Nach dem Gespräch gestern mit M. und V. ein paar Texte zusammengesucht (s. furl) dazu, wie Krautrock und Faust entstanden sind. Mit Uwe Nettelbecks Zutun, um das Mindeste zu sagen. Sehr hübsch die Passage dieses Textes, in der offenkundig durch Sagenhören statt Geschriebensehen die Namen sehr danebengeraten:

"It started in late '68," recalls Jean-Hervé Peron. "The history of Faust is basically of two little German groups playing Hamburg, and one man -- Uwe Nettelbeck -- and a social situation, Europe in 1968. There was a nucleus of people doing music for underground filmmakers like Helmut Costa and Hans Hemminghaus, people that are now sort of established. One day Uwe arrived, and he and Helmut Costa got together and said they were looking for a new group, for something new on the music scene.

"Helmut was a neighbour of mine, and he put Uwe in touch with us. Uwe liked what we were doing, but thought we should have more drums and keyboards; so we contacted the other group and told them we needed a drummer. That was the foundation of Faust. Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wüsthoff and myself being in this first group, and Werner 'Zappi' Diermaier, Joachim Irmler and Arnulf Meifert being in the other group. We got together in the studio for half a day and re-did our demo. Uwe said, 'Yes, that's it, I'll take it to Polydor'."

Helmut Costa und Hans Hemminghaus sind nach allem, was sonst so dazu zu lesen ist, die Regisseure Hellmuth Costard und Heinz Emigholz. Aber auch eine schöne Legende: Wie Costa und Emminghaus mit Nettelbecks Hilfe den Krautrock erfanden.