A perfect circle

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

A Perfect Circle was born out of the "Chinese Democracy" sessions. Billy Howerdel and Josh Freese were cutting tracks for that record when they hooked and decided to do their own project.

A dirty little secret is that Geffen Records actually foot the bill for the recording of "Mer De Noms" because most of the tracks were cut in the same studio as "Chinese Democracy", even though they ultimately signed with Virgin Records for $3 million dollars.

FWIW, I actually LOVE both records, though stylistically, they're very different (due to the addition of Geordie White's influence and songwriting on "The Thirteenth Step").

They're both very dark and very moody records. Definitely not something you could put on at 8am and dig.

Saw APC live in 03 or 04.. AMAZING live act. Mer De Norms is one of my favorite rock ablums - 13th step wasn't bad either.

Billy H was a guitar tech/roadie for NIN back in the day... some more useless trivia there.