Love and Rockets perform at Fox Theater in Oakland on May 21, 2023. Karen Goldman/STAFF. OAKLAND — As Love and Rockets prepared to perform their second encore at Fox Theater Sunday night, nobody seemed able to find Daniel Ash’s acoustic guitar. “Can we go acoustic, please?” bassist David J…

When the houselights went down Saturday night, the Masonic was almost pitch-black in the moments before Bauhaus took the stage. The crowd, mostly in black, disappeared in the oppressive gloom. Stage lights soon illuminated the quartet, also dressed in black but with guitarist Daniel Ash resplendent in a pirate…

Since at least the time when an angsty adolescent Hamlet was hanging out in cemeteries talking to skulls, teens have been into death. In the late ’80s, I dyed my hair black and listened to all kinds of morose music, probably to freak my parents out, or maybe it…

Photos: Gary Chancer SAN FRANCISCO — Bauhaus introduced what we now refer to as goth music. Its dark wave sound was glam, punk and dance. Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins followed that band with Tones on Tail, a short-lived side project with Bauhaus roadie Glen Campling. Haskins and Ash next turned to alt-rock act…

Photos courtesy: Paul Rae, Projections: Cloaking.US SANTA CRUZ — Looking back, it’s often easy to spot the turning points in our lives, the doors we stepped through that changed the course of our journey. At 15, I was living in a small, affluent suburb in Southern California, a nice vanilla…