Dropbox formed in 2002 in New York City, coming together after Godsmack frontman Sully Erna introduced vocalist John Kosco to former Godsmack guitarist Lee Richards. The two hit it off, and were soon working on new material with guitarist Joe Wilkinson and bassist Jim Preziosa. With Erna championing the young band, the group quickly found a home within his own corner of the industry, and their early sound was rooted in the hard rock and grunge traditions of the era.
The band's breakthrough came when Erna tapped the band as the initial signees to Realign, his vanity imprint through Universal, and put them in the studio with helming veteran Dave Jerden. The result was Dropbox, which appeared in April 2004. Dropbox is the self-titled debut album by American rock band Dropbox, released on April 13, 2004, and the band's self-titled 2004 album charted at number 182 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album had one minor hit song in "Wishbone" which received some air time on MTV2 and Fuse and was featured in TV commercials. The music video for the opening track, "Wishbone," was frequently played on MTV2's Headbangers Ball and Fuse, and the song was also featured in a commercial for the Transformers video game in 2004. The lineup that recorded the album included John Kosco on vocals, Lee Richards on guitar, Joe Wilkinson on guitar, Jim Preziosa on bass, and Bob Jenkins on drums, with Sully Erna contributing drums on most of the tracks. Following the album's release, Dropbox hit the road hard, with skins man Bob Jenkins joining Dropbox in time for a round of spring and summer tour dates supporting, of all people, Godsmack. The band built a reputation as a genuine live act, playing club and theater dates across the country through 2004. During this period, frontman John Kosco provided guest vocals on Godsmack's acoustic release, "Touché," which found moderate success as well. Dropbox's run proved brief, however, as the band was active only from roughly 2002 to 2007. After the demise of Dropbox, Kosco and Joe Wilkinson formed a new group with bassist John Freeman and drummer Chris Hamilton, formerly of Bloodsimple, called Saint Caine, while Lee Richards went on to join his former Godsmack bandmates in Another Animal as a second guitarist. Dropbox never released a follow-up album and largely faded from the national spotlight after its mid-2000s touring cycle, but the band remains a footnote of note in the post-grunge and alternative metal scene of the early 2000s, remembered for its Godsmack pedigree and the modest radio and MTV2 life of "Wishbone." The band's members scattered into other notable projects, and Dropbox itself has occasionally teased the possibility of new music without a confirmed reunion.
Wayne Dennon crossed paths with Dropbox during their busy touring years, photographing the band twice in 2004 across two shows in two different cities in two different states, capturing the raw energy of a group in the middle of its brief but eventful run. Those images, 50 photographs in total, remain part of this archive as a record of a band that burned bright and quick in the mid-2000s hard rock landscape, and they have since been viewed 38,647 times by visitors revisiting this small but memorable chapter of concert history.
