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Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Massage is customarily defined as manual (by hand) manipulation of the soft tissues of the body for therapeutic purposes, using strokes that include gliding, kneading, pressing, tapping, and/or vibrating. Massage therapists may also cause movement within the joints, apply heat or cold, use holding techniques, and/or advise clients on exercises to improve muscle tone and range of motion. The best known forms are sports massage, which focuses on muscle systems relevant to a particular sport; and Swedish massage which uses long strokes, kneading, and friction techniques on muscles, plus active and passive movements of the joints. The term "bodywork" encompasses traditional massage, other touch therapies, and some methods that involve manipulation of imaginary forces to maintain or restore "balance." [1]
Ordinary massage and the legitimate practice of massage therapy should not be categorized as quackery. Massage can help people relax, relieve aching muscles, and temporarily lift a person's mood. However, many therapists make claims that go far beyond what massage can accomplish. And even worse, massage therapy schools, publications, and professional groups are an integral part of the deception.
There is no evidence-based reason to believe that massage can influence the course of any disease. Yet the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) Web site has claimed that that therapeutic massage can help with allergies, asthma, bronchitis, spastic colon, constipation, diarrhea, and sinusitis [2]. The site also suggests that "massage is to the human body what a tune-up is to a car" and that "therapeutic massage can be part of your regular healthcare maintenance." And a 1997 AMTA booklet falsely states that massage can promote easier breathing, assist with removal of metabolic wastes, strengthen the immune system, and help prevent disease [3].
Irrational Methods
The following methods are an integral part of the massage therapy marketplace. None has a scientifically plausible rationale or has been shown to favorably influence the course of any physical ailment. Several are claimed to detect and manipulate subtle "energies" that have not been scientifically demonstrated. And none (except perhaps for the use of aromatic oils if clients enjoy their odor) has any rational place in the practice of massage therapy.
- Acupressure and shiatsu are often described as "acupuncture without needles." They are based on metaphysical concepts of traditional Chinese medicine, which holds that "life energy (chi or qi)" flows through hypothetical (imaginary) channels called meridians and that ill health is due to energy blockages and/or "imbalances." Practitioners claim to restore health by correcting these alleged imbalances. They may also use irrational diagnostic methods to reach diagnoses that do not correspond to scientific concepts of health and disease.
- Aromatherapy involves the use of aromatic oils from plants to affect mood or promote health. The oils are administered in small quantities through inhalation, massage, or other applications to the skin. Aromatherapy products include diffusers, lamps, pottery, candles, pendants, earrings, shampoos, skin creams, lotions, bath salts, and shower gels. The aromatic oils are alleged to contain hormones, antibiotics, and antiseptics, and to represent the "life force," "spirit," or "soul" of the plant. Some proponents claim that aromatherapy is a complete medical system that can "revitalize cells," strengthen defense mechanisms, and cure the cause of disease. Although pleasant odors may enhance a person's effort to relax, there is no scientific evidence that they can influence the course of any disease [4]. In addition, some people are allergic to aromatherapy products or find that their irritate the lining of their nose.
- Colonic irrigation (also called colon hydrotherapy) is typically performed by passing a rubber tube into the rectum for a distance of up to 20 or 30 inches. Warm water is pumped in and out through the tube, a few pints at a time, typically using 20 or more gallons. Some practitioners add herbs, coffee, or other substances to the water. The procedure is said to "detoxify" the body. Its advocates claim that, as a result of intestinal stasis, intestinal contents putrefy, and toxins are formed and absorbed, which causes chronic poisoning of the body. This "autointoxication" theory was abandoned by the scientific community during the 1930s. No such "toxins" have ever been identified, and careful observations have shown that individuals in good health can vary greatly in bowel habits. Proponents may also suggest that fecal material collects on the lining of the intestine and causes trouble unless removed by laxatives, colonic irrigation, special diets, and/or various herbs or food supplements that "cleanse" the body. The falsity of this notion is obvious to doctors who perform intestinal surgery or peer within the large intestine with a diagnostic instrument. Fecal material does not adhere to the intestinal lining. Colonic irrigation is not only therapeutically worthless but can cause fatal electrolyte imbalance. Cases of death due to intestinal perforation and infection (from contaminated equipment) have also been reported [5].
- Craniosacral therapy (also called cranial therapy) is based on the notion that bones of the skull are movable and can be manipulated. Some practitioners claim to attune themselves to the patient's "rhythm" while holding the patient's skull in their hands. Some claim to improve the flow of "life energy," thereby curing or preventing a wide variety of health problems. Some claim to remove blockages to the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. Some claim to realign the skull bones. Actually, the bones of the skull fuse early in life and cannot be moved independently [6].
- Polarity therapy is a system of manipulation, stretching exercises, clear thinking, and diet, which claims to restore health by removing blocks and balancing the flow of "life energy" between the positive (head) and negative poles (feet) of the body. There is no scientific evidence that this energy flow exists. Yet a recent article in AMTA's journal claims that polarity therapy "will become one of the premier wellness modalities for the 21st century" and that "recent and intensified interest in polarity therapy stems from its increasing success in preventing or treating such conditions as stress, arthritis, frozen shoulder, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer, trauma resolution and back pain." [7]
- Reiki practitioners claim harness and transmit "universal life energy" by placing their hands in specific positions on or near the body; or they can visualize special symbols that supposedly enable them to send "healing energy," even from far away [1]. One form of reiki, The Radiance Technique, is claimed to be useful for mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual balancing. Some practitioners claim that Reiki can increase the healing energy of food [1]. The existence of "universal life energy" has not been demonstrated.
