Musically speaking, I was pretty checked out in 2013. Though inarguably one of my greatest, lifelong passions, my thirst for cool new sounds had to be relegated to the way backseat while my immediate family grappled with a frenetic spate of deaths, illnesses and misfortune. All in all, it was a brutal year. We all have them, sooner or later.
As such, I invariably missed out on a lot of stuff that would have otherwise commanded my attention. While I’d always been a fan of Nine Inch Nails, even seeing one of their very first shows in New York City at a somewhat cheeseball club called Sonic’s in Chelsea in 1989, I had stopped paying attention to Trent Reznor’s doings by the time 2013’s Hesitation Marks rolled around. As a result, I missed out on the era of the band captured below.
I stumbled on this video quite recently, and was blown away to learn that the bass player to Trent’s right is none other than Pino Palladino (above), a truly storied performer who has played for everyone from Herbie Hancock and Eric Clapton to De La Soul and Peter Gabriel. Boasting a distinctive, fretless sound (not unlike Jaco Pastorius), Palladino’s signature tone is arguably best captured on “Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)” by blue-eyed British soul boy, Paul Young. I’m assuming Trent drafted the great man based on his work for the similarly inclined Gary Numan. In any case, he really brings some oomph to the proceedings.
I am seven years late to the table, but I think this is fucking amazing. Crank it.
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