Jade."ĭroge subsequently released two more solo records, Spacey And Shakin' and Skywatching the latter was released on his own label, Puzzle Tree Records, through United Musicians.
Notable songs include "You Should Be Running", "Dear Diane" and "Mr. This album met with critical success but received little airplay. read moreĭroge's next album, Find A Door, was released two years later in the summer of 1996 under the name of Pete Droge and The Sinners his backing band included Dave Hull (bass), Rob Brill (drums), Peter Stroud (guitar/vocals) and Elaine Summers (guitar/vocals).
His debut album Necktie Second, released by American records in 1994, featured the tongue-in-cheek "If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)", (which also appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Dumb and Dumber), as well as the songs "Sunspot Stopwatch" and "So I am Over You."ĭroge's next album, Find A Door, was released two years later in the summer of 1996 under the name of Pete Droge and The Sinners his backing band included Dave Hull (bass), Rob Brill (drums), Peter Stroud. Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.Pete Droge is an American alternative/folk rock musician from Bainbridge Island in Washington State's Puget Sound. But who knows, maybe one day there will be a new film, a sequel called A Lot Like You Too. For now we have Eli’s film, and as a companion piece, this record. There is a lot more to my story, and it’s still unfolding. Eli and Eric needed music that could walk a thin line between the bitter and the sweet, and I never had to work at finding that line. Meanwhile, A Lot Like You continued to take shape, giving me the perfect musical outlet for the complicated mix of emotions I was in the thick of. Visiting my new family in the hills of Appalachian Ohio-where my people have lived for generations-I felt a sense of connection to place I never before imagined possible. As I wrestled with the perplexing grief that followed, I also discovered an instant bond with my biological Grandmother and Uncle, which is the stuff of fairy tales. I searched for my birth mother only to find that she had died just months earlier. I began to learn how my adoption experience helped shape who I am today. It took time, but after some unbelievable coincidences and a random computer glitch, I unearthed a big piece of the core that I’d been searching for: my adoption. But reading Eli’s intensely personal, unedited journal entries shook me to my core and inspired me to do some digging of my own. And while questions raised in the film about what gets handed down from one generation to the next were especially intriguing to me, I had barely scratched the surface of what any of that really meant in my own life. Having recently turned 40, I had been examining issues concerning identity and sense of self. Information on Droge and Puzzle Tree Music: HERE H igh res photos, album artwork and music links: HERE And on that day in September, she addressed an email to me, attached a couple of documents and clicked “send.” MORE» Next, Eli was faced with a big choice: how much of her own story would she share? She worked through that decision by writing in her journal. In that turn, they discovered the heart of their movie. Eric and director Eliaichi Kimaro had already been cutting the film for four years-on and off-when it took an unexpected turn. I had already been working as the film’s composer for over a year, creating a catalog of musical sketches that editor Eric Frith was using as a temp score alongside a handful of instrumental mixes from my album, Under The Waves. It began when I checked my email one afternoon in September, 2009. It is, to quote the film, one of “real lived life.”
The change I’m talking about is bigger than a resume. This gig changed my life-not in some surface-level career way (even though by completely giving myself to the documentary feature, A Lot Like You, I earned my first film producer credit).