- Reflexology (also called zone therapy) practitioners claim that each body part is represented on the hands and feet and that pressing these areas can have therapeutic effects throughout the body. Proponents claim that the body is divided into ten zones that begin or end in the hands and feet, and that each organ or body part is "represented" on the hands feet. They also claim that abnormalities can be diagnosed by feeling the feet and that pressing each area can stimulate the flow of energy, blood, nutrients, and nerve impulses to the corresponding body zone. Many practitioners claim foot reflexology can cleanse the body of toxins, increase circulation, assist in weight loss, and improve the health of organs throughout the body. Some claim that reflexology is effective against a large number of serious diseases. The pathways postulated by reflexologists have no anatomic basis; and no well designed study has demonstrated that reflexology is effective against any disease. Done gently, reflexology is a form of foot massage that may help people relax temporarily. Whether that is worth $35 to $100 per session or is more effective than ordinary (noncommercial) foot massage is a matter of individual choice [8].
- Therapeutic Touch practitioners claim to detect and correct "energy imbalances" by moving their hands above the patient's body. Healing supposedly results from transfer of "excess energy" from healer to patient. Neither the forces involved nor the alleged therapeutic benefits have been demonstrated by scientific testing. Moreover, a study published in 1998 found that 21 TT practitioners were unable to detect the experimenter's "energy field." [9]
Questionable Organizations and Standards
The main standard-setting organization for massage therapists is the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), which was founded in 1943 and represents about 47,000 massage therapists in 30 countries [10]. AMTA's official publication, Massage Therapy Journal, has four issues per year. Most issues contain articles that advocate quack treatments, and all issues contain ads for dubious courses and products. The second largest professional group, the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP), has about 37,000 members and publishes an equally low-quality magazine called Massage & Bodywork. A 2001 survey of ABMP members found that 44.6% of respondents said they used reflexology, 37.9% said they used "energy healing," and 30.4% said they used shiatsu [11].
In 1982, AMTA formed its Council on Schools to provide a forum for member schools to discuss the development of the field and to participate in workshops and seminars for massage educators. Member schools are required to operate a minimum 500-hour program of study and meet all legal requirements for operation within their jurisdiction. In 2001, there were about 350 members.
In 1989, AMTA established the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA) which accredits massage therapy training programs [12]. COMTA's accreditation standards do not required that teachings be scientifically valid or that quack assertions be accompanied by disclaimers. In other words, if a school wants to teach that nonmaterial "energies" exert therapeutic effects, it is not required to inform students that no such forces have ever been scientifically demonstrated. But even worse, if a school elects to offer a program in "Body Therapies of Asia," it is required to teach a long list of notions that do not correspond to scientific knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, health, and disease [13]. And new competency standards scheduled to take effect on March 1, 2003, endorse these notions in even greater detail, as well as the use of sound and color therapies [14]. According to a COMTA spokesperson, these standards were requested by the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA), which represents practitioners of various therapies that were rooted in ancient China. As of May 7, 2002, 19 schools were participating members of AOBTA's Council of Schools and Programs (COSP). The AOBTA Web site describes 13 methods which it says are "based upon traditional Asian medical principles for assessing and evaluating the energetic system and use of traditional Asian techniques and treatment strategies to primarily affect and balance the energetic system for the purpose of treating the human body, emotions, mind, energy field and spirit for the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health." [15] In line with this, a 2001 COMTA memorandum included "balanced energy flow" in a list of general benefits of massage [16]
About 65 schools now have COMTA accreditation. COMTA is not recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education but in December 2001 was recommended for approval by the department's advisory committee. Since the Secretary has granted approval to an astrology school, there is no reason to believe that the unscientific teachings of massage therapy schools will prevent COMTA from being approved.
In 1992, AMTA initiated creation of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB), more than 40,000 massage therapists are now certified [17]. NCBTMB is recognized by an interdisciplinary organization called the National Commission of Certifying Agencies (NCCA). However, NCCA accreditation is limited to a review of the structure of the certification program and the process used to measure competency. It does not imply endorsement of a profession's core beliefs or examination contents [18].
As of December 2005, 36 states and the District of Columbia regulate the practice of massage therapy. Most have an independent massage therapy licensing board, but some use the state health department or another professional board for this purpose. All require at least 500 hours of instruction at an accredited school, but a few require as many as 1,000 hours [19]. (A 500-hour course usually takes six months to complete.) In most states, NCBTMB's National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork is the standard for licensure. Yet NCBTMB appears to have endorsed many quack concepts! Its candidate handbook, for example, indicates that certification candidates are expected to answer approximately 15 questions about metaphysical concepts of traditional Chinese medicine, palpation to assess "craniosacral pulses" and "energy blockages," therapeutic touch, "energetic effects of nutrition," "manual contact and manual manipulation to affect . . . the energy system," and several other practices based on quack concepts [20].
Several years ago, a very bright young woman sent me a vivid report of her recent experience as a student. The dubious practices she encountered included acupressure, craniosacral therapy, ear candling, reflexology, muscle-testing for allergies, reiki, lymphatic massage "to remove toxins," and various other practices claimed to detoxify the body. Although she did not wish to provoke her colleagues, she did give me permission to post her account anonymously [21].
Using the Internet, I have examined the course offerings of dozens of massage therapy schools and found that nearly every one of them advocates and teaches one or more of the quack practices mentioned in this article. It would be interesting to know whether any of the accredited schools are entirely free of unscientific teachings.
