“Chiropractors and doctors were like, ‘How long did you play college football?’ I’d go, ‘It wasn’t college football. It was Trent Reznor’”: Richard Patrick says Nine Inch Nails’ 1991 Lollapalooza run broke his body – and trashed $40,000 of guitars

Richard Patrick of Nine Inch Nails performs shirtless with electrical tape over his nipples during the industrial-rock band's set at Lollapalooza 1991. He plays a single-pickup G&L electric guitar.

Given what they say about the ‘60s, most of the people who rocked up at Woodstock in the summer of ’69 would not remember what went down. How times changed by the time the ‘90s swung around.

Those who were there for the inaugural Lollapalooza in 1991, headlined by Jane’s Addiction, featuring a coltish Nine Inch Nails in full-on total destruction mode – trashing every electric guitar they could get their hands on – might never forget it. And they may even have an injury to remember it by. Former NIN guitarist Richard Patrick sure did.