Helmet - Vaccination (Live 1993)

Pre-Album version of one of the most underrated Helmet songs. Recorded in Houston 1993. Props to Palmy for the original VHS Rip which was a bit damaged though, I cut and fixed a few parts here and there. It was definitly hot and sweaty in there...

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Music

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• Helmet
• Vaccination
• Betty
• Live
• PageHamilton
• Page
• Hamilton
• JohnStanier
• Stanier

[andersbrown]

This sounds so much different (and better) than the album version. I can't even reconcile what part is consistent with what is on Betty. Regardless, this version bakes.

[maker00m]

At first I thought exactly the same thing, but strangely, I began to like Vaccination on Betty more after listening to this version. Eventually, it even became my favorite song, eventhough I initially thought of it as one of many good but not outstanding songs on Betty.

The main verse riff of this version is what later became the chorus riff, by the way. But Stanier plays a different drum line over it, which gives it a certain drive.

[insurgentstain]

yeah but he kicks ass in tomahawk

[maker00m]

... and in Battles, and The Mark Of Cain, and in [insert random band here]....

[xedih]

ahhh man, i wish it'd keep going all the way through fbla II, lol. nice video.

[maker00m]

FBLAII is quite a regular on any concert before the Aftertaste tour, so I didn't feel the need to post, but maybe I'll do once I'm through the more rare stuff. Did I mention I love FBLAII?

[2ndDayRiffs]

Betty is one of the few albums in my lifetime that I wish I could experience buying it and listening to it again for the first time. I like the Helmet of the 90's more than the Helmet that is around today. Man I've listened to this album a thousand times if I've listened to it once. I soooo wish I could buy experience it all again for the first time. Bands that are around today suck.

[airbagabe]

page hamilton is more of helmet than john stanier, don't be stupid

[longhorn2615]

@longhorn2615 , anyone know, Bueller?? 

[axllovesslash]

no wonder these fags never got any bigger they suck, they sound like a muddy subpar verison of a grunge band, and at least grunge is catchy.

[airbagabe]

@maker00m He sucks in Battles

[robbaphett]

@andersbrown me too i love this version. I prefer how the chorus riff from the album is more of a feature in this one.

[longhorn2615]

was this show at the Abyss or the Vatican? 

[theivory1]

Whoa, totally different. I screamed for them to play this in concert right after Betty came out. They didnt and we began to rock the barrier back and forth and my finger slipped under the rail and almost lopped off my finger tip. I will never forget that show!

[cryostasium]

Great version of this awesome Helmet song! Love the clean vocals and different arrangement, almost sounds like a shoegaze song.

[Koensgen]

...totally agreement!

[ifutureman]

Yet another "work-in-progress" version ... Page certainly spent time developing his songs before recording them. That's why bootlegs are so cool; you get to hear the evolution of a song. However, I strongly disagree with whoever said this is better than the album version. The album version is incredible, with a rhythmic arrangement that is warped, even for Helmet. I can play and sing it easily but I still can't define the time signature of the verse.

[mirak63]

I like it, like many betty song, however Milquetoast have a special place for, it's the tune that made me discover helmet, it was on MTV, I was totally blown away