Laurence B. (Larry) Miller

Laurence Bond "Larry" Miller is an American rock and avant garde guitarist, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, who has formerly been a member of such Detroit/Ann Arbor bands as Destroy All Monsters, Sproton Layer, M3, Nonfiction, The Empty Set, and Larynx Zillion's Novelty Shop.

Destroy All Monsters, in particular, still a cult favorite, was a big part of the proto-punk, punk, and post-punk Detroit rock scene, featuring such bands as the MC5, the Stooges, and Up. "Of all those bands, at the time", Laurence told a local newspaper, "I think I had the most respect for The Five"—referring to the MC5. In the late 1980s, he enjoyed renewed commercial success with his single Southpaws Unite!, an unusual sort-of John Philip Sousa military-esque march crossed with an avant garde punk sensibility via the latest Techno Pop technology of the day.

Laurence plays guitar left-handed, "upside down"—that is, he takes a right-handed guitar and simply turns it the other way, without reversing the string order, in the manner best known as that of rock's all-time great Jimi Hendrix. That style, "if you want to call it a style", Laurence once told a local news reporter, arose more out of necessity than an attempt to imitate Hendrix. "I started out as a drummer and I didn't own a guitar", Laurence explained, "so whenever I would pick one up to play around with, it was always a right-handed instrument, and since it wasn't mine, I couldn't take the strings off and put them on backwards, I had to play it as is." Since Laurence began his career as a professional musician—a drummer, as he mentioned—at the age of 16, he had plenty of time and energy to learn a new instrument. In fact Laurence has made numerous recordings where he plays all the instruments himself, including woodwinds, keyboards, and various stringed instruments, in the manner of Todd Rundgren and Paul McCartney.

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