You won’t know this, however Robert Patrick is the brother of Filter frontman Richard Patrick. One other enjoyable truth: previous to founding Filter, Richard Patrick performed guitar and supplied backing vocals for 9 Inch Nails. And right here’s one other for you: Robert Patrick was such an enormous fan of NIN on the time that he tried to persuade James Cameron to make use of certainly one of their songs in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. You’ll discover that this didn’t work out. So what occurred there?
In a current sitdown with us, Robert Patrick was requested about his varied passions relating to music. When 9 Inch Nails was introduced up, he picked Fairly Hate Machine’s “Head Like a Gap” as his favourite NIN observe. From there, he stated he chatted with Cameron about utilizing it in T2. Nevertheless it turned out that Cameorn was much more into Weapons ‘N Roses on the time and so went with “You Might Be Mine,” which was additionally going to be featured on Use Your Phantasm II.
His respect for Filter, nevertheless, goes far past what he has for Trent Reznor and firm. Whereas he had some issue recalling the title of 1 specific music he picked as his favourite, slightly digging discovered it to be “Shock” off of 2013’s The Solar Comes Out Tonight. Of it, he stated, “It’s a happier music and only a actual loving music that I feel he wrote for his daughter. It’s a extremely stunning music.”
As for his favourite Filter album, Robert Patrick went with their 1995 debut, Shortbus, which led off with the one “Hey Man Good Shot.” “Shortbus, to me, is likely one of the defining albums of the ‘90s for my part. I feel it made exhausting rock widespread…He wasn’t grunge and it was, , an offshoot of 9 Inch Nails. I don’t know if my brother would respect that but it surely’s in that vein Skinny Pet, Ministry and 9 Inch Nails. That album itself was one of many defining albums of the ‘90s.”
Whereas 9 Inch Nails has delivered their first full rating ever within the type of Tron: Ares, Filter has had their very own soundtrack success, showing on these for The Crow: Metropolis of Angels, The X-Recordsdata and, most notably, Spawn, pairing with The Crystal Technique for “(Can’t You) Journey Like I Do,” which fared fairly nicely on the charts.