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Rick Derringer

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In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.


— Rick Derringer


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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.


— Rick Derringer


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So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.


— Rick Derringer


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The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.


— Rick Derringer


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We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.


— Rick Derringer


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The old lyric of "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" was rewritten into "Read the Word Live It Too" and his new life was breathed into "Still Alive And Well". "Real American" is featured in the episode "Gumball Special" of Jackass. He has played for "Weird Al" on many of his albums playing guitar and mandolin; on the track "Eat It" Derringer played the guitar solo an homage/parody to Eddie Van Halen's solo on the Michael Jackson song "Beat It".

Derringer came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of The McCoys who had a number one hit single with "Hang on Sloopy. Derringer then turned to blues rock scoring a 1970 hit with "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo".

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