Brian Liesegang

Brian Liesegang (born February 10, 1970) is an American guitarist and programmer, and a founding member of the Industrial rock band Filter.

Biography

Liesegang was born in New York City, where his father Dr. Thomas Liesegang was attending medical school. He has since lived everywhere from North and South Carolina, to Jacksonville, Miami, and Gainesville, Florida, to New Orleans, Los Angeles, Houston, Cleveland, spending most of his formative years in Rochester, Minnesota. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois where he received a degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He was very involved in the music, and skateboarding scene as a youth. Joining the band Nine Inch Nails upon graduation from college, Brian lived with Trent Reznor in New Orleans for a while, working on the EP Broken before the band relocated to Los Angeles, or more specifically, the Sharon Tate house to record The Downward Spiral.

After leaving Nine Inch Nails, Brian was the producer, guitarist and founding member of the Industrial rock band Filter along with Richard Patrick.^[1] Filter was formed in 1993 in Cleveland Ohio. The album Short Bus was released on April 25, 1995 and it sold over one million copies and features Brian's work with the band. It was recorded "in a small brick house somewhere in Chicago". It is best known for the hit single "Hey Man Nice Shot", reputedly about Budd Dwyer's public suicide; but the duo had hits on many soundtracks, working with The Crystal Method and The Dust Brothers. Brian has been mentioned on each Filter CD released since then in the liner notes, but he actually left the band during the summer of 1997. He and Richard Patrick have remained friends, and Brian contributed some production work and guitar/keyboard parts to the latest Filter record, The Trouble with Angels.

Since leaving Filter, Brian produced and played on Veruca Salt's Resolver record, and started planting the seeds of the band Ashtar Command with Chris Holmes. Also during this time, Brian worked on Billy Corgan's solo album. The record being mostly electronic in nature, he worked closely with Billy, Bon Harris (Nitzer Ebb), and Matt Walker (original Filter drummer, Smashing Pumpkins, and Morrissey). The live band was nicknamed "The Fellowship of Broken Toys". They finished touring for Corgan's album TheFutureEmbrace in August 2005.

Liesegang is currently spending all his time as the co-founder of Ashtar Command with writing and producer partner Chris Holmes. The band's first record American Sunshine is due to be released soon. The music of Ashtar Command was featured in a Nissan car commercial, Microsoft campaigns, The O.C., Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, The Avengers movie soundtrack, Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption, and many more.

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