Let's Active

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by Chris WoodstraMitch Easter carved his place in music history as a hip producer in the 80s, most notably for the early R.E.M. albums Murmur and Reckoning; unfortunately, these achievements often overshadowed and distracted him from giving his full commitment to his own recording career with Lets Active, a band that, between 1983 and 1988, released some of the finest Southern power-pop/jangle-pop of the decade.After a short stint with the Sneakers, a band he formed with future dBs Chris Stamey in North Carolina in the late 70s, Mitch Easter set up his legendary Drive-In Studios in 1981 and formed Lets Active with bassist Faye Hunter and drummer Sara Romweber. The trio released a six-song EP, 1983s Afoot, on IRS Records. In 1984, the band released the more experimental Cypress. While the EP and album sold modestly, they found a strong following in the emerging alternative/college rock audience. Hunter and Romweber left shortly after the release, leaving Lets Active as essentially a solo project for Easter. Romweber later went on to join Snatches of Pink.Easter recruited drummers Eric Marshall and Rob Ladd, along with multi-instrumentalist Angie Carlson (Hunter returned temporarily for bass duties) for Big Plans For Everybody in 1986, another critically praised yet commercially undervalued album. The harder-edged Every Dog Has His Day, which replaced Hunter with a full-time bassist, John Heames, was released in 1988. Following a small-scale promotional tour of college campuses, the band hung in limbo — no subsequent albums were recorded. Easter has continued producing into the 90s while infrequently playing with other bands, including Velvet Crush and Vinyl Devotion.

Let's Active

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