Rosetta Pebble

Rosetta Pebble is an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan. To date they have released three cds: Stories That the World Once Told, Clear Across Summer, and Rosetta Pebble Three. Their name, "Rosetta Pebble" is a vague reference to the ancient Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Pebble achieved a small degree of popularity in Detroit, parts of Michigan, and northern Indiana during the first half of the 2000s due to the band's folky, pop songs.

Their name, "Rosetta Pebble" is a vague reference to the ancient Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Pebble achieved a small degree of popularity in Detroit, parts of Michigan, and northern Indiana during the first half of the 2000s due to the band's folky, pop songs. Influenced by Folk rock (most notably the music of Cat Stevens, James Taylor), Jack Johnson, the Beatles, and Pete Townshend), Rosetta Pebble play a more pop-oriented variation of folk rock. The band is also commonly classified into the category of acoustic/americana/roots rock.

Rosetta Pebble was formed by Eric Frakes and Steve Gulian in the summer 1999, in Barcelona, Spain. Both musicians, originally from the Detroit area, had arranged to meet up overseas that summer, and share song ideas they had each been writing independently. On leave from a year teaching in Indonesia, Gulian had been traveling home westward and Frakes met up with him in Germany. The pair performed their first collaborations on the streets of Barcelona and San Sebastian for late-night revelers whose feedback in the form of attention span and pesetas helped to separate the musical wheat from the chaff, and financed the purchase of a nice hand-drum, as well as enough sangria and tapas to keep the two motivated. The duo continued traveling throughout Europe that summer, performing wherever they could, and fine tuning the songs that would later become their first CD. ?Rosetta Pebble?, as an official group, was born upon their return to Michigan at the end of that summer.