Helios Creed
Helios Creed (born November 3, 1953 in Long Beach, California) is an American guitarist, singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid 1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome, afterwards establishing a solo career.
Other members of Creed's bands have included Bill Roth, Paul Della Pella, 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. Helios even contributed guitar work to their album "Independent Worm Saloon". He has released records on Sub Pop, Amphetamine Reptile, Cleopatra and other indie labels.
Helios uses a large number of effects on his voice and his guitar, including space echoes, phase shifters, flangers, guitar synthesizers, fuzz, and octave dividers.
Helios 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, and currently lives in Oklahoma. He still tours sporadically. Helios is an avid model railroad enthusiast.
Helios is the father of two sons and a daughter.
Helios is 6' 6" tall.
Discography
1985 X-Rated Fairy Tales
1989 Superior Catholic Finger
1989 The Last Laugh
1990 Boxing the Clown
1991 Lactating Purple
1992 Kiss to the Brain
1993 Your Choice Live
1994 Planet-X
1994 Busting Through the Van Allan Belt
1995 Cosmic Assault
1996 "NUGG" The Transport
1998 Activated Condition
1998 Chromagnum Man
1999 Colors of Light
2001 On Tour 1999
2002 Spider Prophesy
2003 On the Dark Side of the Sun
2004 Inferior Plastic Finger
2006 Deep Blue Love Vacuum
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