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	Derek Smalls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Derek Smalls (played by Harry Shearer) is the bass player for mock rock group Spinal Tap.
		He co-starred in the hit spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap with guitarists Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), as well as with a plethora of drummers and keyboardists.
		The name Derek Smalls appears to come from the cover of the Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Smalls (208 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Derek Smalls: You know, now that people are carrying around those little cell phones, putting them in their purses or pockets, the germ problem on phone instruments is multiplying tremendously.
		Derek Smalls: That was the late Rick Shrimpton, Mick's twin brother, and he had broken his leg running down the aisles of the Universal Amphitheater to get to the stage because he was two hours late for sound check.
		Derek Smalls: I was with a band called Skaface, one of the very earliest of the two-tone bands in England.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/00/music/smalls0919.htm (3924 words)

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		Derek joined Tap in 1967 after the departure of Ronnie Pudding, who had left the group for a solo career.
		A former member of the all-white Jamaican band Skaface, Smalls was a student at the London School of Design (beginning at age 17) and a member of groups such as Milage and the bar band Teddy Noise, a power duo in which he learned the value of playing loud.
		Derek grew up in Nilford-on-Null and was not as musically inclined as his bandmates at a young age.
	www.geocities.com /tewks/spinal.html (863 words)

	Derek Smalls of Spinal Tap on Playboy.com
		Derek Smalls: We've come to terms with the fact that it's the only movie that ever mentioned our name in the title.
		Smalls: This was footage that was almost in Mr.
		Playboy: Between its infrequent albums, Tap remains quiet, like a volcano on a small island, waiting to erupt and send the natives screaming from their huts for the beach, where they are vaporized by the heat despite the many goat sacrifices they have made to the volcano god.
	www.spinaltapfan.com /articles/derekplayboy.html (665 words)

	Interview with Derek Smalls of Spinal Tap
		Derek: Well, I'd been working in a couple of rhythm and blues type show bands...you know, just a lot of uh, energy...I saw the Thamesmen [early version of Spinal Tap] on British television and I thought "well, here are people who value something other than energy.
		Derek: We would love that, but you know the musical market place today is...I don't know if you watch something like the 'American Music Awards', where you see where this business is headed.
		Derek: We were told by various attorneys, who might not have been acting in our best interests...they said, quote, and I'll be perfectly exact here, quote, unquote, "you can't copyright a number".
	earcandy_mag.tripod.com /stap.htm (2008 words)

	This Is Spinal Tap
		Derek: We were talking about a rock musical based on the life of Jack the Ripper...
		Derek: No...no...no, I feel, it's like, it's more like going, going to a national park, or something, and there's, you know, they preserve the moose...and that's, that's my childhood up there on stage is that moose, you know, and...and...
		Derek: You know, we've grown musically...I mean, listen to some of the rubbish we did early on, it was stupid...
	www.awesomefilm.com /script/thisisspinaltap.html (8960 words)

	Home Recording dot com BBS - Edirol MA-20D... yikes.
		Derek Smalls: I mean, people should be envying us, you know.
		Small things, so as to be expected, absolutelly not enough bass (I'd be surpriced if anything below 80hz gets through at all), but on the otherall, I do like them.
		Big hump in the low mids/high lows, but they were 130 euros a pair, can't beat that.
	homerecording.com /bbs/showthread.php?t=145620 (742 words)

	Spinal Tap (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spinal Tap (more accurately spelled Spın̈al Tap) is a mostly fictional heavy metal band best known from the 1984 rockumentary/mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.
		The band members are portrayed by Michael McKean (as "David St. Hubbins"), Christopher Guest (as "Nigel Tufnel") and Harry Shearer (as "Derek Smalls"); they first appeared in a 1978 ABC comedy special, The TV Show.
		The band is "mostly fictional" in the sense that its primary members have always been actors parodying heavy metal stereotypes, yet by playing concerts and releasing albums, they've blurred the line between fact and fiction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spinal_Tap_(band) (1086 words)

	Spinal Tap, 17 May 1992, Arnold Hall Theatre, Colorado Springs, CO
		Then, disaster struck once again--though the guys learned their lesson about bad stage design during their 1982 tour, when their Stonehenge model proved to be comically small, this time around, however, it proved to be too big--so big that they were unable to lower it through the rafters.
		Everyone, that is, except for Derek, who let a chicken imposter crawl out in ersatz, perhaps in fear of flashbacks to hatch problems during the 1982 tour.
		The band pathetically failed in their attempt to add affects during "Break Like The Wind"--during a guitar solo, bassist Derek Smalls stood in the face of a breeze created by a fake wind machine, which looked like a cloud with a face.
	home.att.net /~StevenT/Reviews/19920517.htm (628 words)

