Roger Miller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-founding the group Mission of Burma. Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer. ...

Biography

Miller was raised Ann Arbor, Michigan. Inspired by Detroit-area bands like the Stooges and the MC5, Miller formed several garage bands in his teens. With brothers Benjamin (Ben) Miller and Laurence (Larry) Miller, he formed Sproton Layer; their recordings were collected and released in 1992 as With Magnetic Fields Disrupted. Miller played bass guitar and was the primary singer and songwriter, and the ongoing collaboration M3. For the railroad company, see Ann Arbor Railroad. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... The Stooges are an American rocknroll band that was first active from around 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003. ... MC5 (short for Motor City Five) was a hard rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1964 and active until 1972. ... The term garage band has several meanings, all related in someway to music. ... Sproton Layer was a rock and roll group formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the late 1960s. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... M3 may refer to: Messier 3, a globular cluster of stars M3 motorway, a motorway in England M3 motorway (Northern Ireland), a spur of the M2 M3 motorway in the Republic of Ireland, a proposed upgrade to part of the N3 road M3 motorway (Hungary) M-3 (Michigan highway) M3...

Attending CalArts in 1976, majoring in composition, Miller also studied piano and French Horn, and studied music by 20th century experimental composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He would eventually drop out of college in favor of punk rock. The California Institute of the Arts, commonly known as CalArts, and located in Valencia, California, grants degrees in visual and performing arts. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... For Mortal Kombat character, see Johnny Cage. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

Mission of Burma years

Relocating to Boston, Massachusetts, Miller was a member of the short-lived Moving Parts before co-founding Mission of Burma in 1979. The group was popular in and aroud Boston, but was unable to expand their audience. Miller played guitar and sang, and slightly edged out bassist/singer Clint Conley as the more productive songwriter. It was also Miller's idea to invite Martin Swope to join the group and add tape loop effects, giving the group an unusual, experimental sound. Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Settled 1630 Incorporated (city) 1822 Government  - Governor Deval Patrick (D) Area  - City  89. ... Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer. ... Clint Conley is a musician from Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the bassist for Mission of Burma. ... Martin Swope is an American musician. ... Tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns. ...

Mission of Burma disbanded in 1983 due in large part to Miller's worsening tinnitus, attributed in large part to their notoriously loud live performances. In subsequent years, Mission of Burma's small body of recordings grew to be regarded as important and influential. Tinnitus (IPA pronunciation: or ,[1] from the Latin word for ringing[2]) is the perception of sound in the human ear in the absence of corresponding external sound(s). ...

During the Burma years, Miller worked as a freelance piano tuner.^[1] The piano Piano is a common abbreviation for pianoforte, a large musical instrument with a keyboard (see keyboard instrument). ...

Other musical projects

After Burma broke up, Miller turned his attention to playing piano the more experimental, instrumental group Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic, which he left in 1987. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983. ...

Afterwards, Miller had several collaborations, solo efforts and film scores; many of these post-Burma albums were released by SST Records: SST Records is a Lawndale, California based independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by Black Flag founder/guitarist Greg Ginn. ...

• Alloy Orchestra, a trio with Miller on keyboards that composes new scores for silent films. The group's name refers to the many metal objects (hubcaps, springs and pots) used by percussionists Ken Winokur and Terry Donohue;
• Exquisite Corpse, an instrumental group with Miller on guitar, piano and sampler; violinist; percussionist; and a shawm/sackbutt player;
• Binary System, an instrumental piano/drums duo with percussionist Larry Dersch;
• Hooker/Miller/Ranaldo, a free improvisation group comprised of William Hooker (percussion), Lee Ranaldo (guitar), and Miller (bass);
• and M3, an ongoing musical collaboration with Benjamin Miller and Laurence Miller;
• Maximum Electric Piano (solo prepared piano with loops);
• No Man (rock-oriented project with Russell Smith on bass and Ken Winokur or Malcolm Travis on drums);
• Elemental Guitar (solo prepared guitar with loops).

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Mission of Burma reform

Mission of Burma reunited in 2002, with Bob Weston replacing Swope. Because of Miller's issues with tinnitus, he now wears firing-range headphones to protect his ears while keeping the volume level on his amplifier high. On stage he has his Marshall amplifier at the edge of the stage on his right, with the speakers facing away from him (as seen in the reunion footage in the M0B documentary Not A Photograph). Bob Weston is an American musician, producer and recording engineer - though is not to be confused with the Englishman by the same name - Bob Weston, was the Guitar Player who followed on from Peter Green in Fleetwood Mac and who went on to play with Steve Marriott and Humble Pie...

References

1. ^ Azerrad, Michael. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991. Little Brown and Company, 2001. ISBN 0-316-78753-1

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad (ISBN 0-316-78753-1). ...

External links

• official homepage
• myspace site
• www.missionofburma.com
• "The return of ideas and noise" by John E. Mitchell
• Burmese Daze: A Conversation with Mission of Burma's Roger Miller