Rick Potts

Multi-instrumentalist Rick Potts is really a founding person in cult important experimenters LA Free Music Culture in the middle-70s. Potts continues to be mixed up in L.A. region since that time, and his participation in documenting and carrying out with LAFMS device, Le Forte Four, lasted through the first ’80s. In Le Forte Four, he performed guitar with a power toothbrush along with other implements, furthermore to playing saxophone, xylophone and musical noticed. In 1982, Potts shaped experimental ensemble Dinosaurs with Horns with analog synthesizer and samplist Joseph Hammer (both later on arrive on Danny Cohen’s 1999 Tzadik launch). Within the middle-80s, Potts also became involved with Steaming Coils (with Medicine’s Brad Laner) and Personal debt of Character. In 1992, he shaped Solid Attention with Hammer and ex-Monitor Steve Thomsen.