Any Derek Sherinian fans?

Last weekend I went to a wedding and my friends date turned out to be keyboard player Derek Sherinian, sitting right across from me at the table. I tripped out knowing his musical history. She had no clue as to who this guy was.

Anyway, Derek has played in bands such as Dream Theater, Yngwie Malmsteen, Alice Cooper, and has played live keyboards for KISS and is currently playing with Billy Idol(!) (According to him, Billy pays him real well).. He's had his own band Planet X and has done a bunch of solo material with Zakk Wylde, who he said was like a brother to him.

It was cool talking to him about Yngwie (major ego but overall cool guy) and KISS (Gene's ego was the so huge the guy is out of touch with the world, his own words) and Alice Cooper (the most humble guy he's worked with). Derek himself was really humble and straight forward guy. Anybody like the music he puts out? You can't deny the artists he's worked with.

http://www.myspace.com/dereksherinian2008

Wow. That's pretty damn cool. I would have loved to meet him. He's a good keyboard player.

EvyMetal wrote:

Wow. That's pretty damn cool. I would have loved to meet him. He's a good keyboard player.

Yup. I just put his myspace link also.

Blood Of The Snake is pretty cool.

stepcousin wrote:

Blood Of The Snake is pretty cool.

I have it. I've added it to my trade list.

That is a cool story though. Did you immediately recognize him or did you realize it was him after he introduced himself?

ult

Very cool story. I always get stuck talking to the geeks I can't get away from at weddings and such.

ultmetal wrote:

stepcousin wrote:

Blood Of The Snake is pretty cool.

I have it. I've added it to my trade list.

That is a cool story though. Did you immediately recognize him or did you realize it was him after he introduced himself?

ult

It was funny because we first shook hands and he introduced himself. Then for the first two minutes I must have been looking at him like an idiot trying to figure out where I'd seen him before. I told my friends sister that he looked so familiar. And then she says that he plays keyboards for Billy Idol and the lightbulb went off in my head! I probably spent more time talking to the him than he did with his date.

Cool story! I have a cd-r copy of Blood Of The Snake and thought it was pretty good.

That is indeed a cool story. I've heard of the guy, but don't know what he looks like.

Let us not forget Platypus and Jughead. Any chance to play with Ty Tabor must have been cool as hell!!

MetalGuy71 wrote:

That is indeed a cool story. I've heard of the guy, but don't know what he looks like.

Check out the myspace link on the original post.

stepcousin wrote:

Blood Of The Snake is pretty cool.

I agree and I believe the best track on there is Man With No Name. While Derik is not my favorite keyboardist (not by a long shot) he is definatly a very talented musician and one of the best keyboardists around.

What a cool guy. Today I recieved these items from him in the mail:

Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity Demos 1996-1997 Official Bootleg (2CD)
Derek Sherinian - Blood of the Snake (Japanese pressing)
In the Summertime single featuring Billy Idol, Slash, Zakk Wylde.

Maybe one day I can hang out with these guys

[quote="GrandNational"]Last weekend I went to a wedding and my friends date turned out to be keyboard player Derek Sherinian, sitting right across from me at the table. I tripped out knowing his musical history. She had no clue as to who this guy was.

Anyway, Derek has played in bands such as Dream Theater, Yngwie Malmsteen, Alice Cooper, and has played live keyboards for KISS and is currently playing with Billy Idol(!) (According to him, Billy pays him real well).. He's had his own band Planet X and has done a bunch of solo material with Zakk Wylde, who he said was like a brother to him.

It was cool talking to him about Yngwie (major ego but overall cool guy) and KISS (Gene's ego was the so huge the guy is out of touch with the world, his own words) and Alice Cooper (the most humble guy he's worked with). Derek himself was really humble and straight forward guy. Anybody like the music he puts out? You can't deny the artists he's worked with.

http://www.myspace.com/dereksherinian2008[/quote]


i'm tired of reading the same crap about yngwie all the time....ask sherinian to tell you what yngwie did for him in sao paolo when the brazilians started shouting "osama bin landen"....and sherinian didn't want to go out for encore....

why nobody mentions for example the egos of lemmy, harris, bruce bruce, dio, lars etc?

[quote="syrus"]

GrandNational wrote:

Last weekend I went to a wedding and my friends date turned out to be keyboard player Derek Sherinian, sitting right across from me at the table. I tripped out knowing his musical history. She had no clue as to who this guy was.

Anyway, Derek has played in bands such as Dream Theater, Yngwie Malmsteen, Alice Cooper, and has played live keyboards for KISS and is currently playing with Billy Idol(!) (According to him, Billy pays him real well).. He's had his own band Planet X and has done a bunch of solo material with Zakk Wylde, who he said was like a brother to him.

It was cool talking to him about Yngwie (major ego but overall cool guy) and KISS (Gene's ego was the so huge the guy is out of touch with the world, his own words) and Alice Cooper (the most humble guy he's worked with). Derek himself was really humble and straight forward guy. Anybody like the music he puts out? You can't deny the artists he's worked with.

http://www.myspace.com/dereksherinian2008[/quote]


i'm tired of reading the same crap about yngwie all the time....ask sherinian to tell you what yngwie did for him in sao paolo when the brazilians started shouting "osama bin landen"....and sherinian didn't want to go out for encore....

why nobody mentions for example the egos of lemmy, harris, bruce bruce, dio, lars etc?

I don't know if it's just me, but I'm a bit confused at what you're getting at.

syrus wrote:

why nobody mentions for example the egos of lemmy, harris, bruce bruce, dio, lars etc?

I don't know about you but I hear stuff about the egos of those guys on many occaisions (sic). Heck, even Dio himself admits he has an ego. Maybe the reason why so many people talk about Yngwie having an ego is because he does.

DallasBlack wrote:

Maybe the reason why so many people talk about Yngwie having an ego is because he does.

I'd have an ego too if I were the best guitarist alive still playing metal.