ONE SHOW THIS WEEKEND! NO SHOW FRIDAY! DISCOUNT ON ALL OF OUR 5OTH ANNIVERSARY APPAREL!

ANOTHER REMINDER TO PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER. THE NEWSLETTER PROVIDES A WEEKLY UPDATE OF BAND NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. IT ALSO SHARES PERSONAL INSIGHT OF THE BAND, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM OUR PAST. GO TO THENAKEDS.COM TO SUBSCRIBE! CHECK OUT Remembering, The Nakeds first recording days! YOU’RE MISSING SOME GREAT STUFF. SUBSCRIBE

CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS1

Saturday July 13, 2024!

HERE IS ONE YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS! Saturday, July 13, 2024. One hundred and two years performing! John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown and Steve Smith and the Nakeds on stage together at The Providence Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available now online at ppacri.org.

Celebrating 51 Years!

Celebrating 51 Years!

The Ocean Mist would like everyone to know that our Forth of July celebration show, July 3 and our Saturday, July 27, 2024 shows will be ticketed shows this year. It's going to be another incredible summer at the Greatest Beach Bar in The Universe. So make sure you get your tickets in advance. Go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/878246387587?aff=oddtdtcreator for Wednesday, July 3. and

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/steve-smith-the-nakeds-tickets-876072244667 for Saturday, July 27, 2024

This Friday Night!

Hi Neighbor! No Show this Friday for the Nakeds. So have an ice cold Gansett without us!

Our First Appearance This Saturday Night!

Still Standing! 2024

Message from Steve Smith

Last weekend, two great shows. On Friday it was our first appearance in 2024 at the District Center for the Arts, Taunton, MA. The District is a concert night club that is a fantastic setting to see any band. A lot of familiar faces in the crowd last Friday at the District. We had a fantastic return last Friday. Our Nakeds 50th Anniversary Ale was also a smash hit on Friday night! Unfortunately we had no show on Saturday. But on Sunday we returned to the greatest beach bar in the universe. The Ocean Mist, Matunuck, RI. It was another awesome Sunday afternoon Sweat Fest at the Mist. Memorial Day weekend is next. Which means the Summer is finally here. It was great seeing everyone Friday and Saturday night!

This weekend we only have one show. We do not have a show on Friday. Saturday will be our first appearance at a new venue, Tavern 12, Warwick, RI. Tavern 12 is the ultimate sports bar. TVs everywhere! Great for all the Baseball, Hockey and Basketball fanatics. The playoffs are on at Tavern 12. You can watch them all at the same time. The Tavern also has a fantastic food menu. So come early for some great food. Tavern 12 will also be serving Nakeds 50th Anniversary ale. We haven't performed in Warwick since Harbor Lights. So we are looking forward to a great evening in a new venue this Saturday. Please come join us on Saturday at Tavern 12!

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Strong!

Hi Neighbor, Have Gansett this weekend!

As always, thanks to all of our fans for your support.

God Bless America!

Steve Smith

go to the main page to check out our full schedule. All of our shows are posted on our website and on Bands In Town.

We have an over abundance of ladies black and red long sleeve cotton tee shirts. Buy one for $20 and get a second one for FREE! When purchasing any 50th Anniversary item on line , you will receive a 25% discount. Go to thenakeds.com and click the Merch link to take advantage of the discounted apparel!

Anniversary Tee 25% off

keds Ladies Racer Back Coral!

Nakeds Ladies Long SleeveTee! Coral!

The Long Sleeve Tee!

The other night I was scanning the hundreds of movies available to me from my cable service. After a lengthy search I decided to revisit the Greatest Beer Run Ever. For those of you who haven't seen this movie yet, it's time to check it out.

Again my great friend Peter Farrelly chose another one of our songs to be placed in the Apple TV release, "The Greatest Beer Run Ever". We are honored, blessed and humbled that Peter would once again choose a Nakeds' song for this movie. "That's Alright" from our first Album, "Coming To Theatre Near You", is featured in "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" The film released on September 30, 2022 on Apple TV. The Movie features, Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray. Beer Run is directed by academy award winner and my friend Peter Farrely. We can't thank Peter enough for giving us this great honor and adding to the bands legacy! Check out the movie on Apple TV. It's just as fantastic as the first time I watched it!

Steve Smith and the Nakeds Golden Anniversary Ale!

Here is an update of the venues where our Golden Anniversary is avaiLable for purchase.