The Bottom Line
Ordinary massage and the legitimate practice of massage therapy can help people feel better. However, many practitioners falsely claim to do much more, and the agencies that oversee the educational and licensing systems display no evidence of concern about this. If you seek help from a massage therapist, try to select one who does not espouse the irrational beliefs or practices mentioned in this article. Al Wuthnow, MS, CMT, who practices in Mill Valley, California, has summed up the situation very succinctly:
I've been astounded over the years at the outlandish claims made by many body workers. It's wonderful to get a great massage. It does increase circulation, gives temporary relief to pain, provides a sense of well being, and promotes relaxation, but I don't know of anything (other than the blues) that it has ever cured. People need to realize that just because it is a wonderful pleasure that does not make it good medicine. A few pointers for consumers:
- If the therapist tells you what is wrong with you, the therapist is probably wrong and breaking the law to diagnose.
- If the therapist tells you to take "such and such" to help your problem, don't do it until you check with a real doctor.
- If the therapist tells you to see a dermatologist because they are concerned about a mole on you back or elsewhere, DO IT!
- If a therapist asks you about a lump in your breast or elsewhere and it has not been checked out by a medical professional, it is probably a good idea to see your doctor.
- If your therapist is an ethical one, take a deep breath or two, and enjoy the massage.
- Claire T. Bodywork: What Type of Massage to Get—and How to Make the Most of It. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1995.
- Massage therapy: Enhancing your health with therapeutic massage. AMTA, 1999.
- A Guide to Massage Therapy in America. Evanston, IL: American Massage Therapy Association, 1997.
- Barrett S. Aromatherapy: Making dollars out of scents. Quackwatch, Aug 22, 2001.
- Barrett S. Gastrointestinal quackery: Colonics, laxatives, and more. Quackwatch, Nov 26, 2001.
- Barrett S. Craniosacral therapy. Quackwatch, Aug 21, 2001.
- Kennedy ED. Polarity therapy: "Going wireless." Massage Therapy Journal 40(4):60, 2002.
- Barrett S. A close look at reflexology. Quackwatch, May 6, 2002.
- Rosa L, Rosa E, Sarner L, Barrett S. A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch. JAMA 279:1005-1010, 1998.
- AMTA home page, accessed May 5, 2002.
- Member profile/survey results. ABMP Web site, accessed May 7, 2002.
- AMTA fast facts. AMTA Web site, accessed May 5, 2002.
- Policies, Procedures, and Standards Manual. Evanston, IL: COMTA, Oct 2000, pp 21-23.
- New competency standards (effective 3/1/03), pp 1-5.
- General definition and scope of practice. AOBTA Web site, accessed May 7, 2002.
- Schwartz J, Ostendorf C. Memo to COMPTA school owners/directors and other interested parties. Aug 21, 2001.
- Consumers' guide to therapeutic massage and bodywork. NCBTMB Web site, accessed May 5, 2002.
- Frequently asked questions. National Organization of Certifying Agencies Web site, accessed May 6, 2002.
- Massage practice laws information guide. AMTA Web site, accessed May 5, 2002.
- NCBTMB National Certification Examination Candidate Handbook. McLean, VA: National Certification Board for Massage and Bodywork, 1999-2001.
- Anon. A massage school experience. Submitted to Quackwatch in 1997.
Unfortunately, I don't believe there are any massage therapy schools free of unscientific teachings. I am qualified to comment, having completed what is probably the most scientifically sound massage therapy curriculum in the world: a 3000-hour training program in the most regulated jurisdiction for this profession anywhere (British Columbia, Canada). For about four decades, registered massage therapists here were regulated by the same legislation that applied to physiotherapists, and we were a part of the health care system and paid with public health insurance dollars. In 1995, the Government of British Columbia designated massage therapy as an independently regulated profession, with increased standards for training and certification. Certification now requires three years of training and extensive government examinations on anatomy, physiology, pathology, orthopedic assessment, and many physical therapies practiced in common with physiotherapists. The great majority of our practice is devoted to facilitating recovery from musculoskeletal dysfunction and injury.
In spite of this, my education was still sprinkled with seminars and classes on the likes of therapeutic touch and reiki, craniosacral therapy, and other questionable therapies discussed in your article—all presented without a whiff of scientific curiosity. Our knowledge of these subjects was NOT tested in our certification exams, which makes me wonder, in retrospect, why we students were not more openly outraged. Perhaps it was because many of the students were, not surprisingly, even more credulous than some of the instructors! One science-friendly instructor was once shouted down by most of my class because they were angry that he had presented scientific evidence that massage therapy does not meaningfully "increase circulation"—one of the sacred cows of the profession.
Thankfully, quackery as egregious as ear candling was never taught at my school, and I suspect that in general we were much more free of pseudoscientific teaching than most massage therapy students. However, there was definitely a small but steady supply of nonsense being taught—and if it was being taught there, I doubt that any massage therapy school in the world is free of it.
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Not so fast. Thanks to a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that might not be so easy. In fact, the store that sold it, Costco, shouldn't have sold it in the first place, the court recently ruled, because the doctrine of "First Sale" has limits. Section 109 of the Copyright Act says that a copyright owner of a product has the sole initial right to distribute it. Then the subsequent buyers have the right to "to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy"—in other words, sell it again.
But now the Ninth Circuit says this doesn't necessarily apply to items in which a company's copyrighted logo was inscribed on a product made abroad, as in this case. The Public Knowledge advocacy group calls this decision "a terrible idea," and has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, which is reviewing the case.
