The final half of the show has varied throughout this tour and on Sunday we got some rare oldies and of course the hits. For this set, Helmet ripped through Betty in forty-five minutes staying pretty close to the album’s sound.
While Saint Vitus in 2015 is an established and well-respected home for heavy music, its nice to see that Page has a sense of history - respect enough for the band’s legion of fans - to return to his roots and come “full circle” as he described. Helmet would go on to play a vast arragy of huge venues in the 1990s. As the band’s founder and only remaining original member Hamilton was a known quantity in music circles when Helmet formed in 1989, but there was a period when places like Lauterbach’s were their venues of choice. And like the long gone venue, Helmet themselves are a product of that era in Brooklyn.
And out it was, all the way in the South Slope on Prospect Avenue. For a time in the 80s and 90s, Lauterbach’s was the place for punk, hardcore and metal in the “outer boroughs”.
As Page Hamilton noted at the first break in the action, the “first Helmet show ever” was played at a club very similar in style, location and size to Saint Vitus - the late great Lauterbach’s in Brooklyn. On Sunday night the band added a special wrinkle by playing a small club the size of which they haven’t played in years. Helmet is taking a look back this tour and celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal album Betty beginning each show by playing the album straight through.
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