Trent Reznor

The only known performance of any Tapeworm material was of Keenan's other band, A Perfect Circle performing the song "Vacant" on tour in 2001. "Vacant" appears on A Perfect Circle's third album eMOTIVe, reworked and retitled "Passive". He died from natural causes aged 94. A collaboration with Danny Lohner, Maynard James Keenan of Tool, and Atticus Ross of 12 Rounds known as Tapeworm was in production for almost ten years, but an update on the official Nine Inch Nails website has declared that the project has been terminated. In 2004, he was presented with a lifetime achievement Grammy Award. He has also worked with David Bowie, Pigface, Marilyn Manson, The Neptunes, 1000 Homo DJs, and Peter Gabriel. Shaw himself would guest conduct from time to time, ending his self-imposed retirement. Trent has collaborated with such artists as Tori Amos, adding backing vocals to "Past the Mission" from Under the Pink. In 1981, he organised a new Artie Shaw Band, with clarinetist Dick Johnson as band leader and soloist.

Or get your shit together.'". In his later years, Shaw lived and wrote in the Newbury Park section of Thousand Oaks, California. I had to slap myself in the face: 'If you want to kill yourself, do it, save everybody the fucking hassle. The committee was investigating a peace activist organization, the World Peace Congress, which it considered a Communist front. In a 1999 interview for Rolling Stone magazine, he said that "It just took me time to sit down and change my head and my life around. In 1953, Shaw was brought up before the House Un-American Activites Committee for his liberal activities. It was reported that Reznor had considered committing suicide during this period. He had two children.

He has been reported to be suffering from bipolar disorder. A self-proclaimed "very difficult man", Shaw was married eight times; it became a national joke to have been "married as many times as Artie Shaw." Among his wives were Jane Cairns, Margaret Allen, Betty Kern (daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern), author Kathleen Winsor, and actresses Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Doris Dowling and Evelyn Keyes. During the five years between his albums The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), Trent Reznor struggled with depression, writer's block, and the death of his grandmother. For the Marx Brothers' movie, The Big Store Shaw co-wrote the song, "If It's You." He also had a significant role in the Fred Astaire film Second Chorus. Chris Vrenna, former drummer for Nine Inch Nails, produced the music for Doom 3 with his partner Clint Walsh. He wrote The Trouble With Cinderella and was working on The Education of Albie Snow when he died. The original audio files can be found on the internet, although they are not officially endorsed by Reznor or id software. He focused on writing, concentrating on semi-biographical fiction.

However, due to "time, money, and bad management" he had to abandon this project, and his audio work did not make it into the game's release. In 1954, Shaw stopped playing the clarinet, citing his own perfectionism, which, he later said, would have killed him. Trent returned to work with id Software in 2003 as the sound engineer for video game Doom 3. He began psychoanalysis and began to pursue a writing career. (As a side-note, the NIN logo also appears on the nailgun ammo boxes in Quake). He credited his time in the navy as a period of renewed introspection. He also created the soundtrack for id Software's hit Quake. Throughout his musical career, Shaw would take sabbaticals where he would quit the business.

Reznor likes video games, most notably Doom by id Software, which he has said he played in the Nine Inch Nails tour bus after doing shows. He received a medical discharge. Reznor was the credited producer for Marilyn Manson's albums Portrait of an American Family (1994), Smells Like Children (1995), and Antichrist Superstar (1996), as well as the soundtrack for the film Natural Born Killers. He spent approximately 18 months playing for navy personnel, sometimes as many as four shows a day. His latest album, "With Teeth", is expected to be released on 3 May 2005. Navy (along with his entire band) and served with them in the Pacific theater (similar to Glenn Miller's wartime band in Europe). Subsequent works include 1992's eight song EP "Broken", 1994's "The Downward Spiral" and 1999's "The Fragile". During WWII he enlisted in the U.S.

TVT Records signed Trent Reznor, and in 1989 he released "Pretty Hate Machine", Nine Inch Nails' first album. At the height of his popularity, Shaw reportedly earned US$30,000 per week, a very large amount during the Great Depression. Until recently, he had lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. His band became enormously successful and his playing, dismissed at first, eventually rivaled that of Benny Goodman: Longtime Duke Ellington clarinetist Barney Bigard--himself a talented musician--cited Shaw as his favorite clarinet player. In 2004, he stated he will have nothing more to do with the label. He hired Billie Holiday as his band's vocalist, becoming the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer. He released most of his work under his former record label, Nothing Records. His piece "Interlude in B-flat" was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965 in Mercer, Pennsylvania), better known as Trent Reznor, is the creative force behind the band Nine Inch Nails. Shaw was know for being an innovator in the big band idiom, at the time using unusual instrumentation. During the Swing Era, his big band was very popular with hits like "Begin the Beguine", "Lady Be Good", and "Frenesi". He returned to New York and became a session musician. He was born in New York City, United States, and began learning the saxophone when he was 15 and, by age 16, had begun to tour with a band.

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an accomplished jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and writer. Download sample of "Begin the Beguine" by Artie Shaw, a surprise hit that turned the clarinetist into a swing star.