“I got a call – ‘I’m putting a super band together, and I want you to be one of the guitar players.’ The other guitarist was Neal Schon from Santana”: How Les Dudek joined Journey “for two hours”

Guitarist Les Dudek has lived quite a life. He appeared on two of the Allman Brothers Band’s best known tracks, Ramblin’ Man and Jessica, toured and recorded with Cher, recorded with Steve Miller, and soloed onstage with Mike Bloomfield (without him knowing).

In another fascinating bit of trivia, Dudek was also a member of Journey for, as he puts it, “about two hours”.

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