WHAT DID YOU PUT IN THAT PUNCH?
The other day, semi-retired CREEM writer Trixie A. Balm, who now sings folk songs in Greenwich Village, remembered a day at CBGB’s that happened about 10 years ago. “Helen says, Trixie, let’s dye your hair today.’ I said, ‘What a strange idea.’
WHAT DID YOU PUT IN THAT PUNCH?
Anne Leighton
The other day, semi-retired CREEM writer Trixie A. Balm, who now sings folk songs in Greenwich Village, remembered a day at CBGB’s that happened about 10 years ago.
“Helen says, Trixie, let’s dye your hair today.’ I said, ‘What a strange idea.’ So I got my hair dyed bright red by Helen Wheels. It was so deranged. I got addicted to dying my hair at that moment.”
Now that DC Comics has bumped off Supergirl, they could create a new comic hero based on Helen Wheels. They wouldn’t have to think too hard for the stories—Helen Wheels can do anything. Able to tear beer cans in half, with her bare hands, she is known for being a rock singer and a body-builder.
The body-building shows up in her concerts as she flexes, stretches and does tons of fingertip push-ups in time with music. “Oh God,” go the fans. They will shout for certain poses. Her audience consists of rock fans and athletes. The bouncers, whom Helen describes as “These big guys with doorways for bodies and little heads,” are the most turned on by this rocking woman body-builder.