Dero Goi - Career

Career

Dero Goi grew up with his current bandmate and one of the two guitarists of Oomph!, Crap. They lived in the same tenement housing department and both started playing music in grade school. They built "instruments" with persil packs. Dero and Crap met Flux at an Industrial Festival. They found out that they liked the same kind of music and wanted to start a band, which would combine the Rock and the Electro scene. From this, the band Oomph! was created. Over the course of over two decades, there have been no lineup changes for the main three members of the band, but they have experienced some changes for their live performance members. Tobi, their first live bassist, was exchanged for Hagen Godicke in 2004.

Dero was introduced to music through his father, who was a guitarist and singer. Dero was "forced" to sing Elvis Presley songs with his father.

When asked how Oomph! came up with their name, Dero said that the name was chosen because of its peculiarity.

"Because it was so strange to see that the name like that is existing. You know, with the two "o"s and the exclamation mark at the end. It was strange, you know, the visual aspect and pronunciation. And, you know, it’s always good to have a name where somebody is like "What was that?" You know, if your band name is like, I dunno, 'Toilet 2, 3, 4' it's, it's, I dunno... Your name has to be special. And this is a special name, definitely." – Dero Goi

Sometime in 2008, Dero was visiting New York with Chris Wolff when they were caught urinating in public. During their night in jail, they were allowed by prison guards to engage in an open-vocal session, where they sang famous rock songs in a jazz-like fashion. A cellmate named Bill stayed away from the sessions, even though he had previously been confirmed to play the metallophone-part in Metallica's "Enter Sandman". Because of this, they chose to use his name in this new group called What About Bill?.