I'm not talking "influence". I have no problem with that. if I did, you would hear me being a fascist about everything
after The Velvet Underground.
I'm talking straight-up rip-off.
-the beat for Down In It was
jacked straight from Dig It. it IS Dig It.
more?
-the video to "Hurt" includes Trent performing from behind a back-lit white screen,
exactly as Skinny Puppy used to perform "Harsh Stone White".
-he inserted himself into Pigface
and Revolting Cocks (despite not being "gasp" industrial himself) in an effort to develop "scene-cred". it didn't fucking work. his fan base of jocks and poseurs wouldn't dream of seeing either of those two bands
^^^as a funny side story to this, he's apparently had his RevCo tattoo lasered-off. at least, I've not seen it in pictures for almost 20 years. I saw Ohgr's a couple months ago.
let's see....
more?
-he made Dave Ogilvie (long time Puppy producer and one-time member) the producer of his Marilyn Manson crap (which, with Ogilvie at the helm, wasn't all that bad....even if it also sounds like Skinny Puppy-
lite).
-he has a side project named "Tapeworm" (a Nivek Ohgr song from Pigface's Gub album).
-he has a pet dog named "Skinny" that he face-fucks each night while humming along to Stairs and Flowers (ok...I made that one up, but it seems plausible).
so...yeah....bring on the Thurston Moore. why the fuck not?