Yacht Rock isn’t just a music category of modern documentary making, it’s a spirited way of life for Nick Niespodziani, founding member of Yacht Rock Revue who tells early adopter and sailor hat cruise fan Nestor about the real history and ethos of the greatest tribute band in America. Go steal away with them at the new Baltimore Soundstage on Sunday, September 21st.
Nestor Aparicio interviews Nick Niespodziani of Yacht Rock Revue about the band’s history and success. Yacht Rock Revue, a tribute band from Atlanta, has been performing for 18 years, starting with weekly shows in a local club. They gained popularity by playing 70s hits and evolved their name from “dentist office mix” to “Yacht Rock.” The band has performed with notable artists like Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, and has had memorable shows in New York and Las Vegas. They recently released an album of original songs and continue to tour, with upcoming performances in Baltimore and other cities.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attend the Yacht Rock Revue show at Baltimore Soundstage on Sunday night.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Watch the “Yacht Rock” documentary, which features a brief cameo of the band.
History and Origin of Yacht Rock Revue
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the segment, mentioning his long-time admiration for Yacht Rock Revue and their 70s music.
- Nestor recalls his first encounter with the band at a wedding-like event, where they played songs by Steely Dan and Hall & Oates.
- Nestor expresses his excitement about the band’s return to Baltimore and his admiration for their success.
- Nestor welcomes Nick Niespodziani, the leader of Yacht Rock Revue, and praises the band’s ability to make wives happy.
Early Days and Evolution of Yacht Rock Revue
- Nick Niespodziani shares that their first Yacht Rock show was about 18 years ago, and the band has grown slowly over the years.
- Nick explains the band’s initial concept of “dentist office mix,” a collection of 70s one-hit wonders, which evolved into the Yacht Rock show.
- The band’s first Yacht Rock show sold out, leading to weekly performances at a club in Atlanta.
- Nick describes the band’s diverse musical background, including their first band, Y, O, U, which had some success but eventually disbanded.
Influence of Yacht Rock TV Series
- Nick recounts how the band’s name and concept were inspired by the TV series “Yacht Rock.”
- The band renamed their show to “Yacht Rock” and found immediate success, leading to weekly performances.
- The band’s growth outgrew the small club, and they had to find a larger venue to accommodate their audience.
- Nick emphasizes the band’s commitment to playing these songs with passion and detail, which sets them apart from other tribute bands.
Expansion and Addition of Female Singers
- Nestor recalls seeing the band grow in size and complexity over the years, including the addition of female singers.
- Nick explains the addition of Keisha and Courtney, a mother-daughter duo, to the band about six or seven years ago.
- Keisha had previously sung with artists like Erykah Badu, and her daughter Courtney brings a unique dynamic to the band.
- Nick mentions that Keisha is currently on medical leave but hopes to return soon.
Interactions with Original Artists
- Nick shares stories of interactions with original artists, such as Mike Mills from R.E.M. and members of Looking Glass and Player.
- The band has developed close relationships with these artists, who have come to appreciate their dedication to the music.
- Nick recounts a memorable performance with Melissa Manchester, who sang with the band for the first time.
- The band’s respectful approach to the music has earned them the respect of many original artists.
Impact of Yacht Rock Revue on the Music Industry
- Nestor reflects on the band’s impact on the music industry, including their ability to sell out shows and perform at prestigious venues.
- Nick discusses the band’s approach to playing these songs with passion and detail, which sets them apart from other tribute bands.
- The band’s success has led to opportunities to perform with other well-known artists, such as Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald.
- Nick emphasizes the importance of maintaining a wide definition of Yacht Rock to keep their performances fresh and exciting.
Upcoming Performances and Future Plans
- Nestor promotes the band’s upcoming performance at the Baltimore Soundstage, encouraging listeners to attend.
- Nick shares his excitement about the band’s upcoming shows, including a performance at the Santa Barbara Bowl with Kenny Loggins.
