As a founding member of the groundbreaking Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, and Love and Rockets, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Daniel Ash has distinguished himself in the world of contemporary music. Daniel Ash was born in Northampton, England, on July 31, 1957. As a child, he heard the Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces" and was blown away by the massive booming echo of the song, but it wasn't the first single he purchased -- "The first record I bought was Dave & Ansel Collins' 'Double Barrel'," he recalls. Driven by a love of rock & roll, Ash began playing in cover bands: "The first gig I ever played was in ~the Glasgow Rangers Workman's Club." That show ended in a fracas.