Jelly of the Month Club helped Snoopy's Legendary Rooftop Concert go viral with their Ozzy tribute

Thundering drums and shredding guitar solos chopped done the assemblage arsenic pyrotechnics and streamer cannons blast. The vigor and accumulation consciousness similar a amusement astatine the Hollywood Palladium oregon the Forum, but we’re astatine Knott’s Berry Farm, connected the rooftop of a large reddish doghouse — that is if we tin suspend our disbelief for an evening. The acquisition stone set Jelly of the Month Club on with impermanent musicians Charlie Brown, Lucy, Schroeder and Linus acceptable up the show’s finale with a question: “Where’s that crazy dog?” Hundreds of fans shriek arsenic “All aboard!” resonates done the park, watching successful anticipation arsenic a spotlight searches for its fuzzy stone ‘n’ rotation prima to emerge.

Chances are you’ve seen Snoopy dressed arsenic Doggy Pawsbourne connected your Instagram oregon TikTok feed, implicit with Ozzy’s signature circular sunglasses, agelong hairsbreadth and trench coat, punctuating the Prince of Barkness’ “Crazy Train” entrance. Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert became an instant deed with parkland patrons and with fans internationally acknowledgment to a viral video posted connected opening night. Sharon Osbourne shared the “Peanuts” tribute to her precocious hubby with the each caps connection “I LOVE IT” to her societal media from the level of the 68th Grammy Awards. But it’s much than witty puns and costumes that marque Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert special.

The amusement astatine Knott’s tells the communicative of Snoopy learning to beryllium a stone prima astatine Jelly of the Month Club’s Music Academy and touring the satellite with the band. Snoopy takes connected fursonas similar Dog Lennon, Paw Prince, Fido Mercury, Flying Ace Freely and adjacent a mislaid subordinate of Devo wearing the signature Energy Dome hat. Jelly of the Month Club hits each bushed and chord with precision, with arrangements of songs and medleys that bring unneurotic the powerfulness of rock’s past with the whimsy of “Peanuts.” Woodstock gets a solo infinitesimal too, whistling connected Dog Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” acceptable to a cleanable 1 driblet bushed arsenic Charlie Brown spirals retired successful a chickenhearted suit portion rubber chickens sway.

“We got rows of kids bringing their ain rubber chickens,” amusement manager Rob Perez tells me. “Its astir similar watching ‘Rocky Horror’; benignant of bizarre, truly funny, and charming.” When Charles Schulz’s girl Jill came to spot the show, she told Perez that her dada utilized to accidental “there’s thing funnier than a rubber chicken.”

Snoopy arsenic Doggy Pawsbourne astatine Knott’s Berry Farm

(Dick Slaughter)

It makes consciousness that stone ‘n’ rotation appeals to Snoopy; he’s a spot of an outsider with an interior beingness seen by astir nary of his friends. It makes much consciousness that the feeling of household promised by stone touring beingness would entreaty to Charlie Brown; it often calls to originative dreamers and outcasts with a subconscious request to belong. Schulz explored wherefore each humans person the feeling radical don’t similar america successful his cartoons and admitted that Charlie Brown was loosely based connected himself. “People who triumph are the minority,” helium told BBC successful 1977, “most of america suffer a lot.” The solution helium provided to overcoming life’s astir hard conditions was simply to ne'er springiness up.

Nobody cheers connected Charlie Brown successful Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert much than Jelly of the Month Club guitarist and vocalist Michael De La Torre, a.k.a. Mic Dangerously, who has go accustomed to encouragement moving with youth. Active since 2013, Jelly of the Month Club is simply a family-friendly set who usage euphony to inspire, amended and entertain kids and adults. It has played countless simple schools, children’s hospitals, civic events and taxable parks with interactive songs that thatch philharmonic concepts and beingness lessons. The set besides offers escaped online lessons called the Jelly of the Month Club Music Academy, which turned unrecorded gigs into cartoon-based acquisition games. The set members person partnered with nonprofits including UNICEF’s Kid Power inaugural to supply concerts to schools crossed Southern California, often donating their time.

“Studies accidental euphony helps with math, English and science, but it besides helps you arsenic a person,” Dangerously says. “It helps you recognize feelings better. Look astatine however adults usage euphony therapeutically. Kids are doing conscionable the same.”

Dangerously archetypal recognized the powerfulness of euphony acquisition arsenic a young lad astatine St. Pius simple schoolhouse successful Buena Park, erstwhile a antheral with a bushy mustache and a Hawaiian garment quieted the boisterous students successful seconds with lone an acoustic guitar. But proceeding Louis Prima’s dependable successful “The Jungle Book” solidified his tendency to go a singer.

Playing astatine Knott’s has forged meaningful connections to the assemblage successful ways Dangerously ne'er foresaw successful his aboriginal stone ‘n’ rotation days. He’s go adjacent to a begetter and his usually nonverbal lad who can’t support quiescent astatine shows, asking questions and singing along. Last twelvemonth an older pistillate who he’s built a relationship with for years abruptly disappeared. Dangerously learned from her girl and granddaughter that she suffered a stroke. She credits singing and dancing to his euphony astatine Knott’s arsenic instrumental successful recovering her code and movement. “She told maine that she loved maine similar a son,” Dangerously says. “I’ve ne'er had thing similar that hap with my stone band. It makes you truly privation to amusement up.”

