DOUGLAS EREKSON & EREKSON ENTERTAINMENT
Offering Film Scoring with an expertise in both Music and Film.
Masters Degree - Screenwriting, University of Southern California
Co-wrote screenplay with Robert McKee
Screnwriting Instructor, Full Sail Media Arts College
B.A. - Music and Film Production, BYU

Douglas Erekson and his music.

Douglas Erekson, like many artists and musicians, lives for his art. By producing his own CDs, teaching music, and performing at gigs, he keeps himself in a simple life-style filled with music and meaning.

Douglas Erekson is a maverick-musician in every sense of the word. He breaks with tradition and mainstream-conventions in order to blaze his own trail in music, creating new interpretations, and offering new perspectives in gospel music.

His unique sense-of-being is found in every aspect of his life. Until recently, he drove a rusty, 1964 VW Bug. He doesn't own a cell phone, and he doesn't have TV, cable, or web access beyond dial-up.

Douglas is a mild germ-a-phobe. He is partially blind in one eye, and he has a slight walking disability. Nearly killed during a gold-mining expedition at age fourteen, he has no spleen.

Growing up as the middle-child in a family of ten children, he had to fight for attention, food, clothes, and space on the mattress at bedtime. Competing against all the loud, sibling voices sharpened his creative skills. He learned to survive and forge his own way.

Douglas Erekson was born in Aurora , Illinois , and though he lived there thirteen years, he never met "Wayne and Garth of Wayne’s World" fame. Moving to Billings , Montana , for his high school years, he studied drums from Len Droste, an accomplished professional who recorded with Count Basie. Douglas performed with several rock bands as well as with his high school marching band, pep band, jazz ensemble, symphony orchestra, choir, and more. Also, during his high school years, he did gospel-rock recording sessions with Chas Romero , (who wrote and recorded the hit “Hippy Hippy Shake” 1958). Chas happened to live across the street and heard Douglas banging out some great grooves on the drums while rehearsing his rock band in his parent’s garage. Included in Douglas’s rock band was Vernon Black, who later went on to perform with Mariah Carey, Herbie Hancock, and many others.

Douglas Erekson’s short-lived stand-up comedy career found him opening for Ronald Reagan at the Utah Republican Convention, but he gave it up because he just couldn’t be as funny as Reagan.

After nearly completing a BA in music, Douglas Erekson switched his studies, and his creative efforts, to film production and screenwriting. After earning a BA in theater and film production, he went on to earn a Master of Professional Writing in screenwriting from the University of Southern California. He sold a screenplay, his master’s thesis, as a development deal to Robert McKee, the world famous screenwriting instructor. (See Robert McKee’s person portrayed in the movie “Adaptation”.)

Eventually seeking something more authentic than a life in Hollywood along with its compromises to creativity and more, Douglas moved back to the Rocky Mountain region (Montana and Utah), but more importantly, he moved back to music as a career.

Douglas Erekson spent six years working for Musician’s Friend, earning Administrative Employee of the Year 2001, and corporate-wide Employee of the Year 2003. A leader in quality control, he saved his employers more than a million dollars by stopping numerous fraudulent orders during a three year period.

Douglas Erekson has played guitar, Dobro, bass guitar, or drums at clubs, festivals, casinos, hotels, and resorts, as well as churches and sanctuaries in various gospel, blues, bluegrass, and jazz ensembles throughout the Rocky Mountain region. When not working on his next album, he teaches guitar at the Park City Conservatory.

Douglas can be reached by email.

All music samples were Written, Performed, Edited, Mixed, and Mastered by Douglas Erekson at Erekson Studios. All rights reserved. Copyright 2009 and 2010.