In 1999 Scott Martin and Mike Adams started drunkdude69 with the goal of combining their interests in different musical styles (rock, reggae, ska, punk and funk) into a balanced and nutritious audio cocktail.
Musical collaborators since high school, Martin and Adams had previously written and performed in several bands including the Cleveland rock band Foonspeeders during the late 1990s. After the departure of Foonspeeder guitarist (and Mike's brother) Maurice Adams in 1999, the remaining Foonspeeders continued to perform, record and evolve. drunkdude69 represents the evolution of their musical collaboration over two decades, across multiple cities and through numerous other bands.
DD69's first release "Funk Out With Your Junk Out" has been described as "a rip through a well-stocked jukebox, with smooth funk that would have been at home on a turntable three decades ago mixing with a contemporary guitar-heavy party vibe that could have been recorded two weeks ago." The music has drawn comparisons to classic artists like Stevie Wonder and Frank Zappa, as well as contemporary rockers like Sublime and 311.
For the first album the founding drunkdudes collaborated with amazing musicians in Nashville (Jim Evans - drum wizard), Los Angeles (Maurice Adams - guitar stroker), New York (Joe "Coach" Hanna - drum pummeler) and Cleveland (Jeff Nagel - guitar noodler, Mike Holloran - percussion smacker, Jay Goodman - special sauce vocals). Recently Adams and Martin lured wizened-sage-turned-drummer Charley Newcomer and former hair metal string bender K-Billy into rounding out the full-time DD69 lineup.
Their as-yet untitled follow-up album is slated to be complete in the summer of 2010, and includes performances by many of the players that contributed to the Funk Out album.
