Rude Band

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The Rude Band

On any given night you can find them playing "Callin Baton Rouge" and moving right on to "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and then the most recent Nickelback hit. Not too long after that it's a five song non-stop dance marathon that includes "Girls Just wanna Have Fun", "Walk Like an Egyptian", Poker Face" (Did we mention that there aren't any girls in the band?), Hot, Hot, Hot, & Low. Closing the night one can expect to hear Zac Brown, AC/DC & Sir Mix-A-Lot.... Or something completely different...

No genre is off limits, No era is untouched, No Hit is out of reach

Their songlist is one of the most varied in the business and people love it. If you walked in off the street and heard them for the first time playing just one Country, Rock or Dance hit, you could easily assume that they were born to play that kind of music and then get completely thrown when they play something so completely different.

Chalk it up to Genius or simply ADD, you never know exactly what you're going to hear when you go to a Rude Band show.

The Rude Band plays an almost non-stop four hour show, with only one break. By the end of the night you may be wondering if you should start working out.

For 19 years, The Rude Band has been packing bars, ballrooms, street dances, colleges & fairs. With concert quality sound & lighting production, it's hard to believe that they can be that good.


If you haven't seen the Rude Band, what are you waiting for?

Instrumentation

Greg Kleinsasser - Vocals, Guitar, keyboards
Garret Hansen - Vocals, Guitar
Trace Mahoney - Vocals, Bass
Tyson Conn - Vocals, Drums

Discography

Warts & All
Release Date:January 01, 2007
Label:Rude Band
Length:53:18
Synopsis
Selected live songs from 2000

1 Still The One
2 Tainted Love
3 Funky Town
4 Jessie's Girl
5 Working for The Weekend
6 Summer of 69
7 Relax
8 Hot Hot Hot
9 Stuck In The Middle
10 Jump In The Line
11 Any Way You Want It
12 Rosanna
13 Walking On The Sun

Shots and Beer
Release Date:January 01, 2007
Label:Rude Band
Length:55:00
Synopsis
Selected Live Recordings from 2005

1 Superstition
2 Harder To Breathe
3 3 AM
4 Keep Your Hands To Yourself
5 Any Way You Want It
6 New Sensation
7 Land Down Under
8 Sweet Home Alabama
9 Just What I Needed
10 Hit That
11 Smooth
12 Kryptonite
13 Play That Funky Music
14 Don't Stop Believing

Official Website

http://www.rudeband.ws

Links

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Audio

• Play That Funky Music
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• Superstition
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• Jump In The Line
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• Calling Baton Rouge
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Video

Rude Band 2 Minute Promotional Video

Rude Band 10 Minute Promotional Video

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Press

• The Rude Band is not even rude [+ Show ]
  

  Ask the Rude Band’s Garret Hansen the key to his band’s success and the Sioux Falls-based guitarist ...Ask the Rude Band’s Garret Hansen the key to his band’s success and the Sioux Falls-based guitarist will give you a straight-forward answer.
  
  “We play songs chicks dig,” he said. “If you please the women in the audience, the guys will fall in line.”
  
  “That’s always been our philosophy,” Hansen explained. “and it’s been working for us for the last 18 years.”
  
  The Rude Band will be bringing their blend of poppy, chick-friendly music to South Sioux City’s the Huddle Sports Bar on Fri., Jan. 1 and Sat., Jan. 2.
  
  An original member, Hansen began playing guitar when the band was called “Maxx Boogie & the Rude Awakening.” When the band’s founding frontman, radio DJ Maxx Boogie (aka Kevin Flynn) left the group, Hansen continued with Rude Awakening. For the past two-and-a-half years, Hansen (along with Greg Kleinsasser, Trace Mahoney and Tyson Conn) has been a part of the re-named Rude Band.
  
  “This is one band that has never stopped playing,” Hansen said. “Since 1991, we’ve gone through 15 band members but nobody has left angry. Some may leave for career reasons or family obligations yet the band has continued to thrive.”
  
  According to Hansen, the Rude Band’s longevity is because their music continues to evolve.
  
  “You won’t find us dressing up in crazy costumes or funny hats like your run-of-the-mill lounge band,” Hansen said. “We’re a party band that plays everything and anything.”
  
  That includes having a playlist that incorporates covers from such diverse bands as Metallica and Fall Out Boy to Rascal Flatts and Blink-182.
  
  “We’re not a Top 40 band,” Hansen said. “But stylistically, our sounds changes every year.”
  
  When Brian Setzer and bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brought swing back for a revival, the Rude Band followed their lead. Likewise, when dance music returned to the mainstream, Hansen’s band boogied down that road as well.
  
  “We’ve always considered ourselves a band without a genre,” Hansen said. “That’s what keep our sound fresh.”
  
  It’s also what keeps the 44-year-old guitarist going after two decades of playing in a band. As a teenager, Hansen remembers listening to more than his share of Bay City Rollers, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and the Steve Miller Band.
  
