![]() "Even though the kind of music we were playing was really out of place in Boone, we'd still get really good crowds at the gigs because there's just not a lot to do there," says Brose. Original songs began to be worked up and the band started playing at outside house parties and at the town's handful of bars. Then we'd just play it loud and quiet until we pissed off the neighbors." "We'd learn one riff-the main riff from 'Green Onions' was the first, I think. "We were loud and bad," remembers Merrill. When Castillo's parents vacated their rural lake house for the summer, the six moved in together, Monkees-style, and began hosting drunken public jams there while they figured out how to make music-often getting naked along the way. "We got into the Animals and early Stones first from hearing them on the classic rock station and from some of our parents' record collections, then we started looking up stuff on Spotify that was related or kinda had that sound."Īlthough several of the group's members had known each other in high school and some had met as students at Appalachian State University when they decided to start a band, only Magee and Couture had previously played instruments bizarrely, given the Nude Party's lo-fi sound, Couture had been in a short-lived band called Carson that featured "American Idol" contestant Taisha Bethea on lead vocals. "Yeah, I guess that's sorta true," says Magee. So how, then, did the boys bump into such arcane, nonmainstream inspirations when the local college station runs a "commercial alternative" format and the closest major underground rock scenes are hours away? The answer, of course, is the internet, and one posits the band wouldn't exist as such without it millennials who've grown up with the ability to instantly access and listen to pretty much anything have had their tastes shaped in polyglot ways unimaginable to previous generations. The birthplace of Nude Party is the remote Blue Ridge Mountains town of Boone, home to the late Doc Watson and a thriving bluegrass culture but by no means a nurturing hive for garage rock. Free your mind and your (bare) ass will follow. Throw in an irreverent sense of fun and more recent Velvet Underground, Modern Lovers, and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd influences-your music editor also hears the classic San Francisco stylings of the first Country Joe & the Fish album and early Grateful Dead-and top it all with the contemporary psych of the Black Angels and the Allah-Las, and what you have is a lysergic, dance-friendly concoction full of freaky, feelin'-fine grooves. The sextet came together in 2013 around a shared love of partying and British Invasion sounds. The band, whose members are all between 23 and 25 years old, also features drummer Connor Mikita, bassist Alec Castillo, percussionist Austin Brose, and keyboardist Zachary Merrill. "We want people to focus more on that." While the nudity has been shelved, the weirdness, thankfully, remains. ![]() "We've started to care more about the songs," explains guitarist Shaun Couture. The former practice, though, has ceased, at least for the time being, as the six-piece psychedelic/garage rock outfit weathers its first butt-freezing Hudson Valley winter since relocating here over the summer. "It was just, you know, to be weird."īeing nude and weird were central to the Nude Party's branding when they began performing in their native North Carolina. It was never anything sexual," says singer and guitarist Patton Magee about the activity that inspired his band's name: performing in the buff. The Nude Party outside their Livingston Manor farmhouse (l-r): Patton Magee, Alec Castillo, Austin Brose, Shaun Couture, Connor Mikita, Zachary Merrill.The MLS may, at its discretion, require use of other disclaimers as necessary to protect Participants and/or the MLS from liability. The total number of renter households within the zip code of is 0, which means that 0.00% of households in this zipcode are owner occupant households.ĭisclaimer: Listing broker has attempted to offer accurate data, but buyers/lessees are advised to confirm all information IDX information is provided exclusively for consumers' personal, non-commercial use that it may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing, and that data is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed accurate by the MLS. The total number of households in the zip code of Hudson is 0, with an average household size for of 0.00 people. ![]() Of the available City Retreats inventory. The average list price per square foot of the available inventory in City Retreats is $0, which is above the Hudson average of $0. There are currently Homes for Sale within City Retreats, with asking prices ranging from $0 to $0. City Retreats is a subdivision within the city of Hudson, Florida.
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