"What happens to Netflix, Amazon and eBay," PK's Anjali Bhat worries, "if they have to find out where each item was made, whether it has a copyrighted logo made outside the US (if the item itself isn't a copyrighted work), and then buy licensing rights from the copyright owner if the item was made abroad? That's an enormous economic burden to put on businesses who follow that model."
Quality King
Costco didn't directly buy these logoed watches from Omega. Instead, it purchased them at a bargain price via the so-called "gray market"—from distribution companies authorized to sell the items overseas. A company called ENE Limited bought them up and sold them to Costco, which put them up for sale at its stores in California. When Omega found out about this activity, it sued Costco for infringement.
Standing in the way of the company's complaint was the Supreme Court's 1998 Quality King Distributors decision, which put limits on this sort of litigation. In that case, California hair care product maker L'anza sued Quality King for illegal distribution of L'anza products. These US-made items came to Quality King via a similarly circuitous route. The company bought them extra cheap from a distributor in Malta, which had purchased them with affixed copyrighted labels from L'anza's United Kingdom wholesale outlet.
L'anza charged that because King bought its products outside the US, Section 109 protections didn't apply. Those protections were said to be overruled by Section 602, which prohibits unauthorized importation of copyrighted works acquired outside of the country. But the High Court saw it otherwise, contending that the First Sale principle "is applicable to imported copies."
602's "literal text is simply inapplicable to both domestic and foreign owners of L'anza's products who decide to import and resell them here," the Supremes declared at the time.
Lawfully made
So Omega ran a new line of argument past the Ninth Circuit in this latest dispute. Even though the Omega Globe Design logo is a US copyright, "the watches bearing the design were manufactured and first sold overseas." That makes this case different, the company's lawyers contended.
The Ninth concurred. "We hold that Quality King did not invalidate our general rule that § 109(a) can provide a defense against" unlawful importation claims "only insofar as the claims involve domestically made copies of US-copyrighted works." Thus, the First Sale doctrine doesn't apply in this instance.
What's the precise logic here? Let's go back to the exact language of Section 109. We've added italics to the key phrase:
"The owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord."
The Ninth interprets the "lawfully made under this title" phrase to mean, "legally made and sold in the United States."
An interconnected world
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which joined the amicus brief, calls this logic "outrageous" and a "bogus copyright theory," as does Public Knowledge. "There is no textual support for this interpretation of 'lawfully made under this title'," writes PK's Bhat. "'Under this title' usually isn't synonymous with 'in this country'."
As the brief argues, if Congress had actually wanted the statute to apply to works made "within the United States," why didn't it explicitly say so, as it has in thousands of other instances within United States code?
And does this mean that now all a company has to do is manufacture its products abroad, stamp them with a copyrighted image logo that costs less than $50 to register, and the company can suddenly dictate the terms of redistribution long after the products are first sold?
"Under the Ninth Circuit's ruling, a manufacturer would obtain the right to control its product even after the first sale," the groups warn, "and would maintain this right until it authorizes the product's sale within the United States. Buyers, in contrast, are left without the first sale doctrine to protect their subsequent disposition of the good."
The implications of this decision are huge, creating potential liabilities for anyone who distributes anything en masse: libraries, booksellers, or your local DVD or video game rental store.
"In an increasingly interconnected world," the amicus brief concludes, "where the manufacturing of tangible products and knowledge goods can be distributed easily and widely, consumers should be confident that they retain the same rights to their belongings regardless of where those goods or their labeling were produced."


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This is a little late, and a little less than topical, but as many of you may have heard, earlier this month Cynthia Nixon (an actress known for her role on Sex And The City) made a very open declaration that for her, being a lesbian was in fact a choice. This directly challenged the currently prevailing queer narrative, and the increasingly dominant mantra of "Born This Way", and she received some pretty significant negative backlash.
Kind of creeps me out. The fact of the matter is, we don't yet have much conclusive evidence as to what exactly determines sexual orientation or just how innate it really is. For most people who are queer, our identities feel quite fixed and immutable, and we often fought very, very hard to make them conform to social expectations and went through a long period of hating ourselves and desperately wishing to be "normal" before ever accepting that this is who we are and is who we need to be to be happy. But that experience is NOT universal, and many people have a far more fluid and shifting experience of sexuality and/or gender.
And what really stands out for me is the fact that the Born This Way debate really doesn't matter unless we buy into the concept presented by the religious right that queer identities or acts are somehow immoral, sinful, disgusting, inferior or otherwise undesirable ("But we can't help it!"). Even if it is a choice, it's a choice we bloody well have the right to make for ourselves.
Anyway, a couple really great ladies I know from Teh Twitterz put up this incredibly cute, insightful and fun video last week, which articulates these issues wonderfully (and with wonderful accents) and I happened to watch last night and found too awesome not to share:
(and please do check out Feminist Ire, the site where they posted it)
Also I'm very excited to let you all know that next week (Tuesday evening) I'll be giving a short presentation in person at the Vancouver Skeptics In The Pub downtown at The Railway Club on February 21st.
The talk is entitled "Getting Skeptics To Think Skeptically About Their Skepticism", and will be about how to turn a critical eye towards your own biases, assumptions and cognitive distortion thingies.
So if you're in Vancouver or the surrounding area, or somewhere near-by like Bellingham or Seattle or something, please do feel free to come down, have a beer or two (or more) and maybe some food, listen to me ramble about something, and if you'd like you can come up and chat with me.
