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About Me

NOTE: THIS IS AN UNOFFICAL FAN-PAGE
AND DEDICATED TO THE MUSIC OF BOB DRAKE.
IT IS NOT MAINTAINED BY THE ARTIST HIMSELF.
About Bob Drake
Bob Drake has been making strange sounds since he was a kid in the 60s and 70s. His website details portable tape deck recordings "featuring a lot of arrhythmic drumming and shrieking," which is oddly close to how someone might describe his relentlessly creative 2002 solo disc, Skull Mailbox (and Other Horrors) and this year’s 13 Songs & A Thing.
Drake lived in Denver, Colorado for most of the 1980's, working as a sound engineer on low budget horror movies, performing with many of that city’s experimental rock bands ("innumerable"), and forming a the first version of out-rockers Thinking Plague. He relocated to Los Angeles at the close of the '80's, and worked as a recording engineer on stuff ranging from Ice Cube’s AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted to a Charo album. And, while a daily regiment of knobs and "vibe" worthy of the Mixerman saga might turn your everyday engineer into California mush, it seemed only to have been a catalyst for Drake’s artistic development – in addition to providing him access to the best studios in the world to record his own music.
Despite a 1994 self-pressed solo album, Drake made his biggest splash as a member of the avant-prog outfit 5uus, via 1994’s Hunger’s Teeth. For many prog diehards, their brand of complex, aggressive music was a godsend in an era before bands like Ruins and the army of post-rockers gave the sound a good name in hip circles. Throughout the '90's, Drake’s music with 5uus, Thinking Plague and other projects like the Science Group (with Chris Cutler and Fred Frith) provided sustenance for a legion of Internet-informed prog fans, but his solo records revealed still another wrinkle. Where many experimental musicians are damned for emphasizing "elitist" tendencies, Drake’s music is inviting, and not easily associated with any particular style of music (unless avant-hillbilly is a genre).
Currently, Drake is at work on his next solo release, and was recently working on the CD remasters for The Homosexuals and The Art Bears for Cutler’s ReR label.
Bob Drake: guitar, vocals, violin and banjo. David Campbell: guitar, bass, and vocals. David Kerman: drums etc. Jason DuMars: saxophones and ?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/1/2008
Band Website: bdrak.com
Sounds Like: Bob Drake's Cabinet Of Curiosities performing "In the tomb"

Bob Drake's Cabinet Of Curiosities performing "The Horrible Garden"

To get Bob Drake's solo stuff and more:

www.rermegacorp.com

Bob Drake and Friends

Thinking Plague (with BD at the drums) live au Triton 2008

Dicscography:




DISCOGRAPHY including Records Bob Drake recorded as solo artist or together with others and releases in which he has been involved as a producer, co-producer, engeneer etc. For full detailed information check the official homepage:

