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Shane Gentry and the Nekkid Monday Band (USA, 2004)
Publisher: Shane Gentry (www.shanegentry.com)
Producer: Merritt Partridge
Duration: 54 minutes, CD
Reviewed by: Graeme Ball
Now here’s a band that lets it all hang out. Literally. Enter Shane Gentry and The Nekkid Monday Band. Nekkid, naked, nude, in the buff, clothes-free, this band is all about it. Half roadhouse blues, half Jimmy-Hendrix-playing-guitar-naked-in-his-basement-on-the-weekend, the Nekkid Monday Band rocks hard about being without clothes, and has a damn good time doing it.
“Out in the sun and I’m havin’ fun, me bein’ nude never hurt no one” professes Shane in the first track on the album. One can even excuse his southern roadhouse grammar, as it just fits in so well with the rest of the music. It also is a stylistically interesting way of making whatever he is singing about (e.g. the forgoing of clothes) sound cool and rugged, two of the hallmarks of rock and roll.
And Shane and his group are nothing if not rock and rollers. Not minimalist, juvenile neo-rock like The White Stripes, mind you, nor hair-shaking rock and roll wannabes like Billy Talent. The Nekkid Monday Band is that chunky old-skool rock and roll that you have to eat with a fork. Straight up with simple chord structures, simple transitions, twangy guitars, and relentless 4/4 timing.
Tap and nod
The band does what rock and roll does best: makes you want to tap your feet and nod your head. It’s catchy. Like pop but without the wussiness. Or heavy metal without the death, blood, and anger. And without clothes.
Now, The Nekkid Monday Band is not the first to incorporate a “clothing-optional” element to their music. Recall such well-known acts as the Red Hot Chili Peppers running around in their underwear, and sometimes relying only on strategically placed instruments to avoid accusations of indecency.
But in keeping with the photo of a smiling Shane Gentry sans clothing on the back cover of the CD, The Nekkid Monday Band is the first group I have come across that explicitly sings about, celebrates, praises, and with all the subtlety of German artillery enthusiastically advocates being in a state of nakedness. “I’ve been thinkin’, you should try the naked dance,” enthuses Shane on the track aptly called “Nekkid Dance.”
Some of the tunes, like the cheekily titled “Brazil Nuts,” have a real psychedelic feel to them. Just let the amplifiers ring, let the band jam out, and see what happens, with a mandatory drum solo thrown in. How much more rock and roll can you get?
Other songs are reminiscent of old Chili Peppers albums, especially noticeable in the reprise of “Do U Wanna Go.” Driving, anthem-type songs like the aforementioned, complete with complementing phrases of spoken word, are spaced between more traditional, bluesy type tracks such as “When the Day is Done” and “Oh-No.”
If you like rock and roll, and want to dance like a white man on the dance floor, then it’s pants off to The Nekkid Monday Band.
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The reviewer, now living in Japan, played in a band in southern Ontario named Monday (non-naked variety).
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AWESOME NEKKID MONDAY BAND REVIEW
