Richard Patrick is an American rock musician, born May 10, 1968 in Bay Vill… Read Full Bio ↴Richard Patrick is an American rock musician, born May 10, 1968 in Bay Village, Ohio. He is the frontman for the band Filter. A guitar player since the age of nine, Richard Patrick names U2 and The Cure as primary musical influences. Specifically, it was the flood of sound and the inventive use of technology employed by those artists to which he was drawn.

Richard had some fun with his unorthodox aural stylings when he spent two and a half years as the touring guitarist in Nine Inch Nails. His only recorded contribution--a droning guitar sound--can be heard at the end of "Sanctified" on Pretty Hate Machine. Due to the fact that Trent Reznor would not allow him any creative input or musical contributions, he chose to leave the band during the recording of The Downward Spiral in 1993. Richard and Brian Liesegang were both former Nine Inch Nails members.

In 2002, Richard entered rehab for alcohol addiction. On November 11, upon completion of treatment, he released the following statement on his website:

"Hi this is Richard again, I'm alive and kicking! Rehab was the best thing that ever happened to me, my mind is clear, my body is fit and I feel great. Thank you for all your love and support, I definitely felt it over the last 45 days. I can't tell you how great I feel. Rehab has made me rethink everything in my life. Now that I'm not wasting time on getting fucked up, I'll be able to devote more energy toward creating my music. I'll tell you right now that I have big plans for Filter and many other new musical projects that I have going on in my life. I'm so proud of this band and what we've accomplished, even when I was fucked up, but now that I'm straight there's no telling what we can do. So I know this might sound like a cliché letter from rehab, but because I've never said it, it's not cliché to me. So thanks for being there and supporting me through this, I'll write again soon!" [1]

Richard is a younger brother of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The X-Files actor Robert Patrick.

On September 29, 2005 Richard announced the formation of a new band "Army of Anyone" with former members of Stone Temple Pilots. The debut album is slated to be released in August 2006.

Consider This
Richard Patrick Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Consider This' by these artists:

Aaron Pritchett Things don't always work out like you plan But you can't…
Anna Nalick I've tripped again and things are starting to get interestin…
Deborah Conway Deborah Conway I've been informed there is a god and he'll…
Filter I've been thinking about what you said It's been going aroun…
Filter (USA) I've been thinking about what you said It's been going arou…
Hundred Year Storm Consider me your only/best friend Consider me your only/bes…
Marit Larsen For all that is lost For all that is cruel For all…
Matt Lange Canada Is such a distant memory, We wore red pants, hearts o…
N.O.R.E. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, we up in the studio Woody freezy…

N.O.R.E. Feat. Kelis Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, we up in the studio Woody freezy…
Stutterfly Don't give in to... Turn your thoughts away From what peopl…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Richard Patrick:

Awakening Out of control of a history untold It begins with…

Pride One man come in the name of love One man come…

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@roxievazz9570

1y↑85

Story of that is: Don't work for somebody else's glory.

@jiggerinokobalis609

22w↑1

Well. That and let a man with glory help grow you

@roxievazz9570

22w

@@jiggerinokobalis609

@roxievazz9570

22w

Only Jesus Christ can do that, my man. And Trent ain't that.@@jiggerinokobalis609

@joemcallister275

1y↑72

Richard still has that T-1000 blood running through his veins. So glad he went his own way.

@Truedoogie

1y↑4

Lol, you mean Robert Patrick?

@joemcallister275

1y↑1

@@Truedoogie I guess I mean Richard and Robert. I know who's who.

@Egoblivion

1y↑1

@@joemcallister275 Ok so what’s with the T-1000 blood thing…what do you mean?

@joemcallister275

1y↑8

@@Egoblivion just that Richard Patrick and his brother Robert Patrick both are resilient badasses. One is the T-1000, and the other is Richard Fucking Patrick!

@JakeG

1y↑7

@@joemcallister275 Dude I had no idea they were bros til now. Absolutely badass.

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@633959

Filter was and still is one of my favorite bands of that time. I even got to see them live at the Hollywood Palladium. Remember reading he wrote his album in a home Mac and studio. Hey man!!! Nice shot!!!

@VuotoPneumaNN

51w↑34

How could he not rent an apartment doing 700$ a week in 1994 money?

@destroyermaker

47w↑9

In LA it's probably not much even in 94

@VuotoPneumaNN

43w↑4

@@duffyiii It's 1400$! A week! Was LA that expensive?

@306_cstm

35w↑22

He WAS making that while touring with nine inch nails. Once touring stopped, he stopped getting paid until their next tour. That was the job.

Richard wanted to have some creative role in the new music Trent was working on, but Trent would not allow it because he did not want to share any royalties or record sales. Nine inch nails has always been Trent with a group of hired musicians.

@user-jf2kq9iz3u

31w↑1

Exactly. Minimum wage back then was definitely less than $7.50. Now he wants to scam his own hired guns... Wtf? 😂

@_west33...

24w

I went to high school with him. He's 6'. He's not 5'7".

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@gussygoro2469

3w↑1

I like this guy

@GodLovesComics

24w↑4

I got to see the NIN iteration with Rich when they played on the first Lollapalooza tour. They were big enough yet to get a night time slot so they were out there in the blazing Carolina sunlight with their smoke machines and their lights going off and you could barely see the stage. I already loved NIN because of Pretty hate Machine, but it definitely wasn't the best format for their live show.

