TDC: Rick Derringer

Willie G. Moseley

Willie G. Moseley

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Back in the day, how many budding guitarists didn't develop their chops around the three-chord stomp of "Hang On sloopy"?

And how many didn't ultimately riff on "Rock & Roll,  Hoochi Koo"?

Derringer's career was much longer and more varied that a lot of people realize, and he appreciated old instruments as well.

Eloquent interiewee, and this photo was taken at a Dallas guitar show  in the late '90s, IIRC. Will tweak this post of I can find out...

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I saw this like half an hour ago. Waiting to see if it's true, but I keep seeing more about it. As best I can see he was having some diabetic complications in his legs earlier this year.

 
The headline on CNN.com.

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All the artists he worked with, all of the famous songs he played on and that's what they put in the headline.
Stupid fucking talentless accordion-playing douche Weird Al. 

 
I always thought he was cool,  always used to stare at the cover of guitars and women when I was a kid… 

     I didn’t realize he wrote and produced “still alive and well”.  What a kickass tune.     

 
Steve Haynie said:
Weird Al ain't the douche.  It is the editor who let that get out.
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I have no respect for someone with such an extensive library of song parodies.

Song parodies are the low hanging fruit of all music.

He should have been a prop comic with suspenders and a quirky voice, smashing a watermelon here and there.

Fucking hack.

 
^^^I take it Kiz ain't a Spike Jones fan either...but Derringer was.

I need to try to find that first interview I did with Derringer in the late '90s. Therein, IIRC, he noted winning a Grammy for his work with Yankovic...but it wasn't a statue or trophy; it was a plaque or a framed certificate. I'll try to suss out the details.

 
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