	Wearables \| Spring 2006
		The sheath is made of leather, a nod to the heavy metal aesthetic of Spinal Tap and the fine leather artistry of the Tuareg, and to prevent your "knife" from rotting against your skin.
		In the original incarnation, Derek had wrapped his cucumber in foil, setting off the metal detector.
		"Ode to Derek Smalls" is engraved into the leather in Arabic, as an homage to the beauty of the calligraphy (and all the nonsense tattoos foreign scripts have inspired) prevalent in Islamic art, and as a potential source of alarm to airport security guards.
	stage.itp.nyu.edu /~df785/wearables/index.html (4192 words)

	Spinal Tap A to Zed : Derek Albion Smalls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Smalls, Derek Albion (b1941): Derek joined Tap in 1967 after the departure of Ronnie Pudding, who had left the group for a solo career.
		Derek in 1998 achieved his dream of working with children, landing a job as a "floater" at a primary school in Los Angeles (VH1).
		See also Biopic; Claypool, Les; Crossing Guard; It’s a Smalls World; Lambsblood; Lesley Gore; Lukewarm Water; Milage; Pipe; Preserved Moose; Satanism; Telephone Sanitizing; Tobacco; We Love You.
	www.spinaltapfan.com /atozed/TAP00492.HTM (459 words)

	This Is Spinal Tap (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the 2000-issue DVD, band members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Smalls make clear that they feel betrayed by DiBergi's work, calling it "a hatchet job" and hinting that his jealousy about not being the sixth band member caused him to show only the band's bad side.
		Murphy's Law seems to predominate elsewhere, too, like when Nigel's back gives out in the middle of a blistering solo, or Derek is trapped in a giant peapod prop for an entire song.
		Viewers of a particularly cruel disposition may even find some cause for amusement when a misunderstanding in Austin, Texas leads to the band performing their legendary number "Stonehenge" in front of a model of the ancient monument that barely comes up to the drummer's kit.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0088258 (853 words)

	Playing Taps MAXIM ONLINE
		Smalls and fellow Spinal Tappers David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel have finally been immortalized as fully posable $25 action figures from Sideshow Toy.
		Dressed in the outfits they wore for the show–stopping musical number “Tonight We’re Gonna Rock You Tonight,” the figures come complete with their signature axes and other personal effects—in Smalls’ case that includes a foil–wrapped zucchini to shove down his pants.
		A small company teeters on the edge of bankruptcy…
	www.maximonline.com /articles/index.aspx?a_id=3967 (165 words)

	Sports Hollywood - Ten Questions with Harry Shearer
		He appeared often on The Jack Benny Show as a child, and also acted in GE Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and played the role of Eddie Haskell in the pilot episode of Leave It To Beaver.
		Harry was a writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live for two seasons, where he and Martin Short created the funniest Olympic synchronized swimming skit of all time (not that there are a lot of those).
		He gained national recognition as one of the creators and stars of This Is Spinal Tap, where he portrayed heavy metalist Derek Smalls in the mock rockumentary.
	www.sportshollywood.com /askshearer.html (919 words)

	Stone Cold (Punisher foe)
		(Punisher II#104 (fb) - BTS) - Derek Smalls was a five year veteran of SHIELD who was selected as part of a contingency plan to take down a runaway government agency, specifically VIGIL (Viglante Infraction General Interdiction and Limitation).
		However, Smalls, now calling himself Stone Cold activated the program on his own.
		Possibly worth a mention in the Stone Cold entry in the MUnApp is that "Derek Smalls" is the name of the bass player in the greatest comedy movie of all time, "This is Spinal Tap". Surely not a coincidence....
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/stoncolp.htm (557 words)

	This Is Spinal Tap Redux - CBS News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It's being re-released in theaters nationwide and will be available for the first time on DVD next week.
		Band members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls (who are played by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) spoke to CBS News Early Show Anchor Bryant Gumbel about how they feel betrayed by the movie's director, Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner).
		Hubbins said the reunion tour was prompted partly to "set the record straight." He said the DVD has an alternative track "which gives our side of the story, reminding people that not every night was as disastrous."
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/09/08/entertainment/main231796.shtml (371 words)

	Newbie with an age old video problem.... - TechIMO Forums
		Last edited by Derek Smalls : January 19th, 2003 at 09:33 PM.
		Well I dont think NFS PU is the right benchmark because I tried it on 2000 and XP and could not get it to run.
		Derek Smalls, try cranking the setting back down to 10 from 11!
	www.techimo.com /forum/showthread.php?t=49121 (1313 words)

	UGO.com TECH - We're Saying 'Boo-urns!' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Harry Shearer is one of the unsung heroes of comedy.
		He was Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap.
		And he’s been the voice of the most underused character in the recent history of The Simpsons, Mr.
	www.ugo.com /article.asp?articleId=8015&SectionID=27 (122 words)

	Justin Mason: Happy Software Prole
		Derek Smalls notes regarding Tapster, ‘It has to start with saying, ‘look we’re worried about being ripped off’, so we started TAPSTER ourselves…so we’re ripping ourselves off.
		Later he said to me, ‘There I was at the debut, the premiere opening night, and this voice came into my head: I’m Derek Smalls.'’
		But did you know that Derek Smalls grew up in Nilford — ‘a ‘very small, very wretched, very dire little place’ on the River Null, near Wolverhampton.
	taint.org /tag/spinal (317 words)

