Birth name David Rude Occupation(s) Musician, guitarist Labels Rat Pak Records Role Guitarist | Also known as The Modern Day Cowboy Instruments Guitar Name Dave Rude Music group Tesla (Since 2006) | |
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Born June 14, 1978 (age 46)
Oakland, California, United States ( 1978-06-14 ) Associated acts Tesla, The Servants, Dave Rude Band Genres Hard rock, Blues rock, Heavy metal Albums Tesla – Gold, Twisted Wires & the Acoustic, Simplicity, Real to Reel, Forever More |
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Dave Rude (born June 14, 1978, in Oakland, California) is the second guitarist of hard rock band Tesla, joining them in 2006. He also fronts his own rock act Dave Rude Band, where he sings and plays guitar.
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Rude started playing guitar when he was 9 and his main musical influences included Guns N' Roses, Slash, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Perry, Mike Campbell, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He used to play in a band called The Servants around the San Francisco club scene, before starting his own solo band called simply The Dave Rude Band.
In 2006 he was discovered by Tesla guitarist Frank Hannon, who contacted him via his Myspace profile. He was so impressed by Rude's music that he offered him a job of rhythm guitarist for his solo side-project, simply called The Frank Hannon Band. Dave agreed and soon it turned out that he was really being auditioned for Tesla, who needed a second guitarist after Tommy Skeoch's departure. He first began to play with Tesla during the "Electric Summer Jam" tour in 2006. With Rude as a band member, Tesla recorded highly acclaimed Real to Reel and Real to Reel, Vol. 2 covers album as well as Forever More (2008) and its follow-up Simplicity (2014).

As of 2009, Rude is an official member of Tesla with whom he tours and records, as well as a frontman of Dave Rude Band, which plays shows here and there when Tesla is not touring.

In 2013, Rude release his second album with The Dave Rude Band, entitled "The Key," which was produced by Marc Kapetan. Kapetan is the guitarist for Fear No Evil, The Appletones and Motor66 (formed with Jessie Farnsworth and Jesus Mendez from the band Newsted, the band of former Metallica bassist, Jason Newsted.)

Discography
Songs
Better Off Without You
Pvt Ledbetter
Thank You
So Divine
Yours to Hold
One Night - One Day
Forgive Her
Charlie Mansion
Iron Grip
Fallin' Down
Breakin' Free
Life Is a River
Burnout to Fade
Burnin' Bright
Other Than Me
Heavy as a Raindrop
'til That Day
On My Own Again
Circle the Sun
Crooked Bullseye
Come Right In
Forever More
Lil Suzie
Flip Side!
Devil's Embrace
Time Bomb
Sympathy
Ricochet
In a Hole Again
MP3
Break of Dawn
Rocket Arrow