Tavern 12 Warwick, RI

Hillside Johnny's, Norton, MA.

WRIGHT’S FARM FAMILY RESTURANT, BURRIVILLE, RI.

Escada, Johnston, RI.

Hill's Tavern, Chepacet, RI.

The Hometown Tavern, Warren, RI.

Tavern On The Hill, West Greenwich, RI.

Strings, Johnston, RI.

The Ocean Mist, Mutunuck, RI. Greystone Social Club, North Providence, RI.

The Narrgansett Tap Room, Providence, RI. Tavern 12, Warwick, RI.

The new Steve Smith and the Nakeds Golden Anniversary Ale Tee Shirt is now available at all shows and on the Nakeds website.

NOW AVAILABLE IN OUR ONLINE STORE AND AT EVERY SHOW!

The new Nakeds 50th anniversary apparel!

Go to thenakeds.com

The Regular Tee!

The Hooded Sweat!

I’m Huge Video 1983!

How "I'm Huge" came to be. By the early 1980s, Naked Truth had become the most popular band on Cape Cod. Their schedule included appearances at the biggest club on the Cape, The Casino By The Sea in Falmouth, Massachusetts, which encompassed every extra-celebratory point of the summer season from Memorial Day weekend to the Fourth of July to Labor Day weekend. But in Falmouth, there was an “extra” special weekend between the 4th and the end of summer: Road Race weekend in August. From 1972 to the present, Falmouth has played host to an annual seven mile race which ends at the Casino and by this time, there were over 10,000 runners competing. The band had become friendly with two of the bartenders at the Casino, Michael Hennessey and Billy Threadgold. (Bill was a college athlete who participated in the Road Race and worked his way through school tending bar in the summers.) In the summer of 1981, Mike and Billy bought a tiny motor boat to use as a fishing skiff in the mornings which, in tribute to the massive yachts, sailboats and cabin cruisers which docked or moored on the beach side of the Casino all summer, they christened “The Huge.” The little dinghy, which more often than not had to be bailed out in the morning before fishing could commence, became the talk of the town and “huge” became the buzzword of the summer: 
How’re you doin’ today? I’m huge! 
How was the band last night? They were huge! 
How was that sandwich? It was huge! 
Late one night during Fourth of July weekend ’81, the band was hanging out after their show with Billy and Mike sipping on GIQ’s of ‘Gansett. (The “Giant Imperial Quart” was a 42 ounce beer produced by the Narragansett Brewing Company of Cranston, Rhode Island, favored by the band which was dutifully and ritually stockpiled by the Nakeds before each road trip to ensure there would be some refreshments for the post-gig wind-down period after their shows.) One thing led to another and when someone asked, “How you doin’,” and got the expected answer, “I’m huge,” someone tossed out, “…and the babes go wild!” Next thing you know, Mike and Billy and trumpet player, Steve “The Kid” DeCurtis began running with the idea and the lines began to flow. Kevin Cason, the band’s bass player and chief arranger said, “I’d better write this down!” Before the sun came up, the song had been born. Before long, the band had worked up an arrangement of the tune and they debuted it at The Casino at their next appearance on Road Race weekend to a massive audience response. At that time MTV had been born and offered a format for unsigned bands to send independent videos for airplay on MTV. The show was called Basement Tapes. So in 1981 I had the idea of filming an 
independent video of I'm Huge (and the babes go wild)! It was submitted to MTV's Basement Tapes and the Nakeds made the rotation. I recently dug up the beta master tape of that video and had it digitally formatted. Our 1983 I'm Huge (and the babes go wild) is now available to view on YouTube! https://youtu.be/t0GdD-hgiSU

As promised Our I'm Huge 1983 video is now available to view on YouTube! Check it out!

https://youtu.be/t0GdD-hgiSU

Not Much Has Changed This Week! Hope Everyone Is Hanging In There!

ANOTHER REMINDER TO PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER. THE NEWSLETTER PROVIDES A WEEKLY UPDATE OF BAND NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. IT ALSO SHARES PERSONAL INSIGHT OF THE BAND, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM OUR PAST. GO TO THENAKEDS.COM TO SUBSCRIBE! CHECK OUT LAST YEARS TRIP TO DC! THE NAKEDS NEWSLETTER, YOU’RE MISSING SOME GREAT STUFF. SUBSCRIBE

OUR NEW AND IMPROVED STEVE SMITH AND THE NAKEDS WEBSITE HAS BEEN LAUNCHED! GO TO thenakeds.com

I am very excited to announce the launch of our new and revitalized website. Thanks to Josh, we were able to revamp and update thenakeds.com. We would love everyone to visit our new and improved website. Check out the new format, listen to our music and purchase merchandise at www.thenakeds.com!

