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http://www.greenwichtime.com/features/scn-sa-hamilton3aug02.story

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[i]Hamilton returns with another heavy-rock group
By Ray Hogan
Staff Writer

August 2, 2002

Flying into the area to begin rehearsals with his new band, Gandhi, Page Hamilton saw KISS bassist Gene Simmons and spent time catching up with his old acquaintance.

Simmons, a strong supporter of Hamilton's last band, Helmet, asked what the name of the new project was. Simmons didn't think it would stick in people's heads quickly enough but then conceded that Hamilton has always striven for credibility, while he was simply after the money.

Even in this age of mega-mergers, disposable pop stars and artist/record company animosity bordering on warlike, integrity still counts for something. Hamilton knows that. Helmet had tons of it and helped shape today's heavy rock. With crunching riffs, odd-time signatures and a minimalist approach, Helmet was the Northeast's answer to the Seattle grunge scene when Interscope Records won a bidding war in the early 1990s. Commercially, the band never found the audience it deserved and was done by 1999.

After touring with David Bowie and working on film scores, Hamilton felt the urge to put a band together. Tonight's show at Jimmy's Seaside and tomorrow's at Marty's in Port Chester, N.Y., are Gandhi's first public performances.

"I got to the point where I was missing being in a band," he says. "I started playing with (bassist) Christian Bongers and Matt Flynn (a drummer) and it started to feel like something. I just got to the point where I was dying to play some shows. I was exhausting the possibilities of writing by yourself."

Gandhi features Hamilton, Bongers, guitarists John Andrews and Stamford native-resident Tony Truglio and drummer Mike Conlin (who is filling in for Flynn while he tours with the B-52s).

The band's moniker, like Helmet's, comes from too many hours sitting in bars and coming up with absurd names for rock groups. Also like Helmet, Hamilton promises the music will be heavy.

Having grown up in Oregon, Hamilton moved to New York to study jazz in graduate school at 25. Once there, he became enamored with noise rock architects like Sonic Youth but maintained a soft spot for riff-oriented heavy metal. He enlisted bassist Henry Bogdan, guitarist Peter Mengede and drummer John Stanier to form the earliest incarnation of Helmet in 1989. The group's 1991 EP, "Strap It On," and its raw aggression sparked an industry bidding war won by Interscope, which released the following year's breakthrough, "Meantime." The disc was universally, and rightfully, praised. If the grunge bands of the era were intrinsically linked to their Northwest environs, Helmet was undoubtedly a New York band, an aural embodiment of the city's immediacy, hard edge, concrete and steel.

"We were doing what we liked," Hamilton says. "A lot of the metal at the time wasn't very interesting. (It was about) rock guitar poses, makeup and outfits. We liked the New York noise scene but we also liked AC/DC and Slayer. The stuff started coming to me as a way to have our own vocabulary with repetitive riffs and different time signatures against 4/4 drums."

Three tracks from "Meantime" -- including "Unsung"-- found a home with daring FM stations and MTV. Mengede was replaced by Rob Echeverria in time for 1994's "Betty," a more daring album than "Meantime." The disc still hit like a two-by-four but also demonstrated the band's musicality on tracks such as the cover of Dizzy Gillespie's "Beautiful Love." Although the track "Milquetoast" found moderate FM success, the album's ultimate attributes probably befuddled the headbanging crowd that knew the band only from "Unsung." "Aftertaste," released in 1997, would become Helmet's swan song. By that point Echeverria had left to join Biohazard.

" 'Aftertaste' was our last record and for me it was the best written record and I was really proud of it," Hamilton says. "We needed some time apart but I didn't necessarily think the band was going to break up. There were personal issues: money, ego, all the kind of things that break ban

[philby]

Helmet were fucking awesome in their day. Some of the heaviest shit ever. Their shows at CBGB are legendary. I cant wait to hear this. Those old Amphetamine Reptile bands were great. <P>

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This message was edited by philby on 8-6-02 @ 1:14 PM

[EQ]

Well,

The Topic Title fooled me again.

I thought this was about HELMETS..
the kind that I have to wear ( by law ) at the playground, when I forget to take my ritalin.





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