Drunken Swede (druhng-kuhn sweed) 1) A way of describing the sound of a computer doing text-to-speech conversion. "Why, he sounds like a drunken Swede."; 2) 5 guys that decided that music was going to hell in a hand basket and decided to do something about it.
Drunken Swede Bio
Lead Vocals - Tony Lead Guitar\Vocals - Kevin Rhythm Guitar - Nick
Drunken Swede originated during the late 90's at Kansas State University as Trendkill (AKA "that cover band that played in that one guy's garage a couple of weeks ago"), with Kevin on rhythm guitar, Blake on bass and Ryan making a valiant, but futile, attempt at singing.
Shortly after graduation, Trendkill's lead guitarist and drummer moved on to bigger and better things, i.e. real jobs, so it was revamped into Downcast with Kevin moving to lead guitar, Ryan on the rhythm guitar, Blake crooning and Shaun joining on at bass. After going through a long, long, long list of drummers (Danny, Jason, Boink (I don't think we ever actually knew his real name), Shaun's lame attempt, and then Danny (again)), Drunken Swede was eventually morphed into its current form with the addition of Dar on drums. In October 2007, Blake left the band to further his mission of corrupting as many impressionable youth as possible and Tony joined up to pick up the lead vocal duties. This past Fall, Tbone took off to do his own thing (what that is we have yet to figure out) and this winter Nick took over on rhythm guitar.
Along the way, the band has developed a small, but very loyal following (mostly wives, girlfriends and friends that we have incriminating Polaroids of) by playing in various basements, garages and, occasionally, outside on the back of a flatbed trailer. Drunken Swede made its official Kansas City club scene debut in May 2006.
This page last updated 06/22/2009 13:46
