DISCOGRAPHY

THE MUSICAL LIFE OF LAURENCE BOND MILLER
Lifetime Radio Interview

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SPROTON LAYER 1968 - 1971 (Reunion Concerts 2013)  Acid Rock
Roger Miller: bass and lead vocals
Ben Miller: guitar and harmony vocals
Laurence Miller: drums
Harold Kirtchen: trumpet

WITH MAGNETIC FIELDS DISRUPTED ------------------------------------------------------- released © April 1991
13-song CD / cassette / LP
New Alliance Records (subsidiary of SST)

LOST BEHIND WORDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- released © April 1991
3 - song  45 rpm  7” on clear vinyl
New Alliance Records (subsidiary of SST)

WITH MAGNETIC FIELDS DISRUPTED ------------------------------------------------------------- re-released © June 2013
13-song CD / LP
World In Sound Records (Germany)

D.B. Keeps: Booking Manager
George Christman: Personal Manager
Hiawatha: Equipment Manager

MICHIGAN DAILY June 1977:  “…musically 3 dimensional; drugs, decadence and death…”

YOU'RE GONNA DIE  b/w  BORED ------------------------------------------------------------ released  February 1978
2-song 45 rpm 7” single
IDBI Records (re-issued in 1979 on Cherry Red Records)

NOVEMBER 22^nd 1963 b/w MEET THE CREEPER ------------------------------------------- released  April 1979
2-song 45 rpm 7” single
Cherry Red Records

DAYS OF DIAMONDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- released December 1978
5-song 33 1/3 rpm 7” E.P.
Black Hole Records

NOVEMBER 22^nd 1963 / SINGLES & RARITIES --------------------------------------------- released December 1989
8-song 33 1/3 rpm 12” L.P. and CD
Revenge Records

BROKEN MIRRORS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released 2005 (?)
8-song CD
FarFetched Records

[NOTE: Many D.A.M. recordings with Laurence and Ben have been released over the years on various labels.]

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XANADU 1979  Art Rock
Cary Loren: Guitar, vocals
Ben Miller: Alto Sax, vocals
Laurence Miller: Guitar, vocals
Rob King: Drums, vocals
Dauna Sevakis: Additional vocals

DAYS OF DIAMONDS  --------------------------------------------------------------------------- released late 78
4-song 33 1/3 rpm 7” E.P.
Black Hole Records

BLACK OUT IN THE CITY  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- released January 1979
4-song 33 1/3 rpm 7” E.P.
Black Hole Records
{NOTE:  4 yr. old Tara Sevakis heard "counting off" NO CHANGE}

DAYS OF DIAMONDS b/w BLACK OUT IN THE CITY Reissue [both E.P.s] ------------- released 2018
8-song LP
Third Man Records

NONFICTION   1981 - 1985    Avant Garde Punk
Ben Miller: guitar, bass, alto sax, vocals
Laurence Miller: guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
Bill Frank: drums, vocals

CRUZIN' ANN ARBOR  (12 band Ann Arbor Music Project Compilation) ---------------------------- released December 1982
featuring his song “Walkie Talkie”
12-song 33 1/3 rpm 12” L.P.
AAMP Records

WALKIN' SIDEWAYS TALKIN' BACKWARDS ------------------------------------------------- released January 1984
11-song L.P. cassette (half  “live”,  half  “studio”)
Neoteric Records (re-issued 9/84 with Laurie Anderson bonus cut “Oh, Superman”)
Detroit Metro Times: “…best local release of the year!..”

WHO'S RUNNING THE WORLD ----------------------------------------------------------------- released August 2022
10-song CD/Bandcamp Download
Remastered Demos 1982-83
Living Records

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RADIO SILENCE  1982 - 1984    Punk-Jazz
Laurence Miller: guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
Ben Miller: alto saxophone
Don Rimmer: bass
John O' Reilly: drums

RADIO SILENCE Self Titled   -------------------------------------------------------------------- released 1984
20-song Double LP Cassette ~ half "live" / half studio
Tip-Toe Tapes (100 copies?)

