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Helix has been together for over thirty years... |
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Film stars Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox and Traci Lords all have a connection to Helix... |
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Blues great Colin James used to sneak in to the bar to party with Helix when he was underage... |
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Robin Williams, Richard Pryor and Rip Tayor all visited Helix on the set while filming a video... |
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Snake the tatooed man from the Running Wild In The 21st Century video made both Helix's manager and producer nervous... |
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Helix was once the back-up band for the legendary Del Shannon... |
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Helix was the first Canadian band to ever play in Portugal, Spain and Sweden (even inside the Arctic Circle )... |
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Helix achieved a number one album position for the year in the country of Sweden... |
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Helix has played with over one hundred other recording acts... |
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Helix's heavy metal lead vocalist, Brian Vollmer, is a classical and opera singer... |
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The president of Trinidad once ordered the power shut down during a Helix show because of the noise... |
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Former Helix Road Manager, Ken Heague, joined the NFL's Indianapolis Colts football team... |
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Former Helix drummer Greg "Fritz" Hinz played in a Florida disco band... |
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Lynda Vollmer may have met as many celebrities in her career as her famous husband has in his... |
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Brian Vollmer 's great grandfather was a famous acrobat in the Barnum & Bailey Circus... |
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Members of Helix received a citation from the Governor General of Canada for recording a new version of the Canadian National Anthem... |
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Helix was the first band to perform with Kiss after they removed their make-up... |
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Helix is one of only a few bands to have ever played both the "old" Marquee and the "new" Marquee in London, England... |
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Helix hung out with W.A.S.P. whom were known as one of the most outrageous bands of the 1980's... |
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Helix has performed twice for the Hells Angels motorcycle club (in two different countries) and in the Arizona desert for the Navaho's... |
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Helix participated in the final show at the closing of one of Canada's most famous clubs, The Gasworks... |
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Brian Vollmer was awakened from a sound sleep one morning by Ted Nugent who was broadcasting their conversation "live" on Detroit radio... |
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Top rock photographer, Dino Safari, used a photo of Helix "hanging a moon" in one of his exhibitions... |
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The stage antics of Helix through the 1980's left the band members with many "war wounds"... |
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One of the strangest places Helix played during their early years was the town of Kapuskasing in northern Ontario , Canada... |
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Helix drummer "Fritz" Hinz got drunk in an airport bar with Tom Jones... |
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Once a Vietnam veteran held a knife to and threatened to kill former Helix guitarist Brent Doerner... |
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Helix was out for a night in the "Big Apple" and ran into Boy George... |
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Helix can not locate former bass player Mike Uzelac after years of trying... |
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Brian Vollmer 's former brother-in-law wanted to experience life on the road with Helix so Brian took him along for an experience of a lifetime... |
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Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky's famous father, Walter, complimented Brian Vollmer on his classical singing voice... |
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