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| years = 1989-1993, 1996| tours = [[Pretty Hate Machine Tour]], [[Nights Of Nothing Tour]]

According to the biography on the official Filter website, Patrick was nicknamed "[[Piggy#Meaning|Piggy]]" during his time with Nine Inch Nails. According to Brian Liesegang, [[Trent Reznor]] was very upset when Patrick left the band and wrote the song "Piggy" about it shortly thereafter.[https://www.facebook.com/Filter/photos/a.186150516351/10155799437926352/?type=3&permPage=1] The Filter track "Captain Bligh" was originally rumored to be about Reznor, though but Patrick has since debunked this.[https://loudwire.com/filter-richard-patrick-wikipedia-fact-or-fiction/] Though their relationship was semi-acrimonious in the past, Reznor and Patrick are on good terms.[https://www.spin.com/2019/10/filter-richard-patrick-nine-inch-nails-pretty-hate-machine/] Patrick made a live guest appearance with NIN in 1996 for [[1996/09/05_New_York,_NY|one date]] of the [[Nights Of Nothing Tour]]. He (along with [[Danny Lohner]], [[Charlie Clouser]] and [[Chris Vrenna]]) also joined NIN onstage for six songs at the [[2022/09/24_Cleveland,_OH|Cleveland show]] of the [[NIN 2022]] tour, one of the songs being a cover of Filter's "[[Hey Man Nice Shot]]".

Patrick spent two has stated that he began working on his own music, and attempted to secure a record deal, during the 80s. He briefly met Reznor in Cleveland in 1985 when his band, The Akt, was invited to open for the [[Exotic Birds]]. They later met again at Pi Keyboards and Audio, where Reznor worked. [https://vwmusicrocks.com/an-interview-with-richard-patrick-of-filter/] He was then briefly in a half years as band called [[Kollaps]], prior to NIN, which also included Reznor.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDT4UWJ14s4] After The Akt disbanded in 1989, Reznor asked him to listen to some of the songs he'd recorded including "Head Like A Hole" and "Down In It" and asked him to become the touring guitarist in NIN , which he did for two and half years. [https://vwmusicrocks.com/an-interview-with-richard-patrick-of-filter/] He can be seen in the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]," "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]," "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]," and "[[Gave Up]]." His only recorded contribution—a droning guitar 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 in part to Reznor not allowing him any creative input or musical contributions, as well as often taking a lot of onstage physical abuse from Reznor.

Patrick went on to form his own industrial rock band, [[Filter]], with fellow NIN collaborator Brian Liesegang, though Liesegang left in 1997. Patrick made a live guest appearance with NIN in 1996 for [[1996/09/05_New_York,_NY|one date]] of the [[Nights Of Nothing Tour]]. He was later considered by Trent Reznor to contribute to the [[Tapeworm]] project.[http://shoutengine.com/UnderneathItAllANineInchNailsPodcast/episode-05-surprise-an-interview-with-richard-patr-1078] In 2005 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. The band split a year later and Patrick returned to Filter, who continued releasing albums. Brian Liesegang rejoined Filter in 2018 and, utilizing the PledgeMusic platform, the pair began working on a musical sequel to ''Short Bus'' entitled ''reBus''. This was shelved in the wake of the PledgeMusic bankruptcy, Liesegang left Filter, and Patrick stated that he was working on another new Filter album. It was eventually released as ''The Algorithm'' and contained two songs written with Liesegang.

Brian Liesegang rejoined Since 2016, Patrick has been composing film scores alongside his work for Filter in 2018 and. His credits include ''Dark Crimes'' (2016), utilizing PledgeMusic''The Last Rampage'' (2017), the pair began working on a musical sequel to ''Short BusBreathe, Nolan, Breathe'' entitled (2019), ''reBusThe 2nd''. This was shelved in the wake of the PledgeMusic scandal (2020), and Patrick stated that he was working on another new Filter album, which is expected to contain three tracks from the aborted ''reBusChariot'' sessions(2022). In 2022, Patrick began a side project with Jim Louvau called A Place To Kill.

It wasn't Trent, it wasn't [[JohnMalm, Jr.|John]]. It was me saying, "I don't know if I can be a hired gun anymore." I wanted to be creative, and Trent extended his hand and said, "Come on." I'd be with him and we'd try to write. I'd look into his eyes and it was like, "I don't know where you are going, I don't know what I want." He knew it, I knew it and we still said that we gotta try harder, but it wasn't gonna happen. I had my way of being creative on my own and I did it with ''Short Bus''. And he has a way all of his own.

*''They've Got Us Right Where They Want Us, At Each Other's ThroatsThe Algorithm'' (TBA2023)