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| years = 1991-1994
| tours = [[Lollapalooza Tour]]-[[Further Down The Spiral Tour]]
}}'''James J. Woolley''' (1966–August 1617, 2016) was the touring keyboardist for [[Nine Inch Nails]] during the later [[Pretty Hate Machine]] tours (most notably [[Lollapalooza Tour|Lollapalooza]] 1991), and toured with them through roughly half of the [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle|Self Destruct]] tour, including their [[Woodstock]] performance, before being replaced by [[Charlie Clouser]] in December 1994. He left for family reasons.
He spent some time briefly in the studio with [[Trent Reznor]], [[Chris Vrenna]] and [[Danny Lohner]] during ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' recording but never had any known contributions that made it to the release. Woolley appears in the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|NIN music videos]] for "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]" and "[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]".
Prior to joining NIN, Woolley had worked with early NIN opening act [[Related bands and artists#Die Warzau|Die Warzau]], alongside Chris Vrenna. Years later, Woolley once again worked with Die Warzau and toured with [[Nothing Records]] act 2wo. He eventually became the leader of a band called V.O.I.D.
Woolley passed away in on August 17, 2016.
[[Category: Former Members]]