Beach Boy’s Jardine returns to the beach
Al Jardine (right) performing with Brian Wilson, on keyboards, at St. Rocke during last summer BeachLife festival in Seaside Lagoon. Photo Al Jardine trio in rate performance at Saint Rocke Original Beach Boys rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Al Jardine will perform at Saint Rocke on Sunday, Oct. 27, for what will be only his fourth South Bay performance in over five decades. The Beach Boys played at the opening Leonard’s department store in Torrance 1962, and that same year at a Mira High School dance in Manhattan Beach and at a fraternity dance at the Biltmore Hotel in Hermosa Beach. The band didn’t perform locally again until last summer when it reunited for a performance at the Beach Life festival, organized by Saint Rocke and held at the Redondo Beach Seaside Lagoon. Jardine’s distinct lead vocals provided the soundtrack for Brian Wilson’s symphonic melodies. Dance poster for a Beach Boys performance at the Biltmore Hotel in Hermosa Beach in 1962. Courtesy of Don Ruane Jardine met Wilson when the two played football together at Hawthorne High. They formed the Beach Boys when Jardine was attending El Camino College. Since leaving the Beach Boys in 1998, Jardine has…
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