Les Dudek's father Harold came from Campbell, Nebraska, and was a World War II veteran in the United States Navy.
16 Facts About Les Dudek
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Les Dudek's mother Alma, of Brooklyn, was a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette.
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Six years after Les Dudek was born, his father retired from the Navy and the family moved to Auburndale, Florida, where he grew up.
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In 1962, at the age of ten, Les Dudek asked his parents for a guitar for Christmas.
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Les Dudek had built quite a reputation around the Florida area as a proficient guitar player, having started playing in local bands as a teenager.
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Les Dudek played guitar harmonies with Dickey Betts on the well-known song "Ramblin' Man" and acoustic guitar on "Jessica".
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Les Dudek's next stops were as a guitarist for Boz Scaggs and The Steve Miller Band.
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Les Dudek was invited to play with Journey he had received an offer to record for Columbia Records as a solo artist and took that path instead.
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Les Dudek recorded four solo albums for Columbia Records, Les Dudek, Say No More, Ghost Town Parade and Gypsy Ride.
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Les Dudek had two minor hits with "City Magic" and "Old Judge Jones" which were played frequently on local radio stations in the Los Angeles, California area, where he lived at the time, having moved to West Hollywood in the mid-1970s.
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Les Dudek later collaborated with Cher, Stevie Nicks, and with two other Columbia artists, Mike Finnigan and Jim Krueger, with whom he formed The Dudek-Finnigan-Krueger Band in 1978.
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Les Dudek had a small part in the film as "Bone", a biker.
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Les Dudek appeared in the TV movie, Streets of Justice.
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Les Dudek can be heard on many television series including Friends.
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In 1985, Les Dudek played guitar with Stevie Nicks on her album Rock a Little, and undertook her subsequent tour.
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Two more solo albums later, Deeper Shades of Blues and Freestyle, Les Dudek hit the road again with his own band, and has been performing songs from all his records, plus a few hits he has recorded with other artists.