Derek Beck spent many of his high school nights alone in his room, drinking himself to sleep.  One night he dreamt of a large water buffalo herd chasing him into a Bass Pro Shop.  Awaking in a cold sweat, he plucked out a terrible little melody and a shoe box with some rubber-bands stretched across it.  That day, Speedy Minivan was born.  Since then he has made many more songs and gotten slightly better and the shoe-box-banjo.