Roger Miller: The Big Industry (CD/LP) - OOP
Ace of Hearts 10012: 1988

The Maximum Electric Piano set-up was as follows:
Yamaha electric baby-grand piano w/strings and pick-ups; Electro-Harmonix 16 second digital delay; Big Muff Fuzz Tone; Ibanez echo unit; various prepared piano tools, voice. This set-up allowed the artist to b ecome a "one-man band" by setting up elaborate bass or rhythmic loops and playing over them, then layering onto those loops, or completely shifting the looping unit so it became a delay in the middle of the piece. He toured as a solo performer, with Russ Smith doing sound and adding treatments to the vocals and piano.

Roger C. Miller: Maximum Electric Piano, voice, samples and sampled percussion performance.
Russ Smith: hammers, Gah voice, sampled percussion performance. (No Man's Band; No Man)
guest:
Viola.

The CD version of The Big Industry incorporates two songs from the Groping Hands EP: Nature Army and Ra's Atomic Transport.

1. Portrait of a Mechanical Dog
2. Boil Away
3. Hammers
4. Upon this Boat in this Sea
5. The Age of Reason
6. The Nature Army
7. Groping Hands
8. Manic Depression
9. The Big Industry
10. We Don't Know Why
11. RaÕs Atomic Transport

Manic Depression is by Jimi Hendrix. The sound at the end of the piece is Piano feedback.
The title "RaÕs Atomic Transport" references Sun Ra, Dr. Seuss, Interstellar Overdrive, and a nickname for the artist.