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About Me

I've been drumming since the age of 5, and it's become a real addiction with no cure or rehab available except, well, keep playing! After all the cd's, tours, and great bands I've been fortunate to play in, Speechless is by far the GREATEST bunch of fellow "starving musicians" I've ever had the honor to play with. We have developed a real brotherhood and bond that keeps us on a safe road forward, writing some real great material. Now that the album is done I'm really looking forward to some serious touring. These songs are a blast to play live!!! Hobbies I have are many. Besides getting injured a lot, and visiting the hospital too much, (fortunately no injuries have kept me from playing drums, even 2 gigs in a row a week and a half after having a finger tip sewn back on!) pocket bike riding is a favorite, flying airplanes, and R/C planes and getting the crap scratched out of me by my evil cat! Oh yeah! I'm married the world's greatest woman, Lindsay Smith, the singer/songwriter, (and one helluva cook!).
Drum Solo Live with Speechless 9/14/2007
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mike Portnoy (drummer for Dream Theater), again. He's a real nice guy, and a lot of fun. Not to mention he's exactly the same height as me!!!

My Blog

Checkin In!!!

Been busy as hell folks!!! Sorry I've been away so long. I will be back soon to update you on things. All is well.DR
Posted by on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:58:00 GMT

ALL AT ONCE!!!!!

Hello & Holy Crap Batman!!!!       Talk about a BIG month!!!! Just as I'm getting a package together for GMS drums, things got BUSY!!! Lets work our way to the finale.       I no particular order, Lin...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 22:26:00 GMT

Music Is Art, (don't forget it!)

After all these years of being a musician, I still to this day hear people debating the whole "less is more" theory. Today I read an e-mail from CD Baby.com about a new CD their promoting called, "Les...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:11:00 GMT

HELLO! hello... hello.... hello....

Anybody there?      Man it's been waaaaaay too long since I've posted ANYTHING here! So much, so much, so much to say!     Lets start with the member change in Speechless. We have parted ways with Sea...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:46:00 GMT

Top 100 Progressive Rock Albums

Hello Again Folks!!!     Gagli Archives, (the longest running progressive rock internet radio staion) is holding a pole for the Top 100 Progressive Rock Albums. Speechless is in th...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:21:00 GMT

The Next Big Thing....

Howdy Folks!!     Jeez, it's been a while since I've blogged!! Well there's good reason for that. Speechless still loves playing our tunes live, but because we've been playing them...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:57:00 GMT

Drummers Group up!!!

Hey Folks!!!!     I'm glad to announce a NEW drummers forum that I just started up today, "Drum Universe" is officially up and running. Unfortunately "Rhythm Room" was already take...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:46:00 GMT

Drumming. Now we're on a roll.... PII

It's been a little more than 8 hours, I know. But hey, here it is. My good friend Erronious has got us moving along with this question: "Hey Derik! At what point did you go with the current placement ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:19:00 GMT

SPEECHLESS T-Shirts!!!!

  Theeeey'rrrrre heeeere..... the Speechless "Time Out of Mind" T-shirts. You can order one at our Speechless MySpace page, www.myspace.com/speechlesstheband or you can just get one at a show! Sh...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:44:00 GMT

"Show Time!!"

   Alright, I will get to the drum talk this week for sure now that my schedule has some open time. For the moment I'm still jacked over this awesome show we had tonight.... well, last night...
Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:35:00 GMT