OCEAN BEACH \u2013 The makers behind a new sitcom about an Ocean Beach band are holding a free concert at Winstons on Sept. 11. Locals are invited to fill out a cheering crowd in a few camera shots before being treated to a live performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The original songs in the concert double as the soundtrack for the TV show \u201cEnd of the 8,\u201d a sitcom about life in Ocean Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The concert will kick off around 9:30 or 10 p.m., because members of Band of Gringos will be coming straight from another gig at Humphreys, in a classic band-trying-to-make-it scenario.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal is to get as many OBceans and legends that people know about around the town to be here for that night, to join the music and then to also be in that final frame where we can freeze frame and everybody and their uncle can look at it afterwards,\u201d said show creator Daniel Dyer.<\/p>\n
He envisions a \u201cWhere\u2019s Waldo\u201d moment of picking through the photo to find the characters of Ocean Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Show stars Kat Hall, Spence Noble and Jane Crispin (musician Crispy J), along with other musicians featured in the episode, will perform for a hometown audience as the fictional band End of the 8. Casting for the passion project pulled from friend groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to basically cast that net of getting everyone that we know and we appreciate their work, and giving them a chance to act and do a little bit of a different thing,\u201d Dyer said. \u201cBut everyone\u2019s so multi-talented that they do that really well also.\u201d<\/p>\n
The concert crowd shots are the last things to be filmed for the pilot episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll our priorities are focused on right now is really just making this episode as funny, as awesome as possible and then releasing that screening,\u201d Dyer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Already, the volunteer cast and crew have filmed scenes at hot spots like Hodad\u2019s, Humble Heart Thrift Shop, OB Beans, Raglan Public House and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Life in OB inspired the show, from its weekly post-farmers market drum circle to first dates with crystal-wielding women cleaning meat chakras at OB Sushi. To the show creators, the people are the funniest part of the funky neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey all land here at the end of the 8,\u201d said John Christini, a co-creator for the sitcom, \u201cSome people find a life, some people party and you\u2019ve got everything in between.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dyer describes the sitcom as a love letter to Ocean Beach with a satirical edge locals will appreciate. \u201cWe can make fun of ourselves and laugh at ourselves, just as much as like celebrate how we\u2019re all so weird and out there and accepting of how we are just so bizarre, but beautifully,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clips from the sitcom show cast dryly poking fun at Ocean Beach\u2019s hippie-centric culture. A surfer, played by David Pozay as himself, interrupts a hangout on the beach to demand late rent with the quip, \u201cThe waves are crashing harder than Kasey on my couch.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Once wrapped, the 25-minute pilot will be screened in the neighborhood. Dyer has ideas for a six or eight-episode season he will shop to production studios in Los Angeles if it takes off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dyer looks forward to \u201cgetting to laugh at our community and also realize just how awesome it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCEAN BEACH \u2013 The makers behind a new sitcom about an Ocean Beach band are holding a free…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,105071,1582,276,105072,10086,3549,7264,173,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,105073],"class_list":{"0":"post-187546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-band-of-gringos","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-end-of-the-8","13":"tag-ocean-beach","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-winstons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115118580917153058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}