Guy Mann-Dude is an American musician who was best known in the late 1980s and early 1990s after his eponymous band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1988. He played guitar for the Michael Angelo Band before going solo and was part of the supergroup the Dudes of Wrath in 1989. He worked as a musician and producer in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, collaborating with Miloš "Dodo" Doležal on two albums.
Born Guy Shiffman,[citation needed] he was a professional drummer for ten years before learning to play guitar.[citation needed] He toured with the lead singer of Yes, Jon Anderson, for his 1982 Animation Tour.[citation needed]
In the 1990s, Shiffman studied jazz and classical piano with Terry Trotter. He went on to score cartoons, movie shorts, and a film.[citation needed]
Shiffman met Czech guitarist Miloš "Dodo" Doležal in Los Angeles while the latter was studying there, and Doležal invited him to return to Czechoslovakia with him. Shiffman contributed to Doležal's second solo album, Dráždivý Dotek (1992), and in 1994, they recorded an album together, titled Miloš Dodo Doležal/Guy Mann-Dude,[2] which included drums by session drummer Gregg Bissonette. Shiffman produced a few bands in the Eastern European nation, and his album Mannic Distortion was recorded and issued there.
