D.R.I.’s second full-length album, Dealing with It! , was released in March 1985 on Metal Blade Records . The group toured extensively in support of the album. During the recording of the album, Josh Pappe took a leave from the band. Mikey Offender (Mikey Donaldson – bass player of The Offenders) was asked to play for the album, although Spike played bass on the songs that Donaldson did not have time to learn. The songs on Dealing with It! leaned slightly towards a metal direction, but still kept the band’s thrashcore sound. As a result, D.R.I. toured relentlessly throughout 1985 and 1986 in support of Dealing with It! , and it was on this tour that the band gained a wide audience by performing with thrash metal bands such as Slayer , Anthrax , Exodus , Overkill and Hirax , while continuing to perform with their hardcore punk peers, including Discharge , Corrosion of Conformity , Bad Brains , T.S.O.L. , JFA , Descendents , Verbal Abuse , Gang Green and Cryptic Slaughter . Also on this tour, they recorded their show at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles on April 26, 1986, and released it on video, which was entitled Live at the Olympic .
Dealing with It! released
Written by
in