www.bdrak.com



+ Crank Call Love Affair: What's Wrong Yvette / Celluoid, Self-released 1982
+ Spray Pals: Happy Go Lucky / Dead Sea, Self-released 1982
+ Geoffrey Landers: The Ever Decimal Pulse, Self-released 1982
+ Endgame: Nothingness / A Process, Limbo Records 1982
+ Susan and God: Fluffy Goes to Hollywood / C. Spot Run, Pancake Bitch Records 1982 (?)
+ Young Weasels: Twist & Burn / Happy Feathers, Local Anesthetic 1982
+ Your Funeral: I Wanna Be You / Final Abbyss, Local Anesthetic 1982
+ Jeri Rossi: I Left My Heart but I don't Know Where / This is a Man's Man's Man's World Local Anesthetic 1983
+ Geoffrey Landers: Habitual Features, Self-released 1983
+ Thinking Plague: ...a Thinking Plague, Endemic Records 1984
+ Mau Mau 55: Mau Mau 55, Self-released 1984 (?)
+ Corpses as Bedmates: Babaa & Scheibel=69, Cow-Op 1984
+ Corpses as Bedmates: Halo, Cow-Op 1985 (?)
+ Mau Mau 55: In The Trenches, Self-released 1985 (?)
+ Bruce Odland Big Band: Crossover, XO Records 1986
+ Ron Miles: Distance For Safety, LP Prolific Records 1986
+ Corpses as Bedmates: Venus Handcuffs LP, Dead Man's Curve 1986
+ Mind Killer: Film, First Films 1987
+ Night Vision: Film, First Films 1987
+ Thinking Plague: Moonsongs, LP, Dead Man's Curve 1987
+ Lone Wolf: Film, First Films 1988
+ The Fluid: Clear Black Paper, LP, Subpop 1988
+ Hail: Gypsy Cat & Gypsy, Bird LP, Prolific Records 1988
+ Kim Stone: Earth School, Prolific Records 1989
+ Thinking Plague: In This Life, ReR Megacorp 1989
+ MC Smooth: Smooth & Legit, Crush Music 1990
+ Calypso Rose: Soul On Fire, Strakers - 1990
+ Hail: Turn Of The Screw, ReR Megacorp 1990
+ U-Totem: U-Totem, Cuneiform Records, 1999
+ Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)
+ Everlast: Forever Everlasting, Warner Archives 1990
+ Boyz 'n the Hood: Film Soundtrack, 1991
+ Charo: Guitar Passion, 1991
+ Duc Hoy: The Best of Duc Hoy - 1992 (?)
+ Latin Alliance: Latin Alliance, Virgin Records America, Inc. 1991
+ The College Boyz: Radio Fusion Radio, Atlantic Records 1992
+ MC Jr Cas: Born 2 Flow, 1992
+ Hail: Kirk, ReR Megacorp 1992
+ Yoyo: Black Pearl, 1992
+ Emmett North Jr.: I'll Never Let You Go - 1992
+ Jim Witzel: Give & Take, Joplin & Sweeney 1992
+ 5UUs: Hunger's Teeth, ReR Megacorp 1994
+ Bob Drake: What Day Is It?, self-released 1994
+ The (EC) Nudes: Vanishing Point, ReR Megacorp 1994
+ The ReR Quarterly Volume 4 Number 1, ReR Megacorp 1994
+ Cleee: Hello Hello Hello, 1995
+ Otolithen: Otolithen, MF Records 1995
+ Cal Bennett: A Stolen Moment, 1996
+ Peter Blegvad: Just Woke Up, ReR Megacorp 1996
+ Kampec Dolores: Zúgó - Rapid, Bahia Music 1996
+ Dull Schicksall: Ambush, AMF Records 1997
+ 5UUs: Crisis In Clay, ReR Megacorp 1997
+ Steve MacLean: Opposite Of War, ReR Megacorp 1997
+ N.O.R.M.A.: L' Arpa e L'Asino, ReR Megacorp 1997
+ Otolihen: SOD, Cuneiform Records 1997
+ Vakki Plakkula: Una Barca, Angelica 1998
+ Peter Blegvad, Hangman's Hill, ReR Megacorp 1998
+ Bob Drake: Little Black Train, ReR Megacorp 1998
+ Ossatura & Tim Hodgkinson: Dentro, ReR Megacorp 1998
+ Peter Blegvad: Hangman's Hill, ReR Megacorp 1998
+ Thinking Plague: In Extremis, Cuneiform Records 1998
+ Jason DuMars: Singularity, self-released 1998
+ Positive Nuns: The Bible II, 1999
+ AA Kismet: Where's the rest of me? ADM Records 1999
+ Bob Drake: Medallion Animal Carpet, ReR Megacorp 1999
+ The Science Group: A Mere Coincidence, ReR Megacorp 1999
