Nine Inch Nails’ Josh Freese Offers Fan The Ultimate Experience, Again

Josh Freese while drumming for Devo

2010 might have been Josh Freese’s craziest year yet. The drummer for the group Nine Inch Nails recently came to Paramore‘s rescue, filling in on drums during a South American tour while they searched for a permanent replacement for their departed. But before that, he toured with Weezer and Devo and reunited with his old band mates in A Perfect Circle.

Without the benefit of a single rehearsal, he performed live with Sting and did studio work with Social Distortion, the Offspring, Slash and Megadeth, just to name A FEW. Did I mention this was all in 2010!?

Meanwhile, Freese is offering his fans a number of custom-designed packages in support of his solo release. For $7 fans could buy a digital download, bundled with a few videos. But for $75,000, a fan could go on tour with Freese, have him write a five-song EP about their life, take home one of his drum sets and eat shrooms while cruising Hollywood with Tool‘s Danny Carey.

The $75,000 package also entitled the buyer to have Freese either join their band for a month, or during business hours, act as their personal assistant. Its topped off with a limo ride to Tijuana and a flying trapeze lesson with some of Freese’s fellow NIN bandmates.

No one has yet to buy that package.

But a fan did buy a $20,000 bundle which included two personalized songs about the buyer, to be written once Freese got to know them a little bit.

These two songs, along with three songs about three other fans who each purchased a $5,000 package will appear on Freese’s new EP, My New Friends.

“I wasn’t expecting that package to sell,” says Freese. “I felt like not only do I have to deliver for this guy, but I’m not just going to run down the list and go, ‘Oh sh*t, I can be done with this by 6PM today, if we hurry’. I spent a week with this guy, basically, and made sure he didn’t go home thinking it was a ripoff.” Some bonus prizes were included as well, including hanging out with Slash in the studio for a day and watching a Puscifer show while kicken’ back with some of the guys from Tool. Freese also invited him to spend a few nights at his house, while he made good on the checklist.

Now that My New Friends is officially released, Freese put up a whole new list of package deals on his website. “If you really want to pay for it, I’ll take your money and we’ll do all this stuff, says Freese. “But I want to make sure that you have a good time.”

To view more of the packages up for sale, visit Freese’s website here.