This is Derek's more "professional" bio. Kinda
dry, but at least it's readable in one sitting.
Name: Derek
Brink
Birthdate: 5/29/80
Guitar Influences: Pete Townshend (The Who), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd),
Denison Witmer, Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick), Edge (U2), Patterson Hood (Drive-By
Truckers), Mike Cooley (Drive-By Truckers), Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam),
Waylon Jennings, Frank
Black, and probably a few others too...
Vocal Influences: "Pretty much
whatever I'm listening to at the time...but if I could choose, I'd list people
like David Bowie and Freddie Mercury...the truth, though, is probably somewhere
more along the lines of a weird mix of Pete Townshend, Frank Black/Black
Francis, Roger Daltry, Patterson Hood, and Dennis DeYoung--embarassing as that
last one might be."
Current Bands:
Solo Musician: 1997 - Present
(Original Music)
Blue Tattoo: 2004 - Present (Original Music)
Michael
Feldman Group: 2002 - Present (Cover Music)
Previous Bands:
R. M. I.:
1992-1993 (Original Music)
union jack: 1993-1996 (Original Music)
The
Moody Jews: 1995-1996 (Cover Music)
Awake: 1996-1998 (Original
Music)
Uncle Dick: 1999 - 2004 (Original Music)
Occasional Appearances
With:
Jeff Moody: 1999 (Original and Cover Music)
Ben and Beth Ann Crouse:
2000 (Cover Music)
Joe Banua Band: 2001-2002 (Cover Music)
St. Louis Soul
Exchange: 2002 (Original Music)
Music Ministry With:
Parkwood
Christian Church: 1995-2000
New Heights Christian Church:
2000-2002
Ferguson Christian Church: 2002-2007
Regularly Used Guitar
Equipment:
Gretsch Electromatic
5120, in a beautiful transparent orange
Fender Strat, Natural
Finish
Schecter RAF-12
Spitfire
1950 Silvertone Guitar
in sort-of a rust color
Martin D-18
Acoustic
Parkwood 360M
Acoustic
Takamine G-series 12-string
...and 20+
others.
Fender Blues Deluxe Amp
Pedals/Effects (in
order, as per the chain):
Dunlop Crybaby
Wah
DOD Ice Box
Chorus
Boss Blues
Driver
Digitech
Crossroads
Digitech Fender
Bassman
Boss
Distortion
BBE Boosta
Grande
Line 6 DL4 Delay
Modeler
BBE Sonic
Stomp
Fishman
Dreadnought
...and it's all
powered by a Furman board
(There are a host of other boxes and toys stashed away in the studio, too.)
Personal Statement:
My musical career has been long and varied.
To try to sum it up in a few paragraphs is a kind of futile effort. The short
version is that I've always loved music, and I've been playing it since I was
about five or six-years-old (if you could call it "music" then). I've been in a
number of bands and worked in a ton of side projects--only a selection of which
are noted above--and until recently, I even called music my "job" working in a
church as a music minister.
I'm incredibly proud of my work with my
different projects from the past, especially the stuff I did with Uncle Dick,
The Michael Feldman Group, and union jack. If it's possible, though, I am even
more proud of the stuff I'm doing today as a member of Blue Tattoo and as a solo
artist. I'm proud to be working with the people I'm working with, and I feel
truly fortunate to have found myself in the position I'm
in.
