Yellow Sunshine Explosion
Yellow Sunshine Explosion
Yellow Sunshine Explosion was a German Neo Psychedelic Band founded 1981 by Hans Hubert Schlexer, Thomas Peter Hopf and Georg Eckbert Schulte. Hans Hubert, at that time playing the trump, later on bass and vocals, and Thomas Hopf (drums) played music already since 1979 in various experimental- and electronic bands before George joined the band with e-guitar and vocals. First they covered songs of the 60s, later they arranged more own songs. After some offi cial concerts and party gigs, all of a sudden in Dortmund in the mid 80s about 200 people showed up in paisley-shirts with frilly collars. Around 1984 an British/Canadian named Paul Hadley Langley showed up. His grandmother was an Iroquois, just like his haircut. With his bluesharps he then was a fi x part of the band from 1988 onwards. For some gigs and some songs on the vinyl ,Yellow Sunshine Explosion", recorded 1987 in Berlin, Huggy Borchert on piano and Gerd Neumann alias ,Swami Ravioli" on sitar joined the recording session. End of the 80s the three founding members moved into a renovated hog house at the city limit which formerly was a hair cutting studio and in which the wife of the hair cutter did suicide by hanging herself - but this the band get to know years later. Their style changed from the 60s garage beat to a completely own sound- and rhythm-structures, which never existed before (or later) in this way.