In a 2024 interview, republished posthumously in Classic Rock's August 2025 issue, Derringer looked back on the unlikely collaboration and didn’t sugarcoat the fallout.
A representative for Yankovic did not immediately respond to Parade’s request for comment.
“A lot of people were like: ‘What's Rick doing?’ You know, I had a pretty good production career going for myself, so it didn't strike me as unusual to work with Weird Al,” Derringer explained. “I grew up in a family that liked novelty music. They had 78s of Spike Jones and stuff like that.”
Derringer went on to produce Yankovic’s first album – 1983’s self-titled record, Weird Al Yankovic, but the ‘70s guitar icon said there was “no record company support at all.”
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