Ross Damude
"Rude"

I've been playing guitar for some 40 years. My professional career began in Victoria, BC, during the 1970's, a very fruitful period in that city’s music scene, playing with Jacob, Slam, Cold Sweat (with current Uriah Heep singer Bernie Shaw), and the now legendary Holy Smoke. I then spent many years in Vancouver as a band member, (Handley Page, Broken Hearts), sideman and session player, working closely in the studio with the late Brian McLeod, (Headpins, Chilliwack, Edward Bear), and Rick Livingstone, Broken Hearts singer and Emmy nominated sound editor. After 2 years in Los Angeles I returned to Canada in the early ‘90’s, settling in St. Albert, (to raise my son), and began playing and recording with Carson Cole, (“Stop It I Like It”), Marshall Tully, and Mike Plume, (“Song and Dance, Man”). Then I spent 8 years in a true ... more...