- The band has plans to continue touring and performing at various venues, maintaining their dedication to the music.
- Nick expresses gratitude for the band’s success and the support of their fans.
Personal Reflections and Final Thoughts
- Nestor shares his personal connection to the band, mentioning his long-time admiration and support for Yacht Rock Revue.
- Nick reflects on the band’s journey, from their early days to their current success, and expresses gratitude for the fans’ support.
- The conversation ends with Nestor encouraging listeners to support the band and attend their performances.
- Nick thanks Nestor for the opportunity to share their story and expresses his excitement for future shows.
Nick Niespodziani of Yacht Roc…re Baltimore Soundstage cruise
Tue, Sep 16, 2025 6:49PM • 24:15
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Yacht Rock Revue, tribute band, 70s music, Baltimore Soundstage, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates, REO Speedwagon, Kenny Loggins, PBS special, Keisha and Courtney, cover band, original songs, live performances, fan engagement, music industry.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Nick Niespodziani
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We’re taking the Maryland crab cake tour out on the road. Um, and you guys know, even in football season, I like to rock, and one of my hair is down in the segment, there’s business, and there’s, there’s then, then there’s pleasure. This is going to be a pleasure segment, a pleasure cruise, if you will. I came across this band before the words yacht and rock were ever put together, about a decade ago, my buddy Ethan Giffin shout out. Groove commerce put together an affair. I think about a wedding. I don’t even know. I think it was in a guy. I don’t even know what the hell it was, but Ethan invited me and said, there’s this band they’re going to play like 70s music. They’re called yacht rock review. And I went down, and there were these strange characters who had hair then, like my hair is now, which is more 70s. And in character, little Van Halen, little Robert Plant, maybe 80s for me right now, but they had shaggy hair, and they played Steely Dan and hauling Oates and songs we loved, and we danced and we had the best time ever. And I’m like, that might catch on. This is kind of a cool band. I hope they do well. They were nice guys. We enjoyed each other at the buffet all these years later, I’m standing in line in Las Vegas to get in to see him. I couldn’t even get a ticket in New York five weeks ago to see them up on the rooftop, and my wife had to fight to get in up at the Hampton Beach casino, and they’re coming back to Baltimore. And if you have not experienced yacht rock review, I am. I’m thrilled. I’m as thrilled to have you on as I was to have Todd Rundgren or or Rick Emmett or any of the rock stars I’ve had in recent weeks, Nick Nestor, Johnny, and I don’t even know how to pronounce his last name. These are just the yacht rock dudes of Atlanta, GA and that now have gone on. I’ve seen you, guy, dude, I’ve seen you open for training REO Speedwagon in Philly. I’ve seen you at the House of Blues in Vegas. I love your band, and it is a pleasure to have you on. Thanks for doing what you do, which makes my wife so happy.
Nick Niespodziani 02:00
We love making wives happy. That’s our specialty. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 02:04
yeah, I would say that night in Philadelphia last summer kind of got away from us. You know, I love your band, and I don’t know a damn thing about your band other than what I just told you, which is, I met you, your bass player, all of you around the buffet at Little Havana a long, long time ago, where I would have to think that a decade later to have you on my radio show, and what I’ve been doing for 35 years would and the journey that you’ve been on from that night at the buffet, you do tell dude, because, like you guys have really made something out of something really interesting.
Nick Niespodziani 02:39
Our first yacht rock show was about 18 years ago, and we have been building it very, kind of slowly, like it seems like we’ve, you know, shot up to the top, but it’s been, you know, baby steps all the way, as people have discovered what yacht rock is about and what we’re about, and it’s been fun to be on the ride. You know, for this long, it’s been super cool.
Nestor Aparicio 03:01
Well, even that first night, I don’t think anybody even had captain’s hats going yacht rock. There’s been a lot of debate about this, and I will fully throw myself on the court of public opinion that I save TV shows, you know, like I haven’t watched the yacht rock thing yet on I just haven’t, I know Steely Dan, F you, by the way, I got my belt buckle collection out here. Just to let you know, I brought the Steely Dan early I got, yeah, you know, hey, 19, so um, even on am radio, not FM, but for you with yacht rock and a name and a genre, where’s the first time you heard those two words together?
