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Fergie Frederiksen

Fergie Frederiksen is known as the second lead vocalist of "Toto" whose vocals can be heard only on the 5th album titled "Isolation" released in 1984. Otherwise, you know his before-TOTO days career as Denice Frederiksen as the lead vocalist of "Trillion" and/or "Le Roux" (on the album "So Fired Up"). After TOTO days, Fergie kept silent before his coming-back album with Ricky Phillips (ex. Babys and Bad English). Fergie released Frederiksen/Phillips album in 1995.   And Fergie released his own solo album in 1999 under MTM, the leading 90's Melodic Rock label in Europe. All the tunes on his solo album are not so heavy and not hard. And you may be surprised to see the songwriter's name listed with each track. Steve Kipner, Bobby Caldwell, Richard Page, Steve George, John Lind, Martin Page and Brock Walsh dedicated their tunes to Fergie. However, you never expect the pure pop Westcoast sound from their name. Actually the basic sound of this album is produced and created by Ricky Phillips and also basic music tracks are made by Ron Wikso, Bruce Gowdy with Phillips, which means that the basic style is like mid 80's American Hard Rock. Comparing with Frederikesen-Phillips album.

• FREDERIKSEN-PHILLIPS / FREDERIKSEN-PHILLIPS
  • Label : Brunette (Alpha Music ALCB-3095)
  • Release Date: October 25, 1995
  • Producer: Ricky Phillips
  • Musicians :
    • Drums: Deen Castronovo, Pat Torpey, Alan White, Bobby Blotzer
    • Guitars: Neal Schon, Steve Farris, Marcus Nand, Tim Pierce, Michael Tovar, Bruce Gowdy
    • Keyboards: Mike Finnigan, Jesse Harms, Guy Allison
    • Percussions: Brian Kilgore
    • Sax: Steve Grove
    • Trumpet: Darrell Leonard
    • Harmonica and Blues Harp: Jimmy Z
    • Lap Steel Guitar: Steve Gunner
    • Harmony Vocals: Jason Scheff
    • Background Vocals: Robin MacCaulley, Jesse Harms, John Purdell, David Gleen Eiseley, Aina Olsen, Genelle Sadler, Debbie Porter, Marcie Free
  • Tracks:
    1. Shot Down
    2. Oh Diane
    3. How Much Longer
    4. Surrender In The Name Of Love
    5. You Must Be A Liar ('Cause You're Unbelievable)
    6. Baby Blue Eyes
    7. Captured
    8. Queen Bee
    9. Hopelessly Lost
    10. Do You Love Her
    11. Long Way Around The World

• FERGIE FREDERIKSEN / EQUILIBRIUM

   

• Label: MTM Music (distributed by Intercord Germany <INT 995.581>) / Bareknuckle, Japan (AVCB-66062)
• Release Date: February 24, 1999
• Producer: Ricky Phillips
• Musicians:
  • Drums: Ron Wikso
  • Bass: Ricky Phillips
  • Guitars: Bruce Gowdy, Tim Pierce, Rocket Ritchotte, Neal Schon, Danny Laine
  • Nylon String Guitar: Marcus Nand
  • Slide Guitar: Michael Monarch
  • Keyboards: Bruce Gowdy, Steve Porcaro, Ricky Phillips
  • String Arrangement: Guy Allison
  • Background Vocals: Kelly Hansen, Ricky Phillips, Jason Scheff, Jeff Scott Soto
• Tracklisting
  1. Blaze of Love (Phil Gladstone / John Van Tongeren / Chris Thompson)
  2. Mata Hari (Susan Hamilton /Buskin / Gorgoni)
  3. Equilibrium (Fergie/Ricky Phillips/Jim Peterik)
  4. All For Love (Martin Page)
  5. The Best I Can (Ricky Phillips / Bruce Gowdy / Fergie Frederiksen)
  6. Crazy (Bobby Caldwell / Steve Kipner)
  7. Tell Me Diana (Bobby Caldwell / Jeffrey Hull)
  8. Falling Into Place (Richard Page / Steve George)
  9. The Truth Is Good Enough (Fergie/ Jim Peterik)
  10. Died In The Midst of A Dream (Jon Lind / Brock Walsh/ Nicky Brown)
  11. Language of Love (Ricky Phillips/Neal Schon)

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