From k2mojo@groovedaddies.com Thu Feb 27 22:50:26 2003
Subject:RE: different approach

I posted the link to Derek Sherinian's 'gang of 4' red beauties to KurzList
(Kurzweil User Group) and one of my fellow moderators posted the following
email retelling his own brush with greatness. Definitely Clone related and
I thought you'd get a kick out of it.

> Ed Fliege posted a link showing Derek Sherinian's crazy red Nord
> keyboard rig. http://www.clavia.se/News/derekkeyboards.htm
>
> Well, Derek is the nephew of a friend of mine and I have a tiny
> keyboard-related role in his success story.
>
> Derek was fresh out of Berklee in 1985 playing in a small L.A. band
> while living at his aunt Rox's house--right next door to me. Over the
> next couple of years, Derek and his bandmates would jam at parties at my
> house and such. I'm not much of a keyboard player (I'm better on guitar,
> bass, sax, banjo, Theremin, etc.) but I had a Rhodes-73 and in 1989 had
> just paid $160 for a used Korg CX-3 (their original and pretty good
> 1980s Hammond B-3 clone). Derek heard me "doodling" on the organ and
> asked if he could borrow it to audition for Alice Cooper's band.
>
> So Derek showed up at the audition with the organ--which was quite
> important to Alice's early 1970s hits--while the other keyboardists only
> had very synthy Roland D-50s and the like. Alice was impressed with
> Derek's playing and sound and after several call backs, the tour manager
> said, "We start rehearsals on Monday. Be there--and BRING THAT ORGAN!"
> So, Derek got the gig. All he needed was THAT organ!
>
> He pleaded with me to sell him the CX-3, but I wouldn't part with it, so
> he faked it for a while with other keyboards. I think he wound up with a
> VOCE DMI 64 Mark II or something for that first Alice tour. What a wild
> career! Alice Cooper, Kiss, Dream Theater, Billy Idol...
>
> Of course, Dream Theater now features Jordan Rudess playing
> Kurzweils--for which he is also now a top endorser.
>
> How he got that gig, I can't figure. I don't even KNOW his aunt!
>
> Here's a link to a nice personal history of Derek's various bands:
> http://www.dereksherinian.com/bio-bandhistory.html
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Tony Palermo - Los Angeles, USA
> Palermo@sprynet.com
>
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(Dan S wrote:)
> Saw this on Clavia's site - how to stack four keyboards and keep
> them at the
> same height.
>
> http://www.clavia.se/News/derekkeyboards.htm

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