Ten years ago, many of us here at Wenzel were paying our way through life as parking lot attendants at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, perhaps the greatest outdoor show on earth by its own estimation. Most of divided our time between two of the Stampede's many parking lots, one located on 12th Avenue, immortalized by our own Sean Marchetto in his CJSW radio show of the same name as well as in an unpublished novel, joculotore domini, while the rest of us hung out at a large gravel pit named, you guessed it, Wenzel. Both of these parking lots were in the middle of the residential area of Victoria Park, and across the street from Wenzel was a flop-house called 'Rock Central', home of the Dudes. As we would lounge around in our parking lots, the Dudes would practice on their front porch and we would holler and dance. When the Dudes hosted their first Stampede Breakfast, we skipped out from work and were there. When Marchetto dropped the first Slurpee Cup, there were the Dudes.
Now that the boys are getting some airplay, some notice, and a prime spot in a Rogers' cellphone commercial, we wish them all the success. Check out the media coverage!
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=c1039a87-9c56-49a1-aa82-110431c91bda&k=53039&p=2
http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=4425
http://www.calgarysun.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=144434&x=articles&s=music
http://www.moregoatthangoose.com/interviews/theDudes.php
Of course, you can also check them out at www.myspace.com/wearethedudes or get the new album Brain Heart Guitar from iTunes.
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