The Bauhaus Pops

Bauhaus released their final album, "Go Away White," this week. Love and Rockets, having reunited to play the Joe Strummer tribute show at the Key Club last December, are now prepping to play their first full set in years at Coachella in April. Both bands, in my estimation, are awesome. David J (pictured below) is in both bands. David J has just written a new musical theater production “Silver For Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)”, which opened at the MET last night and runs through March 16. 

I had the opportunity to interview David J last week. He talked about being inspired by the life of Sedgwick, which sparked his creative energy that spawned “Silver For Gold.” We spoke about the dynamic yin-yang differences between Bauhaus and Love and Rockets. He gracefully sidestepped the infamous “incident” that occurred during the recording of “Go Away White” which officially ended Bauhaus once and for all, and how Love and Rockets aren’t tempted to take their reunion into the studio—just yet, anyway.

“Playing those songs again, we realized there’s still so much there,” he said of the band’s sturdy catalog, particularly the initial run from 1985’s “Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven” through their eponymous 1989 album, which included their Top 3 hit “So Alive.”

But he seemed most excited when talk turned to his son Joseph, who now fronts the band Correct Sadists, the moniker taken from a book the junior J purchased from a local used bookstore—the very same tome his father had sold to the shop years earlier.

“I guess you can say the apple doesn’t fall far too from the tree,” he laughed. And then I let him go on his way.

—Scott T. Sterling