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Originally Posted by Luder

NIN has always been Trent Reznor, most of the other musicians were hired for touring purposes, pretty much anything recorded on the albums by another musician was something written by Trent and they were told to play it. Richard Patrick of Filter got into NIN because "he wanted to get his name on an album's liner notes"(Pretty Hate Machine) and was then hired to tour.If I'm not mistaken, Patrick's whole reason for leaving NIN was because he had no creative input, same with Chris Vrenna.

From With Teeth on, it would seem that Trent let go of complete creative control and let some of the other guys have input on the albums. I've only seen NIN 3 times, all since 2005, and each show had a different line-up of band members. (Drummer changed for all 3 shows, bass and lead guitar went from Twiggy/Aaron North to Justin Meldel Johnsen/Robin Finck)

*edit* If Flip was still around, I'd probably give him a run for his money as CP's biggest NIN fanboy =P

Brian Liesegang of Filter has engineering credits on Pretty Hate Machine and Downward Spiral as well.