Nine Inch Nails: A Bang On The Gear
Terry Staunton, NME, September 1991
SAN FRANCISCO, city of peace and love. Perhaps the last refuge of the beautiful people who advocate making babies, not bombs. But, hey, get out of the '60s, we don't have that mentality any more. It's 1991, the year of The Terminator (slight return), and Trent Reznor has declared war on anyone within guitar-slinging distance – and that includes the rest of Nine Inch Nails, as keyboard player James Woolley discover to his cost.
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