	VH1's 'Where Are They Now?: Spinal Tap' Catches Up With Heavy Metal Legends in Newest Edition of Hit Series, Premiering ...
		Two decades later, Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls are back.
		Before recently reuniting again for a performance on VH1's "The List," the band members have been more than busy, with Nigel becoming a junior ichthyologist at the Aquarium of the Pacific, David in a quest to reconnect with Mother Nature, and Derek back in school -- as a crossing guard and classroom helper.
		For the first time in a decade, Spinal Tap is together again, recording, touring and selling music through their own web site.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/09-05-2000/0001304571 (372 words)

	This Is Spinal Tap - Wikiquote
		This flick was written by Christopher Guest ("Nigel Tufnel"), Michael McKean ("David St. Hubbins"), Harry Shearer ("Derek Smalls") and Rob Reiner ("Marty DiBergi").
		There were a bunch of other notable folks who played roles as well including Ed Begley Jr.
		Although the band arguably had 32 dummers during its history, these are the six that are mentioned by name:
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/This_Is_Spinal_Tap (973 words)

	Spinal Tap Finds a New Drummer
		San Francisco-based online music guide Listen.com and Rolling Stone hosted and promoted the contest, where contestants were required to submit a 50-word essay on why they should be the new drummer, along with a photo or video of themselves.
		Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls, Rolling Stone editor David Wild, and Listen.com editor Jon Pruett judged the entries.
		Smales/Smalls are derivations of the Welsh name Small, which explains our cucumbers," noted Smales in his winning essay.
	siliconvalley.internet.com /news/print.php/3531_455331 (210 words)

	stevelukather.net - Sessions
		Spinal Tap about Steve Lukather: Toto and Cher producer and session guitarist for Rod Stewart, David Crosby and Wilson Phillips who oversaw four tracks on 1992 Tap album Break like the wind.
		David: "He’s a very strange human being." Derek: "He’s got a tattoo on his rectal tissue." David: "And he’ll show it to you, too.
		3 Diva fever (Derek Smalls, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel)
	www.stevelukather.net /Session.aspx?id=139 (478 words)

	Spinal Tap A to Zed : Zucchini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Zucchini: The vegetable wrapped with foil by roadie Moke during the 1982 tour so that Derek could put the expand back in his Spandex.
		("It's not a cucumber," Derek has pointed out.
		"They have their choice." Derek also told Arsenio that to avoid any future airport mishaps, he now wraps the zucchini in the same material the Pentagon uses to coat the Stealth bomber.
	spinaltapfan.com /atozed/TAP00613.HTM (64 words)

	Let's discuss third party candidates.... - TechIMO Forums
		If a third party started small, locally and slowly built their support and power up to the state level, then spread out through several different states, only then would they ever have any chance of winning an election.
		I do think that a TPC will, at first, cause the Reps and Dems to take voters' concerns more seriously, but think that will fade a bit after a few election cycles.
		Last edited by Derek Smalls : May 23rd, 2005 at 03:24 PM.
	www.techimo.com /forum/t143087.html (2097 words)

	This Is Spinal Tap quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		What musical adaptation was Elvis due to perform as a TV special from Graceland shortly before his death according to Derek Smalls?
		At the end of tour party on an LA rooftop Derek Smalls and David St. Hubbins discuss using their new found spare time to resurrect some of the ideas that they'd previously shelved.
		Whose life was to be the subject of the musical they'd planned backstage at the Luton Palace?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=109767 (457 words)

	CLUAS Indie Gig Reviews: Spinal Tap live in San Francisco
		Fast-forward another nine years, and the faithful are shuffling in to worship at the alter of Tap.
		The only three original members of Tap - David St. Hubbins (Vocals/Guitar), Nigel Tufnel (vocals/guitar/spoken word) and Derek Smalls (bass) - were ably assisted by C.J. Vanston on keys and a very nervous-looking Skippy Skuffleton on drums.
		The band began their sonic assault with, of course, "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight".
	www.cluas.com /music/gigs/spinaltap.htm (630 words)

	Motherfucking Masterpieces: This is Spinal Tap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The movie was filmed without a working script; only the bare bones of the scene were mapped out in advance and the actors improvised almost all of their dialogue.
		It's here where bassist Derek, lead singer David, and lead guitarist Nigel inflicted their greatest damage.
		They manage to trample mercilessly on every heavy metal cliche imaginable: the goony-scary facial contortions that must accompany every megapower guitar solo...the splayed legs vacuumed packed into checkered spandex pants, offering a nice reveal of one's, uh, 'power source'...the giant, malfunctioning transparent pod stage props.
	acidlogic.com /mm_spinaltap.htm (1254 words)

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