THE FRAGILE WORLD OF TRENT REZNOR

Rolling Stone Magazine 1999

By Anthony Bozza

They aren't the same crazed crypt keepers who left a trail of smashed keyboards across the country four years ago. They will be quick to tell you they've changed - and that they needed to. It wasn't just Reznor who tried to live up to the tour's name: The Self-Destruct Tour. Finck also had to find his way back to earth. After speaking a lost year in New Orleans, he joined Cirque de Soleil for a year as its guitarist. "It was exactly what I needed - a 180-degree, polar-opposite change," he says. Finck then spent time working with Guns n' Roses, a project he may return to after the upcoming Nine Inch Nails tour. "I was with Axl for a little over two years," he says, "and we recorded dozens of songs together. I'm really proud of what we did as a band. I'm anxious to see how it's completed." Well, will it be? "Oh, yes," Finch says, grinning. "You may depend on it."

Thanks to Chindem