~ Hello Everyone ~

I am thrilled to announce the release of the new Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV.

I had the great pleasure this past December to work with Trent Reznor
and contribute some drum tracks to the new album.
Trent really opened the door for it to be a very creative experience
and allowed him to achieve what he needed musically,
while allowing me free reign to express myself and ideas on the drums.

Here's a little re-cap of that weekend:

Day 1: Trent said, "I thought a fun art project for today would be to have you put some things together to play on and we could improv some stuff tonight. I don't really have room for a big drum kit and all the mics here, but, let your imagination go and we'll help you piece together what you need.
When you get something together, we'll record tonight.
Go nuts, see you in a few hours."

So I put this together from stuff around his house, Home Depot, and the grocery store.
It sounded cool as hell.

Day 2: Trent said, "I'd love to record you behind a full drum kit, so today, I'll send you and Alessandro to S.I.R. sound stage and you can just set up and play whatever comes to your mind. Try to make it a mix of styles and dynamics, loose to all-out playing.
Give us a few different BPMs for each beat you play with the click, and have fun."

So I did.
The room was HUGE and so was the sound which came from the drums.


When I got back home from the afternoon of recording,
Trent mentioned that he liked the sound of the junk kit recordings
from the day before and would I mind doing a little more.
So I went back into the room and put on the headphones and they said to me,
"We're just going to give you a tempo on the click, play whatever comes into your head and improvise on it after you establish the basic groove."

I finished and hadn't even realized that I had just completed the drum
part to a song that they had already finished up.
The next morning they integrated my part into the song
and it was a crazy feeling hear myself integrated into
the music of a group who've I've been a fan of for years.

It was a great experience and hope you all enjoy the music.


To purchase the new album, Ghosts I-IV, please visit:
www.nin.com

You can hear my jivin' and wailin' on tracks 19 & 22.

Get it.
Blast it.
Start the pit at the show.

Much Love,
Brian

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(Alessandro, Lucy, and Sophie review the mixes. Photo by Trent)

Wow. And everyone said that he wasn't going to part of NIN.

That tinfoil drumkit is pimp. I want one.

That's really awesome to read. I saw The Dresden Dolls when they came by Chicago, January 5th, and I got to meet him. No one knew for sure if it was him in the background of the picture that appeared on the blog as the album was being worked on, so I had to ask him. He immediately hushed me, and gave me a slight nod. He said it sounded sick, and that was enough to hold me over until yesterday! Brian kicks ass on drums!

Thanks for posting that myspace bulletin!

^^^
this makes me smile.

Thanks for posting this, love the old school rubbish bins.

yeah, i love you too, chopper...

This bit is great - would you have gone about it differently if you'd known your part would become the last piece of the song the song

ha the drum kit looks badass!

but the dog next to Ally must be Josie (sorry couldn't help it) :)

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen )) love all these little details and want some more!

and I absolutely adore how they added that biggest bin to a normal drum kit. it's like brian, being a true drummer, just cannot part from the biggest and loudest piece of tin he happened to find.... :)

I hope there's more stuff like this in the future to read about. This was really interesting.

I would love to know even how you BEGIN to mike up a drum kit like that...
However they did it, the end result sounded spectacular.

So wait the drums we hear in 22 are from that garbage can?!