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The original lineup ( Kelley, Loren, Niagara and Shaw) Monsters: 1974-1976 on Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label. Thurston Moore compiled a three-CD boxed set of music, artwork In 1994, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Byron Coley and " Released in December 1983, this video can now be seen on-line. The band recorded and videotaped the song called " Make Mine Japanese. Personnel : Bill Frank on drums, Mike Davis on bass, RonĪsheton on guitar, and Niagara on vocals. Under the name XANADU with The Miller Brothers, LorenĬarried on with various personnel releasing a total of three 7"Īll Monsters played in bars and nightclubs in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Another EP followed in 1979, " Blackout in the City" Live DAM EP known as " Days of Diamonds" on his Black The band was able to capitalize on the notoriety. Gonna Die" single earned some attention in the UK music press, and Niagara ended her romance with Loren in favor of a new relationship withĪsheton Loren quit the group, with the Miller brothers leaving after theīand's Halloween gig at EMU, in 1978. Were preparing to release " Bored ", their first official recording, when the group began to fall apart. Garnered the group more attention than ever before. Groups signed on: guitarist Ron Asheton, earlier of The Stooges,Īnd bass guitarist Michael Davis of the MC5. Not long after, members of two important Detroit-based They invited Mike (Jett) Powers on bass but he soon leftįor Harvard University. (Ben) Miller both had been in the short-lived Sproton Layer with theirīrother Roger Miller (who later went on to found Mission ofīurma). Successful solo careers in the art world. School at CalArts in Los Angeles, California. Kelley and Shaw left the band during the summer of 1976 to attend graduate The Halloween Ball at the University of Michigan art school in 1976. They used modified instruments, a drumīox, tape loops, hot-wired toys, cheap keyboards and broken electronic devices.Īside from the comic convention, the group's only formal gig in this era was at
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Performed "guerilla style", setting up free at parties and playingįor food along Ann Arbor's frat row. "Iron Man" and were asked to leave after ten minutes. They performed a demented version of Black Sabbath's At the time the instruments were a violin, a sax, a vacuumĬleaner and a coffee can. Their sound wasĮxperimental, psychedelic, darkly humorous and droning.įirst Destroy All Monsters concert was held at a comic book convention in AnnĪrbor, Michigan. Music was influenced by Sun Ra, Velvet Underground,ĮSP-Disk, monster movies, beat culture and futurism. Of their recordings available only through Lightworks magazine. They performed in theĪnn Arbor area from 1973-1976, and their only release was a one-hour cassette
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Students Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Niagara (Lynn Singer/guitarist Thurston Moore released a three compact discĬompilation of the group's music in 1994.Įdition of Destroy All Monsters was formed by University of Michigan art Although Destroy All Monsters never recorded a proper album, Sonic Youth Rock groups The Stooges and MC5 who joined the Theyįound mainstream success, but earned some notoriety due to members of notable Rock, heavy metal and noise rock with a heavy dose of performance art. Their music touched on elements of punk rock, psychedelic Destroy All Monsters were an influential Detroit band existing from 1973 to 1985, with sporadic