I am also more than happy to accept beers and foods myself (contrary to the brilliant deductions of a certain JG, I'm not actually insanely rich, despite the fact that I'm able to access the internet and have a blog. Shocking, I know).
The Railway Club is right downtown on Dunsmuir, between Seymour and Richards, and sort of across the street from the Granville Skytrain station's Dunsmuir exit, and also across from a big student housing hostel thing, and there's a big old beautiful cathedral on the corner. It's through a big wooden door and upstairs. Sort of above a Fresh Slice pizza place. The Skeptics In The Pub gather in the big back room (you'll know it when you find it). There will probably be signs, but the bartender can direct you there if you get lost.
Yes, I'm terrible with directions. Google maps might do a better job.
The event starts at 6:30, but I'm not sure when exactly I'll be giving the talk. I'll probably need to have a drink first. It will be my first ever skeptic talk / presentation, and also my first talk / presentation of any kind at all in almost four years.
I look forward to seeing you there!
(please no assassinations)


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"It was a blank canvas 10 years ago. Now everyone is much more familiar with dancing. The kids who come to our studios love the TV shows and will ask questions like, `Will we do tango?," Raphael said during an interview for the Connecticut Ballet Summer Dance Caravan at Danbury's Ives Concert Park on Friday, July 26.
The free event is part of the Newtown Savings Bank Fine Arts & Family Series at the venue. The night will start with ballroom dance lessons that will include performances by some of Raphael's students; duets by Connecticut Ballet dancers; a performance by Ballet Brio de Bayamon from Puerto Rico; and then end with a meet-and-greet/DJ dance party.
"It can be a hard thing to get inner-city parents to bring their kids to this because they don't consider it is part of their cultural map ... but we hope Ballet Brio de Bayamon and the showcase of children from Danbury will do it. The DJ party after the show was a big success last year," Raphael said.
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Helix are a Canadian hard rock/heavy metal band formed in Ontario in 1974. The band are best known for their early 80's albums NO REST FOR THE WICKED, WALKIN' THE RAZOR'S EDGE and LONG WAY TO HEAVEN which was a chart topping album in Sweden in 1985. Their most known lineup was the 80s version of the band: Vollmer on vocals, accompanied by guitarists Brent Doerner and Paul Hackman, bassist Daryl Gray, and drummer Greg "Fritz" Hinz. The history of the band has been marked by many lineup changes, with Vollmer being the sole constant member and only remaining member of the original lineup. Although guitarist Paul Hackman was tragically killed in a tour van accident in 1992, the surviving members of the 80's lineup reunited in 2009 for the album VAGABOND BONES. The line-up is now completed by young guitarist Kaleb Duck and the band released its latest EP SKIN IN THE GAME in the fall of 2011. In October 2011 Helix finally returned to Finland after a near 26 year absence and played a show at the Legends of Rock festival in Oulu. There we had the honor to sit down with Mr. Vollmer himself and hear some of the latest news as well as some blasts from the past… Read on!
First of all, welcome back to Finland! It's been something like 25 years since your last visit in here?
That's right. Didn't we do a tour of our own back then?
Yes and I do remember that at the time you had a number one album in Sweden so it was a good time for Helix for sure.
Right and it was the album A LONG WAY TO HEAVEN, wasn't it?
Correct. It's been a really long time since you've been here and since then the band has gone through several changes but now you're back with the most classic line-up of Helix. How did you actually end up back together with these guys?
We're back with the classic line up and it's been going great. I don't know if Brent will come over here again though because he's used to smoking his cigarettes wherever he wants and do whatever he wants but the other guys they have a great time. "Laughs"
How is it different to play with guys you have been playing with like forever instead of having constantly new members in the band, I mean, if I did count right there's been over 40 people in the band since its birth?
It's a lot more comfortable and I'm not really – I don't know an instrument so I needed a musical person – the problem with bringing extra guys and they can be playing the – the parts but there's nothing like the original players. They brought the parts and they know how to play the parts. They have a certain feel for the parts so having the original guys back together I think it transcends in overall sound when we play live. These guys are doing very well with each other. We have faced all the hard times, we're not making any money and – for many, many years so there's that bond that we had. We used to joke with people that we largely spent more time together than we have with our own brothers and sisters. And it's very true. The band formed in 1974, Brent and I have been together with most of that time. Daryl came in the band in 1983, I think – around there and the same with Fritz, so long it's been a time together. And the problem with a lot of younger players when you get them they don't appreciate things. And the risk of sounding like an old guy, when you take many years to build up to point where you actually making money and you're staying in a nice hotels and – you tend to appreciate everything you got. You don't take anything for granted and people have just walked in to that situation. They tend to not appreciate it. We've been very lucky with our young guy Kaleb, he's only 23 years old he's got a great attitude and we are lucky getting him. He never complains about anything and he always does his parts and so – but you know, once again we got four guys who have been there for a long time and there's one guy who's new. It's a lot different situation when you got situation where… there are four guys that are new. You know they're just doing whatever they want to do it right so that's the difference.
I remember when you were playing at the Sweden Rock festival in 2005 with completely different line up then?
