Artist description The Dereks is a group made up of Derek. Derek plays all the instruments by using a digital 8-track machine. Derek loves you all.

Music Style Fusion/Jamband

Musical Influences Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, John Mayer, Grateful Dead, Jack Johnson, Soulive, Jamiroquai, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Santana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oysterhead, Incubus, Sublime, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Talking Heads, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Coldplay, Spin Doctors, The Police, Mr. Bungle, Radiohead, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Led Zepplin, moe., Pink Floyd, String Cheese Incident, Bob Marley, Pat Metheny Group, Counting Crows, Live, Ziggy Marley, Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine, Jazz is Dead, Zwan, Smashing Pumpkins, Wes Montgomery, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Weather Report, ok sorry I'll stop.

Similar Artists kinda sounds like DMB meets Phish meets Jazz is Dead meets a piece of cake meets a stop sign meets a homeless man with no laundry to do because he doesn't have a lot of clothes.

Artist History Derek has been around since "back in the day", which means the mid 80s. His primary instrument is the drums, so he writes his music based around his drums. Except the times that he wrote the music on guitar, and then added the drums later.

Group Members Derek.

Instruments Drums, accoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, banjo, pennywhistle, keys

Albums Derek Presents The Dereks

Press Reviews "That was a terrible TV show, I hope it is taken off the air" - The New York Times

Location South Bend, IN - USA

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