Pete Droge is an American alternative/folk rock musician from Vashon Island

Vashon Island

Vashon is a census-designated place in King County, Washington, United States. It covers an island alternately called Vashon Island or Vashon-Maury Island, the largest island in Puget Sound south of Admiralty Inlet. The population was 10,624 at the 2010 census. At , it is about 60 percent larger...

 in Washington State's Puget Sound. His debut album Necktie Second

Necktie Second

-Track listing:#"If You Don't Love Me " – 3:34#"Northern Bound Train" – 4:38#"Straylin Street" – 4:40#"Fourth of July" – 6:04#"Faith in You" – 5:32#"Two Steppin Monkey" – 4:31#"Sunspot Stopwatch" – 4:21#"Hardest Thing to Do" – 5:27...

, 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."

Droge'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). This album met with critical success but received little airplay. Notable songs include "You Should Be Running", "Dear Diane" and "Mr. Jade."

Droge 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

United Musicians

United Musicians is an independent music collective founded by Aimee Mann, Michael Penn and Michael Hausman. According to UM's Web site, it is "founded on the principle that every artist should be able to retain copyright ownership of the work he or she has created and that this ownership is the...

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In 1996 Droge contributed the title song to the movie Beautiful Girls. Other credits include contributions to albums by Kim Richey

Kim Richey

Kimberly Kay "Kim" Richey is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the general country music category, her sound is not easily categorized. Her songs have been hits on both the country and pop charts...

 and Stone Gossard

Stone Gossard

Stone Carpenter Gossard is an American musician who serves as the rhythm and lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam...

. In 2000, Droge appeared as a "Hyatt Singer" in the movie Almost Famous

Almost Famous

Almost Famous is a 2000 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and telling the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater , and his efforts to get his first cover story published...

, performing "Small Time Blues" with Elaine Summers. The small part was a tribute to Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music"...

 and Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

, according to Cameron Crowe

Cameron Crowe

Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes....

 on the Director's Cut Commentary of the movie. He mentions he met them in 1973.

His latest project, The Thorns

The Thorns

The Thorns are an American acoustic rock band formed in 2002 as a project of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins.The band toured the United States and Europe throughout 2003, in support of their eponymous debut album.-Discography:...

, is a three-part harmony Adult Alternative super group, which features other notable artists Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s...

 and Shawn Mullins

Shawn Mullins

Shawn Mullins is an American singer-songwriter who specializes in folk rock, instrumental rock, adult alternative, and Americana music. He is best known for the 1998 single, "Lullaby", which hit number one on the Adult Top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award.-Career:Mullins was born in...

. His song "Going Whichever Way The Wind Blows" from the album Under The Waves can be heard on a Toyota Sequoia commercial. Most recently, his song "Two of the Lucky Ones" plays in the background in the 2009 movie Zombieland

Zombieland

Zombieland is a 2009 American zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse...

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Discography

• Ramadillo (1993)
• Necktie Second
  Necktie Second
  -Track listing:#"If You Don't Love Me " – 3:34#"Northern Bound Train" – 4:38#"Straylin Street" – 4:40#"Fourth of July" – 6:04#"Faith in You" – 5:32#"Two Steppin Monkey" – 4:31#"Sunspot Stopwatch" – 4:21#"Hardest Thing to Do" – 5:27...
  
  (1994, American Recordings)
• Find A Door (1996, American Recordings)
• Spacey And Shakin' (1998, Epic)
• The Thorns (2003)
• Skywatching (2003, Puzzle Tree)
• Under The Waves (2006, Puzzle Tree)

External links

• Official Website