Eric Frakes and Steve Gulian with occasional appearances by James Gross.
"Under an umbrella back in Germany, it's my old best buddy and me..."
A word about our "DIGITAL" music availability:
You may have noticed that Rosetta Pebble songs are available through Apple's iTunes Music Store, YahooMusic, Napster, and several other digital music download sites. This is all thanks to Mr. Derek Sivers, the coolest music exec you'll ever meet. In addition to helping us sell CDs all over the world (through his CDBaby.com site), he's helped get our music distributed digitally. It's always tickles us when the monthly stats come out, and we find out that people in Germany, Japan ?????!, and the UK have discovered Rosetta Pebble. Would you guess that our number 1 selling song in iTunes Europe is "Florian"?
Danke, Merci, y Gracias!!! If each of our "FRIENDS" would purchase just ONE song through iTunes, YahooMusic, or Napster, then we would have enough capital to record a third CD! The songs have all been written, as many of you who've been at the latest performances can attest, the only thing keeping us out of the recording studio is the small matter paying for it. This is where you, our friends, come in.
If you do decide to make a purchase, please shoot us an e-mail so that we might thank you properly.
If you already have our CD, and still want to help Rosetta Pebble get that third CD recorded and released, please tell a few of your friends (each having 99¢ in disposable income) about our little band. For more about the "new" songs that we hope to record, please see the "CD3" blog entry. THANKS!
This is the music video for the song, "THINGS". More Rosetta Pebble info at www.rosettapebble.com
This is footage of Steve and Eric performing and "organic version" of their song, "Go!" at The Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore in Munising, MI. "Go!" is a song the duo rarely performs live because on CD- Indianapolis music legend, Tim Brickley, rocks it out on electric guitar. Since Gulian and Frakes stick to acoustic guitars in most "Pebble" performances, "Go!" is often left off of the set list. If you’re a fan of the song, and request it at a performance, this is what you’re likely to hear. For more info, visit Rosettapebble.com
Sounds Like
No one likes to be pigeon holed, but in deference to brevity I'll do it here. Rosetta Pebble is a blend of James Taylor and Bare Naked Ladies with a touch of Counting Crows tossed in. The band's latest CD, Clear Across Summer, is musical story-telling at its finest. Songs such as Another Place's Rain, Summer's Mine, Wobbly on the Wire and Things accentuate Rosetta Pebble's strength of creating thoughtful lyrics and inspired melodies. This is the band's second CD, and perhaps the most impressive thing is that they were able to lay down 20 solid songs. No sophomore jinx here. Beginning with From Now On and culminating with Where Do We Go From Here (feel free to read into the subplot of these titles), they've resisted being derivative; instead striving to do something unique with each cut, and for the most part succeeding. For instance, Knuckle Boy is a song with an instantly catchy tune and impossibly clever lyrics about a double-jointed school boy, the type of kid who bends his thumb back to his wrist. We all knew one in school; we just never thought to sing a song about him. Back in the day Rosetta Pebble's music is the type that would have found its way onto Album Oriented Rock radio. Now sophisticated listeners have to claw, scratch and scrounge to find inventive new music like Clear Across Summer, but it's worth the effort.
Reviewer- Craig Brass
Makin' music in the summertime... Sweet music in the summertime...All songs are available on ..
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What's more important, the words or the music? Rosetta Pebble unravels the riddle. Sweet acoustic ballads flow into power pop; Stradivarius meets Stratocaster; peace meets pulse; summer meets fall. Steve Gulian and Eric Frakes joined up to showcase their musical ideas and carefully wrought lyrics. They both play acoustic guitar, and trade off lead and harmony vocals. The viola playing of James Gross adds a distinctive grace to many of their songs (see video below).
.. CDBABY LINK for ROSETTA PEBBLE: Clear Across Summer --
Songs from their latest CD, Clear Across Summer, can be downloaded from Apple's iTunes or YahooMusic. On CD, Rosetta Pebble's music shines, thanks in part to the creative input and expert production of Indianapolis music legend Tim Brickley. Brickley is a fantastic musician singer/songwriter whose infectious hooks and melodic solos can be heard on a variety of instruments throughout Clear Across Summer. His Indianapolis recording haven, Hit City, is where Rosetta Pebble also recorded their 2002 debut CD.
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Stories That The World Once Told, is the junction of two less-traveled roads. The journey continues with Clear Across Summer, released in the fall of 2005. Rosetta Pebble's songs stick to the roof of your heart, with words and music that last long after the last notes fade. Rosetta Pebble began as a two-man songwriting collective in 1999. The members, Steve Gulian and Eric Frakes, had been searching for a forum for the acoustic-based songs they'd been writing individually on hiatus from other bands. Rosetta Pebble proved to be the ideal project for each, providing them a stage to present their musical ideas and carefully wrought lyrics in an uncluttered manner, showcasing the integrity of the songs themselves.
Rosetta Pebble is actually Steve Gulian and Eric Frakes, two multi-talented musicians from metropolitan Detroit. In performance, Gulian and Frakes play acoustic guitar and sing lead vocals by turns, with the other handling the percussion and background vocals. The one-of-a-kind drum set is a work of art in itself. This collection of hand percussion from far-flung parts of the world is arrayed on iron stands created by several metal sculptors. Although the band is often joined by guest musicians, the core Pebble sound can stand on its own. Both singer/songwriters daylight as elementary school teachers in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
If you'd like to hear the studio version of the song from this video (One More Wave) go to or CDBaby.
The group first formed in Barcelona, Spain during the summer of 1999. Longtime friends from the Detroit area, Gulian and Frakes met up overseas that summer, each with a guitar and a notebook filled with song ideas. Gulian had been traveling westward following a year teaching in Indonesia, and Frakes had been on holiday in Germany. The duo continued throughout Europe that summer, writing songs and performing wherever they could. Upon their return to Detroit, Rosetta Pebble was born.
Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
Yes. just dabbling, topped out around 55 friends. Gee, I thought I knew more people than that. Had dinner with Eric a couple of months ago and he tells me you're working on another CD. Time to break out the Pebble Rocks t-shirts. Hope all is well.
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