{"id":17907,"date":"2016-07-18T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=17907"},"modified":"2017-06-06T05:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T09:04:03","slug":"httpwww-thevalleyledger-comp1904-343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=17907","title":{"rendered":"Two legendary bands come together for one night of nostalgia at the Sand\u2019s Event Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?page_id=12747\">Photography and story by: Photography by Michael Hujsa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><div id=\"su_carousel_69f1bfda7a0dc\" class=\"su-carousel su-carousel-centered su-carousel-pages-yes su-carousel-responsive-yes su-lightbox-gallery\" style=\"width:100%\" data-autoplay=\"3000\" data-speed=\"600\" data-mousewheel=\"true\" data-items=\"2\" data-scroll=\"1\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slides\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4944.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4944.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4944\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4967.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4967.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4967\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4830.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4830.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4830\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4834.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4834.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4834\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4869.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4869.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4869\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4922.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4922.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4922\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4926.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4926.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4926\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4935.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4935.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4935\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-nav\"><div class=\"su-carousel-direction\"><span class=\"su-carousel-prev\"><\/span><span class=\"su-carousel-next\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-pagination\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?page_id=12747\">Photography and story by: Photography by Michael Hujsa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Two legendary bands come together for one night of nostalgia at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandseventcenter.com\/\">Sand\u2019s Event Center<\/a>, The Beach Boys &amp; The Temptations. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The classic hits were wonderful and brought back many memories of the beach and going to classic car shows with my father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeachboys.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Beach Boys<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Beach Boys had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits. In 1962 the band launched their 1st album, Surfing\u2019 Safari, that spent 37 weeks on the billboard chart. Who knew this band form in Hawthorn, California in 1961 would have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the world\u2019s best-selling bands of all time. The Beach Boys were introduced into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have reunited as a band, but we never \u2018un-reunited\u2019 as friends,\u201d says Bruce Johnston. \u201cTo be back in the studio with these guys is like a prayer that\u2019s been answered and I am thrilled to be sharing it with everybody.\u201d \u201cThis is more like a family reunion than anything,\u201d says David Marks. \u201cWhen we\u2019re together, we get along great. The chemistry always works the same as the last time we were together, and the five of us become a single element.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Temptations\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The group formed in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan under the name &#8220;The Elgins\u201d. With the success of their Motown Records during the 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s, The Temptations continue to perform with one living original member, Otis Williams, still in the lineup. 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