Barely back from Copenhagen, I joined Marcel Bernasconi's flat share at Zurich's Bellevue square in the house of "Teppich Forster" and the restaurant "der Grüne Heinrich", Theaterstrasse 8.

We quickly gave up the plan to look for a suitable restaurant for a jazz club. 

Our address became a popular, storm-free place (there were only companies and doctors in the house during the day). In the basement Marcel had a rehearsal room. The house belonged to the Rohr family and their son Urs Rohr, who previously had organized the music program in the first 'Platte 27' for a short time,  lived on the top floor.

There was no actual Bazillus foundation ceremony.

We simply started to organize the first concerts: "First Bazillus Concert" and a follow-up concert at the spacious Restaurant 'Weisser Wind', then we had "East of Eden" with Prog-Rock from England and "Rashaan Roland Kirk and the Vibration Society". Later still the "Bazillus Open Air Festival in Zug".

In 1970, my Copenhagen friend, jazz singer and draftswoman Anne Christiansen, moved to Zurich.

The property on Theaterstrasse was rebuilt and an ABM came in. It was hippie-high-phase and many friends and especially musicians moved to the countryside at that time. 

Marcel found a vacant hiking restaurant in Hütten-Schwyz called "Zur Säge". The water wheel for the former sawmill was still there.

Here is the first press article in "Züri-Leu", where this time was described in detail:

After the "Bazillus Festival Zug 1970" our first deficit arose and Marcel, who had a mathematics assistant job at the ETH-Zurich, resigned again for financial reasons and worked as a cab chauffeur. 

Anne and I started working here with our career as independent illustrators and from there we realized several new projects with our Danish friend, the organist Ole Thilo, like "Wiebelfetzer Workshop I + II" and "Kreismusik". For rehearsals we used the former restaurant room on the first floor.

There were 6 rooms in the house and various tenants lived in the house shortly after each other. The DJ Peter "Bee Gee" Schnyder, who had DJed at Platte 27 II on Limmatquai and later opened the Vynil store "America Sound" on Limmatquai. In addition, the guitarist and singer of the New Wave group "Troppo" Marc Gubler. Later, Ole Thilo, John Tchicai and Peter Warren lived in our flat share for various projects. The country life was a bit too remote for us. Here we parted ways with Marcel and moved into a residential studio at Rüdenplatz. Andreas Vollenweider then moved into our former 2-room apartment in the hiking restaurant "Zur Säge".

Marcel, Bee Gee, Marc Gubler and René Ruegg then plunged into their next adventure; they brought Miles Davis to Dietikon on October 22, 1971!