A MESSAGE FROM STEVE SMITH

Not much has changed in a week. Some encouraging news is that I have had some phone calls for booking this Summer. As soon as I have some confirmations on these shows they will be places on our events calendar. After some long and agonizing debate as a unit and in the best interest of the Steve Smith and the Nakeds and everyone's health, we have decided to the cancel rehearsals and recording. With a spike in Covid and the new strain, a few of the guys were not comfortable being in close quarters. As a group, we have decided to see how January plays out. We are all very close to getting the vaccine. It would be crazy if any of us tested positive now with the vaccine being so close. We can't see us performing until at least April and even that may be wishful thinking. So as for now, we will lay low and reassess it all in a few weeks.

Please be safe. We hope to see everyone soon and we hope that 2021 will be a much better year.

We had no shows last Friday and Saturday night.

This weekend and from this point forward we have no scheduled shows in the near future. Now that the vaccine is here we hope things may start to turn around. Please pray that the vaccine works so we can start entertaining you again. So enjoy an ice cold Gansett as we wait for this insanity to end. The Nakeds and I miss you all very much! We will keep you informed as to any changes in our schedule. We will be continuing our rehearsal schedule. We have also set up to do some recording in the next few months and will keep informed on our success. Hopefully we can together some Facebook live shows in the very near future. Stay tune for more information to come.

Once again it is time to unite as one to overcome this very devastating crisis. We are praying for an end to this incredible event. We would like everyone to use their common sense during this crisis. Please adhere to the current trend of self quarantine so we can put an end to this virus and return to our normal way of life. There's going to be one hell of celebration when this crisis is over! Please pray for those who have contracted this virus. Protect yourself and others by following the rules of common sense to stop it's spread. Also pray for the restaurant and bar owner's that keep us working. Please patronize those venues that still offer take out service. Working together we can beat this thing and get back to normal living. Looking forward to performing for everyone soon. Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Strong! God bless you all!

Hi Neighbor, Have Gansett this weekend!

As always, thanks to all of our fans for your support.

God Bless America!

Nothings Changed! Waiting on the Vaccine!

Stay Safe, Stay Health! Stay Strong!

OUR NEW AND IMPROVED STEVE SMITH AND THE NAKEDS WEBSITE HAS BEEN LAUNCHED! GO TO thenakeds.com

I am very excited to announce the launch of our new and revitalized website. Thanks to Josh, we were able to revamp and update thenakeds.com. We would love everyone to visit our new and improved website. Check out the new format, listen to our music and purchase merchandise at www.thenakeds.com!

SHOP AT OUR NEW ONLINE STORE!

Our online store is now open on our newly renovated website. The store is completely stocked with everything Steve Smith and the Nakeds. Nakeds apparel, CD's, Covid masks, stickers and ornaments are all available.Visit the Merch link at www.thenakeds.com

The Old!

The Huge!

The Standard!

Keep the Faith!

Message from Steve Smith

Bringing you up to speed. After some long and agonizing debate as a unit and in the best interest of the Steve Smith and the Nakeds and everyone's health, we have decided to the cancel rehearsals and recording. With a spike in Covid and the new strain, a few of the guys were not comfortable being in close quarters. As a group, we have decided to see how January plays out. We are all very close to getting the vaccine. It would be crazy if any of us tested positive now with the vaccine being so close. We can't see us performing until at least April and even that may be wishful thinking. So as for now, we will lay low and reassess it all in a few weeks.

Please be safe. We hope to see everyone soon and we hope that 2021 will be a much better year.

We had no shows last Friday and Saturday night.

This weekend and from this point forward we have no scheduled shows in the near future. Now that the vaccine is here we hope things may start to turn around. Please pray that the vaccine works so we can start entertaining you again. So enjoy an ice cold Gansett as we wait for this insanity to end. The Nakeds and I miss you all very much! We will keep you informed as to any changes in our schedule. We will be continuing our rehearsal schedule. We have also set up to do some recording in the next few months and will keep informed on our success. Hopefully we can together some Facebook live shows in the very near future. Stay tune for more information to come.

