"If Fellini, Dali, and Captain Kangaroo got together in their teens and ate peyote, this is the album they would have recorded." - Les Claypool as quoted on the Beanpole bandcamp
Derek was a co-founder (along with Thomas Muer and Geoff Marx) of Air King Sound. Air King Sound is primarily Thomas Muer's musical project. Not sure which releases include Derek's work.
Derek is also featured on the following releases: Monkey Rhythm's This Must Be The Place,
Madame Blavatsky Overdrive's Idiot Jones Will Have His Day, and
Derek is credited with Bastardos guitars on Primus' "Sailing The Seas of Cheese"
Derek is credited with recording the track "Tell Me Why" (at Steiner House) for Torcher's 1995 album "The Beautiful Sounds Of". Michael Urbano also plays drums on on this album.
Derek is credited with engineering/producing the track "C'mon" by the band Stimmies as featured on their single "'Chester / C'mon" (1992) and their album "Pet" (1994). Per discogs.com, the single says the track was recorded "Somewhere in Oakland" and the album says it was recorded at "Spent Poets studio".
Beanpole Concerts
1997 September 22 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA, USA
supporting Primus
Setlist: His Name Is Beanpole, Chicken Boy, Baby, Judge Wapner, Whatever Happened to Baby Einstein?, Dinner Time!, Beanpole Loves An Ice Cream Pop, Where Is Fred?, Grandma, Embryo, Sponge Boy
Personnel: Les Claypool, Adam Gates, Derek Greenberg, Larry LaLonde
1998 Feb 12 - Paradise Lounge, San Francisco, CA, USA
with Neosoreskin, Bent Scepter, Jim Campilongo Band
Source: The San Francisco Examiner: 02/08/1998, Datebook page 14
2018 December 31 - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, USA
supporting The Claypool Lennon Delirium
Setlist: His Name Is Beanpole, Embryo, Farmer Loved An Onion, Grandma, Sponge Boy, Children In Your Garden, Chicken Boy, Cousins, Judge Wapner, Pumpkin Pickin' Time, His Name Is Beanpole (Reprise)
Personnel: Derek Greenberg: lead vocals, guitar; Larry LaLonde: guitar; Matt Winegar: guitar, backing vocals; Adam Gates: bass guitar, backing vocals; Darin Wilson: piano, keyboards, backing vocals; Tom Muer: keyboards; Geoff Marx: drums; Les Claypool (aka 'Piggy'): drums on Chicken Boy
Setlist: His Name Is Beanpole, Embryo, Children In Your Garden, Sponge Boy, Supper Time!, Chicken Boy, Farmer Loved An Onion, Judge Wapner, Cousins, Grandma, His Name Is Beanpole (Reprise)
Personnel: Derek Greenberg: lead vocals, guitar; Larry LaLonde: guitar; Matt Winegar: guitar, backing vocals; Adam Gates: bass guitar, backing vocals; Darin Wilson: piano, keyboards, backing vocals; Tom Muer: keyboards; Geoff Marx: drums
Known musicians (listed alphabetically): Les Claypool (drums on "Chicken Boy"), Adam Gates, Derek Greenberg, Peter Johnson, Larry LaLonde (chicken-clucking guitar on "Chicken Boy", sax and lead guitar on "Children In Your Garden", banjo on "His Name Is Beanpole"), Geoff Marx, Thomas Muer, Darin Wilson.
The album simply credits everything to Beanpole, but in an interviews both Derek and Adam describe "Supper Time!", "Lunch Time!" and "Midnight Snack!" as written solely by Larry LaLonde.
CD and digital releases have no credits, but vinyl includes minimal credits and lyrics.
Artwork and packaging design are by Adam Gates.
Song titles that are changed versus prior releases: "Farmer Loves An Onion" -> "Farmer Loved An Onion", "Children in the Garden" -> "Children in Your Garden".
Artist: Beanpole
Title: Tracks posted to the Madame Blavatsky Overdrive blog
Format: MP3
Release Date: posted November 30, 2007 on the Madame Blavatsky Overdrive blog
Tracks:
Chicken Boy
Cousins
Embryo
Farmer Loves An Onion
Grandma
His Name Is Beanpole
Judge Wapner
Pumpkin Pickin' Time
Sponge Boy
Supper Time!
Posted by Adam Gates with Derek's permission with the claim they were from an unreleased album "Beanpole Improves"
All tracks were officially released on All My Kin in 2018.
Known musicians: Derek Greenberg, Adam Gates, Les Claypool, and Larry LaLonde.
Known musicians: Derek Greenberg, Adam Gates, Les Claypool (drums on "Chicken Boy"), and Larry LaLonde (chicken-clucking guitar on "Chicken Boy", sax and lead guitar on "Children In The Garden", banjo on "His Name Is Beanpole", banjo and sax on "Sponge Boy").
Nine of the tracks ("Chicken Boy", "Children in the Garden", "Cousins", "Embryo", "Farmer Loved an Onion", "Grandma", "His Name is Beanpole", "Judge Wapner", and "Pumpkin Pickin' Time") saw official release on All My Kin in 2018.
Nine of the remaining tracks ("All My Kin", "Babyhead", "Bring Back Card Walker", "DoughNET", "Integrated Circuit Child Part 1", "Merchant Tech", "Mr. Duck", "Mr. Lincoln", and "Where is Fred?") resurfaced on the Beanpole SoundCloud page in 2018. But "Babyhead" is not complete.
The final four of the remaining tracks have not officially resurfaced online: "Attack of the Gingerbread Man", "Beanpole and Led Zeppelin", "Beanpole and The Go-Go's", and "Hillbilly Grizzly Hoedown".
"Integrated Circuit Child" (2014) lyrically appears to be a sequel - is it the unrecorded Part 2 that Derek has mentioned?
"Derek was, and is, a musical genius. Over the last five years he's recorded over 200 remarkable songs that he quietly puts online. No one hears them. No one knows. He doesn't care." - Adam Gates interview with Dangerous Minds
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