Background
Liesegang was born in New York City, where his father Doctor Thomas Liesegang was attending medical school.
Liesegang was born in New York City, where his father Doctor Thomas Liesegang was attending medical school.
He has since lived everywhere from North and South Carolina, to Jacksonville (graduating from The Bolles School), 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 an honors degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He was very involved in the music, and skateboarding scene as a youth.
Filter was formed in 1993 in Cleveland Ohio.
The album Short Business was released on April 25, 1995 and it sold over one million copies and features Brian"s work with the band. lieutenant was recorded "in a small brick house somewhere in Chicago".
lieutenant is best known for the hit single "Hey Manitoba 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.
They embarked on an exhaustive world tour, as headliners, and opening for the likes of the Smashing Pumpkins, Ozzy Osbourne, White Zombie and more….
The duo was also nominated for "Best New Band" at the Music Television music awards. Brian has been mentioned on each Filter Civil Defense released since then in the liner notes, but he actually left the band during the summer of 1997. Since leaving Filter, Brian produced, wrote, and played on Veruca Salt"s Resolver record, and started planting the seeds of the band Ashtar Command with Chris Holmes, writing songs for Sinead O"Connor and more.
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. The band"s first record American Sunshine is due to be released soon.
The music of Brian and Ashtar Command has been featured in many places, from Nissan car commercial, Microsoft campaigns, The O.C., Ugly Betty, Grey"s Anatomy, The Avengers movie soundtrack, Rockstar Games" Red Dead Redemption (for which they were nominated for video game song of the year), The Sims, Capcom"s Dead Rising, Fédération internationale de football association 2014, and many more.
He has recently been working with Disney on their new interactive "Fantasia:Music Evolved", contributed the closing track to the latest Percy Jackson film, and has been working with Chris Holmes as Sir Paul McCartney"s official remixers.
After leaving Nine Inch Nails, Brian was the producer, guitarist and founding member of the Industrial rock band Filter along with Richard Patrick.