Right, that's correct. We had Cindy and Rainer Wiechmann in the band then. I had actually decided before we left Canada that this line up isn't working and that I got to get different players but I had already told them previously that they're going to do the festival so I didn't… I felt it would've been unkind or whatever word you want to use to just ask them to leave before that tour. They were really looking forward to it. They told everybody that they're going to play on that festival so we decided that after the tour they were going to leave the band but we're still very good friends. Cindy's got a great voice they have their own band called Nail. And that whole period I was just trying to keep the band going. The band is actually my life and I think we're going into 38 years now. So there were many, many lean years – I went through all the sorts of players and players like you know, I didn't like. They were really difficult to work with. But we survived and eventually quite by accident the classic band came back together.
Do you have plans to carry on with this current line-up in the future?
Yes, but I don't think Brent's going to come back to Europe though. He doesn't like not being able to smoke wherever he wants to smoke and I think that the traveling over here it's been like we can't sleep when we want to and… he's not a fan of that– it's just not that but that's originally why he quit, one of the reasons anyway. Aside from lack of money, you know. Back in Canada he'll definitely still play with us.
Greg Hinz, Brent Doerner, Daryl Gray, Kaleb Duck and Brian Vollmer
You've gone through many difficult times with Helix during the past decades. Was there any period in Helix history when you were thinking about giving up? Something like: "This is it. I'm going to have a new band or do something else with my life"?
I think that during the BACK FOR ANOTHER TASTE album when we came to Europe with – we had Denny Balicki playing guitar for us, I think that was as close I came to quitting and I was just very tired and burnt out, I wasn't making any money. After many, many years I think at that time band had been together like 16 years or something. Yeah, about 16 years and… so I had fully intended to quit the band in after the Ian Gillan -tour in 1990. And then we got to England at the end of the tour and then single "Good To The Last Drop" from BACK FOR ANOTHER TASTE album became a huge hit Canada and my manager at that time said for me "Look – why quit now?" He says "You might as well come back to Canada at least tour Canada on the song and make some money rather saying you never make any money, you make good money you had to hit song right?" So we came back to Canada and I just never quit.
You also did one solo album in the 90's?
Yes I did solo album called WHEN PIGS FLY and that was – and that came out quite by accident too. I had to – I did – hardly had 10 cents to rub together and I had just been married to my second wife and to make money I used to go up and play a little cover band on a weekend. And the guy who started – the guys I was playing with at that time, Tony Palleschi and Bill Gadd, they wanted to produce some music and create some songs for – it was based on the joke but we started writing and then they want to record and then one thing led to another and I put out that album.
Ok, the latest Helix album is called VAGABOND BONES. Do you want to tell something more about it?
Yes I'm very proud of that album. After I split with Gord Prior as my writing partner in THE POWER OF ROCK'N ROLL album, now Sean Kelly joined the band as a bass player. Although he's really a guitar player, probably he's one of the best guitarist's in Canada but he wanted to be in Helix so bad he said he would come play bass for me. And Sean and I started writing and wrote the VAGABOND BONES album. Sean now plays guitar for Nelly Furtado. He plays for Gilby Clarke and for other Canadian bands like Carl Dixon but Sean and I are still writing together. We just wrote the new Helix EP SKIN IN THE GAME together. Sean's a busy guy and he's in demand but like I did say he's a great guitar player and he likes Helix a lot. "laughs"
He does sound like a guy that everyone knows in Canada?
Yeah and he's got one of those personalities that attracts people to him. He's very easy going. He's not full of himself, he's very humble person and if anybody that could come off and be an egotistical it could be him because he's such a great guitar player. But when you meet him he's very like that and he attracts people – I'll tell you a little story. We went down to play Rocklahoma couple years ago and we were waiting for the shuttle from the hotel to the concert grounds. And there was a guy standing to the front. He just asked "Can I get a ride with you to the area?" and so it's really only for the band, I said "Are you on a band? Who are you?" He goes "I'm Kip Winger" I said "Oh you get in the bus" So we got into the bus with Kip Winger and it was like five minutes later him and Sean are like this and Kip Winger saying "Well, listen I want you to play in my album. I'm writing a guitar symphony, I want you to play on it". That illustrates how he's such a – he just attracts people. He's one of those guys it's like a people magnet. He's got a very good personality.
Like you mentioned earlier you are not handling instruments yourself, so you need a strong writing partner. In the past you did most of the writing with Paul Hackman and Brian Doerner but on VAGABOND BONES and the latest EP it's all written by you and Sean Kelly. What does Brent think about that?
Well Brent's more in the film nowadays. It's not that we didn't offer for him to come up and write with us, it not anything like that, he just – he's more content to work on films and then..
Okay, I didn't know that. By the way, what Brent's twin brother and your former drummer Brian Doerner doing these days?
Yes, I still see Brian all the time and we're still very good friends. Brian plays drums now for Saga.
Now after you've been in a business more than 30 years already, what's the biggest difference between the early days and current state of music scene?
Well I think the biggest difference is that with illegal downloading bands don't sell near as many units or records. I think that whole thing has changed. From the perspective of playing back in Canada, we developed our craft, and I call it a craft, being a good musician and a good performer, we had a good training ground with a very healthy bar circuit in Canada back in the 70's. You could play 6 or 7 nights a week. You played 3 to 5 sets a night. You could play from one end of the country and go back and forth and never stop playing. Nowadays there is no place to play Sunday to Thursday in a lot of places. So those bands can't really get that worldwide outlook. They are stuck in town, and like what are you going to do for 4 days if you are out and 1000 miles away from home? You suddenly have to pay for rooms, for food, your wages and bands can't afford it so they don't do it. For us, we've been lucky. We developed our markets back in the 80's and continued on and especially in Canada in the summer where we get hired to play right across the country…people know the band, even in Europe we still have a name. The biggest difference for us is that back in the 80's it was very hard, we didn't make any money. In the heyday of the band we never made more than 200 bucks a week. Try to live on that, to pay your bills. Everybody's marriages broke-up and there were all sorts of problems with our family because we were never there. We traveled in very uncomfortable conditions. The first tour we did with Kiss we had an English van and we had our gear in it a sheet of plywood…and that's where we slept, on top of the gear with just a small amount of room between us and the roof.
