Robert Patrick played the seemingly indestructible and very persistent T-1000 Terminator sent back in time to kill John Conner.
His brother Richard Patrick, after a chance meeting in a record store in Cleveland with a Trent Reznor got the gig as a live guitarist for the band, touring with them from 1989-93, although his only recorded contribution is be heard at the end of “Sanctified” on Pretty Hate Machine.
He appears in the music videos for “Down in It”, “Head Like a Hole”, and “Wish”.
In 1993 he left Nine Inch Nails to front his own band Filter who released their debut album in 1995. Filter had some minor hits; including the controversial debut single “Hey Man, Nice Shot” which was intended as a sardonic commentary on the public suicide of Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer – who infamously placed a magnum revolver into his mouth at a press conference and shit himself.
Their biggest hit was in 1999 with “Take a Picture” which is basically about Patrick’s propensity to get blank-out drunk and not remember what an ass-hat he’d been the next day.
Incidentally Robert Patrick has a daughter named Austin (named after the police officer Patrick’s character impersonates in Terminator 2).
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