Helmet: Whatever Happened to the Band Behind Unsung & Albums Meantime & Betty?

Helmet: Whatever happened to the band behind Unsung & the albums Menatime, Betty and Aftertaste?

0:00 - Page Hamilton's Early Years
3:15 - Helmet's Formation
5:58 - The Next 'Nirvana?'
8:36 - Mengede Leaves/Betty
10:48 - Breakup/Reunion

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Helmet was a band who never did things the way they were supposed to. From rejecting the idea of having an edgy “rock n’ roll” image, to lead singer Page Hamilton getting a ver1y traditional music education, The media labelled them as heavy metal even comparing Hamilton’s vocals to ozzy osbourne, but Hamilton’s biggest influences drew on jazz and the noise rock scene of New York City.. Today let’s talk about the history of Helmet, how they were considered to be the next “nirvana” and what really happened to the band.

Helmet’s formation didn’t follow the typical formula of two childhood friends starting a group together. Instead, Page Hamilton was always very much the leader of the destiny of the group, and he never set out to be a rock musician. The band’s songs sound like a stop and start sledghammaer, featuring odd time signatures and guitar tunings.

Hailing from Medford, Ore., which Hamilton referred to as and i quote a "typically redneck town of 25,000," One of his first jobs was working at the local logging mill and a fruit orchard. He would recall to Rolling Stone “I was just a really nice little small-town geek who wanted to play baseball and football," He was a pot-head who picked up guitar in his final year of high school after listening to Led Zeppelin IV. After high school he would attend Lane Community College and it was here he played in one of his first bands a new wave cover act named Twist and the Ups. While a student there he would end up learning jazz guitar and classical music. He would also meet two professors, one who was taught philosophy and the other who taught literature who helped him develop as a songwriter. He would tell the News Times “They encouraged him to write "Obviously, it was a literature class. We were writing poetry and things like that. As I started messing around with words more than I had in the past, I always sort of wrote stuff down in a little traveling notebook that I carried around."”

. He would soon enroll in the University of Oregon, but he struggled through his first term getting a 1.9 GPA in his first year. It would be ttwo jazz guitarists who convinced him to pursue music as a career. They also taught Hamilton the importance of Space in music with him telling the newspaper. He would tell the News Times “They turned me on to the use of space in my playing," They said 'You don't have to play out everything you know every time you pick up the guitar. He would earn a degree in jazz and Classical Guitar telling the Chicago Tribune "I began to feel that rock was limited and that jazz had a real language," Of course Hamilton’s parents had other plans hoping their son would become a professional like a lawyer or doctor and he would recall to Rolling Stone his parent’s reaction when he told them he wanted to become a professional musician "They're very small-town, family and work oriented so my dad's first word when I told him I was going to be a music major was 'Bullshit!' His eyes were like saucers!"

By 1985 Hamilton moved across the country New York to further pursue his education and get a masters degree in jazz guitar. It was in New York he met Glenn Branca, who Sonic Youth’s thurston moore and Lee Ronaldo had played with. It was during his time in new york he would be exposed to the noise rock scene and bands like butthole surfers, sonic youth and big black. It was exposure to this new type of music that expanded Hamilton’s mind, but at the same time he saw similarities to his earliest rock influences telling Rolling Stone
"I obviously started playing the guitar because of rock music," Hamilton says. "Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Led Zeppelin -- that's all I listened to. I don't see it as that far removed from Sonic Youth or Big Black."

Hamilton would play in wall of sound band called Band of Susans appearing on their record Love Agenda and touring with them, He would tell the chicago tribune in 1992
“ It was all open tuned guitars playing these incredibly simple rhythms in different time signatures. Tha

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