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Shæg (Musician/band)
Shæg Wolfgang Ericsen (June 13, 1969 – current) is an American instrumentalist, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and drummer of the alternative nouveau-punk grunge-shred jazz fusion band Shæg. Ericsen formed Shæg with Ivy Watergate in Seattle, Washington in 1988 and created the fundamentally mind-blowing sound now credited as the 'birth' of nouveau-punk shred metal and fore-runner to grunge. An early innovator in the Indy scene, Shæg launched it's first album, "Love like you mean it" with the underground Seattle label "Dormant Factor", to critical indifference. Shæg's follow-up smash Extended Play (e.p.) "Gunpowder Treason" was hailed in Denmark and parts of Norway (the cool parts) as one of the most raw and under-produced musical achievements of the late 1990's, having an initial launch budget of approx. 6.000dkk. Shæg reached modest commercial success within the United States following the release of it's first American full-length album, "Sonic Disturbance", followed in 2012 by "Instra-Mental", a face-kicking, gut-punching joyride of abrasive noise and aggression set to a post-grunge backdrop of neurological transcendentalism.

Ericsen, however, has remained aloof to the band's modest success, preferring to remain outside of the public eye and away from major labels. Appearing in very few public interviews, Ericsen has maintained that Shæg is "a state of mind".."the fusion of improvisation & Punk" and not a product for corporate rock. Though the band has occassionally performed for large arena-style venues, these have been strictly charitable performances, with Shæg favoring smaller more intimate settings to truly wail.

References
 * Dillerod, Stengil. Shæg - a tribute. Doubleday, 1994. ISBN 0-285-48199-8.
 * Lurlinfame, Geoff. When leaders Wail. Enslow, 2006. ISBN 0-3670-2526-1
 * Pross, Lharles. Prince of Wails. Hyperion, 2008. ISBN 0-6865-8402-9.
 * Schitts, Smuerff, et al. Guitar World Presents Shæg and the Acid-Punk Revolution. Hal Leonard, 1998. ISBN 0-7985-8006-X.