Derek Sherinian

[[vogue]angel]

i noticed that not many people noe tis guy. Although some of us noe him from his days when he was with Dream Theater, as the man tat was replace by Jordan.

I'm a huge fan of him. have all his albums,( almost except those he did with planet X)

He's awesome, i watch him on youtube. he played with dream theater. go check him out.

besides, i also love his tone and the way he arranges his keyboard. Mike Portnoy once commented that Derek Sherinian has grew. His songs or more proggressive than when he was with the band. Besides that, he's chops and playing is more consistent.

What you guys think of him? ( he and Jordan are diff type's of players)

 

[digihub00]

he played with alice coooper and yniew malsteen

 

[aireydon]

fanboy

yea i am a hugefan too..was the first to post on his official forum.

love his tone, like sons of anu...the synth organ tone is simply powerful...

not to mention his monster lead ...on the trinity....

and his various choice of arrangement ..in many ways he has some little things that is underated due to joran's entry and his (unfortunate) exit out of DT...

jordan may be more technical but i nevered like the chessiness of layering classical instruments and leads in jordan's tones....they scream in a girly way but derek's tone scream like a glam rocker...simple. straight to the point, in yr face...the right mix of layers...not like 8-10 layers in some of jordan's leads...



went to the yngwie concert just to see derek...!

he went off with some cute groupie after the concert..and walked out together with the fans out of fort canning...took a taxi...lol.

 

[[vogue]angel]

great to hear from you guys. i agree with you aireydon. Jordan's lead sond in not so nice. I dunno why, besides, his samples and songs have lots of layering. His lead is ok , but i dun like it when it comes to it's screaming, Derek's tone on is almost similar to jordan ( in his lead tone, but i feel Derek's tone has more "meat" in it, since he switch to the TRITON series)

i like the way he expresses himself on stage. His playing on the 45 degree keyboard, and the way his flashy playing really got me.

I watch a KEYBOARD duel between Jordan and Derek on youtube. During the "WHEN DREAM AND DAY REUNITED" concert where charlie and derek came and perform the song Metropolis part 1. The duel was awesome!!!!!!!!!! Derek's chops and licks where good, Jordan must had a "duel" on his hands.

Besides, i read from somewhere, Derek is also using Korg OASYS, the flagship model of keyboard from korg, like Jordan. I'm wondering did he use it in his Blood of the snake album or not? If yes, the tones he coax out from his keys is great.

I hope Dream Theater will mayb collaberate a album in it with Derek. ( Imagine both Jordan and Derek together, trying to outsherd petrucci and outplay portnoy) that's wat i wanna see!!!!!!!!!

 

[bangbangbang2000]

derek shermin will be touring with black sabbath