EXPERIENCE & MAINTAIN (collection of recorded rehearsals 1982/83) to be released Spring 2024

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ROGER MILLER as NO MAN    1986    Experimental Rock

NO MAN IS HURTING ME ---------------------------------------------------------------------- released  May 1986
10-song 33 1/3 rpm 12” L.P.
Ace Of Hearts Records

[Laurence and twin brother Ben never performed with Roger but did contribute tracks for 2 songs on this recording]

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[singer-songwriter / multitrack full band styled recordings]

                                                                  1980's

Laurence Miller: vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, drum machine, tambourine, etc
A slew of low budget cassettes released on his own Tip-Toe Tapes having purchased a 4-track cassette machine.
Laurence Bond T-Shirts (15 printed in 1988)

               

THE VERGE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released August 1985
Ambient Soundscape (2 Versions)
Tip Toe Tapes (6 copies)

LAURENCE MILLER self titled ----------------------------------------------------------------- released late 1985
10-song cassette
Tip Toe Tapes (6 copies)

LAURENCE MILLER self titled (Re-Release) ------------------------------------------------ released spring 1986
10-song cassette (two new songs in exchange for two others)
Tip Toe Tapes (10 copies)

MANILA MOON ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released August 1986
7-song cassette|
Tip Toe Tapes (15 copies)

LARGER THAN LIFE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- released September 1986
2-song cassingle
Tip Toe Tapes (10 copies)

LARGER THAN LIFE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- released November 1986
4-song import cassingle (Semaphore Records submission)
Tip Toe Tapes (2 copies)

MANILA MOON Reissue w/better EQ Mastering ----------------------------------------------  released February 1987
7-song cassette {Zippo-tone cover}
Tip Toe Tapes (5 copies)

AU NATURAL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released November 1986 [more likely Feb 87]
3-song cassingle
Tip Toe Tapes (7 copies)

WIDE AWAKE UP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released January or February 1987
8-song cassette
Tip Toe Tapes (20 copies)

YOUR BEAUTIFUL MESS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ released November 1987
8-song cassette
Tip Toe Tapes (12 copies ~ 5 w/kiss 7 w/out)

Plans are to remaster these collections and release them on Bandcamp in 2024

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THY GILDED LILY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- released October 2021
13-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
This solo 'full-band' collection was recorded from 1988 thru 1989

LARGER THAN LIFE E.P. The Generic Sessions --------------------------------------------- released June 2022
12-song CD/Bandcamp
Recorded Mid May thru Mid August 1986 Remastered/Remixed/Released as a full collection with 'live' cuts

[many of these collections were digitized, remixed, mastered, and released 2020-22]

13-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Recorded 1994-95 for his GORDON GIGANTIC but wasn't mixed, mastered and released until 2020

13-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Recorded between 1990 and 1996. It was master, mixed, and release 2021

LAURENCE w/a “U” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ released November 1996
10-song cassette -- later procured in Cd format in 2003
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music
An unplugged solo collection recorded in 1996 in support of his singer songwriter gigs at that time
Ann Arbor Observer  “...veteran local postpunk singer song-writer who writes angular, sometimes bitingly beautiful
introspective songs that have been described as Robyn Hitchcock meets Sylvia Plath...”

PLAGUE OF LOVE (Love, Lust & Lunacy) --------------------------------------------------- released on cassette February 1997
11-song cassette
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Recorded 1995-97

Jamm Rag:   “...The original purpose to these recordings was to flesh out new song ideas as they came to me in the studio. 
This gave me the unique opportunity to discover how they might sound in a real ‘band’ setting, as well as getting them out of my f#!$king head...” LBM   [Miller can really play all these instruments? Musical masturbation at it’s finest? LC]

PLAGUE OF LOVE (Love, Lust & Lunacy) ---------------------------------------------------- rereleased 2021
12-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Remastered version of his 1997 cassette release, but with a few different songs ~ released decades later

GIRL FROM RUSSIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- released July 2020
12-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Recorded 1996-97 but wasn't mixed, mastered and released until 2020

WINDOWELL  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released May 2022
14-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Recorded 1996 thru 1998 but wasn't mixed, mastered, released until 2022

NEXT TO NOTHING ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- released May 2020
Simulated “full-band” multi-track power-pop-punk
12-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Recorded in1998 but wasn't mixed, mastered, and released until 2020

                                                  2003 thru 2022 

17-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music
This solo demo collection was recorded in the mid-1980's and released under the radar in 2003.

