Sloopy is 50 years old now and Rick has done more than enough to be in the Hall of Fame. He should have been in years ago

Posted by Red Dog on Monday, 08/17/2015 @ 11:49am

Rick Derringer songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin and music by Alice Cooper

01. 1978 If I Weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You

Available on iTunes

Posted by Roy on Monday, 01/11/2016 @ 17:25pm

I look every year for Rick Derringer who wrote the song track for our (boomers) Sixties/Seventies to be inducted. I URGE you to phis Discography please look at as well as being my favorite guitarist. He just celebrated 50 years of music and it says projected year of induction appx 2037. He will be dead I imagine. He has produced numerous inductees records. Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo is always in the top 10 of Favorite Classic Rock. He was part of the McCoys and Hang on Sloopy is the first State Rock Song. OSU has taken this song and TBDBITL plays it every week during Buckeyes football season. I gasp every year at some of the lame acts that get inducted. In Ohio, many of us have boycotted the Rock Hall until our Native Son gets Inducted. I would love to go to the Rock Hall again but unless he is inducted I guess you wont see us there until 2037 and then and only then will our 76 year old bodies step foot in the Rock Hall to be see a 90 year old Rick Derringer get Inducted. Again I urge you to consider him for the next class. Again I urge you to see how many charted songs he has been involved in as well as producing tons of charted hits for others, his session work I can not understand how he beat out the Beatles back in the 60s with Hang On Sloopy but is not in the Rock Hall In Ohio. Ill be there when he is inducted I only hope we are alive by then. Baby Boomers have the money. Could any one of you who knows the rules explain how this is possible? DISCOGRAPHY ON RICK DERRINGER Please

Posted by MaryAnn Lawrence on Saturday, 10/15/2016 @ 14:02pm

Rick Derringer definitely deserves to be in the R&R Hall of Fame. From "Hang On Sloopy" to his time with Edgar Winter and solo albums, he has been a staple of the music business. He produced and played on Weird Al Yankocovic's albums. He played on countless other artist albums like Steely Dan to Cyndi Lauper. If you play rock guitar, you know he was one of the top guitarists of his era.

Posted by John on Friday, 02/1/2019 @ 06:59am

Saw him at annual Bo & Jim bash in dallas texas. He kicked ass. A major influence and well loved by many artists in the buisiness. Well deserved placed in the hall.

Posted by Donna on Wednesday, 11/27/2019 @ 04:19am

The work on Edgar Winter's Roadwork album alone should tell the whole story. Add the early stuff with the McCoys and further on in production and I feel many others have gotten the nod with a lot less acomplishments.Joan Jett for instance?

Posted by Danny B. on Sunday, 03/1/2020 @ 01:31am

I have boycotted the So Called "Rock Hall" until they put induct Rick Derringer. I would make a yearly visit as I live in Columbus but until they acknowledge the 1970s great acts I'm staying home. I went several times and could not believe the people who were inducted. He checks ever box for induction. So if anyone doubts this, next time he comes your way go to his concert. It will be packed. Look up his discography and you will be amazed. Keep On Rockin.

Posted by MaryAnn on Wednesday, 06/30/2021 @ 12:32pm

I saw the following bands live in concert: Alice Cooper (69) Frank Zappa(69) Ten Years After(69) The Allman Brothers (1970 w/ Duane) Led Zeppelin (73) The Beach Boys (73) the Grateful Dead(73) Rodney Crowell and the Cherry Bombs (82) Iggy Pop(82) The Who(90s) Paul McCartney and Wings(1995) Aerosmith (1988) etc etc....and Rick Derringer (1982) Rick Derringer could blow them all off the stage. Rick produced the excellent Mason Ruffner. Rick is featured on my favorite rock and roll album (""Johnny Winter And') Rick ought to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ( long ago !!!)

Posted by Jim Blake on Tuesday, 12/14/2021 @ 22:08pm

Rick Derringer is a true guitar hero, in every sense. Listen to his albums and collaborations, his musicianship is awesome and inspiring. His first solo album "All American Boy" not only includes the mega hit "Rock'n'Roll Hochie Koo", but also mesmerising and foot thomping songs like "Joy Ride", "It's Raining" and "Uncomplicated". He then went on producing and/or participating on albums of many great artists and influenced them as well (Johnny & Edgar Winter, Alice Cooper, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, Kiss, Bonnie Tyler, Barbara Streisand, Cyndi Lauper, Weird Al, DBA, DNA, Ringo Starr, etc.). He even mentored Neil Giraldo (Pat Benatar's guitarist and partner) on a couple of Derringer albums, notably on Guitars and Women (listen to "Everything"... a great collaboration between Rick and Neil). Because of Rick Derringer's enthusiasm, dedication and contributions to the Rock'n'Roll musical scene and community, he highly and obviously deserves to be in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. No doubt about it. Keep on rockin' Rick!

Posted by Dan Mazzalongo on Thursday, 02/10/2022 @ 02:44am

If I Weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You * Real American

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 02/10/2022 @ 06:23am

Eat It
Weird Al

Posted by Dan Mazzalongo on Thursday, 02/10/2022 @ 20:41pm

I saw Rick Derringer Dec. 1983 at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco. He kicked ass! Great guitarist/ musician/ song writer.

Posted by Elaina M Conant on Thursday, 05/5/2022 @ 02:48am

Why does Rick have to wait until 2031 to be inducted? Who is making these projection lists? If his induction date is pre-determined as 2031, why does "The Hall" even need to go through the extensive nominating and voting process?

Posted by sherry Ciocys on Tuesday, 12/27/2022 @ 13:32pm

Me too. He was wearing g the blue Jean's. And tearing it upe

Posted by frank yates on Friday, 02/10/2023 @ 19:31pm

A true legend hang
g on sloopy when he was 17! played slide on steely dans chain lighting and show biz kids is enough to get him in the hall. then you add so many recordings with the winter boys , he found cindi lopper and played on and produced weird al yankovic

Posted by hugh m ririe jr. on Wednesday, 06/28/2023 @ 21:12pm

I seen Rick Derringer at the palladium, in New York City when it was theater. And they turned it into a concert hall I think Rick Derringer is a highly-qualified guitarist vocalist and producer . Should have been in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame, along time ago. Don't know ,what the controversy is about it and he should just be already inducted. it's musicians like ( Rick Derringer), that was the backbone of rock and roll. Let's stop the BS, let's give him that pass, let's get him in that introduction.

Posted by Kerry James Staffa on Thursday, 06/29/2023 @ 09:08am

Sitting by the pool. RickvDerringer Live. All American Boy was all listened to as a teen. Had the internet been around, I believe it would have been different. For not doing so by now, this R&R Hall of Fame is but a joke. Some names should not even be on this list. He was better than Randy Rhoads.
He was/is extremely talented and his fans are grateful
for his music.

Posted by Robert Latimer on Monday, 07/3/2023 @ 04:23am