About

Ross Damude
"Rude"

Instruments: Guitar, Composition/Songwriting details
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...
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Current Projects

Don Peterson & The Push Band
Guitar/Vocals
2013 - present

Past Projects

Tomcats 1993
Guitar/Vocals
1993 - 1994
Montana
Guitar/Vocals
1988
Wild West
Guitar/Vocals
1988
Ricky Ricardo
Guitar/Vocals
1985
Renegade Band
Guitar/Vocals
1984 - 1985
Army
Guitar/Vocals
1983 - 1984
Broken Hearts
Guitar/Vocals
1981 - 1983
Slingshot Victoria
Guitar/Vocals
1978 - 1979
Handley Page Group
Guitar/Vocals
1976 - 1980
Holy Smoke
Guitar/Vocals
1975 - 1976
Riff Slinger
Guitar/Vocals
1975
Cold Sweat
Guitar
1974
Slam
Guitar/Vocals
1973
Jacob
Guitar
1972