Derek Smalls is Montgomery Burns

This may be DUH for you but it was DOH! for me. The multi-talented Harry Shearer was guest blogging over at Talking Points Memo. I took a peek at Harry's webpage, and made the connection.

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As for Derek Smalls, this sums him up:

David and Nigel are both like, uh, like poets you know like Shelley or Byron, or people like that. The two totally distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically, you see and I feel my role in the band, is to be kind of in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water, in a sense.

More Tap than you can shake a stick at.