Ohio Lottery Post-Game Concert featuring Yacht Rock Revue
presented by Dunkin'
As part of the Ohio Lottery Post-Game Concert Series, Yacht Rock Revue will perform a live concert from the field. Free to all fans with a game ticket.
Ohio Lottery Post-Game Concert featuring Yacht Rock Revue
presented by Dunkin'
As part of the Ohio Lottery Post-Game Concert Series, Yacht Rock Revue will perform a live concert from the field. Free to all fans with a game ticket.
This special package includes an exclusive yacht captainās hat plus your ticket to the August 18 game. Packages are limited, so reserve yours today!
*Offer subject to availability. Must purchase your August 18 game ticket through this special offer to receive the hat.
Hats will be available for pickup on August 18 near Gapper's Alley (Terrace Level near section 120) until the bottom of the fourth inning.
What is left for Yacht Rock Revue to prove? This top-notch group of musicians has already rocked onstage with John Oates, Eddie Money (RIP), and both versions of the band Player. Theyāve trademarked the term āyacht rock,ā both metaphorically and literally (U.S. Registration Number 3834195). From humble beginnings in a basement, touring in partnership with Live Nation and Sirius XM, they now headline sold-out shows across the country, from Webster Hall in New York to the Wiltern in L.A. While rising from bars to amphitheaters, t heyāve ticked every box on the Rock Star Accomplishments bingo card. Except for one: Writing and singing their own songs.
Yacht Rock Revueās first original record is ten songs inspired by the smoooooth sounds of the Seventies and Eighties. Theyāve brazenly titled it Hot Dads In Tight Jeans ā forgive them for bragging, but thatās what they are ā and it returns Yacht Rock Revue to their roots in original music. Itās rare that musicians in their 40s chase their rock star dreams. Youād have to be crazy to try. YRR knew they were underdogs, but resolved to take one more shot at the Top 40, and maybe even become a Cinderella story of midlife fulfillment.
Yacht Rock Revue began in the least-yachtiest of states, 2,000 miles from breezy Marina del Rey. Nick Niespodziani, the groupās singer, guitarist and spiritual leader, and Pete Olson met in the fourth grade in suburban Indiana, went on to Indiana University in the late Nineties, formed the band Y-O-U, then escaped ā Rupert Holmes reference intended ā to Atlanta. One night, Y-O-U tucked their tongues deep in their cheeks and played a show of Yacht Rock songs. The rowdy (a nice way of saying drunk), sold-out crowd loved it. When the club owner asked them to do it again, Niespodziani didnāt want to. But the club owner had an ace up his sleeve: money.
Over the years, YRR (thereās also a Dave, a Greg, and literally three guys named Mark) have turned themselves into human wine spritzers, playing 120 to 150 shows a year, mastering Yacht Rockās slick chords and mellow grooves, and partying like itās 1979. What began as a joke among friends soon put a ripple in the zeitgeist, starting a national trend through YRRās concerts, lauded as āunabashedly joyous affairsā by Entertainment Weekly. They accumulated an extensive wardrobe of white belts and polyester shirts. Yacht Rock Revue were revered and well-compensated! Their life was a tenor sax solo! This is what every musician wants.
But even as YRR was sailing the smooth seas of tribute-band superstardom, and the band members all became dads, Niespodziani was still writing original songs. These new tunes had the spirit of Yacht Rock, but were more modern ā akin to Phoenix or Air, the hip bands that adapted Yacht for a younger audience. They brought the songs to a hot producer, Ben Allen, whoās worked with Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, and Neon Indian. Allen gave the songsa lustrous shine, for both new audiences and their ever-loyal fans, the Nation of Smooth. Niespodziani and Olson even co-wrote a song, āBig Bang,ā with Yacht Rock master Matthew Wilder, famous for his massive 1983 hit āBreak My Stride.ā
āStep,ā the recordās first single, is a peppy number replete with falsetto and bumping bass, a cross between the Bee Gees and Steely Danās āPeg.ā Itās also the mission statement for the album in a way, because itās about deciding who you want to be, and making space for that in your life. The seven-piece band display tight chops, and the songs incorporate Yacht Rock Revueās sense of humor, especially on the funky, pro-margarita āBad Tequila,ā the flute-fired āAnother Song About California,ā and opening track āThe Doobie Bounce,ā where Niespodziani brags, āI used to sleep on couches/Now I sleep on nicer couches.ā
Hot Dads In Tight Jeans is as plush and shiny as Kenny Logginsā beard. And YRR are already dropping these new songs into their sets, to great response from longtime fans who are thrilled to hear new smooth. While others in YRRās position stick with the tried-and-true, Niespodziani hopes the album will let them welcome aboard new fans, too. To paraphrase a notable marinerā¦ theyāre gonna need a bigger yacht.
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