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Beach Boys in Atlantic City with John Stamos

&NewLine;<p><strong>Fourth of July … Beyond the Fireworks<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><em>The Beach Boys Are In Town&excl;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Review by&comma; Kristen &amp&semi; Diana<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The perfect setting&comma; on the beach outside of one of the east coast’s popular tourist spots&comma; Atlantic City was all aglow on the Fourth of July but it wasn’t from the fireworks&period; Southern California’s legendary band&comma; the Beach Boys graced the northern shores of the east coast with their incredible presence&period; Hosted by the Hilton Hotel and casino&comma; the Beach Boys gave a free concert right on the beach&period; With expectations of huge crowds as the beach is quite vast and can hold a lot of people&comma; the actual count was even higher than originally expected&period; The estimate was somewhere at 50&comma;000 &plus; people on the Atlantic City&comma; NJ beach&comma; the scene couldn’t be more perfect or reminiscent of the huge concert the Beach Boys gave back in 1983&period; On this 25th anniversary of that concert&comma; the boys were back&period; While they had a different look than the 1983 group&comma; the music&comma; the sounds&comma; and the rhythms were still stellar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>It was sweet…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Mike Love’s 12 year old daughter&comma; Ambha was in attendance for this special fourth of July&period; During the song&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Surfer Girl&&num;8221&semi; he brought Ambha on the stage and danced with her&period; It was really sweet and you can tell how close the two of them are&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Awesome sounds…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Christian Love worked the rhythms and melodies on his guitar&period; Sometimes some instrumental sounds just really stick with you and this is the case with Christian’s performance&period; The syncopated rhythms of songs like Rhonda had Christian shining on the stage for all who heard him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Double the Fun…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>John Cowsill is the usual drummer extraordinaire for the Beach Boys concerts&period; Always keeping the band in check with his quick moving drumsticks&comma; music fans are always in for a treat when listening to him play&period; This time though&comma; it was John squared&period; That’s right&comma; John Stamos was also on the drums and doubled up on all the great Beach Boys rhythms&period; It was really fun to watch the two play those drums&comma; they were so in synch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>All over the stage…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>John Stamos has some amazing amount of energy&period; We mentioned that he was on the drums&comma; well that wasn’t all&period; He also for certain songs&comma; would leave the drums and move up to the front line near Mike Love where he sang and played the guitar&period; John sang &&num;8220&semi;Good Timin’&&num;8221&semi; and with his sensual sounding voice&comma; he performed the song with great emotion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Hitting the keys…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Tim Bonhomme sliced and diced up on the keyboards&period; With a set of multi-level keyboards&comma; Tim had total control of the piano sound for the band&period; Bruce Johnston&comma; another almost – original member of the Beach Boys&comma; also kept it going with his work on the keys&comma; great smile&comma; and warm – toned voice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Don’t Worry…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Randell Kirsch&comma; the quiet&comma; tall bassist of the group&comma; will completely knock you out with his angelic voice&period; Songs like Don’t Worry Baby and &&num;8220&semi;Hawaii&&num;8221&semi; are sung with such emotion and love&comma; all fans will feel the true meanings of the songs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Directed&comma; produced&comma; and ready…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>New musical director&comma; Scott Totten has been said to be going back to the &&num;8220&semi;original&&num;8221&semi; sounds of the Beach Boys songs&period; So did he reach that goal&quest; We would definitely say so&period; The songs are at the right speeds and in the right keys for the respective voices of the soloists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Our view…<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The band performed 40 songs straight&period; With very few breaks&comma; &lpar;breaks in Beach Boys language mean that one of the guys speaks a little while the others gear up for the next song on the setlist&period;&rpar; Mike Love of course also spoke to the 50&comma;000&plus; people there and had a funny banter back and forth with John for a little while&period; It was amazing to see all those people in one place and at the same time look to the east and look out at the tranquil ocean waters with a few boats sailing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This was an event that anybody who was there will always remember&period; The Beach Boys will be performing and touring all around the United States and Canada this summer&period; If you haven’t yet&comma; please definitely get your tickets for when they come to a city near you&period; You will have a blast&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"saboxplugin-wrap" itemtype&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schema&period;org&sol;Person" itemscope itemprop&equals;"author"><div class&equals;"saboxplugin-tab"><div class&equals;"saboxplugin-gravatar"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;wud&period;tpx&period;mybluehost&period;me&sol;website&lowbar;9bd75fcc&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;FTV-Favicon1&period;png" width&equals;"100" height&equals;"100" alt&equals;"Feeling the Vibe" itemprop&equals;"image"><&sol;div><div class&equals;"saboxplugin-authorname"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;feelingthevibe&period;com&sol;author&sol;feelingthevibe&sol;" class&equals;"vcard author" rel&equals;"author"><span class&equals;"fn">Feeling the Vibe<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;div><div class&equals;"saboxplugin-desc"><div itemprop&equals;"description"><p>Editor of Feeling the Vibe Magazine&period;  We have all the scoop on the latest celeb news&comma; 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