Previous
HelpNavigation for mobiles - pull down menu

Rick Derringer

Biography

Rick Derringer (1947-present): a Musician from Celina, Ohio, USA.

B

orn as Richard Dean Zehringer, Rick Derringer along with brother Randy formed the teenager bubblegum pop band, The McCoys after moving to Union City, Indiana in the eigth grade. But after many gigs supporting acts like The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons and Chuck Berry, they were spotted by Bert Bernes, who wrote their 1965 chart topper Hang On Sloopy. After success in the pop singles market in the 1960s, and early 1970s back up career with Johnny & Edgar Winter where he subsequently wrote their Only Come Out At Night chart-topping album, he would go solo.

He signed to his brother's 'Blue Sky' label to have major success with the single Rock 'N' Roll Hotchie Koo in 1974. Featuring Edgar Winter on keyboards and sax, himself of guitar and vocals. Bobby Caldwell (drums) and Kenny Passarelli (bass), and other guests would join. The resulting album, All American Boy (1974), made 25 in the US But the follow-up set, Spring Fever (1975) featuring Johnny Siegler assuming the bass spot, failed to achieve the same glory and he shut the act down.

Derringer would return in 1976 to form Derringer (another self-named act) featuring himself plus Danny Johnson (guitar), Kenny Aaronson (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) to release Derringer (1976), Sweet Evil (1977) and Derringer Live, a live set in 1977. But still failing to get the audience he desired, he once again closed the operation down.

Read All... ⏬

Rick Derringer restarted his original solo endeavor in 1978 to release a set of what many considered uninspiring records in the form of If I Weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You (1978) with himself and Mark Cunningham replacing Johnson, the returning Aaronson, and Myron Groombacher replacing Appice. It would be members of Todd Rundgren and Utopia who played as session musicians for the follow-up, Guitars And Women (1979) before permanent members in the form of Benjy King (keyboards), Don Kisselbach (bass) and Jimmy Wilcox (drums) came along to release Face To Face (1980), and after a spell in production circles Derringer would return with Good Dirty Fun in 1983.

While many of his former buddies of Johnson, Aaronson and Vinny Appice went on to form Axis, Rick Derringer got Carmine Appice (ex-Vanilla Fudge/ex-Cactus) to play drums, along with Jimmy Johnson (bass) and Duane Hitchings (keyboards) to release Party Tested (1983) in an act called DNA before splitting this act up as well to become a producer for Weird Al Jankovic's Eat It album, and for Bonnie Tyler, as well as being a live guitarist for Cyndi Lauper in 1986, not to mention sessioning for the likes of Alice Cooper, Meat Loaf, Steely Dan and Todd Rundgren.

During the 1990s Rick Derringer would return now and then as a low-key soloist with such albums as Back To The Blues (1993), Electra Blues (1994), Tend The Fire (1996), Blues Deluxe (1999) and Jackhammer Blues (2000); a blues influence and theme being clearly present. the turn of the century saw Free Ride (2002), Rockin' American (2007) and Knighted by the Blues (2009) added to his discography.

Read Less... ⏫

Button: View Discography


Artist Image not available
Movie director's cut board

Follow Diskery:

Click to Purchase via eBay
Click to Purchase via eBay


Dashboard for Rick Derringer


Artists Linked to Rick Derringer


Button: Go Backward 1 Biography
Button: Go Forward 1 Biography
Button: Random Artist
Button: Return to Search Page
Button: Go to website version for printers and reader devices
Button: Help with this page


Large screen TV
Love Diskery on your mobile? You'll love us on your big screen device too!

Scan Me to share this page!


LOADING...