Nick Niespodziani 03:38
We were getting ready to do a show this club had given us every Thursday night to do anything we want in Atlanta. So we were doing, like Beatles shows, Led Zeppelin shows. We were doing, you know, Dark Side of the Moon synced up with the Wizard of Oz. We were doing our own music, but doing it with, like a soul band and a horn section. We were doing all sorts of different things, and we had this idea to do what? At the time, we called the dentist office mix. And it was all of these songs. The drummer and I, at the time, had jobs, part time, jobs at an insurance company, and we used to put on the dentist office mix to annoy the other people in the other cubicles. And it was all these 70s one hit wonders. And we had this idea, let’s do this show of just these songs and see how it goes. And then about a month before the show, we came upon the series yacht rock, which had been released, you know, six, nine months before, a year before. And we were like, Oh, this is what we’re doing. It’s yacht rock. And so we just renamed the show yacht rock, and the first one sold out, and the club owner said, you’ve got to do this again. And so we did, and then he said, you need to do this every Thursday, which we thought was a terrible idea, but we did, and four years later, we had been doing it every Thursday, and built it up to a point where it was too big to play in a little basement club anymore. So that was kind of the. Genesis of it. It was all very happenstance, accidental.
Nestor Aparicio 05:05
Well, so dent, dentist office music. What? What songs were the first five, just from your your the ones that you wanted to learn and play. I mean, what kind of musician were you? Were you an REM Southern rock? Like, what kind of band were you in in high school that you thought you were going to be in?
Nick Niespodziani 05:23
It was very like somewhere in between, like power pop and like artsy psychedelic rock, like somewhere in between Weezer and Radiohead, as I would say, where our first band was, y, o, u, and we had a little bit of success. We were, like, touring around the country, and had songs on a Coca Cola commercial and on ESPN and all this stuff. But we never really, like, had made it, made it. And so we were getting to be late 20s, and realized we needed to do something else. So we had all kind of started other jobs, or, like, I had started law school. Like we were kind of going away from music, because we didn’t. We thought we had lost. And then yacht rock ended up coming along and pulling us back into music again. But so the first five songs, I would say, Were like biggest part of me. By ambrosia.
Nestor Aparicio 06:13
I got that belt buckle. Let’s see. I’m just trying to see how many Go ahead. There’s one go
Nick Niespodziani 06:17
ahead. Keep going, baby, come back by player, for sure, Brandy by looking glass, certainly Steely Dan. I think the first Steely Dan was probably peg and I think at the time, we were really into like 10 CC. So like things we do for love and things like that. So like, our idea of what yacht rock was, is a little bit different than what the strict definition is, but we’ve always kind of played on the edges. We’ve never been fans of a strict definition, because that limits the number of songs we can play. We want to play as many different songs as possible, so we embrace a very wide definition of yacht rock.
Nestor Aparicio 06:57
When did you realize it was a thing? I mean, the night I may. I mean, I brought this up with you before we did the interview, by the way, uh, Nick NESPA, Johnny’s here. He’s with the band yacht rock review. He is the leader of the review. But it’s quite a review at this point, and a review that has grown, and I’ll get to that in a minute. But that night I met you, I thought this is quite a stick. And dude, tribute bands were big before people started dying. I’m seeing a meat low tribute band this week, and meat was a friend of mine from back in my music critic days, and I’m as excited about it as though he were alive. And I’m of that age now where, like, I got to get out and see the Eagles at the sphere, because I’ve seen them 100 times, and we’re getting to the end. I mean, Tom Petty print, just all along where we are. Billy Joel, I’m glad I went to the garden 100 times and saw him, but I love the music. I’m a sports guy, but music still fills my soul much more so than than sports and hearing these songs, and even that night, I’m like, these guys are on to something, but I never thought I’d see you open a shed with REO Speedwagon and train with 20,000 people. And I didn’t ever think that you’d highlight a rooftop in New York that every band and I went online, it was 200 bucks to get in to see you guys. I couldn’t get near Dewey Beach. I mean, you guys have really turned this into something, but I don’t know at what point you believed you could make a living versus, I don’t want to say, be rock star. I don’t want to but, but be in a place where maybe you couldn’t even have imagined you could take a fun little cover band that was kitschy and fun and awesome and a party, but I don’t think you realized it could be a party for this many people.
