Helmet - Speechless 1994

One more (one of the best) from 1994, Denver. I remember I got permission to shoot from either John or Henry - then they forgot to tell Page - and he starts the show asking (on the mic) "and who might you be?" as I was sitting on the stage between him and Bogdan. Hope he sees these videos someday.

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[TestosteronJeremy]

great performance of a great song by a fucking great band. i miss this era so very much. i saw helmet about 4 or 5 times from 94 to 96 and they were always so tight and heavy and amazing. thanks for the trip down memory lane, now i'm sad that so may new bands suck

[Denco83]

I miss them too. I'm happy with some of the bands from those days getting back out there (Meat Puppets, Jesus Lizard, and Butthole Surfers) that haven't tried to reinvent themselves. I haven't seen the 2000 + Helmet so I can't judge. I would imagine they are better than a lot of bands touring currently.

[Toolsquatch]

How did you get such good audio of this gig? You're way too close to the stage to have been able to use the camera's mic right there, did you have a digital recorder somewhere in the back of the venue or something?

[Denco83]

Lectrosonics. VHF model 185. Plugged into soundboard - mixed with 20% on-camera mic.

[Toolsquatch]

Wow, you had access to the soundboard for this? No wonder it sounds incredible. I'm surprised you mixed that much of the on-camera mic into the sound though, with you having been as close as you were in these videos I'd have assumed none of the concert (asides from in-between stage banter) would be usable.

[Denco83]

The on-camera mic was either a Beyer or 635 hand mic which can take on high decibels w/out distortion. If you

watch the Your Head and FBLA II videos from '92 I did not

have the board for that and it sounds decent. The mix never has crowd noise (and usually heavy on drums and vocals) so it's a good back-up if the amps are turned up loud onstage. Helmet on this tour had their own sound crew and monitors. Very fortunate to have gotten this good of a result. And the original is analog.

[TheBrownNote2007]

It warms the heart to see this version of Helmet (the REAL Helmet). Thank you....

[JohnTheHater]

@stevegrierson not a genre thing, Helmet-at least for me-is/was a band of raw emotion with anger or disgust being at the core. For me it's the feeling I get from listening to it, not how melodic it is.

[stevegrierson]

Is this a genre thing ? The music is totally lacking melody. I believe this guy can play and appears quite intelligent in interview but the music lacks any spark or accesibility. The best bit was the guitar solo. I am not trolling it is a serious question.

[k5lta]

Beautiful!!

[HatsOff2TheBull]

man i love this song.. any idea what it means? relationship gone sour?

[costarica69]

Who is the hell gives this a thumbs down???

[Bad66666666]

Simple, But superior. Thanks bro.

[intoxicated12gauge]

@A4moondoggy ...He wanted a nice guitar, so he bought one... Is there really anything wrong with that? Kurt Cobain's guitars were expensive once Nirvana got big too. Hell he even had a custom guitar built for him by fender. If you can play nice guitars, why would you play shitty ones?

[Lopez1988chile]

@Denco83 GREAT POST MAN THANKS DANKE GRACIAS!!!

[StraightPunkEdge93]

you handle the camera so well, i would of been jamming so hard the damn thing would fall out of my hand.

Also thanks for posting my favorite song from Betty.

[ninjascience]

Thanks! Excellent footage of one of my favorite bands in their prime. Too bad what happened to them....