“In March of 1969, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Miller brothers Roger Benjamin and Laurence had a mind-altering improvisation session on guitar, bass and drums in their basement. They called it "Freak Trio Electric", and none of them, or their views on music, were the same after this event. A few days later, after repeated and amazed listening to the tape - "Sounds like Pink Floyd cut with Captain Beefheart!" wrote Roger in his journal - they decided to form a band. Roger wrote many songs that spring incorporating riffs and motifs from their improvisations. Later that year they added trumpeter Harold Kirchen (brother of Bill Kirchen of Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen fame) and changed their name to Sproton Layer.”

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