Kung Fu teacher rocks in band
Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 1:22PM By Josh Lindower
Former students perform Saturday at the Money
Jupiter Tide isn’t an outer space video game, but a new alternative rock band fresh to the Rock Hill scene.
The band includes two former Winthrop students, Adam Nelson and Daniel Hoover.
Adam Nelson, lead singer and songwriter, teaches Kung Fu in the West Center at Winthrop.
The Chinese Martial Arts Association’s master met Nelson at a local tournament and invited him to come and help instruct the club at Winthrop, Nelson said.
Other band members are Daniel Hoover, bass guitarist, Monte Anderson, lead guitarist, Brad Bell, rhythmic guitar player, and Greg Floyd is the drummer.
The band sounds similar to the band Disturbed mixed with Incubus, said Floyd.
Jupiter Tide was formed in an unconventional manner: using want ads to find players.
Floyd and Hoover split from another band to find a band with music interests similar to their own.
Anderson found the band through an advertisement on Myspace, and Nelson was recommended by a friend at the Money.
It turns out that Hoover and Nelson worked across from each other in different stores at the Carolina Place Mall in Pineville, but neither knew the other had musical talent.
The band worked well together and wrote their whole first song in the first session they played together.
“I’d expect to see chemistry like that from a band that’s been together for a year,” Hoover said.
The band is starting their first album that Hoover hopes to be released soon.
The band has modest expectations, but hopes to be an “East Coast phenomena” in the future, Nelson said.
“As long as we pack the house I’m happy,” Nelson said.
Jupiter Tide will be performing at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Money. Tickets are $5.
