“I got a call – ‘I’m putting a very band together, and I desire you to be one of the guitar gamers.’ The other guitarplayer was Neal Schon from Santana”: How Les Dudek signedupwith Journey “for 2 hours”

Guitarist Les Dudek has lived rather a life. He appeared on 2 of the Allman Brothers Band’s finest understood tracks, Ramblin’ Man and Jessica, explored and tape-recorded with Cher, tape-recorded with Steve Miller, and soloed onstage with Mike Bloomfield (without him understanding).

In another interesting bit of trivia, Dudek was likewise a member of Journey for, as he puts it, “about 2 hours”.

Fresh off his studio work with Miller, and live dates with Boz Scaggs, Dudek got a call from Journey’s supervisor, Herbie Herbert.

“[Herbert] stated, ‘Les, I’m putting a incredibly band together, and I desire you to be one of the guitar gamers,’” Dudek informed Guitar World in a current interview. “I asked him who the other guitarplayer was, and he stated, ‘Neal Schon from Santana. Great gamer.’

“I went to practicesession the next day – it was me, Neal, Ross Valory on bass, Gregg Rolie on keyboards, and Aynsley Dunbar on drums. We jammed for a couple of hours doing some cool blend shit. It was excellent things.

“I looked at my watch since I understood I had a conference throughout the street with someone from Columbia,” Dudek continued. “I went to the conference, and the president and vice-president of Columbia were there waiting for me. They used me a solo offer right on the area.

“It’s like the finest Cinderella story ever informed in the music organization. I went from not understanding how I was going to pay my lease to having to choose: Do I go with Journey or a solo offer with Columbia? I selected Columbia.”

Eventually, Journey’s 2nd guitar slot went to the late George Tickner, who played on the band’s self-titled launching album, and co-wrote tracks on the band’s 2nd and 3rd LPs, 1976’s Look Into The Future and 1977’s Next, respectively.

Similarly to Dudek, nevertheless, Ti