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Faust and friends brought an Elvis impersonator back to the studio after a night's drinking to provide vocals for the covers of "Don't Be Cruel," "Hound Dog" and "Teddy Bear," though it is too much to hope that those particular sessions will ever be released. Throughout the time at Wumme the fun was punctuated by a routine recording and studio work. Occasionally there were periods where little or no work was done, and nothing achieved except the creation of a certain mood. Every so often they would send a tape of work-in-progress to Polydor, though these were as likely to contain studio experiments or location recordings as they were any kind of group playing or rock music; one was made up exclusively of recordings of the traffic passing through Wumme on a single day, another contained "pure blasts of noise, the sound of someone cleaning dishes and us all trying to impersonate a female choir." Nettelbeck nevertheless managed to persuade the label that they were making progress. For an entire year he succeeded in keeping Polydor at bay. They demanded to hear the results of their investment, so the group hurriedly convened to assemble their first album: "we tripped and took LSD, and we had to make the record in one night."
