Real Name: Robin Finck

Date Of Birth: November 7, 1971

Age: 30

Hometown: Marietta, Georgia, USA

Instrument (s): Guitar

Influences: Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Chet Atkins.

Equipment: Robin endorses Godling Guitar LGX Series. He is sponsored by Gibson Guitars and is currently using Custom and Goldtops. He uses CF Martin Backpackers and Acoustic. Paul Reed Smith Collect Hollow Body II and CE22 with Dragon II (pickups). For effects RockTron Vodoo Valve. Marshall amps JMP-1 MIDI-controllable preamp effects. TC Electronic effects G-Force.

Bands before GN'R: Prowess, Bat Your Lashes, The Hookers, Impotent Sea Snakes, Sick Motherfuckers, Sik Dik, etc.

Current Band: Guns N' Roses / Nine Inch Nails ?

Background Information: Robin’s stage career began in 1987 with him playing guitar for Prowess at the age of 15 in his hometown Georgia. That project became Bat Your Lashes with Robin on guitar and keys. The same group further developed into Sik Dik for which he handled guitar, keys, and miscellaneous noises. Robin then moved on to The Hookers playing guitar and "stuff". From 1990 - 1991, Robin’s guitar riffs and shreds could be found with the drag band, Impotent Sea Snakes.

In 1991, Robin joined a touring band Nine Inch Nails (NIN) on guitar and keys. He toured with them until 1997. But being a member of the touring band wasn’t all he did. He also played guitar, keys, and violin with Sick Mother Fuckers (SMF), a Florida based Twisted Sister cover band, from 1992 - 1994. It is interesting to note that Twiggy Ramirez, the current bassist for Marilyn Manson, was also with SMF.

1997 brought a hiatus for NIN and Robin was off to join the circus. He started playing guitar in the Cirque Du Soleil Orchestra. Robin was quoted as saying, I wanted to do something completely 180 degrees opposite of what I had been doing, and for me and my life at the time, it seemed like a far out thing to do. Later in 1997, he started working with Guns N’ Roses (Gn'R) and did some recording for their new CD, Chinese Democracy. He worked with them until 1999 when NIN started touring again with their release, the Fragile and completed the Fragility tour. NIN returned to the studio to focus work on the Fragility tour DVD. You can view the trailer for the DVD in the Sound Chamber.

Robin has also been doing some more work with GnR but remains a free agent. Fans hailed Robin for his version of Sossego at the Rock in Rio show with GnR January 14, 2001. He has confirmed that he will support the GnR's Chinese Democracy tour. He is "still very close with the Nails boys. Don't get to talk to them as much as I would like to because I'm really busy gearing up for tour, as I'm sure they (the Nails boys) are. No new tour dates as of yet but I look forward to seeing you all on the road."

Discography:
Nine Inch Nails
Further Down the Spiral [UK]
Date of Release May 30, 1995
Robin Finck - Recreation

Nine Inch Nails
Further Down the Spiral [US]
Date of Release 1995
Robin Finck - Recreation