Moving Parts was a late 1970s Boston-based rock music band. Though short-lived and little noticed during their career, the band's members went on to form parts of the more influential bands Birdsongs of the Mesozoic and Mission of Burma .
17-578: The band's members were Roger Miller (guitar), Clint Conley (bass guitar), Erik Lindgren (keyboards), and Boby Bear (drums); all but Bear shared songwriting and singing duties. Their main release, the archival 1992 compilation Wrong Conclusion features previously unreleased tracks from 1978 that range from absurd synthpop ("Good Oscillations") to artsy abstraction ("Max Ernst") to driving guitar rock ("Talk Talk"). After Moving Parts broke up due to creative disagreements, Conley and Miller founded Mission of Burma , Miller and Lindgren co-founded Birdsongs of
34-921: A B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Lowell in Lowell , Massachusetts . While working at the university's campus radio station, WJUL, he began mixing live performances of Boston -area bands such as Pixies and the Blake Babies . In 1987 Weston joined the Volcano Suns , playing bass guitar. The group was led by Peter Prescott , (previously the drummer for Mission of Burma , who had broken up in 1983). Weston joined Steve Albini and Todd Trainer in Shellac in 1991. Under Albini, Weston honed his studio production skills and has gone on to record and mix material for bands including Sebadoh , June of 44 , Polvo ,
51-508: A freelance piano tuner . After Burma broke up, Miller turned his attention to playing piano with the more experimental, instrumental group Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, which he left in 1987. Afterward, Miller had several collaborations, solo efforts, and film scores; many of these post-Burma albums were released by SST Records : Mission of Burma reunited in 2002 with Bob Weston replacing Swope. On stage, Miller had his Marshall amplifier at
68-1397: A review about Mike Goldsmith's book Discord for The Wall Street Journal . His short story "Insect Futures" was published in Penny Ante III . His drawings have appeared in numerous shows since 2003. Miller also has conducted "A Night of Surrealist Games" at Arts at the Armory (Somerville, MA), Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), 3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH), Portsmouth Book & Bar (Portsmouth, NH), Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (Brattleboro, VT), 118 Elliot Gallery (Brattleboro, VT), and Epsilon Spires (Brattleboro, VT). He has shown his Surrealist drawings in solo and group exhibitions. With Roger Miller and Larry Dersch: With Dredd Foole , Roger Miller, Clint Conley, Pete Prescott, Martin Swope: With Roger Miller, Benjamin Miller: With Roger Miller, Ben Miller, Larry Miller: With William Hooker , Roger Miller, Lee Ranaldo: With Roger Miller, Ben Miller, and Larry Miller: With Roger Miller, Larry Dersch, and P. Andrew Willis: Bob Weston Bob Weston (born 1965)
85-460: Is an American musician, producer, recording engineer , and record mastering engineer. Critic Jason Ankeny declares that "Weston's name and fingerprints are all over the American underground rock of the post-punk era, producing and engineering dates for a seemingly endless number of bands." As a performer, Weston is best known as the bass guitarist in the groups Volcano Suns and Shellac . Weston
102-453: The Coctails , Archers of Loaf , Chavez , Rachel's , Ken Vandermark , 33.3 , Six Finger Satellite , and Rodan . Weston was also Albini's assistant engineer on Nirvana 's In Utero album. According to a 2006 interview, being a musician has helped shape Weston's work recording, mixing and mastering: "It’s obvious to me that the best recording engineers have played in bands. You understand
119-660: The Mesozoic . This article on a United States rock music band is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Roger Miller (rock musician) Roger Clark Miller (born February 24, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-founding Mission of Burma and performing in Alloy Orchestra / The Anvil Orchestra . His main instruments are guitar and piano . Guitar Player magazine describes Miller's guitar playing as balancing rock energy with cerebral experimentation. He also plays cornet, bass guitar and percussion. Miller
136-587: The band's work in a ceremony held at the MIT East Campus Courtyard. Miller has created soundtrack scores for animation, documentaries ( Big Ideas for a Small Planet , 2007), and commercials. Four of the films he has scored have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, which included 500 Years (2016) and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011). Miller's work, “ Transmuting the Prosaic ”,
153-481: The dynamic better and can almost become an unofficial band member during the session. And it’s pretty easy to tell on what sort of session your musical opinion is wanted or not." However, Weston's recording and mixing work is not limited to music: he occasionally freelances for National Public Radio , often working on comedy quiz show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me , which is headquartered in Chicago. In 2002, Weston joined
170-522: 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 ). The band released four albums since reforming; the latest is Unsound , July 2012, on Fire Records. Many bands have cited Burma as an inspiration, including Nirvana , Pearl Jam , Foo Fighters , Superchunk , Jawbox , The Grifters , R.E.M. , Miracle Legion (the last two have even covered "Academy Fight Song":
187-617: The fall of 1969; Miller played bass guitar and was the primary singer and songwriter. They recorded a demo for an album in 1970; these recordings were collected and released in 1992 and again in 2011 as With Magnetic Fields Disrupted . The Miller brothers have an occasional ongoing collaboration called 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 dropped out of college in favor of punk rock . Relocating to Boston, Massachusetts , Miller
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#1732884194949204-443: The former on their Green tour and the latter on their debut ), Sonic Youth , Drive Like Jehu , Throwing Muses , Yo La Tengo , Fugazi , Pixies , Sugar , Guided by Voices , Shellac , Catherine Wheel , Graham Coxon , Pegboy , Moby and Down by Law - the last five of which have covered Conley's " That's When I Reach for My Revolver ". In 2009 the city of Boston declared October 4 to be "Mission of Burma Day" in honor of
221-692: The passage of time, and self-reliance. Miller began piano lessons at the age of 6. In middle school, he studied the french horn in band class, and at age 13, he picked up the guitar. Inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Detroit -area bands like the Stooges , the SRC , and the MC5 , Miller formed several garage bands in his teens, starting with the Sky High Purple Band in 1967. With brothers Benjamin (Ben) Miller and Laurence B. (Larry) Miller , he formed Sproton Layer in
238-459: Was a member of the short-lived Moving Parts before co-founding Mission of Burma in 1979. 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. During the Burma years, Miller worked as
255-674: Was born and raised in Waltham, Massachusetts . During the summers of 1985 and 1987, he marched as a bugler with the renowned Garfield Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps from Garfield, New Jersey. The corps won the Drum Corps International World Championships in both those years. Weston still plays trumpet, as on the albums The Sea and the Bells by Rachel's (1996) and Things We Lost in the Fire by Low (2001). In 1988, he earned
272-530: Was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan , on February 24, 1952. His father was a professor of ichthyology , which prompted frequent travel to the Western United States during summers—in search of fish in isolated springs in the desert for comparison with the fossil record —in which he brought his son along. These expeditions informed his later artistic outlook, which incorporates themes of nature, harsh environments,
289-1089: Was shown at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Brattleboro, VT, March 15 – October 15, 2020. Five of Miller’s Modified Vinyl works (with turn-tables and listening stations) and his film, “The Davis Square Symphony”. The first edition of “Transmuting the Prosaic” was sold to the New England Art Museum in Burlington, VT. " Transmuting the Prosiac " was shown again at 3S Artspace , Portsmouth, NH, from December 2, 2022 - January 22, 2023, featuring Modified Vinyl and The Davis Square Symphony. During opening night, Miller also performed excerpts from his new LP, Eight Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble . Miller's compositions have been performed by: Miller has blogged for Slate and HuffPost , and written
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