Richard Patrick Richard Patrick is an American rock musician , born May 10 , 1968 in Bay Village , Ohio . He is the frontman for the band Filter and Army of Anyone . A guitar player since the age of nine , Richard Patrick names U2 and The Cure as primary musical influences . Specifically , it was the flood of sound and the inventive use of technology employed by those artists to which he was drawn . Nine Inch Nails Patrick had some fun with his unorthodox aural stylings when he spent two and a half years as the touring guitarist in Nine Inch Nails . His only recorded contribution -- a droning guitar sound -- can be heard at the end of `` Sanctified '' on Pretty Hate Machine . Due to the fact that Trent Reznor would not allow him any creative input or musical contributions , he chose to leave the band during the recording of The Downward Spiral in 1993 . Filter Following his departure from Nine Inch Nails , he formed his owned industrial rock band , Filter , with Brian Liesegang . The band recorded three albums Short Bus ( released 1995 ) , Title of Record ( released 1999 ) and The Amalgamut ( released 2002 ) . For a long period , Patrick had a long history with alcoholism , even getting drunk on a plane , taking off his clothes and `` wrestling '' with flight attendants who tried to subdue him . This was the inspiration for the song Take a Picture . In 2002 , however , he entered rehab for alcohol addiction . On November 11 , upon completion of treatment , he released the following statement on his website :     Hi this is Richard again , I 'm alive and kicking ! Rehab was the best thing that ever happened to me , my mind is clear , my body is fit and I feel great . Thank you for all your love and support , I definitely felt it over the last 45 days . I ca n't tell you how great I feel . Rehab has made me rethink everything in my life . Now that I 'm not wasting time on getting fucked up , I 'll be able to devote more energy toward creating my music . I 'll tell you right now that I have big plans for Filter and many other new musical projects that I have going on in my life . I 'm so proud of this band and what we 've accomplished , even when I was fucked up , but now that I 'm straight there 's no telling what we can do . So I know this might sound like a cliché letter from rehab , but because I 've never said it , it 's not cliché to me . So thanks for being there and supporting me through this , I 'll write again soon !     Despite forming Army of Anyone ( see below ) , Richard Patrick has stated many times that Filter is still active despite him giving more priority to Army of Anyone at the moment . Army Of Anyone While writing songs for Filter 's fourth album , Patrick called up the DeLeo brothers of Stone Temple Pilots to help him write a song . The result was a song called `` A Better Place '' . Due to the chemistry the trio had while writing the song , they decided to form a new band Army of Anyone . On September 29 , 2005 the formation of `` Army of Anyone `` was announced . Along with the Dean and Robert DeLeo , the former drummer for David Lee Roth , Ray Luzier , was also added to the line-up . Army of Anyone 's debut album is set to be released on November 14th . Trivia Richard is the brother of actor Robert Patrick , who is famous for his roles in Terminator 2 : Judgment Day and The X-Files .  This article on a musician is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : 1968 births | Living people | People from Ohio | American guitarists | Industrial musicians | Nine Inch Nails | Musician stubs In other languages : Deutsch | Español | Français Hi this is Richard again , I 'm alive and kicking ! Rehab was the best thing that ever happened to me , my mind is clear , my body is fit and I feel great . Thank you for all your love and support , I definitely felt it over the last 45 days . I ca n't tell you how great I feel . Rehab has made me rethink everything in my life . Now that I 'm not wasting time on getting fucked up , I 'll be able to devote more energy toward creating my music . I 'll tell you right now that I have big plans for Filter and many other new musical projects that I have going on in my life . I 'm so proud of this band and what we 've accomplished , even when I was fucked up , but now that I 'm straight there 's no telling what we can do . So I know this might sound like a cliché letter from rehab , but because I 've never said it , it 's not cliché to me . So thanks for being there and supporting me through this , I 'll write again soon ! 