“When superstorm Sandy occurred, we have been like, ‘Let’s throw a live performance, a fundraiser, in Asbury Park on the Paramount [Theatre] and we’ll invite our buddy and really feel it out and see the way it goes,” Danny Clinch tells SPIN. That’s how the seed was planted for the Sea.Hear.Now pageant in Asbury Park, New Jersey, method again in 2012.
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“We realized how a lot individuals love Asbury Park and needed to assist it,” he says. “That was our jumping-off level.”
Clinch, a music business photographer whose work has been featured in Vainness Truthful, GQ, and The New Yorker, together with highschool buddy Tim Donnelly, a promoter and journalist, based the music, artwork, and browsing pageant six years later in 2018. The pair noticed it as a strategy to give again to the long-lasting music and browsing group they’d cherished since they have been children rising up in close by Toms River, New Jersey.
“Our thought, at first, was at all times musicians who surf and make artwork,” Clinch says. “These have been the primary group of individuals we went after. We went after Pearl Jam straight away, Ben Harper, Incubus, and Jack Johnson. … These guys, once they confirmed up, they grabbed some surfboards, Donnelly had some surfboards ready for them, and so they went proper into the water.”
Clinch actually needed Bruce Springsteen—who helped make Asbury Park well-known—to play through the pageant’s inaugural 12 months. After quite a few telephone calls, Clinch put in a single final ditch effort by textual content with a video he had taken of the primary evening of the pageant—the solar setting over Asbury Park, hundreds of individuals on the seaside, with Ben Harper enjoying a canopy of Springsteen’s “Atlantic Metropolis.” The New Jersey rocker confirmed up the following day and jammed with Social Distortion. “It actually put us on the map,” Clinch says.
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