ELECTRIC SUPERMAN

His legendary stone guitar has been moved into a storage room, and you have to look pretty hard to find many rock 'n' roll artifacts, but Rick Derringer and his wife Liz are very much at home in their cozy Manhattan triplex hideaway. Welcoming a pair of guests (my guitar-playing husband was not going to be left out of this one!) with juice, beer and a slobbery greeting from his two dogs, Derringer lowers the sound on a nearby television (MTV, of course) and we settle onto a comfortable sofa.