Richard Derrick was born in Torrance, California in 1961, and is a lifelong resident of nearby San Pedro. Torrance is a city located in the " South Bay " (southwestern region of Los Angeles County California. San Pedro is a beach community within Los Angeles California, USA He began playing music at an early age, starting with piano at age four, guitar at age ten, then learning both drums and bass guitar at 15. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the Attempts to find like-minded musicians in and around San Pedro became frustrating, and by 1982 Derrick began spending more time in Los Angeles, performing in various musical settings.
Meanwhile back in San Pedro, in 1984 Derrick became roommates with Minutemen singer/guitarist D. Boon, and they began playing together informally with Crane, who played trumpet and sang on a few Minutemen records. The Minutemen were an American Punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980 D Boon (born Dennes Dale Boon, April 1, 1958 – December 22, 1985) was an American Singer, Songwriter Crane is a Pseudonym of Richard Alan Krieger (born ca 1956 He is a Trumpeter and Vocalist that has played and recorded with The Minutemen The trio called themselves Cosmic Joke, but public performance was limited to two private parties.
Derrick and Crane continued performing together, and in 1987, after several attempts with different musicians, they began working as a duo under the name Another Umbrella, which utilized extended delay guitar loops, pre-recorded instruments, slide shows, and a strong emphasis on improvisation. This went against the grain of what was popular in Los Angeles clubs at the time, but they did perform regularly around town and on radio, most notably at The Museum Of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles. Other musicians who performed with Another Umbrella include keyboardist Paul Roessler and flutist/vocalist Emily Hay.
In 1997, two weeks after the final Another Umbrella show, Derrick began performing with drummer Bob Lee and a core of revolving musicians (including Nels Cline and Joe Baiza) under the name Solo Career, a side-project which lasted until 2002, performing whenever the musicians' schedules allowed. Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles in 1956 is an American Guitarist and Composer. prod concern = not notable month = October day = 11 year = 2008 time = 1252 timestamp = 20081011125237}
In 1998 and 2000 Derrick organized and financed two California mini-tours with British singer/songwriter Kevin Ayers, eventually releasing the best of this material on the Alive In California CD through his own Box-O-Plenty Records. Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English Songwriter and major influential force in the English Box-O-Plenty Records is a Record label, started by Richard Derrick, a musician based in San Pedro, California, in 2003. He has also released the best of the home recordings with Boon as D. Boon and Friends, as well as the debut album by Solo Career, Season Finale, which features artwork by British artist Paul Whitehead (best known for his art on the Genesis albums Foxtrot, Trespass and Nursery Cryme). D Boon and Friends is a CD compiling various jam session and live recordings featuring the late Minutemen guitarist and frontman D Paul Whitehead is a painter and graphic artist known for his surrealistic album covers for artists on the Charisma Records label in the 1970s such as Genesis Genesis are an English rock band formed in 1967 With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide Genesis are among the top 30 highest-selling recording artists Foxtrot is the fourth studio album by British Progressive rock band Genesis and the second from the "classic" lineup of Peter Gabriel Trespass is the second studio album by Genesis and was recorded and released in 1970
In 2005 Derrick began to experience symptoms of what was eventually diagnosed as Parkinson's disease, most likely as the result of head injuries sustained during an assault at a San Pedro record store in 1990. With most of the flexibility in his left-hand fingers now gone, he is unable to play guitar, bass or drums at his former level. As he is still able to play basic guitar chords, he joined several friends from the Los Angeles music scene to perform a tribute to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, which they called A Room Of Musical Tunes. A one-off performance in September 2006 was eventually followed by a second performance in May 2007.
In the summer of 2007, Derrick went through his entire recording archive and edited the highlights for posterity, ending up with 70 hours of music. The first of these recordings to be publicly available are seven hours of music (spread out over eleven albums) by Another Umbrella, released exclusively on digital downloads with no discs being pressed, in March 2008.
Derrick remains active on the Los Angeles music scene, although on more of a behind-the-scenes level, with plans to release more archival material through his label.
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