The Dudes, also sometimes stylized simply as Dudes, were a Canadian
pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, earl ...
band active in the 1970s. They were originally called "All The Young Dudes".
History
The Dudes were formed in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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in 1974 by Bill Trochim and
Bob Segarini
Robert Joseph "Bob" Segarini (born August 28, 1945 in Stockton, California) is a recording artist, singer, songwriter, composer and radio host. During a professional music career primarily developed between 1968 and the early 1980s, Segarini was ...
after the breakup of their former band,
the Wackers
The Wackers was an American folk rock band formed in 1970, out of another band, Roxy. Though short-lived the band was moderately successful, releasing three studio albums.
Career
Singer/songwriter Bob Segarini and multi-instrumentalist Randy ...
. The other founding members of the Dudes were drummers
Ritchie Henman and Wayne Cullen, and guitarists
David Henman and
Brian Greenway
Brian Gilbert Greenway (born October 1, 1951) is a Canadian guitarist, vocalist and harmonicist, most notable for playing in the rock bands April Wine, Mashmakhan, and the Dudes. Greenway performed with April Wine from 1977 to 1986 when the ban ...
. Their debut album, ''We're No Angels'', was released on
CBS Records International
CBS Records International was the international arm of the Columbia Records unit of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. ( CBS) formed in 1961 and launched in 1962. Previously, Columbia Records had licensed other record companies to manufacture an ...
and
Columbia Records in 1975. It produced the
hit single "I Just Wanna Dance". The album was recorded in
Le Studio
Le Studio (later renamed Studio Morin Heights) was a residential recording studio in the Laurentian Mountains near the town of Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada built in 1972 by recording engineer and producer André Perry, Nick Blagona and Ya ...
in
Morin Heights, Quebec, and was produced by Mark Spector. The band itself was unhappy with how the album's music turned out.
They subsequently toured across North America, opening for Savoy Brown
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and the Bee Gees
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. The band's members subsequently stopped focusing on making music together, and each became involved in individual projects instead. As David Henman later noted, "Oddly enough, The Dudes never officially broke up, to the best of my recollection...The whole affair just slowly fizzled out and we gradually got involved in other stuff. There was no point when we actually called it quits. We will always be the band that never broke up."
Discography
*''We're No Angels'' (CBS/Columbia, 1975)
*''All the Young Dudes, All the Old Demos'' (Pacemaker, 1997)
References
1974 establishments in Quebec
Musical groups established in 1974
English-language musical groups from Quebec
CBS Records artists
Columbia Records artists
Musical groups disestablished in the 1970s
Canadian pop rock music groups
1970s disestablishments in Quebec
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