Daniel Ash

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Daniel Ash (2008)

Daniel Gaston Ash (born July 31, 1957 in Northampton , England ) is a British musician . He gained international fame as a guitarist and saxophonist in the bands Bauhaus , Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail . Daniel Ash is one of the co-inventors of Gothic Rock and Dark Wave and influenced other well-known guitarists such as Dave Navarro , Kim Thayil , or John Frusciante .

biography

Daniel Ash started playing guitar at the age of 15. Together with three other art students whom he had known since childhood and youth, he founded the Bauhaus group in 1978. The release of the first single Bela Lugosi's Dead is considered to be the birth of Gothic Rock and Dark Wave . As a result, Ash's constant development of previously unknown guitar sounds had a style-defining effect, as he neither wanted to learn standards nor sound like someone else before:

"I had no interest in that, I wanted to go the opposite way, kind of like the original Bauhaus art movement if you like, which was very simplistic and functional but not excessive."

"I wasn't interested in that, I wanted the opposite of it, if you will, a bit like the original Bauhaus art movement, which was very simple and functional, but not excessive."

- Daniel Ash : Interview, 2018
Daniel Ash 1986

Daniel Ash painted the record covers for the albums Mask and The sky's gone out . On Burning from the inside he sang the song Slice of life .

While still working with the Bauhaus in 1982 created Daniel Ash, the project Tones on Tail with Bauhaus - drummer Kevin Haskins and school friend Glenn Camp Ling, of the Bauhaus -Umfeld the band including as a roadie supported as well as the design of the cover of the Bauhaus -LP Burning from the inside contributed. Tones on Tail released one album , three EPs and six singles before the group broke up in 1984.

Two years after the temporary end of Bauhaus in 1983, Daniel Ash worked again with the two Bauhaus instrumentalists Kevin Haskins and his brother, bassist David J, and founded the group Love and Rockets . Here Daniel Ash and David J shared the vocals. The sound became more cheerful than at Bauhaus and the 1989 single "So Alive" reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest chart position of a release from the Bauhaus environment. In 1988 the group released a single under the pseudonym The Bubblemen ("The Bubblemen Are Coming!") And the accompanying video clip . After the preliminary band end in 1999 due to the Bauhaus reunion the year before, there was a brief reunion from 2007 until their last appearances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Lollapalooza in 2008, before Daniel Ash announced no further interest in one the following year To have cooperation. A short time later, however, the tribute album New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rocket was released with contributions from Monster Magnet , Black Francis and Puscifer, among others . Daniel Ash's work had already been recognized with Bauhaus in 1996 with the sampler The Passion Of Covers - A Tribute To Bauhaus with contributions from Faith and the Muse and The Electric Hellfire Club , and in 1998 with Satori: A Tribute To Bauhaus .

In 2017 Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins played songs from their joint bands with Haskins' daughter Diva Dompé as bassist under the name Poptone . A live album was created.

As a solo artist, Daniel Ash released three regular studio albums as well as one studio album each with new recordings of old songs from his projects ("Stripped", 2014) and a live album with his own songs as well as songs by Bauhaus , Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail ("Come Alive", 2005).

Discography (studio albums)

solo

  • 1991: Coming Down
  • 1992: Foolish thing desire
  • 2002: Daniel Ash
  • 2014: Stripped

With Bauhaus

(see also Bauhaus (Band) #Discography )

  • 1980: In the Flat Field
  • 1981: Mask
  • 1982: The Sky's Gone Out
  • 1983: Burning from the Inside
  • 2008: Go Away White

With Love and Rockets

(see also Love and Rockets (Band) #Discography )

  • 1985: Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
  • 1986: Express
  • 1987: Earth, Sun, Moon
  • 1989: Love and Rockets
  • 1994: Hot Trip to Heaven
  • 1996: Sweet FA
  • 1998: elevator

With tones on tail

  • 1984: Pop

Web links

Commons : Daniel Ash  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Zündfunk. August 16, 2017, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://mongolcult.com/2018/05/24/and-the-band-played-on-an-interview-with-daniel-ash/
  3. ↑ Happy Birthday Daniel Ash. RPM Online, July 31, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/music/Love-and-Rockets/chart-history/HSI
  5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/artist/259256-The-Bubblemen
  6. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Various-Satori-A-Tribute-To-Bauhaus/master/466240
personal data
SURNAME Ash, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ash, Daniel Gaston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Northampton , England