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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...