Jubal Cain - Derek

Derek picked up the guitar at his father's urging as a child of
eight. Shortly thereafter, the family produced its first rock opera,
"My Guy Bri", based on the imagined life of The Beatles'
flamboyant and ill-fated manager Brian Epstein.

Dick, as he is known by his own mother, took the formal
education-route to music by picking up the clarinet in middle
school, a result of his odd taste for the Klezmer-inspired New
Orleans Jazz stylings of Woody Allen (admittedly an odd source
of musical inspiration). But no constant first-chair appointments
won by playing the "Gremlins" main theme could restrain his
need for guitar.

After father Allen kicked the proverbial bucket, Derek's
grandfather took the extraordinary measure of getting dad's
Gibson L6-S out of the pawn shop and setting him up with a
prime Buddy Holly-era Univox all-tube amplifier with built-in
tremolo, and away he went to the woodshed.

Derek's first guitar-like experience was as a third-chair adjunct
to grandfather Tom Martin's long-living pickup band Sparky
and The Skilletlickers, a group of like-minded senior citizens
that had spent much of the previous quarter century gigging at
County Fairs and municipal parks around East Texas. "Lots of
heavy stuff like G, C, and sometimes even D".

The rock and roll began in earnest as second guitarist in 1-800,
a band comprised of like-minded musical friends from the
Galena Park area. After high school, the first Jubal Cain Mark
II was born as a three-piece featuring Dave Roy on bass and
vocals, Derek on guitar, and brother-in-arms Steve Ronsonette
providing note-for-note quality Neil Peart and Tim Alexander
drums.

That band soon gave way to various studio and songwriting
projects with Decade (in another part of Galena Park) for the
next few years until Derek, sister Kim, uncle Ken, and John
Patin formed The Noodle Bros., aptly titled for its habit of
playing the first thing to come to their minds simultaneously (i.e.
noodling). The band recorded a few projects in a studio in the
woods of East Texas and called it a day to be reborn as the
band you know (after reading this) as Jubal Cain.