Sproton Layer was a rock and roll group formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the late 1960s. Their music was mostly hard rock with psychedelic touches. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... For the railroad company, see Ann Arbor Railroad. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

It was comprised of bass guitarist, singer and primary songwriter Roger Miller and his younger brothers Benjamin Miller on guitar and Laurence Miller on drums. Trumpeter Harold Kirchen (brother^[1] of guitarist Bill Kirchen, a longtime member of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen) later joined the group. Roger Miller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-founding the group Mission of Burma. ... Bill Kirchen is an American rockabilly guitarist. ... Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is a rock band formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...

Sproton Layer found local success, but earned wider attention when its personnel went on to greater success with other musical groups: Laurence and Benjamin were both members of Destroy All Monsters, and Roger had numerous musical projects, notably art-punk group Mission of Burma and instrumental group Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Niagara is an internationally acknowledged musician and silk screen artist who briefly collaborated with Andy Warhol. ... 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. ... Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983. ...

Sproton Layer recorded an albums' worth of material shortly before breaking up in 1970; it went unreleased until 1992 when New Alliance records issued a single of "Lost Behind Words" and a full-length album, With Magnetic Fields Disrupted. Journalist Michael Azerrad^[2] described the recordings as a valuable document of "an amazing band that sounded like Syd Barrett fronting Cream." Roger Keith Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. ... Cream were a 1960s British rock band, which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. ...

The Miller brothers would later occasionally record under the name M3. 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...

References

1. ^ M3/Sproton Layer URL accessed March 5, 2007
2. ^ 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