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Feature: Q&A with Nick Nespajeen of Yacht Rock -- Playing a Holiday Special at Variety Playhouse, December 18

• By Leila Regan-Porter, Chris Blais
  
  It's the time of year for holiday specials, and the local music scene is getting in the spirit too. That includes Atlanta's famous (infamous?) Yacht Rock, of the PleaseRock group. We chat to "Nick Nespajeen," the leader of the band (bottom center in the holiday-style pic above, holding a sea shell in the band's usual nautical style), AKA "The Dude from Yacht Rock" as he is also known.
  
  How did the holiday special come together? Are we talking Beatles "Come Together" or Aerosmith "Come Together"?
  
  I would say it's been more of a congealing process: girls love Yacht Rock, guys love girls and pretend to love Yacht Rock, we started a band celebrating the phenomenon and now we're the Greatest Yacht Rock Band in the Universe. (See, it says so on our Infomercial.)
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