Can drums

Pat entered in The Gardeners occupying the place that at first moment it would belong Kevin Marlon, a friend from others gardeners. The test that determined the entrance of Pat in the band till today it is part of the folklore of the world rock n'roll. As the group didn't have a professional drums, Gregor and Cliff set up a sketch of the instrument composed of barses to grill meat, old tires and plastic sacks among other things that would be usually in the garbage can. So much "drums" as Pat surprised the whole ones positively including to the neighbor and also member Mike Gradas who had arrived in the middle of the test coming from a trip and ever since he was settled at the position.

From stage to stage

The first times of Pat beside his new partners were difficult. As most first shows of the band was not paid or had a very low remuneration, Pat had to get used with the such "improvised" instrument. Even though he demonstrated some ability, Pat was still far away from reaching a quality pattern. Only with the purchase of a professional drums, Pat can develop and to do what was waited from a drummer to record the first singles and The Gardeners Grow Up album.

In the stick

But it was with the following album Migraine Boy which Pat could really demonstrate that had reached professional level. With the option for music faster based in the hard-rock, Rudford gave the necessary support for double Morgan/Stevens in addition doing the percussion in some tracks. The posterior album The Human Obiciclity is same to Transciding of the Nestery didn't provide him the same chances but in compensation it did with that he presented all his vigor for stages during tour that lasted one year.

Balls and ball strokes

The moving to United States soon after as part of the conquest strategy of the American market gave Rudford other life pattern. Living in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, and fan from American basketball, the drummer adapted quickly to the local lifestyle and served even as tourist guide to the colleague Gregor Stevens when he and Cliff Morgan moved for there later on. With hiper-acclaimed The Man of Yellow Cover, Pat can tests his versatility so much in studio, where there were from ballads to heavy-metal, as in the shows where the greatest Yellow Cover Tour gave him larger space being announced besides for solo numbers. Those performances could be checked when the live album The Gardeners Still Live was released. But almost at the same time in that they began to appear larger discords between Cliff and Gregor, Pat began to abuse of the drugs to get muscular mass.

Without doing none shit

In elapsing of the almost two years which band was inactive while his partners moved in parallel projects, Pat didn't produce anything of significant but he was one of the few ones to support the answered turn of Nick Willys to The Gardeners. The marriage of Rudford with medical Aldrine Benith and the group two-sizing between Cliff and Gregor during The Time's Over recordings ended up isolating the drummer. The romantic/depressive letters and the dragged melodies of this disc covered his weak participation and the fact who was totally out in way due to the use of the anabolizants. This was proven in the exhibition of the show acoustic recorded for MTV in that later would take name as The Gardeners Unplugged.

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