  “I’ve always been attracted to the ‘pop’ side of music, I guess,” he said. “If the music has a harmony and a melody, I love it.”
  
  This falls in line with the band’s music, which, according to Hansen, is guaranteed to get audiences onto the dance floor.
  
  “You can never go wrong with Journey’s ‘Separate Ways,’ Bryan Adams’ ‘Summer of ‘69’ and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s ‘Fishing in the Dark,’” he said. “Those were the first songs the band learned to play when we started and they’re still the ones we play today.”
  
  Yet Hansen, the father of twin 8-year-old boys, is not afraid to mix things up.
  
  “At home, my family watches a lot of the Disney Channel,” he said. “Perhaps that’s why songs by the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus are turning up on our playlist.”
  
  But that’s on par for a genre-defying band like the Rude Band.
  
  “Believe it or not, we’ve just learned how to cover (Lady Gaga’s) ‘Pokerface,’” Hansen said, smiling. “That’s a little bit out there for us but it’s still exhilarating to master.”
  
  Hansen said while other bands may turn up their noses at such frothy songs, it’s just “a part of the gig” for his band.
  
  “We’re not in (the music business) for the art,” he explained. “We’re in it to make people happy.”
  
  The Details
  
  Who: The Rude Band
  
  Where: The Huddle
  
  When: Fri., Jan. 1 and Sat., Jan. 2. at 8:30 p.m.

Setlist

All The Small Things Blink 182
I Want You To Weezer
Kryptonite 3 Doors Down
This Aint A Scene Fall Out Boy
Sugar We're Going Down Fallout Boy
Paralyzer Finger Eleven
I Don't Wanna Be Gavin Degraw
21 Guns Green Day
Basket Case Green Day
Know Your Enemy Green Day
I'm Yours Jason Mraz
Be My Girl Jet
Tik Tok Ke$ha
Let It Rock Kevin Rudolf
All Summer Long Kid Rock
Sex On Fire Kings of Leon
Poker Face Lady Ga Ga
My Own Worst Enemy Lit
3AM Matchbox 20
Bright Lights Matchbox 20
Haven't Met You Michael Buble
Uprising Muse
Burn It To The Ground Nickleback
Gotta Be Somebody Nickleback
Rock Star Nickleback
Banditos Refreshments
Bartender Song Rehab
Bad Girlfriend Theory of a Dead Man
Hey Soul Sister Train
Billionaire Travie McCoy
Beverly Hills Weezer
Seven Nation Army White Stripes
Hot Hot Hot Buster Poindexter
Jump In The Line Cherry Poppin Daddies
Cupid Shuffle Cupid
September Earth Wind & Fire
Low Flo-Rida
Relax Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Get Down Tonight KC & The Sunshine Band
Celebration Kool & The Gang
Let's Go Crazy Prince
Funky Town Psuedo Echo
Livin La Vida Loca Rick Martin
Baby Got Back Sir Mix-A-Lot
Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
Superstition Wonder, Stevie
Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy Big & Rich
Callin Baton Rouge Brooks, Garth
Guitars an Caddilacs Dwight Yoakum
Folsom Prison Johnny Cash
Better Life Keith Urban
Kiss A Girl Keith Urban
Raining On Sunday Keith Urban
Somebody Like You Keith Urban
Till Summer Comes Keith Urban
Boondocks Little Big Town
All You Ever Mavericks
Fishin' In The Dark Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Life Is a Highway Rascal Flatts
Chicken Fried Zac Brown Band
Toes Zac Brown Band
Love Shack B-52's
Hard To Handle Black Crowes
Unbelievable EMC
When I Come Around Green Day
MmmBop Hanson
Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots
Hold On Loosely .38 Special
Have A Drink On Me AC/DC
Hells Bells AC/DC
Shoot To Thrill AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long Ac/dc
Summer of '69 Adams, Bryan
Walk Like an Egyptian Bangles
Just What I Needed Cars
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Cyndi Lauper
Photograph Def Leppard
Pour Some Sugar On Me Def Leppard
Rock of Ages Def Leppard
Keep Your Hands To Yourself Georgia Satellites
New Sensation INXS
Hurts So Good John Cougar
Don't Stop Believing Journey
Seperate Ways Journey
Working For The Weekend Loverboy
Your Love Outfield
Talk Dirty To Me Poison
Jessie's Girl Springfield, Rick
Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan
What I Like About You The Romantics
Blister In The Sun Violent Femmes
Here I Go Again Whitesnake
Highway to Hell AC/DC
Rock and Roll Fantasy Bad Company
Peace of Mind Boston
I Want You To Want Me Cheap Trick
Sweet Caroline Diamond, Neil
Margaritaville Jimmy Buffet
Any Way You Want It Journey
Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd
Brown Eyed Girl Morrison, Van
Cecilia Simon & Garfunkel
Stuck In The Middle Stealers Wheel
Jet Airliner Steve Miller Band
Renegade Styx
I Saw Her Standing There The Beatles

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