Fred Drake
Musical Artist
1958 – 2002
Who was Fred Drake?
Fred Drake was an American musician best known as a founding member of earthlings?. Drake is also renowned for having been co-owner of Rancho De La Luna, the setting for the collaborative musical project The Desert Sessions, in which he took part.
Fred recorded with a wide variety of musicians including; Daniel Lanois, Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age, Victoria Williams, Dave Grohl, Ted Quinn, Pete Stahl, Wool, Dean Ween and many others.
Fred released three solo works: Sky Party, Twice Shy and Shy Party.
He is credited with influencing the "desert sound" which has great depth and direction, taking advantage of stereo and quadraphonic effects as well as 32 track digital recording. Fred lived in Joshua Tree, California, Hollywood, Texas, and London. He died of lung cancer in 2002.
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- Born
- Jan 28, 1958
United States of America - Also known as
- Drake, Fred
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Jun 20, 2002
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on July 23, 2013
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