TheMaartian
Moshkito
... so something about the music business had already changed and corrupted the German scene. (well known via AshRa/Klaus Schulze and such).
When I was in Augsburg ('71-'72), the choice was between Bayerische Blaskapellen, Schlager and Amon Düül. EASY choice there. I'd left my '63 Fender J bass and amp back in the States, so had to go with OPM (Other People's Music) instead. I bought a reel-to-reel tape deck and stereo and started collecting tapes from Munich. What those would be worth now, historically if not monetarily, if I still had them? Priceless. To me, anyway.
Sad to think of what I've left behind as flotsam and jetsam in my wake.
Amon Duul 2 live, that I have heard, is only really good on "Live in London". Just about anything else they have released is loose, unrehearsed and sometimes off kilter, like Renate going crazy, but at least Janis was taken off Woodstock, but not Renate. But on album, they are usually very good, and my thoughts are that they are probably too lazy to rehearse and put something together that is valuable and worth a live album.
Would love to hear some of that stuff, although so much of it is being released these days, though I find it strange that Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus and others, were not shown live, though the Cosmic Courier stuff always came across as live material, at least in the studio, ripped or not.
My guess is that there also is a lot of material on the electronic side from the clubs, specially around the hardcore electronic scene.