“Outside of Toronto…that’s Kitchener anyway.” – Dan Gallagher
This is a real treasure! A legendary interview, it does not appear to be anywhere else online. It’s also the only video I know of to have one of my old customers in it — Snake the Tattoo Man. To be fair, Snake was T-Rev’s customer first. Trevor sent him to me, because he knew I was a huge Helix fan. Snake’s first claim to fame was appearing on the Phil Donahue show. Snake has over 90% of his body tattooed, and was kicked out of a mall in London Ontario simply because of the way he looked. His next bout with stardom was when he was cast in the Helix video for “Running Wild in the 21st Century”, one of their best songs!
MuchMusic’s Dan Gallagher talked to Brian Vollmer and Snake outside Speaker’s Corner in the spring of 1990. Of course Snake’s tattoos are discussed, and a new technology called “Surround Sound” is rolled out. Which of course you won’t hear, since Much was broadcast in stereo and I was recording in mono!
Great, classic interview that I proud to bring back to the world via Youtube.
What ever happened to Dan?
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He passed away :(
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That Back for Another Taste was a decent album. Thats Life is a great track…
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I think the whole album is stupendous.
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Overall pretty good! The Storm is a brilliant song as well…
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It is, although it took me a few plays to warm up to it. It was different for a Helix song. I was glad the album was more varied.
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I dug the Storm as those drums were what grabbed me off the hop…
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Holy shit they sounded amazing! Fritz man…
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Yup Frtiz drives the bus on that track…that chorus is the shit man..so good
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You know what…I may have spoken too soon…I know Brian Doerner played a lot of drums on that album. It could be Brian. There’s no real way to know.
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You’re channel is now the rabbit hole that folks get lost down.
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*your
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I sure hope so :)
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