13-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music
'Live' collection recorded at Ypsilanti's Dreamland Theater.

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THE EMPTY SET   1985 - 1992   Alternative New Wave Pop Rock
Laurence Miller: guitar (electric & 12-string acoustic), bass, keyboards, vocals
Ron DeVore: bass, vocals
Bill Frank: drums, vocals
Note: Additional musicians both studio and 'live' including Ben Miller on Alto Sax

WANDERING IN WONDER --------------------------------------------------------------------- released November 1986
4-song  33 rpm 7” E.P.
LALA Records (500 or 1,000? pressed)

LOST IN A RYPTIDE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- released October 1988
10-song 33rpm 12” L.P.
LALA Records (2,000 pressed)
Detroit Metro Times “....a ten song work of art...”

DOWN ON THE STREET  b/w  ROMAN HOLIDAY -------------------------------------------- released February 1992
2-song 45 rpm 7” on transparent orange vinyl
Sympathy For The Record Industry

THIN, SLIM, AND NONE/ FLUNKIE  ----------------------------------------------------------- released 1996
Ron Asheton w/The Empty Set 
18-song CD
Birdcage Records through TWA

PAINT PENCIL PEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released 2002
7-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Songs ripped from "LOST IN A RYPTIDE" including one previously unreleased track

AXIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ released June 2020
13-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records
This collection was recorded by the band from 1987 thru 1991 [remastered from master-mix cassettes].

STREAMING THROUGH THE WINDOW ON A FLIGHT OF STAIRS ------------------------- released January 2021 
13-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records
Recorded by the band from 1987 thru 1989 as a quality demo for their 2nd LP which never came to pass

END TIMES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released February 2023
15-song CD/Bandcamp
FarFetched Records
Remastered demos recorded 1985 thru 1991 w/added organ on the 1st six tunes in 2022

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LARYNX ZILLION’S NOVELTY SHOP   1987-1997 Discordant Avant Garde Glam Rock
Larynx Zillion {Laurence Miller}: guitar, the mosquito, and vocals (and backing tracks w/drums and keyboards)
Chip Reed {David Swain}: bass
Buzz Amerika {Chris Casello}: guitar
Hubba Chubba Bubba {Chris Smith}: trombone and slide cornet

Earlier band mates include:
John F$!#king Kennedy {John Fohrman}: keyboards and backing vocals
Home Slice {Eric Bernreuter}: trombone
Poriah Dog {John O'Reilly}: drums

This band began as a solo project in the mid-80's, blooming into a full fledged performance outfit by 1991.

ANN ARBOR OBSERVER
“...Larynx Zillion (a.k.a. Laurence Bond Miller) has successfully impersonated an entire band singlehandedly, and has 5 records to his credit. His assemblage of warm bodies for his real-life version The Novelty Shop, could be defined as  -  artfully discordant guitar based Rock & Roll with odd time changes and a twisted sense of humor...”

SOUTHPAWS UNITE! [Larboard-Mix] --------------------------------------------------------- released June 1990
1-song sampler ~ transparent blue picture-disc flexi  w/ special postcard included
Collector’s Edition preview for upcoming E.P.,  “Southpaws Unite!” (The Collection) 
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI (1000 pressed)

RHINO GAZZETTE Austin Texas
“...according to old folklore, being left-handed is a sign of the devil, and this band, composed entirely of lefties, is definitely possessed...”

CURRENT Music Scene ~ Ann Arbor Mi
“...the perfect gift for anyone who thinks Ann Arbor has grown boring and artisticly safe...”

Hit WCBN’s Top Ten Favorite List of 1990

SOUTHPAWS UNITE! [The Collection] ------------------------------------------------------ released February 1992
6-song   9” mini-L.P. flexi  w/lyric sheet and “No Right Turn” sticker included
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI (1000 pressed)

DECONTROL Deluth Georgia
“...might best be described as Disneyland on fast forwards, spinning out of control...”

