Rogove grew up in Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania of Jewish parents with some of his distant ancestors being Mennonites.
[1] Upon his graduation in 2002, he was the recipient of the Pokora Prize, awarded annually to the outstanding undergraduate student in music composition.
[1] The band Priestbird was formed by mutual associations of friends, including Saunder Jurriaans and Danny Bensi.
[1][12][13][14][15] The band was "built for laughs"[7] and emphasized "fun",[7] and Banhart and Rogove had promotional pictures featuring the two men "standing stark naked".
[18] One reviewer described the Megapuss album entitled Surfing as something that "sounds like a freak pop version of the Doors" and with a video that was entertaining as "heck" and might have been "something the Monkees might have come up with after not showering for several weeks ... and taking lots of drugs.
[1] Gregory Rogove is married to Moon Juice creator and wellness influencer Amanda Chantal Bacon, has two children, and lives in the Rustic Canyon[22] neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.