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About Me

When the Hip Young Things started out in 1988, their manifesto was that all members weren't allowed to play any instrument that they'd played before. Ex-psychobilly upright-bassist Edgar Winterhoff changed to electric bassguitar at their first rehearsal, Schneider swapped from drums to guitar & vocal, bassist Gumbo Botanik did the same, chanteuse Brit Bordeaux never sang before and everyone just vaguely connected to the rock-scene might have heard about those weired phenomena around drummers... The first H.Y.T. lineup split up in 1990 and they continued without chanteuse and with a new drummer named Oli Paroli, who later renamed himself to O-Love, cause he thought that his previous nickname was a bit too ludicrous. After supporting The Walkabouts on their european tour in 1991, Glitterhouse Records became interested in the H.Y.T. and finally signed them to let them record their first album Deflowered. During the following years they played many live-shows (w/ Pond, Rein Sanction, The Ramones, Tuesday Weld, Beck, Subway Surfers, The Cramps, The Blues Explosion and many others...) and recorded 2 more albums (Shrug, 1994 & Ventilator, 1996) + 1 acoustic e.p. (Root'n Varies, 1993). Due to musical and personal differences they split up in 1997 and Schneider started to spend more time on his electronic solo-project Schneider TM whilst Gumbo, Edgar & O-Love continued playing together in their new band Slip.******************************************************* ***********************

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Member Since: 4/15/2008
Band Website: glitterhouse.com
Band Members: Gumbo Botanik (a.k.a.Thorsten Abel: vox & guitar), Schneider (a.k.a.Dirk Dresselhaus: vox & guitar), Eddi (a.k.a.Edgar Winterhoff: vox & bass), O-Love (a.k.a.Olaf Arndt: drums)
Influences: Pixies, Nikki Sudden, MotÃ¶rhead, Beat Happening, The Velvet Underground (& Nico), Pavement, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Wipers, Frank Sinatra, Sonic Youth, seBADoh, Sentridoh, Teenage Fanclub, Mudhoney, Red Red Meat, Dinosaur Jr, Earth, The Meteors, Can, The Jesus And Mary chain, My Bloody Valentine, The Fall, Speed Niggs, Stray Cats, The Beatles, What's That Noise, The Carpenters, The Breeders, Daniel Johnston, Codeine, Boss Hog, Tuesday Weld, Jimi Hendrix, Jens Kirschnek, The Go-Betweens, Dub Narcotic Soundsystem, Spacemen 3, Talk Talk, Trio, The Feelies, The Ramones, Lou Reed, HÃ¼sker DÃ¼, They Might Be Giants, Rein Sanction, Ten String Acid, Willie Nelson, Screaming Trees, Locust Fudge, Flaming Lips, Gumball, The Walkabouts, The Bangles, The Notwist, Sticky Cats, Motorpsycho, Yo La Tengo, Johnny Cash, Slint, Simon & Garfunkel, Black Sabbath, Folk Implosion, The Clash, The Cure, Minimum Security, Elvis, The Smiths, Monstermagnet, Neu, The Sisters Of Mercy, Bruce Springsteen, The La's, David Bowie, Pond, The Pogues, Dean Martin, The Woodentops, Ween, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Nick Drake, Codein and others...
Sounds Like: H.Y.T.

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Record Label: Glitterhouse Records
Type of Label: Indie