Hey! Where'd You Get That NEU! T-Shirt?

I got it by ordering the limited edition LP Boxed Set of remasters by NEU! co-founder Michael Rother after the passing of Klaus Dinger. The box also comes with a stencil of the logo so I can create my own NEU! t-shirts. Thanks Michael! One fine evening in 1975 I was at a party where my friends Rob (lead guitarist in many of my bands) and Tristram (bassist in several bands we co-founded) lived. It was a typical party for this set, about 200 people including pre-med students, NE Conservatory students, various drag queens, lounge lizards, and neer-do-wells like yours truly. I walk into a room and there on the bed next to the wall is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen wearing a sheer nightdress that was pulled up over her knees, with no underwear. I like this room! Then the music caught my ear and the woman was forgotten. "What's this?".."NEU! from Germany" said the person overseeing the turntable. The piece is "Hallogallo", a straight 4/4 beat over which sparse overdubbed guitar lines wah-wahed, strummed, fuzzed and after a while I found, were playing something that sounded actually written. Yikes! I really like this room! I was hooked, I was hooked, my brain was cooked!! And I hadn't sampled the "Psychedelic Grape Juice" yet. We listened to the entire first album, "NEU!" and the entire second album, "NEU!2". The next day I went out and bought these albums. And "NEU!'75" when it was released a few months later. These LPs still remain sources of comfort. NEU!'s recordings have been sampled again and again, most infamously "Fur Immer" by System 7 as the basis for the tune "Interstate" from their album "power of seven". What these two drop-outs from Kraftwerk accomplished influenced a generation including David Bowie (who carbon-copied a section from the first album's "Negativland" as an outro), Brian Eno, Rhys Chatham among the heavy hitters, and several of my bands: The Molls, Someone & the Somebodies, Dervish and Auto66. Once, when I was describing how Tristram and I worked together as a rhythm section he quipped, "It's a good thing for you I like NEU!". It's a good thing there was NEU! Thanks Klaus and Michael! Your work continues to inspire me.