Patrick Miller

As leader from the early-’80s Western Coast commercial group Minimal Man, Patrick Miller helped pave just how for additional likeminded performers emerging from your artwork punk underground. Miller was an art-school graduate who started producing music as an on-again, off-again collaborator with San Francisco’s Tuxedomoon. Soon thereafter he started Minimal Guy, which in comparison was colder and darker in its strategy. Minimal Guy would continue through the ’80s, but Miller’s weighty drug make use of curtailed the result from the seminal group and by the 1990s the group was efficiently defunct. Miller was ultimately in a position to rein in his demons, but didn’t go back to music-making. His many years of extra remaining him with hepatitis C, which ultimately resulted in his loss of life in Dec of 2003.