Born 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio. A founding member of Thinking Plague, Bob Drake sings and plays bass, guitar, banjo, drums, fiddle and pretty much anything else he puts his mind to. In the early 90’s while living in LA he engineered projects for many popular artists including Ice Cube, Lily Tomlin, Shirley McLaine, Quincy Jones, and toured the world as live sound mixer with American director Peter Sellars’ controversial adaptations of The Persians and The Merchant of Venice. He now resides in Southern France at [l292088] where he has engineered and/or mixed scores of albums since 1995.