Goodbye Aaron North (and Jeordie), Hello Robin Finck…Again.

Posted today, April 4th, nin.com reports (or implies) that Trent Reznor has decided Aaron North is out and Robin Finck is in as lead guitar for future Nine Inch Nails tour performances. 

Welcome back (again) Robin Finck to NIN.  Finck has participated in many “old school” Nine Inch Nails tours, such as the legendary Woodstock ‘94 performance, and also appears in two live releases.  Finck’s other notable inclusions: Guns N’ Roses and Cirque du Soleil.

Nevertheless, we will miss you Aaron North…

…and Jeordie White, as NIN’s YouTube page credits Rich Fownes as a new official band member.  Thus dawns a new NIN age.

Addendum:  While I remain neutral between pro-Aaron and pro-Finck (I am quite ambivalent on the issue: Finck undoubtedly qualified and talented in the NIN department, but Aaron was so entertaining to watch), I find amusing the nin.com comments in regard to this latest piece of news.  To those claiming that Finck will save NIN, resurrecting the core industrial, are we forgetting that the ultimate power lies in the hands of Trent, he who writes and dictates the execution of his music?  Granted each musician brings his own flavor, but the music will always sound exactly how Reznor feels it should; thus, the “industrialness” of NIN depends on the one and only.