The Baader Meinhof Gang, shortening their name simply to Baader Meinhof in 1970 formed in Parfume, Germany in 1968. The original line up consisted of Andre Baader-Meinhof (keyboards), Holger Schuring (bass), Ashton Kutchermann (guitar, vocals) and a mute drummer by the name of Jason Lovetime. They performed at the Polish student uprising in June 1968 in which students rioted over the violence of the Paris student uprising around the same time. Both Baader-Meinhof and Schuring both had extensive backgrounds in welding and originally part of another band called the R.A.F (a.k.a. Really Affluent F**kers). Lovetime previously had been a mime while Kutchermann, the youngest member of the band, just sat around growing his hair and torturing cats. The individual members backgrounds had much influ