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BAUHAUS
Members:
Daniel Ash – guitar
Kevin Haskins – Drums
David Jay – Bass guitar
Peter Murphy – Vocals
The band got inspired by the arts- and design-school built by Walter Gropius for its’ name. Each member |
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BAUHAUS
Members:
Daniel Ash – guitar
Kevin Haskins – Drums
David Jay – Bass guitar
Peter Murphy – Vocals
The band got inspired by the arts- and design-school built by Walter Gropius for its’ name. Each member of this band came from the middle of England, from the industrial-town named North-Hampton, whose inhospitable city-landscape and its arising “darkly-romantic” industrial-pop built the basement for a metallic, impulsive neo-rock with a sacral touch.
Bauhaus used a chainsaw-clinking sound of a guitar, painful “back-ties”, a hammering drum-set and a hardly depressive-neurotic voice for a type of psychedelic punk.
The band got founded by the art-students Kevin Haskins and David Jay, who wanted to do punk-music. Both became members of the band “Submerged Tenth”. Later, when David Ash joined them, the three of them founded the band “Craze” and in the year 1978 also Peter Murphy participated and already then they changed their band-name into “Bauhaus 1919”. Their first Gig they had in December of the same year. That was in a simple Pub. Their first Single got released in August 1979 from the alternative-Label “Small Wonder”. Further hits of the Indie-scene were following, which were “Dark Entries”, “Terror Couple Kill Colonel”, “Telegram Sam” and the LP “The Flat Field”.
The Lyrics were quite similar to those ones of David Bowie and Jim Morrison. Most of the time they were telling about existential fears, hope, Lust, every days’ craziness, religious fanatism, magic and they also drew dangerous future visions. In June 1987 the band landed their first national hit with “The passion of Lovers”. At this time they had already a contract with Beggar’s Banquet. From this time on they dealt with more differenced music and they very often experienced with elements of Funk, R&B and Pop on their Albums “Mask” and “The sky’s gone out”.
Bauhaus had the last really big commercial success in summer 1983 with the LP “Burning from the inside”, which was a melancholic, dark, mysterious Lyric-picture-collage. 1982 Bauhaus acted in a short scene of the movie “The Hunger”, which was a movie about Vampires, in which the main characters got acted by David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve. After a Tour in Japan in summer 1983 the single members of the band agreed that they would split. But they all stayed in contact with each other and they released a few Samplers, which reached lower ranges in the charts.
In August 1983 Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins started, together with their pal Glenn Campling, to develop again the tradition of Bauhaus with a LP called “Tones of tail”. The album “Pop” showed an even stronger relation to Bauhaus in 1984. But it also offered “real Songs that fitted into the time”, which were tasteful, delicate and attractive.
When “Pop” were released in the end of 1984, Ash and Haskins had already been in contact again with David Jay. This LP got dominated by acoustic and electronic sounds and very simple Lyrics. The reunion of Bauhaus, everybody was hoping for, never happened during the year 1984, since Peter Murphy weren’t interested in it. Because of that Jay, Haskins and Ash named their band “Love and Rockets”. “Love and Rockets” were in favour with soft and neo-romantic sounds and created with “Seventh dream of heaven” an album that was almost graceful in 1986. The style of the music came close to a mixture of Folk-rock and Funk. Especially in the USA they got attention because of this special style they had.
1987 they touched the Hot 100 with their LPs “Express” and “Earth-son-moon”.
But as fast as “Love and Rockets” appeared in the News of the most famous music-magazines like for example The Rolling Stone, Bill-board and Creem, they also disappeared again. In spring 1991 Daniel Ash presented his own LP. “Coming down” celebrated a well-done trip through psychedelic and Pop in a sleepy and depressive surrounding and showed with it that he’s an ambitious composer. The former Bauhaus-Star Peter Murphy tried to avoid the contact to the earlier members. Also Murphy tried to go his own way and he even reached the charts with the Single “Final Solution” in 1985.
As a surprise “Deep” reached the North-American charts and got named as the best modern Rock-title. The last thing someone heard of Bauhaus was that they released a few Samplers more with known and unreleased material in 1992.
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I just wanted to say that...
Couldn't help but post this in the Bauhaus
forum too...
No disreguards to my boyfriend,but Peter
Murphy is one hell of a sexy man.To me,he is
one many sex icons on my list,lol.=)
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| | My list too...at least 80's Murphy. | SyntheticxDreams | lol... Thanks, s-aint. Me being your
boyfriend, I have to get jealous. And me
being a jealous guy, I would somewhat have to
agree. He's pretty. lol | ToDieWithPleasure | Lol. My boyfriend thinks Peter Murphy is a
"fox." Is no one immune?! | TheRezJhonn | | lol... Guess not. | ToDieWithPleasure | Hmmm I'm immune to his current look. Even
on his last tour he would have been okay...ah
the whips and scorns of time... | SyntheticxDreams | Ha,I can't help it,my dear,=)...he is
hot,though I prefer the 80s Murphy.I don't
know Synthetic,after that pic you posted of
him in your blog performing recently at a
show,kind of startled me;he reminded me
somewhat of Dali in the pic for some reason. | -s-aint347 | | Daniel Ash. I said Daniel Ash was a fox!!! | LocustsAndStuff | | Well,Murphy is one too... | -s-aint347 | And I said 'boyfriend,' not
'retarded obsessed ex.' Notice the
distinction there. | TheRezJhonn | Yes...an insane surrealist...thats his new
look...I couldn't quite put my finger on
it, but I believe you hit the spot. When I
saw him in concert at least his hair
wasn't as awful. But really Murphy, Ash,
Siouxsie, Bowie, Robert Smith, Nick Cave and
the other pretties should really just stay in
the 80s. And Eldrich and Rozz may as well
stay for their own good too...
Oooh speaking Nick Cave...he's beating
Murphy in my book right now. I don't know
why, Murphys cheekbones are far superior :-p | SyntheticxDreams | Yep,that is what Murphy looked like to me...I
hate using this phrase,but Oh My Gosh!!!Peter
Murphy,Cave,and the other ones you mentioned
are on my list,lol,they are all drop dead
sexy!You are righ though,the 80s is where
they should stay.
~Rez,don't mind me asking,I was in the MCR
forum,and when I read further down,I was just
like what is going on?Is everything alright? | -s-aint347 | "And I said 'boyfriend,' not
'retarded obsessed ex.' Notice the
distinction there."
is he now the retarded obsessed ex?Because
that is what it looked like after going
through the MCR forum... | -s-aint347 | "I hate using this phrase,but Oh My
Gosh!!!"
Hahaha, no worries, Murphy and Cave make
schoolgirls of us all ;-) | SyntheticxDreams | See, this is why you should not argue like
that in public. People notice.
It's fine. We just have a very fucked up
friendship is all. It's normal for us to
fight like that. It was worse when we were
going out a while back, hence the ex comment.
I was teasing him. It's fine, everything
is back to normal in the soapie world of
Adam-and-Kate. | TheRezJhonn | Ha,schoolgirls...it is good to know that I am
not the only one who Oh My Goshes about
them,lol.
~Rez,as long as things are a-okay,that's
good...that whole startled me a little
because the topic went from one argument,to a
another argument that was a little intense... | -s-aint347 | Here's a question for all of you: who do
you think is sexier, Peter Murphy or Billy
Idol? i think they are both damn sexy, but,
like some of the other people here,
Peter's cheekbones are irresistable. | chaoticxshadows | Oh I`d definitely put Pete
Murphy on top of my list.. my girlfriend get
so worried when I say stuff like that.. | Eloquiel | | | |
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