Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Robin Finck's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
The Master Leader
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Robert John "Robin" Finck (born November 7, 1971) is an American guitarist. The birth-card coordinate for November 7 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2020 Performers — inducted member of Nine Inch Nails
The King of Clubs coordinate
Robin Finck's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Robin Finck. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.
Robin Finck in the public record
Finck is the longest-serving touring musician for Nine Inch Nails, performing with the band from 1994 to 2000, and returning in 2008. With Nine Inch Nails, Finck contributed studio performances on The Slip (2008). Finck also was an official member of Guns N' Roses from 1997 through 2008. With Guns N’ Roses, Finck wrote and recorded on the long-delayed Chinese Democracy (2008), notably co-writing the song "Better". In 2020, Finck was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails. Finck grew up in Marietta, Georgia and played with several unsigned bands based primarily in the Atlanta area, including acts such as Prowess, Bat Your Lashes, Sik Dik (bandmates of which included Steve "Holiday" Childress and Michael Allen, currently of The Goodies and Greg Thum), and The Hookers. He joined Nine Inch Nails as part of their touring band in 1994–95 for their Self-Destruct and Further Down the Spiral tours following the departure of previous guitarist Richard Patrick. Finck appeared with Nine Inch Nails at Woodstock '94, and saw his first official release with them, the "Closer to God" single, released in 1994.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robin Finck (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 of Spades
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Robin Finck, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Robin Finck's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Financial Foundation Builder
- Q♥ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Devoted Nurturer
- 5♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Restless Heart
- 5♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Restless Mind
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Heart
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.
He also played on a studio-recorded version of "The Day the World Went Away" on the companion album Still, which was included with the deluxe version of And All That Could Have Been and later made available as a standalone CD through nin.com.
Paired on shared wording: still, world.
Also on the record
- Once the tour was completed, he took a job playing for the circus troupe Cirque du Soleil in the original tour of Quidam.
- In 1997 Finck signed a two-year contract with Guns N' Roses as the replacement for Slash (who had quit the band at the end of the previous year) and began work on what was ultimately to become the band's long delayed album Chinese Democracy.
- When the two years were up the album had not been completed, although the song "Oh My God" was released on the End of Days soundtrack.
- Whether or not Finck played on the song is in dispute; GNR vocalist Axl Rose says he did while Finck himself says he did not.
Other inductees with this card
- Artimus Pyle — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Dennis Stratton — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Dusty Hill — 2004 Performers with ZZ Top
- George Harrison — 1988 Performers with The Beatles; 2004 Performers
- Gillian Gilbert — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
- Gregg Rolie — 1998 Performers with Santana; 2017 Performers with Journey
- Ian Curtis — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
- Iggy Pop — 2010 Performers with The Stooges
- Jackson Browne — 2004 Performers
- Janick Gers — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Joey Ambrose — 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Joey Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
- 14 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Robin Finck's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. November 7 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Robin Finck's dates come from?
- Birth date 1971-11-07 is the day-precision date on Robin Finck's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Robin Finck) + Wikidata CC0 (Q337392). Birth date 1971-11-07 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).