+ Enhanced Gravity: Absolute Gravity, Yucca Tree Records 1999
+ AA Kismet: What's the Use of Crying When the Wolves Have Arrived? Z6 Records 2001
+ Jason Kahn: Drums and Metals, Cut 1999
+ Jason Kahn: Select Dialect, Cut 1999
+ Jason Kahn: Analogues, Cut 1999
+ Fred Frith/Chris Cutler: 2 Gentlemen In Verona, ReR Megacorp 2000
+ Thinking Plague: Early Plague Years, Cuneiform Records 2000
+ Faust: The Wümme Years 1970-73 (5xCD Box) ReR Megacorp 2000
+ Faust: BBC Sessions +, ReR Megacorp 2001
+ Steve Buchanan: Tiny Grimes, Hanan 2001
+ Jason Kahn: Plurabelle, Cut 2001
+ Bob Drake: The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors, ReR Megacorp 2001
+ Hamster Theatre: Carnival Detournement, Cuneiform Records, 2001
+ The Dead Brothers: Day Of The Dead, Voodoo Rhythm 2002
+ Chris Cutler/Tom DiMuzio: Dust, ReR Megacorp 2002
+ Think Of One: Naft 2, Zonk Records 2002
+ Coolhaven: Blue Mustache, 2002
+ Dick El Demasiado: No Nos Dejamos Afeitar, Tomenota Records 2002
+ Chris Cutler: Solo, ReR, 2002
+ Les Ormores: Aus Der Reihe, Z6 records 2002
+ Les Collègues Pasha: Les Collègues Pasha, RecRecRecords, 2002
+ Blast: Altrastrata, Cuneiform Records 2002
+ Sotos: Platypus, Cuneirform Records 2002
+ Dick El Demasiado: No Nos Dejamos Afeitar, Tomenota Records 2002
+ NeBeLNeST: NoVa eXPReSS, Cuneiform Records 2002
+ Fred Frith: Prints- Snapshots, Postcards, Messages And Miniatures 1987-2001, Life Of A Detective. ReR Megacorp, Fred Records 2002
+ Jason Kahn: Pool, Cut 2003
+ Dick El Demasiado: Pero Peinamos Gratis, Tomenota Records 2003
+ Bob Drake: 13 Songs and a Thing, ReR Megacorp 2003
+ Vril: Effigies In Cork, ReR Megacorp 2005
+ Zoambo Zoet Workestrao: Svakoga Dana U Svakom Pogledu Sve Manje Nazadujem, Manufracture 2003
+ The Science Group: Spoors, ReR Megacorp 2003
+ The Homosexuals: The Homosexuals CD, ReR, 2003
+ What's Wrong With Us?: What's Wrong With Us? 2004
+ Slapp Happy: Desperate Straights, ReR Megacorp 2004
+ Woof 7 Inches, AdHoc Records, 2005
+ Nimby: Songs For Adults, AdHoc Records 2005
+ Dick El Demasiado: Al Perdido Ganado, Tomenota Records 2005
+ Vialka: Curiosities Of Popular Customs, Manufracture 2005
+ Bob Drake: The Shunned Country, ReR Megacorp 2005
+ Henry Cow: Henry Cow Concerts, ReR Megacorp 2006
+ Zaar: Zaar, Cuneiform Records 2006
+ Pamela's Parade: Shake Sharks, 2006
+ Dead Brothers: Wunderkammer, 2006
+ Coolhaven: Strömblock Phantasieën, Taple Records 2006
+ Buttercup Metal Polish: 50 Ballets, Creativesources Records, 2006
+ Hamster Theatre: The Public Execution Of Mr. Personality / Quasi Day Room, Cuneiform Records 2006
+ The Rude Staircase: Sookie Jump, What Delicate Recordings 2007
+ Condor Moments: "..And Though We're Told We've Got It All, The All We've Got Is Freezing Cold", What Delicate Recordings 2007
+ Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Strabique 2007
+ The Peeesseye: Mayhem In The Mansion, Shivers In The Shack, Evolving Ear 2007
+ What's Wrong With Us? Cat's Claw, Urgence Disk, 2008
+ Stinky Lou and the Goon Mat: 12 Roots and Boogie Blues Hits, Voodoo Rhythm 2008
+ Mama Rosin: Tu as Perdu Ton Chemin, Voodoo Rhythm 2008
+ Zeno Tornado: Ramblin' Man, Voodoo Rhythm 2008
+ The Brainville Trio: Free The Brainville Three, ReR Megacorp 2008

Record Label: ReR Megacorp
Type of Label: Indie

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