“Nun” guitarist.
Reading through NIN’s Instagram comments. Gold.
i won’t be attempting to semi-realistically portray dreadlocks again for a long long time ۞_۞ tuft solidarity
I don’t reblog stuff as much these days, but this is pretty sweet.
I am proud to announce that the tour lineup now includes the incredible Robin Finck. The addition of Robin to the mix of players I’ve assembled makes this band incredibly powerful and versatile. We are deep in the rehearsal process and it feels exciting and great to be back at this. Lots of information, surprises and sweat headed your way. Stay tuned!
TR
So excited!
Looks like Robin will be back with NIN after all sharing guitar duties!
Considering the extremely long periods of (mostly) silence, I know I (and I’m sure all of you) are very much looking foward to this. I was still hoping he’d play his own shows and/or release music himself, but it looks like he’s departing on the NIN train for a couple years so I’m sure he’ll be busy again. We can still hope, though!
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Update May 8th:
Some additional info via The NIN Hotline: click here
Upadate May 10th:
Here are the two free tracks — go to nearly.net/facebook to get through to them!
Official announcement via Gary Numan’s Facebook page:
… Gary Numan’s new album Splinter will be released worldwide on Monday 14th October. We’ll have more details soon, but it ranges from the wall-of-electronic noise that is ‘I Am Dust’ to slower velocity anthems such as ‘Where I Can Never Be’ and the orchestral strings of ‘Scream’. The album features guitarist Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails, Guns N Roses) and is produced by long-standing collaborator Ade Fenton.
Well, this showed up today in the mail (the goggles, not the cat).
Robin’s old, lost painted goggles!
Cat vs. Robin (<— click thru for photo, from bluestellaphoto.com)—who wore them better? ;)
Thanks so much to sheepdean for pointing me toward these on the echoingthesound forums in the marketplace section (since it’s hidden if you’re not logged in—NEVER would’ve seen these!). Sheepdean sent me a message months ago and I didn’t see it until February because I wasn’t getting notifications that I had messages (one of the reasons I shut “asks” off, but regular “mail” won’t shut off for some reason—if anyone needs to contact me, please go to the contact page and choose e-mail, FB or Twitter!).
That photo of Robin wearing them is pretty old, but I stumbled upon it just last year. So when I saw the goggles I recognized them immediately. And then I’m sure I made the “value” go up by showing it to the seller, but oh well. Ya-ya!
Robin lost them on the NIN tour and they ended up in a locker, which was auctioned off in LA, and then the guy on ETS bought the contents of the locker (and I bought just the goggles from him). A strange lost-and-found story indeed.
So, now I have these, and I’ll definitely bring them around if there’s ever a time Robin’s doing anything and I’m there, and if you’re there and you want to wear them, we can… take weird pictures and stuff? Oh yeah.
Thought I’d share!
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The band moments before playing their last show. 2009.
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Looks like “A Tiny Little Dot” was finally released: full playlist
Nothing earth-shattering (and long over-due—if you’re not a part of the NIN fan community, this was a fan project that kept getting pushed back & a different edit of this last show was released quite a while ago), but the intro video tagged on is kind of a sweet moment (and previously unseen). Cue the graduation music.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/5bd268324af9047384ea4e8d7f4a7715/tumblr_mk7dse2uSL1s3v0uio1_500.gif)
The band moments before playing their last show. 2009.
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Looks like “A Tiny Little Dot” was finally released: full playlist
Nothing earth-shattering (and long over-due—if you’re not a part of the NIN fan community, this was a fan project that kept getting pushed back & a different edit of this last show was released quite a while ago), but the intro video tagged on is kind of a sweet moment (and previously unseen). Cue the graduation music.
Looks like we know what Robin won’t be doing this year.
Will be kind of sad to see him not a part of that live lineup, but I think the role of guitarist will be in good hands and hopefully we still get to see Robin do something this year. Thoughts?
Too much awesome.
Robin, Danny Lohner, Billy Howerdel, Jeordie White, and Wes Borland at Josh Freese’s b-day via Danny Lohner’s instagram.
Before GN’R, and before NIN… there was that time, when Robin was randomly an extra in a Brad Pitt movie.
For a few seconds, anyway.
(Someone tipped me off on this obviously—I would’ve never seen and/or noticed this otherwise. Thanks. The movie is “Kalifornia” which was released in 1993. You can see the scene in really crappy, sped-up quality here.)
Anyway, Happy New Year to all of you!
Another round of hats n’ antlers—have very happy and safe holidays! <3
Robin on guitar, December 21, 2012.
I have no idea what this is from, but it’s something Bianca was performing in (as you can clearly see!). You can catch Robin at the very end—he’s playing throughout off-camera.
(Video direct link: Sita and Bianca chandelier 12 21 12 by LuminarioBallet)
eBay auction: 90’s Gibson Les Paul Standard exceptionally clean and was owned by Robin Finck
Description taken from the item’s page:
This is a 90’s Gibson Les Paul was owned by Robin Finck formerly of NIN and Guns N Roses. It is exceptionally clean, sounds and plays flawlessly. It is refinished with Nitro lacquer at the Gibson Historical and Restoration Shop. Rewired with RS Guitar Works Custom CTS 500+mg pots Gibson Classic 57+ neck and bridge pick-ups. Solid Les Paul, no chambers or weight relief of any kind. Large neck profile. Gibson hard shell case included. In addition Robin Finck will send you a personal thank you if you are the winner. The money for this goes to a good cause, the money is donated to a little girl for her cancer treatments. Thank you for your bids.
This guitar was originally up for auction at the benefit Robin played in September, but it looks like no one grabbed it there—so here it finds itself on eBay now.
Concluding the Atlanta trip with The Masquerade.
Before Robin was in NIN, one of the places he lived was a room next to where Hell is, and he also worked at and played at the venue with various bands he was in. There are three levels of The Masquerade: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell (see the 2nd and 3rd photos).
We went on Sunday when it was closed just for fun, but we also went back tonight (which explains why there are day/night photos). There was a Yellowcard show playing in Heaven, and Purgatory and Hell were closed (I didn’t want to see Yellowcard though).
I was going to buy tickets anyway so I could at least see Heaven, but the door to Hell happened to be open when we were in line, so my friend asked one of the staff if we could go in and just look at it, and he said they were doing construction and there was wet concrete, so we could only look from the door. So, that’s the third, fourth, and fifth photos from the set (sorry, they’re kind of crappy).
We left after that. Maybe next time I’ll catch a show at the venue if I like the band enough!
So, anyway, yes, The Masquerade—Robin worked there, Robin played there, Robin slept there, Robin did whatever else there, then he auditioned for NIN and the rest is history.
He also worked at a restaurant in Marietta at some point, but I think it’s long since closed down along with a couple other venues that I know he played in Atlanta a long time ago. So, the Finck-ish tour didn’t have many stops, but hopefully some of you find this interesting anyway!
I went to White Provision today in Atlanta.
According to this Robin lived on the 3rd floor with the other Sik Dik guys (which I’m assuming you all know was during the pre-NIN days), and this guy (who wrote an instrumental song about it) lived next door.
Things have changed and been largely remodeled since then, and this place kind of confuses me, so I could be wrong about whether or not this is the right section, but I tried! At the very least, I was close.
The interior photos are from the 3rd floor. The building is mostly retail/office space now, @ Howell Mill Road and 14th Street.
I’m in Atlanta visiting my friend Crystal, and I wanted to hit a few Finck-related places and this place was one of them. (We also drove by the high school he went to in Marietta.)
So anyway, there’s some random trivia, if you didn’t already know.
