D'Arcy Wretzky of The Smashing Pumpkins Fame and her strange history with the band Filter.
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Prior to forming the band Filter in the early 90’s Richard Patrick would play guitar in the band Nine Inch Nails. While Trent Reznor would lead the band, Patrick would play on their debut album, appear in their early music videos and tour with the band over the course of 4 years from 1989 to 1993. After leaving Nine Inch Nails Patrick would go to form Filter and while they would have a good deal in the success in the 90’s they hit some turbulent times. Those turbulent times would inspire the band’s songs and while Trent Reznor is synonymous with the early years of Filter, so is Smashing Pumpkins bassist D’Arcy Wretzky who had a relationship with Patrick. Today let’s talk about the history of D’Arcy Wretzky and Filter.
Living in Cleveland in the 80’s Richard Patrick become a member of the city’s music scene playing in a nu-wave band called The Act. He would soon have a chance meeting with another local musician named Trent Reznor at a music store who was playing a new wave pop act called Exotic Birds. Reznor would soon start his own band forming Nine Inch Nails and nabbed a deal with TVT Records who put out the band’s debut record Pretty Hate Machine in 1989. Patrick would join Nine Inch Nails make a brief appearance on the record on the track Sanctified and toured with the band staying with the group until 1993. Despite being part of a multiplatinum band, Patrick was dirt poor making $400 a month as a hired hand. It was at this point he had come up with a 4 song demo and left the band and soon signed his own recording contract with Atlantic owned Reprise Records taking Nine Inch Nails programmer Brian Leisgang with him.
In 1995 Filter would release their debut album Short Bus that would go platinum thanks to the single Hey Man Nice Shot. Four years would go by until the band released their follow up, 1999’s Title of Record.
The lyrics on the group’s second album also took on a more serious tone with Patrick telling billboard “i think i took lyrics more seriously this time around as well. A lot of them are based on everyday things that happened in my life like breaking up with a girlfriend, getting angry or feeling like i’ve lost control of my life.I am the mouthpiece of this band and I’m always trying to answer the questions I have about life.
Title of Record would be another success thanks to the single Take a Picture which became Filter’s biggest hit to date peaking at number 12 on the billboard hot 100 charts. The album also produced another hit in welcome to the fold resulting in the album going platinum. Apeparing as a guest on the album would be smashing pumpkins bassist d’arcy wretzky who provided backing vocals on the song ‘Cancer.’ Patrick would admit to Loudwire he had a romantic relationship with wretzky during the making of the band’s second record despite the fact that she was married at the time. Patrick would admit in the same interview that he wretzky had an open relationship with her husband. He would tell loudwire and I quote
Yeah, there’s like, two or three love letters on this record. There’s "Miss Blue," there’s "I’m Not the Only One," there’s "Take a Picture," there’s "Skinny" and there’s "It's Going to Kill me." She was my favorite piece of plastic held to my ear because we were constantly on the phone, but we were never in the same room for more than one time.
But it was a massive secret. D'Arcy had her reasons for keeping it a secret. She was married to Kerry Brown at the time. The Smashing Pumpkins were the biggest band ever. She was playing Soldier Field and she would say, "Get a car and come out to see me at my house, in my little apartment." She spent the weekend and then she flies out on a Learjet, to go play some other massive show with the Pumpkins. He would go on to praise her adding
But, it was really amazing because she has such a clear vision and she was just spot on and she was a fantastic person to be around. I was just in awe. And it was just so weird keeping everything a secret — like people would ask, "who's the girl on this, who's the girl on this record?" while doing press on it. I just