CURRENT ~ Local Music Ann Arbor Mi
“...an incredible, twisted work that will probably not be understood by the American listening public until late in the 21st century...”
Hit WCBN’s Top Ten Favorite List of 1992

SONGS OF RECOVERY From Anything or Anyone ----------------------------------------- released September 1992
2-song  45 rpm 7” single on transparent yellow vinyl
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI (500 pressed?)

ANN ARBOR NEWS ~ Rock Beat
“....maniacal and absurd, this delightfully bizarre music sounds as if the town psychotic became the conductor of a carnival band - real weird carnival music played at the wrong speed - somehow just what you wanted to hear....”

RHINO GAZZETTE ~ Austin Texas
“...QUEEN jamming with THE RESIDENTS...”

CURRENT ~ Local Music Ann Arbor Mi
“...this laughs in the face of CD technology as well as artistic convention by Ann Arbor’s only true genius...”

SOUTHPAWS UNITE! [The Complete Collection] ------------------------------------------ released 1995
8-song cassette 
Farfetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
{very small handful made never submitted for review}

QUEEN OF QUEENS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- released May 1996
4-song “special-mix” E.P. cassette
Preview for upcoming full-length double-feature Hotter Than The Dickens! which didn't see the light of day until April 2016
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
{very small handful made}

ANN ARBOR NEWS ~ Rock Beat Ann Arbor Mi
“... **** David Bowie at his most glam and experimental...”

AGENDA ~ The View From Nowhere Ann Arbor Mi
"...if there is any music that will survive us after the collapse of civilization, when wild bands of post-nuclear winter-tribes roam the earth, it would have to be the complex, intense, other-centuries-to-come creations of Ann Arbor genius/legend/artist Larynx Zillion’s Novelty Shop.  Steve Reichian time signatures and stereo headphone freak-outs, and science fiction psycho ward confessions of a religious vision with a band that crashes the wall at 180 MPH.  In a world where most “R&R” bands are more concerned about THE BIG RECORD DEAL, Larynx Zillion’s Novelty Shop is a cause for celebration...”

JAM RAG ~ Outsite Detroit MI
“...Ann Arbor’s Mothers of Invention...while the Novelty Shop is open, step inside - you could walk away with something as valuable as Penn & Teller’s Invisible Thread...”

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GORDON GIGAGNTIC   1994 - 1995   Alternative Power-Pop
Laurence Miller: guitar, vocals
Richard Cox: bass, vocals
Tony Archer: drums 

GORDON GIGANTIC (Self-Titled)  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released 5/1/95
5-song cassette
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI

ANN ARBOR AGENDA / #4 of 10 ”Best  of 1995!”  / A2:  “...if there is any one greatest injustice on the local music scene, it’s the fact that Laurence Miller, the guiding force behind this five-tune release, isn’t world famous by now.  From the original lineup of Destroy All Monsters, to his other-planet ravings of Larynx Zillion’s Novelty Shop, Miller has proven to be another one-of-a-kind performer of world-class talents and brains...”    Alan Goldsmith

GORDON GIGANTIC - 'Hellfire & Dalmatians'  -------------------------------------------- re-released 2020
7-song CD/Bandcamp [5 of these are from their 1995 'Self-Titled' cassette release, all from the same session.]
FarFetched Records & Bond Voyage Music BMI
Remastered, Mixed, and Re-released in 2020

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M3    1989 - 2001    Experimental
Roger Miller: Keyboards, bass, drums, found sound
Ben Miller: Guitar, violin, drums, found sound
Laurence Miller: Drums, keyboards, found sound

M3 (self-titled) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released February 1993
8-song CD / cassette
New Alliance Records
Recorded 1989 thru 1992

The American Music Press / S.F. CA  “...I began to like the CD more and more but, my finger always hovered over track button six (my piece tra-la tra-la) with the temptation to depress and place on replay...”

UNEARTHING ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- released  2001
11-song CD
Sublingual Records
Recorded in 1998

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