Once again it is time to unite as one to overcome this very devastating crisis. We are praying for an end to this incredible event. We would like everyone to use their common sense during this crisis. Please adhere to the current trend of self quarantine so we can put an end to this virus and return to our normal way of life. There's going to be one hell of celebration when this crisis is over! Please pray for those who have contracted this virus. Protect yourself and others by following the rules of common sense to stop it's spread. Also pray for the restaurant and bar owner's that keep us working. Please patronize those venues that still offer take out service. Working together we can beat this thing and get back to normal living. Looking forward to performing for everyone soon. Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Strong! God bless you all!

Hi Neighbor, Have Gansett this weekend!

As always, thanks to all of our fans for your support.

God Bless America!

IT'S WORKING! KEEP THOSE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS COMING!

It really works! Last month Frank Rapone our brother and former keyboard player was diagnosed with Covid 19. We asked that you keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Frank's condition was very serious. When talking with Frank his told taht after five weeks he is finally feeling better. Matt Dilorio and Steve Burke, are also both showing miraculous signs of improvement! SO KEEP'EM COMING!

Our New Website Launches this Week!

Another reminder to please subscribe to our weekly newsletter. The newsletter provides a weekly update of band news and announcements. It also shares personal insight of the band, stories and photographs from our past. Go to thenakeds.com to subscribe! Check out Remembering TJ, Ken Lyon and Clarence Clemons! The Nakeds newsletter, you’re missing some great stuff. Subscribe today by selecting the sign in link.

OUR NEW AND IMPROVED STEVE SMITH AND THE NAKEDS WEBSITE HAS BEEN LAUNCHED! GO TO thenakeds.com

I am very excited to announce the launch of our new and revitalized website. Thanks to Josh, we were able to revamp and update thenakeds.com. We would love everyone to visit our new and improved website. Check out the new format, listen to our music and purchase merchandise at www.thenakeds.com!

SHOP AT OUR NEW ONLINE STORE!

Our online store is now open on our newly renovated website. The store is completely stocked with everything Steve Smith and the Nakeds. Nakeds apparel, CD's, Covid masks, stickers and ornaments are all available. Visit the Merch link at www.thenakeds.com

Now Available at the Nakeds Online Store!

On The Road To Recovery!

IT'S WORKING! KEEP THOSE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS COMING!

It really works! Last month Frank Rapone our brother and former keyboard player was diagnosed with Covid 19. We asked that you keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Frank's condition was very serious. I talked to Frank this week and after five weeks he is finally feeling better. Matt Dilorio and Steve Burke, are also both showing miraculous signs of improvement! SO KEEP'EM COMING!

Matty and The Rock N Jock Gang!

Steve Burke!

Message from Steve Smith

Bringing you up to speed. After some long and agonizing debate as a unit and in the best interest of the Steve Smith and the Nakeds and everyone's health, we have decided to the cancel rehearsals and recording. With a spike in Covid and the new strain, a few of the guys were not comfortable being in close quarters. As a group, we have decided to see how January plays out. We are all very close to getting the vaccine. It would be crazy if any of us tested positive now with the vaccine being so close. We can't see us performing until at least April and even that may be wishful thinking. So as for now, we will lay low and reassess it all in a few weeks.

Please be safe. We hope to see everyone soon and we hope that 2021 will be a much better year.

We had no shows last Friday and Saturday night.

This weekend and from this point forward we have no scheduled shows in the near future. Now that the vaccine is here we hope things may start to turn around. Please pray that the vaccine works so we can start entertaining you again. So enjoy an ice cold Gansett as we wait for this insanity to end. The Nakeds and I miss you all very much! We will keep you informed as to any changes in our schedule. We will be continuing our rehearsal schedule. We have also set up to do some recording in the next few months and will keep informed on our success. Hopefully we can together some Facebook live shows in the very near future. Stay tune for more information to come.

Once again it is time to unite as one to overcome this very devastating crisis. We are praying for an end to this incredible event. We would like everyone to use their common sense during this crisis. Please adhere to the current trend of self quarantine so we can put an end to this virus and return to our normal way of life. There's going to be one hell of celebration when this crisis is over! Please pray for those who have contracted this virus. Protect yourself and others by following the rules of common sense to stop it's spread. Also pray for the restaurant and bar owner's that keep us working. Please patronize those venues that still offer take out service. Working together we can beat this thing and get back to normal living. Looking forward to performing for everyone soon. Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Strong! God bless you all!

Hi Neighbor, Have Gansett this weekend!

As always, thanks to all of our fans for your support.

God Bless America!