The 1996 record was given little promotion, and accordingly did not do well. With his second effort, Find a Door, Droge ran into some bad luck when his label, American, underwent internal difficulties. "The sense of quiet longing in most of his music has little in common-barring the universal subject of heartache-with the blatant goofiness of `If You Don't Love Me'," wrote Ahearn. The rest of the record offered a more diverse range of fare, and it would sell over sixty thousand copies.
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you don't think that somebody's going to be calling you up and asking, `So what exactly is an Eskimo freeze?'" Droge complained to Billboard 's Eric Boehlert in late 1994. "At the time of writing a tune like that. Droge, who toured for a year and a half in support of Necktie Second, soon tired of the hassles from those who seized upon this part of the song's character. He would later have to endure criticism for the lightheartedness of its lyrics, which were part of its commercial success in the first place some critics termed its lines downright absurd. A somewhat insouciant, "stalker-with-a-sense-of-irony" tune, Droge had written it in the summer of 1993 in his Portland home. O'Brien would produce all three of Droge's releases, in between helping out artists like Neil Young and Soundgarden in the studio.ĭroge's debut, Necktie Second, was released in 1994, and its first single, "If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)," quickly climbed the Modern Rock charts. McCready, still pals with Droge, gave one of his demo tapes to Pearl Jam producer Brendan O'Brien, who liked Droge's sound so much he engineered a deal for the relative unknown with American Recordings, the label owned by rap impresario Rick Rubin. "We didn't have the attitude, `Let's get it perfect,' so it was `alternative'," Droge told Rolling Stone 's Kim Ahearn, and said Ramadillo was just part of a "subscene" at the time that "the Artist and Repretoire (A&R) people who were flocking didn't pick up on."ĭroge next spent time living and playing around the Oregon city of Portland, which boasted its own thriving, though less legendary music scene. By the time the Seattle-based group achieved massive success in the early 1990s-second only to Nirvana-Droge had his own roots-rock outfit called Ramadillo. As a young adult, Droge worked in a pizza place and befriended Mike McCready, who would later go on to fame as the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam. His mother was a music teacher, and his father, also a music-lover, taught Droge to play his first instrument, the ukulele, at the age of four. Yet singer/songwriter Droge, an interesting by-product of the Northwest grunge scene who has sometimes been compared to Tom Petty, is fortunate to possess well-connected friends who have great faith in his talents.ĭroge was born in the late 1960s and grew up in Seattle, Washington. Arthur T.Pete Droge has suffered the "one-hit wonder" tag since his 1994 alternative-radio hit, "If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)." The song helped make his debut, Necktie Second, a commercial success, but his record label was undergoing financial distress by the time his 1996 follow-up was released, and Find a Door predictably went nowhere with no marketing effort to help it. Jeff Johnson, David Andrews, John Nilsen, Mark Spangler, China Forbes, Marv Ross, Rindy Ross, John Doan, Don Dilego, Quarterflash, Anya Marina, Bree Sharp, Douglas September, Little Sue, Michael GettelĪngela Motter, Peabo Bryson, Yonrico Scott, Rev. Tommy Keene, Berlin, Stephen Ashbrook, Gowan, Alex Woodard, Santaolalla, Steriogram
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