And that tour was in winter time, right?
Yes. It was freezing frigging cold. With all those things, it was just craziness. It was very, very hard on you. The thing people discount or that is never mentioned when I read the books or magazines is that we were sleep deprived. We had very little sleep and I think that makes you a little crazy at times, more so than drugs. Not getting your sleep and sleeping at irregular hours, we stayed in shitty hotels, ate shitty food, and all that stuff. But nowadays, especially in Canada, we travel by plane, when we do have to drive it's usually short distances and we travel very comfortably, get into a nice hotel rooms, we are paid well so it's a totally different scene in that respect.
Any funny memories from that Kiss tour, any positive memories?
From the Kiss tour, there are many… I remember we always gave Kiss their space. We didn't want to get into trouble for just walking into their dressing room and stuff like that. At the end of the tour they go, "How come you guys never came to party with us?" And we figured, well, we didn't know we could right?! (Laughs) Just things like that. I remember one time, I can't remember what the country was, but the guy from Capitol (Records) came out and he brought out these great big Helix posters. He had like 200 of them and we spent the whole day putting these posters up around the arena. Then Kiss comes in for their sound check and Gene Simmons was up there and he says to our road manager, Kenny, "Hey, Kenny come here…" So Kenny goes up to him and Gene says "Whose show is this?" and Kenny says "Well it's yours." and Gene says "That's right, and I want you to take down every one of those posters that you got up.". We had spent the whole day putting them up, so now Kenny had to go around and take down ALLLL the posters.
Right, "Laughs", one more thing about that tour, you did play with Kiss in Helsinki but for reason or another you cancelled your show here in Oulu. Do you remember what did happen back then?
I think the problem was we thought the band was going to break down. And it was – wasn't it November the tour… and so we did cancel that date because we didn't want to break down and not make our flights back to Canada. Yeah, that was the reason we did cancel that show.
So, as just mentioned you've just released new EP SKIN IN THE GAME. So, what's next on the map?
Well we got lots of dates coming up. We'll continue to keep writing and we're trying to work on getting a reality show or put "a rockumentary" together. We have actually worked on that for a couple of years and we already have 40 hours of film in can. I'm still teaching Bel Canto which is the classical vocal technique. I'm one of the last people teaching that and… that's about it. That all consumes most of my time.
Right, but with or without Brent, have you already booked any shows for the next year in Europe, festivals and stuff like that?
No but, actually, I just talked to my good friend Danny and he said that he's doing a – how do you say it, Belarus? Right, and he said that he might have some gigs for us over there but you know what I was going to keep on going but we probably won't do those gigs. In fact you know we won't do those gigs. It's too tough.
Alright, I think that's enough…It was nice to meet you!
Nice to meet you too.


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The most interesting decorative element of the building No. 3 on Pyatnitsky lane is a red star with hammer, sickle and the date 1927 on it. This Soviet sign can be well seen on the 3rd floor of the building especially if you look at it from Ovchinnikovsky lane. This was the inhabitants' way of marking the construction of an additional floor in their house that had been built in the end of the 19th century.
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31 comments:
- Lawendula said...
What a beautiful hand! A treasure!
Btw: Start of "One tribe-one heart" tomorrow!
Hope you will take a look! :)
- September 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM
- Brian K said...
Oh such beautiful work! I can't wait to see the finished piece! As always you inspire! Thank you and keep @ it!
- September 20, 2009 at 10:38 PM
- Luthien Thye said...
such awesome work! and the photos are so marvellously taken... catching every detail! i'm so in awe with altered art and the artists behind them ... such creativity and beauty!!
- September 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM
- Mary S. Hunt said...
great elements!
i don't know where you might have found them?
- September 20, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Wonderful. Love the layers
- September 20, 2009 at 11:39 PM
- Mrs Pretzel said...
As usual, I love what you've done!!
- September 21, 2009 at 12:04 AM
- ArtPropelled said...
I'm wallowing in this altered book of yours. Just wonderful!
- September 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM
- Kerin said...
This is a fantastic piece! Love all the elements together and the different shaped rivets are just grand! Like icing on the cake. :)
- September 21, 2009 at 1:25 AM
- Jacky said...
Such a tactile piece...love those fraying fabrics and the metal and that beautiful hand.
- September 21, 2009 at 4:34 AM
- Kim Palmer said...
The book is shaping up beautifully Seth. Love the contrasting patterns and the earth tones. The little hand is a great find, looks like one of Judy's pieces.
- September 21, 2009 at 5:21 AM
looking good. love the hand. your talents keep expanding! lyle
- September 21, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- Nettie Edwards said...
A work of love, I can tell. I'm getting back into hand made at the moment and finding that it opening up all sorts If unexpected emotions: why is that???? it would appear that when we make things with our hands, we connect to something very deep inside.
- September 21, 2009 at 8:44 AM
- Caterina Giglio said...
this book is just amazing. would love to see it in person, and of course, my hand would want to stroke it!
- September 21, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Jill said...