@boneappletea3858

1y↑23

I think they recognized he needed to leave to do his own work cuz of his talent so they made it to where he quit instead of playing it safe in NIN. He'd already made the connections and had the know how and experience. The only thing stopping him was himself. Maybe it wasn't that way, idk.

@neromachiavelli5670

1y↑2

lol..

@zigzzagz5732

45w

No.... Trent is actually a greedy narcissistic prick.

@_west33...

24w

NIN didn't want him

@SacredMilkOG

15w

Tbh, yeah. Like I'm sure they were like... bro you can do this- nobody's forcing you to stay latched to the nipple.

Which yeah, bit snarky but- if he's whining but he has all of the necessary connections and even ability -he should be just making his own shit if he wants more money.

He was not using all of those edges to his benefit...

I can relate a bit so I get it but even so- I think you're right. I think they pushed him out of the nest.

@06mrselfdestruct

2w↑1

You know Trent and John Malm were laughing their asses off after he called Rich

@arthurfleck1764

2w↑4

He's the Dave Mustaine of the industrial scene.Can't enjoy his own success,because he's still dwelling on the past.

@PhreakPhantom

30w↑14

Trent is not wrong lol

@GeminiWoods

14w

Trent makes good music but it's well known that he's a giant douche.

@snorgisborg2

14w↑3

Did they ever play a show together NIN and Filter?

@drunktrump5209

11w

emotional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7Qh7QvREM

@genesi544

8w↑1

They did, actually. Performed "Hey Man, Nice Shot" together

@TheSzfynx

I mean... Rage is a rolling ventil that leads to creative songwriting ideas. Maybe this offer made kind of his power to do his own stuff?

@ParkerPPipe

4w↑1

Sounds to me like Trent reznors cold advice made this guys career. Maybe not a fuck you but a thank you

@BarryChub

3w↑1

he wasnt saying fuck you to trents advice of writing a record, he was saying fuck you to the the managers advice of delivering pizzas

@Torso6131

I mean, yeah, he did the right thing, but $700 a week is like $1400 a week now, so something like $72-73k a year adjusted for inflation. I didn't make that until I had been a chemist for like 10 years lmao.

@jamiehovis7722

1y↑15

What an entitled baby. 700 a week is more than most people make. Still wasn’t good enough.

@Tkivo

1y↑35

well... most people don't have the same job. Only an idiot (or a dumb fanboy) would play for such a big band for only $700 a week. Not to mention being in the studio and recording stuff. I sure as hell wouldn't be happy seeing my boss thrive for years and me getting the same paycheck. He did the right thing by quitting, especially after that pizza delivery insult. The only entitled baby in this story is Trent. the music industry is a hell hole.

@jamiehovis7722

@@Tkivo Why is it only music where people hate artists for succeeding? Why don’t you say the same thing about CEOs, business owners, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. Its the same concept. The owner or ceo makes millions while everyone else makes thousands. Its called capitalism. Being a live performer for Trent’s live act is just that and no more. He didn’t create any music, he is playing what trent tells him to play.

@bdoom6283

1y↑1

Moronic take. To think 36k a year does anything for anyone in Los Angeles is completely braindead. Also insane to say that people don't say the same thing about CEOs these days, are you living in thailand in one of trent's sex dungeons for underaged girls?

@jamiehovis7722

1y↑4

@@bdoom6283 This was decades ago, 700 in today’s money is like $1,200 a week. Then don’t live in LA if you are a part-time contracted touring musician. And peasants have been complaining about that for thousands of years, to put it in an eternal context its the fight to the death between master and servant, as Hegel said. Life will always be that way, only the economic systems change. Also, what most people don’t understand is that it is extremely expensive to tour. Most bands back in the day didn’t make a profit touring, they break even or lose money. Only today with astronomical ticket prices due to music piracy is there more cash available to go around. He was getting a fair cut of the pie. Nine inch nails wasn’t headlining arenas, I think Spiral only sold a few million at the time. If you think 700 is bad, he should think about bands and artists that don’t even sell millions and made perhaps 700 in three weeks. It all goes back to wanting to be paid in money that isn’t even made through the work you are doing hence entitlement. He wants ALSO the royalties that trent gets which had nothing to do with him and represents lifetime of uncompensated creative work, trent toiling for nothng on his own time for years until he’s finally able to realize his full vision.

700 a week is absolutely a living wage. I think he’s also struggling with unrequited rock and roll fantasies. You have to be part of a creative process that sold many times more than trent could at the time. Guns n Roses was like that.

What trent isnt doing is hogging the money profited on tour for himself. I bet it was a roughly even split after expenses. I known this because I know the music industry unlike you.

@johnkirk1879

1y↑12

You don't understand things do you? It's not about how much money you make. It's about how much money everyone else make off you back.

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@randblackwell8675

1y↑3

Reznor was always a Ministry wannabe. Is this the Filter guy? Gee, write a song on a sensationalized suicide! Sorry, wrong meeting!

@zigzzagz5732

45w↑2

Although Dwyer was the impetus that started him thinking on the topic of sui cide, the song wasn't specifically about Budd Dwyer and his very public act.

Many thought it was about Cobain as well, but neither are specifically true. I forget how he worded it but he said he was fascinated by the idea of someone taking their end into their own hands and how much power and resolve it would take to do that.

Please remember I'm paraphrasing a half remembered interview... The words may not have been "power and resolve" but this was the gyst of it.

@etalex7074

14w↑2

If you can’t see how different their artistic trajectories are I do not know what to tell you. NIN sounds just as much like Ministry as Skinny Puppy sounds like Ministry, which is to say the only similarity is the genre stylings.