MSFunk

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MSFUNK

MSFunk was the last version of the Smoke Ring that was put together by guitarist Keith Goins in September 1971. The new players moved into Kings Ballroom (owned by band manager Joe Hupp) and put an entire show together in three days. Six months later, the band moved to Memphis and soon hired Tommy Shaw. (More from Wikipedia)

Fergie Frederiksen has enjoyed a long, prosperous and highly varied career in music. Frederiksen was asked by his friend Tommy Shaw to replace him as lead singer in a band called MSFunk, the final permutation of the Smoke Ring that had formed from the combination of two earlier bands from Norfolk, Nebraska dating back to as early as 1959, Little Joe & the Ramrods and the Strollers. Tommy Shaw had been asked to join Styx, where he became one of their key bandmembers up to the present day.

(October 2012)