Whatever ethical concerns you may have with the Drunk Dial approach- get bands to spend some time in the studio, feed them intoxicants and let them write and record a new song and a cover, I am sure that participation until now has been completely voluntary and that no serious harm was done. I am even more certain of the quality of the series. We are up to #11 and no duds were discovered yet. Episode 11 features the mighty Steve Adamyk Band. That name comes with certain expectations, and Adamyk does not disappoint. Perhaps it’s the high level of previous installments that sets a bar that successive bands want to achieve. I mean, who wants to be that band to break the certified freshness of an awesome series. Or perhaps, it’s just the musical talents of Steve Adamyk, who was joined for this session by David Forcier.
Drunk Dial #11 in some ways is a departure in approach for the Drunk Dial series. It wasn’t born out of intent nor force had to be used by the label. The backstory is pretty straightforward. In the Summer of 2021, Adamyk and Forcier split a case of Corona and then made the spontaneous decions to record two songs. A month later they offered it to Drunk Dial Records who gladly accepted the gift. Installment #11 is also different because it is the first in the series to feature two covers and no original. Not a problem of course, because everything Adamyk touches starts to sound like a Steve Adamyk Band song right? The A-side is a cover of Do You Wanna Know by Belgian punk legends The Kids. The flipside has Slip Away, a new version of a song Adamyk wrote and recorded in his Sedatives years.
Another one in the books for Drunk Dial Records, and #12 has already been recorded. Wanna guess who the next artist is? Drop it in the comments. I won’t give any hints, but I for one am excited!
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