Gorgeous post! Love how you are creating your Handbook. Hands are so reflective of what's inside and can be healing tools for what's outside. All telling and seeing-and for those who can not see with their eyes, hands are used to see the world through touch. The layers are beautiful as are your pictures which have captured the captivating feel of your book.
- September 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM
- Bea said...
I sure hope you are going to show us PAGE BY PAGE one of these days. I LOVE this book and can't wait to see inside it. :)Bea
- September 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- sallyt said...
Oh, Wow, Seth -- the things you are doing in this book are absolutely yummy!!
- September 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Unknown said...
Assembling the right elements in harmony is tricky if not predestined.
(Ever notice that when something "works" it looks effortless and inevitable? It works Seth!
- September 21, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- layers said...
Yes, I see this is part of your obsession with hands-- this one is more solid--- taking in the light instead of reflecting the light.
- September 21, 2009 at 10:04 PM
- Poetic Artist said...
I am loving this..I also am a hand person.. I have them sitting on laying every where. Yet I still keep looking for them..
As always your work is wonderful.
- September 21, 2009 at 11:15 PM
- Erin Perry said...
Absolutely wonderous!
Erin in Morro Bay
- September 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Lynn Cohen said...
Just so much inspiration here Seth.
Your book is incredible. I love all the texture...brackets...embellishments, papers, all of it. Wow.
THANKS for taking time to visit my blog today and admire my morning glories and bees! Aren't they something? ;-)
- September 22, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- Chris said...
That hand is so cool! And you know I look at a lot of them! But this is a great placement and treatment.
- September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- nelda ream said...
What a handsome book! Looking forward to see more as it emerges.
- September 23, 2009 at 12:02 AM
- azirca said...
Your book gets even better!
- September 23, 2009 at 3:31 AM
- Gaby Bee said...
Your book looks terrific, Seth. I love the whole layout...especially that hand! It's an eyecatcher indeed. Can't wait to get a look inside it!
- September 23, 2009 at 4:15 AM
- lynne h said...
beautiful, beautiful, seth... i want to hold this Hand Book in my hands...
- September 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Candace said...
Oh holy night, Seth! This is just thrilling to see.
Wonderful. Can't wait to see more.
hint, hint.
Take care!
Candace in Athens.
- September 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- Mescrap said...
Love this cover !!!
Especially the hand ! Really admire at all your handiwork.
- September 24, 2009 at 5:41 PM
- Diane said...
Lovely work going on here....
- September 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- *jean* said...
oooo i love this! love the wings beside the all seeing eye
- September 27, 2009 at 8:51 AM
- Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...
OHHH. This is too beautiful. I'm so in awe of this book.
- October 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM


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The 23-year-old comes to the Heart following a couple of strong seasons with the Western Sydney Wanderers.
He is the fourth player under the age of 25 to have joined the cashed-up Heart this week, following the signings of teenagers Connor Chapman and Jacob Melling – alongside James Brown – on two-year deals on Tuesday.
Heart coach John van `t Schip was thrilled to snare Mooy.
"Everyone who follows the A-League knows of Aaron's quality," van' t Schip said in a club statement on Wednesday.
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Mooy will commence training with the Heart when the team return to pre-season training in the first week of June.
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The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim might be out today, but it's not the be-all and end-all of fantasy gaming. These classics of the genre laid the groundwork for Skyrim's sprawling fantasy world. And it has a lot to live up to. So in no particular order, the 25 best fantasy games ever are…
Dungeon Master (1987)
Not a kinky sex lord. If you owned an Atari ST, you probably owned Dungeon Master. It was the first 3D real-time action RPG, and consequently sold a whole load of copies. Not a lot of people know this, but there was a port to the handheld console, the Atari Lynx, where it was named Dungeon Slayers. Good, it was.
Gauntlet (1985)
"Wizard needs food badly." The sampled voice of Gauntlet's narrator rang out across video game arcades in the 1980s, but it wasn't this gimmick that kept players welded to this hack-and-slash action adventurer. It was the blisteringly fast four-player action, the different character classes, each with their own unique skills, and the mounting tension as your hero's health gradually drained away. And your idiot mate shot the food.
Dungeon Keeper (1997)
It's all very well being a hero, venturing into dungeons in search of treasure and abducted princesses – but think of the trouble they cause for the owners of those dungeons. The boot's on the other foot in this classic strategy game from Peter Molyneux, which places you in the role of a villain fending off questing heroes with the aid of your minions. Rather wonderfully, you also have to stop your followers from killing each other, keeping vampires well away from warlocks and so forth – and giving you a taste of the bureaucracy involved in micromanaging a dungeon full of evil creatures.
Die By the Sword (1998)
"Arr, taste steel!" Playing a ludicrously-accented hero on the most perfunctory quest imaginable – rescue your significant other from an evil wizard – this actioner doesn't win points for an original plot. But its control system was unique – you controlled your hero's movements with the keyboard and his sword arm with your mouse. Lopping off orcs' limbs, leaving them hopping around like Monty Python's Black Knight, was hugely satisfying.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
Not content to just recreate the previous entries in the Legend of Zelda series in 3D, Ocarina of Time built on their foundations – developing SNES predecessor A Link to the Past's simple notion of mirrored Light and Dark Worlds into the more mature idea of switching between two different timezones, each with their own distinct feel. It added innovations like Z-targeting, context-sensitive buttons – now the norm in games – and, of course, the ocarina itself, used to conjure up melodies to solve puzzles and teleport around the expansive gameworld. Perfectly harmonious.


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