So this was a great experience, and it was very respectable and impressive that Tom would be willing to hand over the reins as much as he did after writing his own music for so long." But even with that expanded collaborative role in Angels & Airwaves, Rubin was the completer of songs, not the instigator.
"I would always be part of someone else's band and play drums and that was it, or I'd write all my own music entirely by myself. "It's the first time I've collaborated with anybody else as a writer," Rubin points out.
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Had it not been for Nine Inch Nails, I'm positive that I would have done that whole touring cycle." When Angels & Airwaves' Tom DeLonge started planning The Dream Walker, Ilan's involvement was hardly just for "sessions." Rubin was a full creative partner with DeLonge on the collective's recent album, which came out in the last month of 2014.
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It was initially supposed to just be the album, but we got along so well that I ended up playing with them live at South by Southwest and a lot of TV and European, Asian and Australian gigs. Sessions are fun, because it's a way of temporarily putting you in a setting that you wouldn't usually be in, and you sharpen your skills and move on. "It was the first time I'd played with people who were my age," he points out, "and we got along really well. "I'm happy to be in the back as a drummer, too - it's a very comfortable, second-nature place for me - but being able to constantly run around and do different things is something that could only be done with Nine Inch Nails." He took on a more traditional role with Paramore, filling in on that band's self-titled album when they found themselves suddenly drummer-less, and even going out in that role on some tour dates before Reznor called him back for a surprise NIN reformation. And I think that that was a big help in getting everybody to see a bit more of what I'm about as a musician." He also picked up a new instrument, the cello, at Reznor's behest. There were a lot of moments when I played bass and guitar and some keyboards. Nine Inch Nails was down to a four-piece, so we needed to distribute parts as best we could. It wasn't until this last 2013-14 tour that I got to stretch my wings. "When I first toured with Nine Inch Nails in 2009, Trent knew that I could play piano, so for that tour, whenever there was a piano playing in the songs, I would take it over. "Most people didn't know about all the things I could do because there wasn't really a place to showcase those skills," he says. Eventually the secret that he could just about do it all started to trickle out. He started playing the guitar seriously at 12, and took up the piano at 16 upon developing a newfound love of classical music. But the years in-between found Rubin developing his prowess on every other instrument he could get his calloused hands on. He's been touring the world since age 14 and now 26, one of his latest accomplishments was parlaying his percussive renown into the co-ownership of Q Drum Co., a substantial new player in the world of percussion instruments. Rubin's resume includes some pretty impressive percussion-related feats, in both the early and later going. There's something for everybody," he laughs.
So it's kind of a meeting of two different frames of mind: People who want to dig into the musicianship have it there, and people who just want to listen to the catchy melody on top have that there. My sensibilities come from the catchiest and most successful music of all time. But the foundations of what I love are the Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, the Police - great, great songwriters. "You have some people thinking, 'Sure, he's a really good musician, but can he write songs?' Then they kind of view the music with this vision of a musician who's singing. Perhaps you'll find some of that in there, but you may be more immediately struck by the old-school classicism of Rubin's approach. Given what his night job was at the time, you might expect the results of his daylighting to sound Trent-influenced.
Exhibit B is the name of the New Regime's new eight-song EP, which Rubin wrote and recorded almost entirely while touring with NIN in 2013-14.
But it can be argued that his best work happens when this one-man-band is fronting-and backing-The New Regime. Multi-instrumentalist Ilan Rubin is best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails, Angels & Airwaves and a brief stint with Paramore.
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