What it was like
Pechanga Resort Casino, 45000 Pechanga Pkwy, Temecula. June 28th. The Beach Boys in a 1,200-seat showroom — the catalog that invented California summer as a sonic concept, played in the most intimate setting it will visit this year.
"Surfin' USA." "Good Vibrations." "God Only Knows." "Kokomo." "Fun, Fun, Fun." The Beach Boys built the soundtrack of a coastal life that people who have never seen the California coast can close their eyes and inhabit. Hearing those songs performed live, at this scale, in Temecula on a late June night — the air warm, the room close — is a different experience from the version that plays in your car on the 15 South.
Pechanga's showroom is designed for this kind of night: clean sightlines, real sound, a production infrastructure that lets the band be the event. Check pechanga.com/entertain for ticket availability. Dinner at the resort before the show if you're making a night of it. June 28th. The music is summer in California compressed into a two-hour set. Be there for it.