Helios Creed (born November 3, 1953 in Long Beach, California, United States) is an American guitarist, singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid 1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome. They are credited with being the godfathers of what later became known as Industrial Rock music. The band Chrome broke up in the early 1980s when founding member Damon Edge moved to Paris. Helios then recruited a local hard rock rhythm section and launched a raucous solo career.
[edit] History
Other members of Creed's bands have included Bill Roth, Paul Della Pelle, and Rey Washam on drums, Paul "Bean" Kirk and Mark Duran on bass, and a mysterious woman named "Z" on keyboards. The music is usually mid-tempo to slow-tempo space rock, hard rock, acid rock. The popular band, The Butthole Surfers, have cited Helios Creed as a major influence. H even contributed guitar work to their album Independent Worm Saloon[citation needed] as well as Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus collaborating on a few albums. He has released records on Sub Pop, Amphetamine Reptile, Cleopatra and other indie labels. Creed uses a large number of effects on his voice and his guitar, including space echoes, phase shifters, flangers, guitar synthesizers, fuzz, and octave dividers. Creed has said that he invented his trademark sound while trying to replicate the sound he heard in his head while "listening to Black Sabbath on LSD on headphones when I was a teenager." Creed has lived in Hawaii, San Francisco, Kansas, and currently lives in California. He still tours sporadically.[1] Creed is an avid model railroad enthusiast. He is the father of two sons and a daughter. Creed is 6' 6" tall.
[edit] Appearances in Film and Video
Creed made a special guest appearance in this film from Friendly Pirate Production.
[edit] Discography
- X-Rated Fairy Tales (1985)
- Superior Catholic Finger (1989)
- The Last Laugh (1989)
- Boxing the Clown (1990)
- Lactating Purple (1991)
- Kiss to the Brain (1992)
- Your Choice Live Series (1993)
- Planet-X (1994)
- Busting Through the Van Allan Belt (1994)
- Cosmic Assault (1995)
- "NUGG" The Transport (1996)
- Activated Condition (1998)
- Chromagnum Man (1998)
- Colors of Light (1999)
- On Tour 1999 (2001)
- Spider Prophesy (2002)
- On the Dark Side of the Sun (2003)
- Inferior Plastic Finger (2004)
- Deep Blue Love Vacuum (2006)
- Not Without Sorcery (2008)
- Galactic Octopi (2011)
[edit] Side projects
Creed released two albums under the name Dark Matter. The Dark Matter albums are much more electronic and ambient than his guitar heavy solo work. They have been compared to early electronic krautrock.
- Seeing Strange Lights (1996)
- Dark Matter Vol. 2 (1998)
[edit] References
- ^ Interview with Helios Creed on Undergroundmusiclibrary, 1993
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