Missus Beastly were a very early Krautrock group with a rather confusing history, because a second group stole their name, as well as constant line-up changes. The group began in 1968 in Herford, in northern Germany with the name Psychotic Reaction, taken from the Count Five song, before changing the name to Missus Beastly, after a doll from a German television show. The original group consisted of Lutz Oldemeier on drums, Reinhard "Atzen" Wehmeyer guitar and vocals, Wolfgang Nickel keys, and Petja Hofman vocals and bass. Though from the northern part of the country, they were getting most of their gigs much further south through a friend, Gunter Scheding, who had moved from Herford to Mainz, near Munich. They gained some fame from their live outings at this time, which resembled ritualistic psychedelic jams as the group would improvise for two or three hours without set list or compositions. Missus Beastly recorded their first LP in very early 1970, at the CPM Studio, with some help from Xhol Caravan flautist Hansi Fischer as well as members of Amon Duul II, who were hanging out in the studio at the time. The self-titled record was also released by CPM with a limited run of 1000 copies. Soon after that, Henry Fromm, posing as the group's manager, flautist, and drummer, though no one in the band had ever met him, had a bootleg of the record repressed from one of the original LPs and brought out with a different cover and the title Nara Asst Incense, as well as the track listing screwed up. Fromm would continue to ride on Missus Beastly's modest fame with two more LPs under their name, Volksmusik in 1972 and Im Garten Des Schweigens in 1973, as well as the singles, "Fuck You Free" and "Jawa Masa." These later records consisted of Fromm and several other musicians who had nothing to do with the original Missus Beastly. Meanwhile the original band was having other problems with constant line-up changes. Soon after the first album came out, Paul Vincent on guitar and Michael Scholz on keyboards joined and the group became a sextet. By the summer of 1970 though, Vincent was replaced by Roman Bunka, and then sax and flute player Jergen Benz joined the group. By the end of the year, both Wehmeyer and Nickel departed. Having trouble finding gigs, and even having to sell their van and PA, the group finally disbanded by yearend 1971. Hofman took off for India, while the most of the others joined more successful bands, Bunka to Embryo, Benz to Erna Schmidt, and Oldemeier to Checkpoint Charlie. In the summer of 1973, after Fromm's ersatz Missus Beastly had disbanded, Oldemeier and Benz, along with three more musicians, reformed the group as a more jazz-world instrumental band. By early 1974 this group had released another self-titled record on the Nova label. With more lineup changes, two more LPs followed, Dr Aftershave and the Mixed-Pickles in 1976 and Space Guerilla in 1978. This group also played several live gigs during this time, though by end of the 70s, with no original members left, they disbanded as well. ~ Rolf Semprebon, All Music Guide