all kinds of external things come in my world and people around me that weren't the right-you know- just weird, weird behind the music type of scenieros that you see happening to your own life and there's a reason that everybody's career does the same things, you know your human. cut to into the void video with text it took five years to release the follow up to the downward spiral. The Fragile was one of the most anticipated albums of the 90s. in its first week the Fragile lived up to the hype debuting on billboard at #1. the next week it slipped off the charts a record drop! trent - it probably hurt it that it debuted at #1 because it gave everyone at the label who only understood bells and whistles and explosions that oh it must be a good one and oh no it isn't. i just have a rabid fan base that bought it immediatly. and for it to ever permeate beyond that meant that the company that is very willing to take the money out of my pocket needs to understand the what they are selling. george - can you imagine those conversations in those offices? trent - yeah and i overheard a few and it was very disheartening for me in a sense that i htink if the label i mean i feel a bit abandoned by interscope just to get it straight out and say this i had a very supportive record label that really beleived this is an important album, we're standing behind you, wow we didn't htink it debut at #1, wow wow, wow, it dropped the next week, wow see you, we're on to the next thing, and they're takign the same square peg and they're trying to force it to fit down the round hole that eminems in the world can fit through and other artists and suddenly the record everyone loved, suddenly is now a failure or labeled a failure because of the blurred line between commercial success and critcal success and it sold more then i thought it would to start with. cut to piggy live with text While albums sales dropped, the Fragility tour sold out across the world and was documented on the live dvd and cd called, and all that could have been, it reaffirmed nine inch nails as the soundtrack to our dark side. george - is there a good and evil, is this stuff in you? trent - just a little light topic of conversation here. ummm i've always been attracted to darker things, that's excited me, you know, what, how far things can go, if there's a snuff film i want to see it you know what i mean. i'm not supporting it but yeah i guess maybe i am but i am curious you know i want whatever that farthest levelsome can go. george - this wasn't the only place for sale. trent - no, but i'll say this, and you can nail me on this, this was a funeral home and i lived in sharon tate's house and those things, i can say this you don't need to believe me but the sharon tate thing for example, they didn't tell us it was that house. i wasn't hitnking oh i wonder if they're going to take me there. it didn't cross my mind. it was the coolest house we saw and later that night i discovered it was that house which made it even kinda cooler not that i support manson who i think is an asshole [the shows cuts to starfucker video where manson face plate gets smashed] charles that is [the clip then plays that clip again in reverse then shows charles manson's face] it's a place of american dark, that's the end of the sixties, the end of an era, that whole kinda vent and it was interesting to be around it. cuts to perfect drug video with text the tate mansion and funeral home thing didn't shock many people. trent is known for doing things a little differently than your average rock star. trent - by nature i'll find myself, i'll isolate myself if i'm left to my own devices so i am more aware of what i do and i try to make myself do some things that will make me avoid that occasionally. cuts to we're in this together video with text trent's isolation is infamous. former nine inch nails guitarist and current filter front man, richard patrick wrote a song about it called "captain bligh." trent - i used to really fear being left alone and ahh hated it and lately i've come to terms with it. i'm not saying i have to be alone the rest of my life but i think everyone is alone, really and i am alot more comfortable with who i am or my head. i am not really comfortable with being treated like a celebrity all the time, i don't think it's good for your soul to be around that. i don't think once you start believing the hype and that, you know, in anyway more important than anyone else i think that really starts to corrode away that really important part of yourself you need to keep in touch with. when i had a bunch of people convey that you know you don't really open up much i'm like yes i do, then i realize no i really don't. george - an intervention? trent - just a lonely guy intervention. nine inch nails will i think naturally mutate and has mutated as i've matured and changed. see what happens. if it comes to the point where really i am an erradictly a different human being than maybe its time not to be nine inch nails anymore and be what's more appropiate. the show cuts to a live clip with text stating that nin is workign on a follow up to the fragile. then george goes on to interview master p and anne rice. for more information on the show includng an exclusive online interview that did not make the show click here. also check out www.muchmusic.com for a great music site. (much music is a canadian music channel that is awesome |
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