Nick Niespodziani 08:35
I mean, it continues to defy expectations and defy the rules of what a band like ours is supposed to do, like you’re not supposed to be able to open for REO Speedwagon and train when you’re in a quote, unquote tribute band. But I think the difference is, is that we approach these songs as though they were our own, and we sing them and play them with that level of, you know, detail oriented approach to the music with that level of passion in our performance. And I think that comes across, like, if you’re playing these songs as though they’re a joke, then it is a joke. Like, that’s not, that’s not something I would want to be involved in. You know, like, we play these songs like we wrote them and like, it’s the most important thing happening on planet Earth at the moment that we’re playing them. And I think that’s, that’s what makes our band what it is, well,
Nestor Aparicio 09:26
and I guess you have to pick songs that you feel that way about, right? I was in a cover band, and I didn’t want to sing songs I didn’t like, you know what I mean? And liking these songs for a lifetime, I mean all the songs you picked, you knew all the words and the tune and the melody 20 years ago, and now you’re playing them every night, and people I expect to hear you do if you don’t do brandy, I’m upset, right? So is my girlfriend, Brandy. But who watches our cat shout out to brandy? Because there aren’t a whole lot of brandies out there, and she’s a fine girl, and we want you, but you now, like, that’s like going and seeing the Eagles and they don’t play Desperado, right? Like, just not gonna happen for you guys, right?
Nick Niespodziani 10:00
Right? We gotta do brandy. We’ve gotta do Heart to Heart by Kenny Loggins. We’ve gotta do Africa by Toto. But the cool thing about our band is, because we’re not a tribute to just one act like we can choose 15 different Hall of note songs to play on any given night. We can choose 15 different Steely Dan songs to play on any given night. And that that kind of keeps it fresh for us and maintains, you know, I always think about surprise and delight people like it’s nice to be able to surprise people with what we do still. And I think that’s part of the secret of the show is, you know generally what you’re going to see, but we can still surprise you in lots of different ways.
Nestor Aparicio 10:41
Uh, Nick NESPA, Johnny’s here. Yacht rock is at sound stage on Sunday night. I almost forgot to mention, go see them. Go get it. If you can get in. Get in. Wear your hat, you know, lubricated before. Have a good time. Our friends a curio wellness have brought me the tastiness tour here this time. So eat something good. Come downtown. Support the new soundstage and support one of my, my absolute favorite bands, yacht rock review, whenever they play anywhere around here where we could get in. Hey, dude, how did that New York show go? Tom Dolby is a friend of mine. He played there last summer, up on the outdoor deck. Thing I like that was the one that I looked at and said, I got to go to New York and see you guys that night. You’re having all different kinds of shows and different I mean, you’re having incredible musical experiences, right?
Nick Niespodziani 11:26
Man, it’s wild like that. The feeling up on that rooftop looking out at lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge is behind you. And to have it be sold out, and to get to film, we did a PBS special there, which people, I’m not sure if it played in Baltimore, but we did an amazing PBS special there on the rooftop. And to get to have those experiences, you know, as a guy that’s older than 40, and have his band still be able to do new and exciting things like that’s not super common in the music business, so I’m liking it, loving it every step of the way.
