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==Career==
Finck began his career by playing for many local Atlanta bands, such as Prowess (who later changed their name to Bat Your Lashes and then Sik Dik), The Hookers and Heroin (also known as Impotent Sea Snakes {ISS} when in drag). He audtioned for When Nine Inch Nails solicited guitarist auditions via VHS tape in 1993 , Finck sent in a recording of himself playing the guitar naked. That got Reznor's attention, and after auditioning in person, Finck joined the band for the [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle|Self Destruct Tour]]. During this time, Finck was part of a one-off band (which also included [[Twiggy Ramirez]]) called Sick Mutha Fuckers, which was essentially a Twisted Sister cover band that was conceived when White and Finck were playing Twisted Sister songs together for fun during soundchecks. They asked Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snyder to sing with them, he agreed, and the band played a single show in New York City.[https://deesnyder.com/dee-snider-endeavors/music/smfs][https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkb73d/how-marilyn-mansons-twiggy-ramirez-helped-emptiness-embrace-their-inner-goth] Finck also appeared on 1997's ''[[Closure]].''
Finck left NIN in February 1996 in order to play for Cirque du Soleil. [https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.nin/c/Vb7EqVcXRAE/m/S3mTFzvyIocJ] Through early 1997, Finck, while continuing to work with Cirque du Soleil, joined jam sessions with Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses in a casual capacity, in the wake of Slash having departed the band in 1996. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170630060815/http://www.mtv.com/news/1429816/guns-go-clink/] He signed a two-year contract to join the band in August 1997, recording material for the ''Chinese Democracy'' album. Finck departed promptly at the end of the two years in order to rejoin NIN in August 1999 as part of the live band for the [[Fragility]] Tour and appears on the accompanying album/DVD, ''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]].''