Conference decc::radio_radioes]radio_radio

1126.0. "Chrome/Creed" by ASDG::GASSAWAY (Insert clever personal name here) Tue May 13 1997 19:00

    
    Chrome box set now appearing at yr fav record store.  Maybe not.
    I've only seen one.  It was at Mars records in Cambridge.  I bought it.
    It has been essential to my well being.  $30 well spent.  Go buy one
    now.
    
    
    For the people that listen to tonal music with direction:  Chrome was
    a late 70's early 80's difficult space rock band.  There were
    interspersed passages of straight ahead rock mixed with deranged
    heavily effect boxed guitar in the middle of a bunch of instrumental
    effects that sounded kind of like Moussorgsky on hallucinogens.  There
    were no bridges between the two types of passages.  Sound quality
    of the recordings was abyssmal.
    
    Near the end of the Creed Period there was a toning down of the sharp
    edges and the music became more listenable, with the production of such
    hits as "Firebomb".  "Firebomb" was off a record called Third From the
    Sun which has the best album cover art of all time.
    
    In 1982, Helios Creed left the band.  Every Chrome record produced
    after this event sucked, mostly because Damon Edge was left as the
    creative force behind the music.  After a period of wallowing in the
    mud, Chrome dissolved, leaving Damon Edge to torture the rest of the
    sentient world with his magnificently odious solo records.  Eventually,
    Mr. Edge did himself in with some sort of long term self-inflicted
    abuse.
    
    Mr. Creed, on the other hand, has put out a number of quality solo
    records that sound eerily like the Chrome we all knew and loved except
    that the sound quality is better and he has better effect boxes on the
    vocals.  You can see these boxes if you catch one of the periodic live
    performances that happen when Mr. Creed leaves his SF home and heads
    east.  The appearance of the boxes will be the highlight of the evening. 
    Attendance at Helios Creed shows is light.
    
    His most recent effort kind of sucked but did not inflict the pain of a
    Damon Edge recording.
    
    Go buy the Chrome box set.
    
    Lisa/it contains the entire Chrome catalog between 1979 and 1982.
    

So did Chrome have a song called Anorexic Sacrifice?

    Thanks for reminding me about them... I just dug out 3rd from the Sun
    (vinyl), it will be on the turntable sometime in the next week or so.
    
    Always liked the name Helios Creed...
    
    Long live the SF scene - Buy or Die (Ralph records' motto). Tuxedomoon
    (Half-mute is a classic in my book).
    
    \chuck

	Is "3rd From the Sun" the album with "Armageddon" on it???

	/Cap'n Quad

    All guesses about Chrome material are correct.
    
    
    Lisa