Guitarist and OffBeat contributor Donald Miller has passed away at age 66.

Miller, a key player in the 1980s New York avant-garde music scene, formed the group Borbetomagus in 1979 with saxophone players Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich. Sauter and Deitrich were fans of and frequent callers to Miller's radio show on WKCR, at Columbia University, which lead to them to collaborate. Miller also performed with The Death Posture and S...