For Helmet singer-guitarist Page Hamilton, an artist has a responsibility to create something unique. It’s an ethos he’s embraced ever since he began studying guitar as a teenager.
“I got a job working at the front desk working security from midnight to 8 a.m. but I got so far behind on my rent,” he says. “So I got a job as a driver delivering magazines. It paid off my back rent, and I moved into an apartment and finished grad school and joined Band of Susans. I auditioned for Glenn Branca and joined his orchestra.
“I would hear them say, 'We’re gonna make it. Live is going to be so incredible!’” he says. “I thought, ‘What a bunch of bullshit.’ I thought that you should just do music you dig and see what happens. When the bidding war [for Helmet] broke out, I was surprised as anyone. I had confidence. I thought we were good. We were the best band in New York, and that takes nothing away from my heroes like Sonic Youth.
“I needed to leave New York because I was going to kill myself with drugs and booze and not sleeping,” he says. “I had enough money to go out and do my thing. I didn’t want to be one of those old guys skulking around the East Village for 40 years. I knew I had to do something different. I moved to L.A. It made the most sense. I knew I could do film work and have other opportunities that I wouldn’t have in Medford, OR.
got off to a rough start. The group decided to record a new album, but Hamilton didn’t have any songs in the hopper.
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