Jacuzzi Boys are Danny Gonzalez, Gabriel Alcala and Diego Monasterios, a fuzzed out garage rock trio from Miami, Florida. This pupil-dilatingly Nuggets-influenced trio cut their teeth over the past couple of years with a string of seven-inch releases before going on to release the debut album 'No Seasons' in 2009, a record full of fuzz, bad acid, and animal references.
The band rehearse at bassist Danny Gonzalez's place, deep in Bill Baggs State Park, a lush green expanse of wilderness on the outskirts of Miami. Park life has seeped into the band's lyrics, most notably the funkiness of cohabitating with wildlife. ``For awhile, every song had an animal in it,'' says Alcala, 24. ``Rats, possums, snakes, crocodiles . . .''
``I had a snake die inside the walls of my bathroom,'' says Gonzalez, 28. ``It smelled so bad that I didn't even go in there for a week, and then one day I walked by and thought `Hey, the smell is gone' and I walked in, and there was a blanket of flies covering the whole tub and the window.'' His struggle with the funk became the track Smells Dead on the Jacuzzi Boys' debut album, No Seasons.
The band's psychedelic sound is reminiscent of the 13th Floor Elevators or the ‘80s Flaming Lips and is beginning to garner them significant attention. Fellow Miami resident and godfather of punk rock Mr. James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (AKA Iggy Pop) is one of the converted, “There’s a band here in Miami called the Jacuzzi Boys. It’s a stupid name but they’ve got a good spirit. Shout out to the Jacuzzi Boys!”
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