Tom Carter has best been known as one half (and sometimes one third) of the improvising psychedelic folk group Charalambides. During a California tour by that group, Tom was lent an old Gibson lap steel guitar for one San Francisco performance by the then-owner of Aquarius Records. That started a long love affair between Tom and San Francisco (which he can now gaze at across the bay) and also the lap steel. Instantly drawn to the long sustain and heavy resonances of the instrument, Tom recorded Monument (originally a cdr, now a release on kranky) and began incorporating it into Charalambides as well.information, photo from: http://www.nexsound.org/carter_arn_moglass.html
