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'''Richard Patrick ''' (born May 10, 1968 in Ohio) is a former guitarist for [[Nine Inch Nails. ]] He has played the guitar since the age of nine and names The Cure and U2 as primary musical influences, specifically the inventive use of technology and flood sounds used by those artists.
==Career==
Patrick spent two and a half years as the touring guitarist in NIN and can be seen in the videos for ''[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]'', ''" "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]'', ''" "[[Wish]]'' ," and ''"[[Gave Up]]''. " His only recorded contribution - a contribution—a droning guitar sound - can sound—can be heard at the end of ''"[[Sanctified]]'' " on ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]].''. He chose to leave the band during the recording of ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' in 1993 due to [[Trent Reznor ]] not allowing him any creative input or musical contributions, as well as often physically abusing Patrick on stage.
Patrick went on to form his own industrial rock band, [[Filter]], with [[Brian Liesegang ]] and have released three albums: ''Short Bus '' (1995), ''Title of Record '' (1999) , and ''The Amalgamat '' (2002).
In 2005 200,5 Patrick also formed the band Army of Anyone with the DeLeo brothers of Stone Temple Pilots and in late 2006 the band released their eponymous album.
==Trivia==
* Richard Patrick is the brother of actor Robert Patrick, who is famous for his roles in ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and ''The X-Files.''. Robert Patrick can be seen wearing a Nine Inch Nails jacket in some interviews for ''Terminator 2.''* The song "Captain Bligh " was written about [[Trent Reznor]]'s notoriously anti-social habits by Richard Patrick after he left Nine Inch Nails.*Richard Patrick was part of the supergroup The Damning Well, featuring ex-NIN bassist [[Danny Lohner]], which has only released one track on the ''Underworld '' movie soundtrack in 2003 (also produced by [[Danny Lohner]]), despite an entire album's worth of recording.
[[Category:Former Members]]
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