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Scott Helland
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Helland performing with Deep Wound in 2013
Background information
Birth nameScott Donald Helland
Born Centralia, Illinois, United States
Genres Alternative rock, folk punk, punk cabaret, Instrumental, hardcore punk, thrash metal, new-age, post-punk, Surf Rock
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)guitar, bass, drums, Vocals
Years active1982–present
Website www.frenchyandthepunk.com

Scott Helland is an American alternative rock musician, acoustic guitarist, bassist and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Deep Wound, [1] Outpatients, [2] and Frenchy and the Punk. He also performs instrumental music as Guitarmy of One. Helland was born in Centralia, Illinois and raised in Westfield, Massachusetts.

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Career

Helland attended high school in Westfield, where he met Lou Barlow. The two formed the Massachusetts-based hardcore punk band Deep Wound in 1982. J Mascis joined the band after answering their ad for a "drummer wanted to play really fast". [3] While playing bass guitar in Deep Wound, Helland formed Outpatients with brother Vis Helland in 1982 and released The Basement Tape in 1983. [4] The Outpatients were also part of the Western Mass hardcore scene and shared the stage with bands like Hüsker Dü, Battalion of Saints, Crucifix, The FU's and GBH. [5] Deep Wound broke up in 1984 and "Scott... went in the Outpatients full time." [6] The Outpatients toured the East Coast of the US, Canada and Argentina throughout their 13-year career and disbanded in 1995. [7]

Helland released seven albums under his own name beginning with the experimental Hellbox Mood Rings CD in 1996. In 2000, he released an ambient/instrumental/new age [8] CD called Space Age Tranceology "and made the striking transition to atmospheric soundtracks." [9] In the same year he composed music for the film Riders. [10] Songs from his 2002 CD release, Earthbound, [11] were played on the syndicated radio program Echoes. [12] In 2006, he released the all acoustic 12 song Catapult album [13] with his tribute to the BBC series of the same name Monarch of the Glen . [14] He formed Scott Helland and the Traveling Band of Gypsy Nomads [15] in 2005 with French-born singer and percussionist Samantha Stephenson, which later became Frenchy and the Punk. [16]

In 2004, Helland reunited with his old Deep Wound bandmates for a song at the John M Greene Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts. [17] In June 2013 they reunited, to perform the song "Training Ground" at the Governor's Ball in New York City. [18] [19] More recently Helland and his bandmates played together in 2018 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts when the other half of Deep Wound, J Mascis and Lou Barlow's band Dinosaur jr were opening for the Foo Fighters. [20]

In 2014 his duo Frenchy and the Punk performed at Scotland's prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Fest. [21] In 2016 he released a book of his pen and ink drawings titled Feast. "Helland’s pagan-organic lines recall the gothic style of Aubrey Beardsley, as well as those of punk pen wielders like Savage Pencil, Nick Blinko, and Raymond Pettibon." [22]

Helland returned to the instrumental rock world with his Never End the Rocket Century record in 2017. Intended as a multicultural mashup of the classic Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and End of the Century, his acoustic (guitar) has the propulsive drive of punk rock, but his riffs resonate with sounds ranging from Krautrock to flamenco and spaghetti western pastiche. [23] Helland has released 6 videos from the album including the title track, 'Never End the Rocket Century', in which he donned a space suit and walked around Los Angeles. [24]

In January 2019 Helland and Stephenson's cabaret rock duo Frenchy and the Punk released a video for the song Lanky Bell Bottoms from their forth-coming album Hooray Beret. [25]

Helland released the all instrumental spy themed album 'The Spy Detective Collective' in 2021. The music journalist Justin Vellucci from Pop Matters says "Helland has tapped into something interesting and, dare we say magical on The Spy Detective Collective." [26]

Discography

See also Deep Wound

Albums

YearTitleNameLabel
1982American Style(demo)Deep WoundSelf Released
1983The Basement TapeOutpatientsFree Association
1983Deep Wound(7")Deep WoundRadiobeat Records
1985CommittedOutpatientsFree Association
1987Free Association [27] OutpatientsIncas Records
1989InsomniaSchool of ViolenceSelf
1991Life on the OutsideOutpatientsEA Recordings
1993Test of TimeOutpatientsEA Recordings
1995Hardcore Outcast's '82-'84 [28] OutpatientsEA Recordings
1996Hellbox Mood RingsScott HellandExotic Aquatic Recordings
1997Anthology Compilation [29] Deep WoundDamaged Goods
1998Outcasts II '85-'95OutpatientsEA Recordings
1998Ambitions Make Way for Dread [30] Darkside NYCindie release
1998Deep in ItScott HellandHellectrifly Records
1999Motion Sickness Scott HellandExotic Aquatic Recordings
2000Space Age Tranceology [31] Scott HellandExotic Aquatic Recordings
2000The Blushing BachelorStephen Rand and the Magic PoniesWormco Records
2002Earthbound [32] Scott HellandExotic Aquatic Recordings
2004Brocade [33] Scott HellandExotic Aquatic Recordings
2004Cathedral [34] Ware River ClubSpirit House Records
2005In Pursuit of Your Happiness [35] Mark Mulcahy Mezzotint
2006Almost CompleteDeep WoundBaked Goods Records
2006CatapultScott HellandExotic Aquatic Recordings
2007Thread & Stone [36] The Gypsy NomadsExotic Aquatic Recordings
2008Eternal Summer [37] The Gypsy NomadsExotic Aquatic Recordings
2008At the Carnivale EclectiqueThe Gypsy NomadsExotic Aquatic Recordings
2010Happy MadnessFrenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2011Live at Bube's BreweryFrenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2012Hey Hey Cabaret [38] Frenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2013Elephant Uproar [39] Frenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2014Cartwheels EPFrenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2014Bonjour BatfrogFrenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2015Feast Art Book [40] Scott HellandParis Punk Press
2016CompilationScott Helland Guitarmy of OneEA Recordings
2016Batfrog Tracks - Lyric/Photo BookFrenchy and the PunkParis Punk Press
2017Never End the Rocket CenturyScott Helland Guitarmy of OneEA Recordings
2019Hooray BeretFrenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2019Rock Lobster (Scott Guest Vocals)(Single)Boom Boom ShakeIndependent
2019Chupando (Scott Guest Guitar)(Single)VoltaireVoltaire Recordings
2020The Storm is a Call for Rebuilding(Single)Frenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2021The Spy Detective CollectiveGuitarmy of OneEA Recordings
2021ReadmittedOutpatientsPainkiller Records
2022Zen GhostFrenchy and the PunkEA Recordings
2023The Wave FilesGuitarmy of OneEA Recordings

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