Is acid the main instigator of the Chrome experience?
Helios: “Yes, I would say it is, you know, we’re all like chromosome damaged and all that, so we’re heavily influenced by the LSD experience. Also the time Chrome was putting out those records we were also influenced by the punk experience. LSD was very square, so we had to express it in a new way.” I gather you weren’t that accepted in the punk scene? Helios: “No, not at first. We were hated because acid was so square, that’s what hippies did, right?! So it was stacks of beer and hard drugs I guess, which was fine with me. That was the early days, but you know how things mutate.” You talked about phenomena and aliens, what’s the fascination with that? Helios: “Well there’s been a big fascination since I was a teenager. I saw a UFO in Hawii, I was with a friend and it was really visible, right over my head. Strange lights, a saucer shaped disc, it was definitely not our technology – human being technology – I’d say I was about eighteen or nineteen years old, and this was before I was r
