Produced & Edited by Rob Hatch-Miller & Puloma Basu
Director Of Photography: Paul Yee
Growing
up in the bucolic waterfront village of Northport, NY, Chuck Betz, Ryan
Naideau and Jimmy Shelton played punk rock together since high school,
in a succession of bands more than happy to set up at any house party,
BBQ or makeshift venue that would have them. The familiar strain of
classic rock is the go-to sound on the North Shore of Long Island, but
they lived in an alternate universe where Ryan convinced his parents to
let him turn the family basement into an occasional all-ages show space,
hosting touring groups, and rounding out the bill with whatever band he
and his friends were in at the time. Fast forward to 2008, the boys had
based themselves in Brooklyn and Nude Beach was born; the group slowly
integrated themselves into the local DIY community, performing in dive
bars and warehouse lofts, often several times a week, playing more than
100 shows in less than four years together. They self-released cassettes
and vinyl LPs, they booked their own tours, and played in infinite
side-projects and spin-off bands at every punk venue in North Brooklyn
and beyond.
But while Nude Beach is very much a part of the
Brooklyn DIY scene, it's always been more in spirit than in sound; sure,
they're as beer-soaked, overdriven and raw as any group around, yet as
hard as they've tried to ignore it, the trio could never quite shake the
rock & roll of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen which sound-tracked
their Long Island youth, and battered vinyl from the Byrds, the
Replacements and the Jam sits side by side in their record collections
with the hardcore and indie LPs and 7"s that brought the friends
together in the first place. In an increasingly fractured music scene,
Chuck, Ryan and Jimmy play against fashion and deliver straight up rock
& roll, and moreover, they do it better than anyone has in a long
time. They've got the songs, they've got the sound, and they've got the
f**k-all attitude that just can't be faked. Nude Beach will rock you if
you let them -- turns out, it's still more fun than just about anything
else going on.
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