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.
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.
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