Drake's engineering credits include mainstream artists like Ice Cube, Tina Turner and Engelbert Humperdinck.

[2] Henry Cow also had a big influence on him: "[T]hey were doing something I felt was a lot closer to what I was imagining I'd like to do – 'complex' intricate songs and arrangements, noisy things going on which fit organically in the music, and less emphasis on 'perfect' studio overcooked impersonal perfection.

"[2] Drake experimented with recording techniques and "warped rock",[1] but soon found that no one was interested in "new and strange music" in his rural Midwestern home town.

[1] Drake put an advertisement at a local music store requesting a guitar player "into Henry Cow, Yes …", and met up with experimental rock guitarist and composer Mike Johnson.

Hunger's Teeth, the 5uu's' third album was praised for its "challenging music" and "production values", and made Drake a "sought-after engineer and collaborator".

[1] In 1994 Drake and Kerman moved to an old farm house owned by Cutler and Henry Cow's sound engineer EM (Maggie) Thomas in Caudeval, southern France.

[1] In 2007 he formed his own group, Bob Drake's Cabinet of Curiosities to perform material from his solo albums live on stage.

[2] Leone described Skull Mailbox as a "folk-horror-avant-semi-classical hybrid", and a "mix of psychological stress, garage-symphony grandeur and folk-ish retelling of very familiar horror stories".