Trent Reznor

May 12, 1986 – Budding thrash musician Trent Reznor joins the Cleveland band Exotic Birds, gets a part-time job sweeping up and doing handyman work at the former Right Track Studio (now Midtown Recording) where he convinces owner Bart Kostner to let him record a few songs he’d written. The songs would later form the basis for Pretty Hate Machine and Reznor’s band Nine Inch Nails was born.
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