RICHARD PATRICK

'Richard Patrick' is an American rock musician, born May 10, 1968 in Bay Village, Ohio. He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails. He has played guitar since the age of nine. One of his brothers is actor Robert Patrick.

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Nine Inch Nails

Filter

Army Of Anyone

Nine Inch Nails

Patrick 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''. He chose to leave the band during the recording of The Downward Spiral in 1993.

Filter

Following his departure from Nine Inch Nails, Patrick formed his own industrial rock band, Filter, with Brian Liesegang. The band has so far recorded three albums: Short Bus (released 1995), Title of Record (released 1999), and The Amalgamut (released 2002).
Patrick has struggled with alcoholism; an experience where he drunkenly fought with flight attendents on a plane after removing his clothes inspired the song Take a Picture. In 2002, however, he entered rehab for alcohol addiction. On November 11, upon completion the treatment, he released this statement on his website:
Patrick has stressed that Filter is still together and plans on releasing a new album soon, despite his commitment to Army of Anyone. On the June 11, 2007 edition of The LunaticRadio.com Show, he called in and told hosts Kieran McCann and Rockit that, "I don't think we've heard the last of Filter."

Army Of Anyone

While writing songs for Filter's fourth album, Patrick called up the DeLeo brothers of Stone Temple Pilots to help him write a song. The result was a song called "A Better Place". Due to the chemistry the trio had while writing the song, they decided to form a supergroup, which became Army of Anyone.
On September 29, 2005 the formation of Army of Anyone was announced. Along with the Dean and Robert DeLeo, the former drummer for David Lee Roth, Ray Luzier, was also added to the line-up.
Army of Anyone's self-titled debut album was released on November 14th, 2006. The album's first single, "Goodbye," peaked at number three on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
On May 26th, 2007 Army of Anyone played their last concert to date in El Paso, Texas. The band is now offically "on hiatus."