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still kicking Bob as far as I know.. Born in Quonset Point RI, navy brat.
Check out this career, not bad at all. Lead on Rambling man, banging Cher, tv and movie stuff, Boz, Stevie Miller, song writer.
The Beatles caught Les’ ear at an early age. In 1962, at the age of ten, Les asked his parents for a guitar for Christmas. They bought him an acoustic guitar at Sears Roebuck. His musical influences, along with The Beatles were, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and The Ventures.[1] He had built quite a reputation around the Florida area as a proficient guitar player, having started playing in local bands as a teenager. Those bands were "The United Sounds", "Blue Truth" and "Power". That reputation would place him in the studio with the Allman Brothers Band for the recording of the Brothers & Sisters album. He played lead guitar on the well-known song "Ramblin' Man" and acoustic guitar on "Jessica", co-authoring the latter with #^&#^&#^&#^&ey Betts.[citation needed]
His next stops were as a guitarist for Boz Scaggs and The Steve Miller Band. Dudek was invited to play in a supergroup called Journey but he had received an offer to record for Columbia Records as a solo artist. His work was praised by the critics but widespread fame and success eluded him. He 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.[citation needed]
He later collaborated with Cher, Stevie Nicks, and with two other Columbia Artists, Mike Finnegan and Jim Krueger, with whom he formed DFK (Dudek, Finnegan, and Krueger) in 1978.
Between the years 1979 and 1982, Les and Cher had a personal as well as professional relationship.[2] Dudek wrote and performed some of the music for the 1984 movie Mask starring Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, and Laura Dern. He had a small part in the film as "Bone", a biker. He has worked for NBC, ABC, ESPN, Fox Sports, and E! Entertainment Television. He can be heard on many television series including Friends.
In 1989, he did a brief stint with legendary Canadian rock group John Kay & Steppenwolf as their guitarist. But problems developed between Dudek and Kay which led to him leaving the band after only one month on tour. In 2007, Dudek hit the road again with Bryan "Tennessee" Hawkins on drums, and Dan Walters on bass/vocals.
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