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| Birth Name(s) : Deryck Whibley |
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Full Deryck Whibley Biography
Deryck Jayson Whibley (born March 21, 1980), also known as Bizzy D, is a musician and producer best known for his work as the guitarist and lead vocalist and songwriter of the Juno Award-winning rock band Sum 41. As a producer he was one of the founders and directors of Bunk Rock Productions. Whibley was born in Scarborough, Ontario and brought up by a single teenage mother, Michelle. He moved to Ajax, Ontario at age 12 and started Sum 41 a few years later. He married fellow Canadian pop singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne on July 15, 2006, in Montecito, California.
During the Sum 41 hiatus in 2005 and 2006, he worked with Tommy Lee on guitar and backing vocals for his album, Tommyland: The Ride, and A Million in Prizes: The Anthology with Iggy Pop.
Currently, he is working as the producer of the first EP album from the side project of bandmate Cone, called The Operation M.D., and is producing the next Sum 41 album. For 2007, he mixed the debut album of a new band called Permanent Me. He was also involved with the new album by Avril Lavigne, The Best Damn Thing, where he produced, played guitar and bass, recorded backing vocals, and co-wrote the music for some of the more rock/punk-rock oriented songs.
Besides his musical career, he has worked on occasion as an actor. He portrayed the character Tony on the movie, Dirty Love, and himself as a guest character in King Of The Hill.
In October of 2007, Whibley suffered a back injury. This happened while Sum 41 was on tour with Finger Eleven, and the remainder of the Strength in Numbers Tour was cancelled.
Deryck is also the idol to My Own Disaster guitarist/keyboardist/lead vocalist David Esteves. David says that Deryck was the one that inspired him to play guitar and piano. He also says that no one has ever done this for him besides Deryck. Sum 41's hit song "Best of Me" was the Sum 41 song that got David to write his music.
Deryck uses a black customized '72 Fender Telecaster Deluxe live with his well-known red X's for decoration and good luck. He has also put out a signature guitar with Squier, a sub-brand of Fender. The signature Squier comes in black and Olympic white, sports the two red X's and has one pickup in the bridge position which is a Seymour Duncan HB-102. It also has a signature with "Deryck" written on the headstock. Deryck had previously played Gibson guitars such as a Flying V, Les Paul, SG and a Marauder. According to Rocksound magazine, Deryck also uses '59 Les Pauls, '52 Telecasters, Telefunken and Neumann mics, '52 Plexi 100 watt Marshall Head and Spectraflex cables. His incredible technicality and genius is shown by the fact that he is not a big fan of pedals and enjoys getting good quality amps and mics instead.
Arrangements, songwriting, vocals, guitar and piano throughout all albums, other roles when noted.
- Half Hour Of Power (1999/2000), Producer
- All Killer No Filler (2001), Drums on "Pain For Pleasure" (Live only)
- Motivation EP (2002), Producer
- Does This Look Infected? (2002), Drums on "Reign In Pain" and "WWVII Parts 1 & 2" (Live only)
- Does This Look Infected Too? (2002), Producer
- Chuck (2004), Producer on "Subject To Change"
- Go Chuck Yourself (2005/2006), Executive Producer
- Underclass Hero (2007), Producer
An asterisk (*) after the album name indicates that the collaboration was done with Sum 41.
- Various Artists - National Lampoon's Van Wilder (Soundtrack) * (2002), Producer
- Various Artists - FUBAR: The Album * (2002), Producer, drums
- Various Artists - Spider-Man Soundtrack * (2002), Producer
- Treble Charger - Detox (2002), Co-Producer, vocals and guitar
- No Warning - Ill Blood (2002), Co-Producer, arranger, management
- Iggy Pop - Skull Ring * (2003), Producer, vocals, guitar, songwriter
- No Warning - Suffer, Survive (2004), Co-Producer, arranger, management
- Various Artists - Fantastic 4: The Album * (2004), Vocals, guitar, songwriter
- Ludacris - The Red Light District * (2004), Guitar
- Various Artists - Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 (2004), Producer
- Iggy Pop - A Million in Prizes: The Anthology (2005), Vocals, guitar, songwriter
- Various Artists - Killer Queen: A Tribute To Queen * (2005), Vocals, piano
- Tommy Lee - Tommyland: The Ride (2005), Guitar
- Permanent Me - After The Room Clears (2007), Mixing
- The Operation - We Have an Emergency (2007), Producer
- Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing (2007), Producer, guitar, bass
Albums: Half Hour of Power | All Killer No Filler | Does This Look Infected? | Chuck | Underclass Hero
Live Albums, EPs and compilations: Rock Out With Your Cock Out (Demo Tape) | Motivation EP | Does This Look Infected Too? | Chuck Acoustic EP (Tour Edition Promo) | Go Chuck Yourself/Happy Live Surprise
Videos and DVDS: Introduction to Destruction | Cross The T's and Gouge Your I's | Sake Bombs and Happy Endings | Bring The Noize! | Rocked: Sum 41 in Congo | Go Chuck Yourself/Happy Live Surprise
Singles: "Makes No Difference" | "Fat Lip" | "In Too Deep" | "Motivation" | "Handle This" | "It's What We're All About" | "Still Waiting" | "The Hell Song" | "Over My Head (Better Off Dead)" | "Little Know It All" | "We're All to Blame" | "Pieces" | "Some Say" | "No Reason" (Radio Release Only) | "March of the Dogs" (Digital Release Only) | "Underclass Hero" | "Walking Disaster" |
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