Nestor Aparicio 12:01
Well, I think for me, with the, you know, the sold out performances and people coming down and having a good time, you said, you always have surprises. And maybe it was two years ago, or year and a half ago, I was at Las Vegas, and you were playing, and it was the House of Blues. It was a Thursday night. I was out there for some business, and I just walked up, bought a ticket outside for 40 bucks, and walked into the theater, and I walked in, you guys went stage, and I’m like, hey, the band grew. There’s like, women and singers and things and songs, and do tell that part of the story, because I don’t really know that part. And I said to my wife, the band grew, and now we’ve seen you a couple times that you went out on the road last summer with REO and with train. You know, that’s a different part of the ensemble that you can even spread and make it bigger and give it more of a full sound, right?
Nick Niespodziani 12:49
Yeah, we added Keisha and Courtney. They’re a mother and daughter duo. We added them, I don’t know, six or seven years ago, maybe longer than that. We had known Keisha for a while, and she had come from singing with Erica Badu and outcast and all these incredible legends, and we linked up with her on a random corporate gig, and ended up like becoming fast friends. And she joined up and brought along her daughter, Courtney. Keisha has been out for the last year. She had a a brain injury, actually, and so she’s still out on medical leave, but we’re she’s on her way back, and we’re hoping we can get her back, you know, sometime soon. So right now, it’s just Courtney, but Courtney adds such an incredible dynamic, you know, to have that, that female power, that female energy, come take the center of the stage and and take things in a different direction, just opens up a different part of the yacht rock catalog for us, and we’ve really enjoyed that you
Nestor Aparicio 13:45
guys get along better than hauling oats do, right? I mean, let me know that, right? I mean, you add a character here, just as a fan, aren’t you a little bummed about that? I mean, as we get older, I mean, you sing your songs every night. Don’t you want to think that that that Hall and Oates can love each other,
Nick Niespodziani 14:01
man, it’s too bad. It really is too bad we’ve we’ve met John a couple of times, and gotten to play with John on stage, and he is a sweetheart, and we got along great with him. We never met Darryl. But I would hope that someday those guys could come back together, because what they created together is is historic. And hopefully at some point there will be some positive closure for them.
Nestor Aparicio 14:25
Well, as a good southern man, you’re Nick NESPA Johnny’s in Atlanta, Georgia. You know the REM guys randomly show up at tribute bands. And I know I’ve had a couple of the tribute band guys on where, like Mike Mills has shown up and and don’t, don’t go back to rockville with him, or whatever it for you the first time it happened for you. And again, dude, you don’t know me from Jack, and I’ve seen your band 15 times over the last dozen years or so in various places, but when I started following you, you barely had a YouTube video so I could look you up, like literally didn’t even have a web page, you know. And. Find out, like where you played, or did these guys played like in the South? Do they go out on weekends for benders and play three day weekends? Well, you know, I plan a weekend in Charleston, I’ll go see him play or whatever. That’s where I was with you 10 years ago. And then there became the point where, like YouTube and the internet became like, the people that you were singing songs for started showing up on stage for you, and then you started throwing this Atlanta party every year, which I quite frankly, thought about coming down and being a part of, and still would consider, I like Atlanta, I like the South. I like grits. Give me that part of tribute band, and who’s here to see us what they want to get on stage. They like that. We sing their songs. Because some of these bands, and I’m holding fire, fall up here. I got some Pablo Cruz. You know, some of the one hit wonders. Maybe Darryl Hall doesn’t care that you do his music, but I know a lot of the artists have been really pleased that you’ve kept the spirit of their music alive in some way.
