Before Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor was in bands like this. Watch.
Before Trent Reznor settled on Nine Inch Nails in 1988, he was part of a series of Cleveland bands that went nowhere. And none of them sounded like NIN.
Option 30: A new-wavey synthy band he joined when he was in college. They had a lot in common with the Human League minus the female singers.
The Innocent: This is more Bon Jovi than anything else.
Slam Bamboo: More of the same. Love the haircut of the lead singer. And despite what the magazine said, they didn’t have what it took to make it big.
Exotic Birds: More synth-pop. They had a cameo in the Michael J. Fox film Light of Day in 1987. They appear during a record store scene, performing a Buddy Holly song. It didn’t make the soundtrack.
And finally…
