Helios Creed
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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 band Chrome, afterwards establishing a solo career.
Other members of Creed's bands have included 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 band was an influence on the Butthole Surfers. 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 6' 6" tall.
