UNCUT CLASSIC
“WE lived together and experienced so much together,” says Renate Knaup. “If I had the money, I’d find a house where all of us could live again, with a huge rehearsal room. I would love that.” The Bavarian krautrock collective grew from the countercultural Amon Düül commune outside Munich, breaking away in 1968 when others became more interested in politics than mind-expanding psychedelic music. Still, the group lived together for the next five years – despite musical and personal tensions, police raids and even run-ins with the Baader-Meinhof Group – and the music they produced in that time was often phenomenal, from the improvisational grooves of 1970’s Yeti to the brighter, spaced-out songs of 1972’s Wolf City.