Nick Niespodziani 15:54
Yeah, we’ve done Pablo we’ve played with Pablo Cruz a couple of times. We actually just earlier this year, we’re in Louisville, during the Derby, we were playing an amphitheater there, and Mike Mills was in town, and he came and sat in and sang the pina colada song with us. I mean, it was amazing. It was amazing to have like, the coolest indie guy come up and sing escape the pina colada song. It was, it was epic. But at the very beginning, as this was getting big, we were like, well, what would be even more ridiculous? Oh, if we actually found some of these guys and had them come out on stage with us. And so we started inviting them, and most of them were pretty skeptical. At first, they were like, Is this a joke? Are these guys making fun of me? Are they going to do my song justice? And as soon as they got, you know, into the rehearsal or onto the stage with us, they quickly realized, you know, who we were and what we were bringing to the table, and their attitudes all changed like that, and a bunch of them have become really good friends. You know, Elliot from looking glass, Walter Egan, Robbie, Dupree, Peter Beckett from player we hang with those guys almost on a yearly basis. They come to a show here or there and sit in. Just earlier this year in Los Angeles, we had Melissa Manchester come sit in for the first time, which was super cool. But it’s always an honor and definitely an adrenaline rush, because you’re up there playing a song that you’ve played a bunch of times, but when it’s the voice of brandy, you’re a fine girl, and he sings, there’s a whole you know, I can’t sing it like he sings it.
Nestor Aparicio 17:24
When I saw Robbie Dupree show up with you guys, I’m like, Hey, I’m happy he’s alive. B I’ve loved that song since I bought it on 45 and whatever 1977 or whatever it was, because I’m of that era. I’m 57 I grew up on 40 fives with all of these bands. I bought the 45 some of them, I bought the albums I think you guys should do Nick Gilder, hot child in the city. We’ve done it. Okay? I like, I’m just thinking of other one, hit wonders that I’ve never heard you done that. What am I gonna yell at you that you haven’t done? Like, seriously, is there a song that you’re beating everybody’s ass in the band say we’re gonna do this song and you’re getting pushed because who would push back on any of these songs you? They’re all appropriate? Is the word I would use for yacht rock review.
Nick Niespodziani 18:04
Nobody pushes back usually. I mean, because I’m usually tending towards songs that are outside the genre, that are like massive hits, like Total Eclipse of the Heart, or like, you know, random things like that. A lot of times, the guys in the band will ask me about singing like the seventh most popular Firefall song or something you know that I that even I’m not familiar with, and I’ll have to dial it back and be like, I mean, that’s great, but most of the people in the audience aren’t going to recognize this song. So we have to always have, there’s, like, a certain level of familiarity that has to be maintained.
Nestor Aparicio 18:38
We right? I mean, yeah, all right,
Nick Niespodziani 18:42
yeah. I mean, we’re doing sexy eyes right now by Dr hook, which is a little bit of a deeper cut, but I think most people know that song right, like, I think it’s familiar enough.
Nestor Aparicio 18:53
Well, you gotta keep it interesting for yourselves, right? I mean, do you write anything original or, I mean, do you didn’t have time to do any of
Nick Niespodziani 18:59
that we do. We just released an album last year called Escape Artist. It’s a double album of all our own songs with one cover we did a ukulele and Courtney vocal cover of steel away, but the rest of it is all our own songs, and we’re we’re quite proud of it. One of the songs, actually, that we perform at our show is called Tropical illusion. And we, we wrote it with Elliot Lurie from looking glass, the guy that wrote brandy, you’re a fine girl. He we were on a gig together, and he said, Hey, man, we should, we should do a song together. And we did, and it ended up being this, like, total kind of stoner beach jam called Tropical illusion, and it’s, it’s really fun to play. The audience really reacts nicely to it. Well, I’ll
Nestor Aparicio 19:45
react nicely to it on Sunday night when you guys come into my hometown of Baltimore, what do you remember about the Ethan Giffen gig at the from groove commerce at Little Havana? Was that a typical game? It wasn’t typical. I mean, like, he brought you in from Atlanta for that gig, like. Is a one. I remember all of this. And I’m like, Who are these guys? And I mean, what were you even doing at that point? But you do remember coming to Baltimore and playing a gig, right?
