Derrek possesses a love for high quality live performance that has become rare in the age of digital video and buzz indie bands. He's oldschool like that. His influences include Mark Mothersbaugh, Freddy Mercury, Jack White, Emmitt Rhodes, Sammy Davis Jr, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, as well as the finest barbershop quartet singers of the last fifty years.
In July of 2008, The Derrek Wayne Trio recorded a live music video with The Penny Jam.