Nick Niespodziani 20:09
Oh yeah. That was one of our first one, probably our second or third travel private event that we did. And that was the point where, you know, the other singer, Peter, and I were still driving the van like we didn’t have any crew at all. It was just the band, and we were bringing our own stuff and loading it all in and setting it up and running our own sound and all of that. I mean, that was very, very early days, but I remember connecting with Ethan, and he’s always been, been the Baltimore connection. We also we played Baltimore soundstage probably two or three years
Nestor Aparicio 20:42
after that, I saw you there that it was a sweaty ass night there. I walked out of there
Nick Niespodziani 20:46
very sweaty. And I remember, I remember that one being really good, but we didn’t have it was the time before that that we had Bobby Kimball from toto singing with us in Baltimore. Were you at that show? No, I was not at that. We did a little run of shows with Bobby Kimball. That and that was wild. Bobby Kimball was a character. He was a lot of fun.
Nestor Aparicio 21:07
All right. So the last thing, two last things for you, I am literally flying tomorrow to, by the time people hear this, I will have seen the who at the Hollywood Bowl with, with, with Joe Perry and Chris Robinson fronting the band. I almost came to Santa Barbara to see you guys play with Kenny Loggins at the Santa Barbara bowl. They’re a couple bucket list places. I’m going to the Celebrity Theater this weekend as well, in Phoenix, Arizona, which is a circle theater, very reminiscent of the painters mill theater here of where I saw Frankie Valley in 1979 you know. But, but the Kenny Loggins run for you. We only mention that, and I need to mention that because, I mean, you guys have just done some really special shit, man, like I don’t I mean, just from any I know people in real bands that travel the world for 40 years, you’ve had some amazing experiences come upon you, but being able to go out and run around with with Kenny Loggins for a couple weeks and play some gigs. I mean, I feel bad I didn’t get to Wolf Trap that night to see you guys. I really do.
Nick Niespodziani 22:04
Oh, man. The Kenny Loggins tour that summer was incredible. That that last show at the Santa Barbara bowl, where not only did we get to open for Kenny Loggins at this epic venue, but you’re hanging out backstage, and it’s Michael McDonald and Alan Parsons and Kevin Bacon and Jeff Bridges. And, I mean, it was just like celebrity insanity. It was so nuts. I’ll never forget that night. It was crazy.
Nestor Aparicio 22:30
Well, this looks like a great venue to see. You know any anything in? So I’m, I’m a venue guy at this point, I don’t want to see anything else in hockey rinks or football or baseball stadiums. Nick NESPA, John is your last thing for you. Yacht rock, video, movie, HBO, Doc, worth it or not. I haven’t seen it yet. It has your namesake as a part of it. And loving the music, everybody tells me you got to see it. I can’t believe you haven’t seen it. I’m like, I heard about the part about, you know, the N word, you know, the hang up and the silly Dan thing. But this music’s here to stay. And you guys have you bring joy to people, and you’ll be doing that to my wife on Sunday night. I would think the doc’s well worth my time, right?
Nick Niespodziani 23:07
It’s a good film. You should see it. We make a little cameo in it. There’s not a lot of talk of the revival of yacht rock, but, but, you know, I’ve got a little line in there, and glad to be a small part of the story, you know?
Nestor Aparicio 23:20
Well, I hope you keep this going and keep your voice, keep the band together, get everybody healthy and back in the band. We’ll be out here supporting you. My wife has her cap. She’s having it laundered and properly. She’s getting herself already up and and we’ll be properly lubricated downtown. We get a couple drinks, soundstage, new space. It’s going to be fantastic. Yacht rock review on Sunday night. Nick, thanks for making some time for me, man, I’ve been a fan for a long, long time. We’ll be out rocking with you guys this week anytime. Let’s party. You got it? Nick, NESPA Johnny here from the great, great band, yacht rock review, if you’re unfamiliar with them, familiar else yourself with them, and go see them, because it’s always a different show. And we mix it up. We have a good time. You don’t have to have to have hair like mine to have a good time. I am Nestor. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore, sports music, Baltimore, positive and yacht rock, which I love, puts me in a good mood. You.