On the nighttime The Times experienced Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert, Dangerously’s biggest fan, Abbey, stood successful the beforehand enactment playing a airy up tambourine supra her caput to “The Blooz Beagles,” wearing a head-to-toe matching outfit to him. In her sequin blazer, reddish pants, achromatic boots, bow necktie and wide-brim hat, the 11-year-old mirrored his philharmonic gestures, ne'er missing a beat. Abbey loves “everything” astir the euphony and dancing she tells me, excited to stock that Mic personally gave her the tambourine and a fewer different instruments too.

Crowd astatine Jelly of the Month Club amusement astatine Knott’s

“They’ve known her since she was 3,” says April Guerrero, Abbey’s supportive ma who has helped her girl marque replicas of Jelly of the Month Club’s looks since 2017. Abbey learned to play euphony due to the fact that of the band’s online resources.

“Many of america person a inheritance successful education,” Dangerously said. Matt Kalin is simply a teacher and pro saxophonist who has shared the signifier with legends similar Social Distortion and Louis Bellson. Dr. Todd Forman is simply a practicing doc who went to Harvard, taught astatine USC, and played sax with Sublime. Bassist James Kee is an pedagogue who has taught kindergarten done 4th people for the past 15 years. Dangerously’s ain ma was an creation teacher who encouraged him to thatch aft helium finished his audio engineering grade astatine Musicians Institute, thing he’s utilized successful a inferior producer’s people helium created for an after-school programme successful Long Beach.

Like the members of Jelly of the Month Club, manager Rob Perez is simply a multi-instrumentalist and shaper with a heavy reverence for classical stone and Charles Schulz cartoons. Perez is the antheral liable for turning Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert from a imagination into a reality. The performance grew retired of a 2017 amusement called Woodstock’s Music Festival. When Snoopy walked retired arsenic Jimmy Hendrix, the assemblage went wild, and Perez’s brag and Knott’s fans wanted more.

“The Rooftop Concert is simply a small spot of a motion to the Beatles, but it’s overmuch much astir Snoopy’s rooftop,” Perez tells me. “When you spot Snoopy arsenic the large writer, oregon the World War I Flying Ace, it’s ever connected the extortion of his doghouse. So wherefore wouldn’t helium beryllium a stone prima connected his rooftop?”

Knott’s rebrand of the amusement fto Perez incorporated much storytelling, a task helium shared with Jelly of the Month Club. The amusement opens with Snoopy traveling from his fictional cartoon municipality to a rehearsal wherever Dangerously gifts him a tambourine to articulation their jam. He sends Snoopy location with a heap of records which helium listens to obsessively successful his doghouse, a relatable acquisition for fans who person recovered solace and inspiration successful aged LPs, hiding retired similar Snoopy with pizza, basal beer, and the analyzable imagination of leaving the lone spot you’ve ever called location to travel music’s call. Snoopy dons a leather vest, proclaims he’s a “Golden Dog,” and runs distant from location to instrumentality lessons astatine Jelly of the Month Club‘s Music Academy and circuit the world. After receiving disapproval successful the signaling workplace astir his howl, Snoopy finds himself missing his champion person Charlie Brown. He asks the Peanuts Gang to squad up with Jelly of the Month Club for 1 last show connected apical of his doghouse, legendary capable to onshore them successful the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Perez’s penning and producing shares the attraction to item contiguous successful Jelly of the Month Club’s attack to the music. Perez had the grant of dependable acting for Snoopy. He digitally re-created a method helium learned from researching Bill Melendez’s 1960s attack successful which helium recorded barks and grumbles straight to reel-to-reel tape, sped it up, past chopped and pasted it randomly to make Snoopy’s signature pentameter-less cadence. Perez worked intimately with costume decorator Tim Barham, creating each wig, accessory, and costume with exacting detail. The storyline and graphics wage adjacent attraction to “Peanuts” lore and stone ‘n’ rotation movie history, with Easter eggs from “La Bamba,” “Rocketman,” “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Almost Famous” and galore others hidden passim the 30-minute show.

“We don’t effort to alteration the Peanuts from who they are,” Perez says. “We person to bring Charlie Brown on arsenic helium perpetually fails astatine being a stone star. We person to springiness him a changeable and prop him up, due to the fact that he’s usually connected the ledge. We bring him back. That’s been the premise of galore Peanuts TV specials and movies.”

Mic Dangerously with Snoopy astatine Knott’s

(Dick Slaughter)

Jelly of the Month Club’s archetypal opus “The Magic Is successful the Music” meets Charlie Brown wherever he’s at, encouraging him to instrumentality connected the situation of becoming a guitarist. As helium fumbles with his out-of-tune Flying V, looking acceptable to shred successful a thrash band, the assemblage cheers for his occurrence contempt his self-doubt. When Charlie withdraws during the Elton John number, Dangerously responds by saying that that euphony tin beryllium a harmless spot erstwhile you’re feeling lost, saying “Charlie Brown, you are home.”

“We’re retired determination singing we ‘want to bark and howl each night’ but we’re teaching Charlie Brown and Snoopy is that it’s not conscionable astir your clothes, it’s astir what’s successful here,” Dangerously says, touching his heart. “It’s important not to instrumentality yourself excessively seriously. We’re showing that it’s OK to person fun. And that silliness is simply a big, important constituent of stone and roll.”

This tone is the halfway of Snoopy’s Legendary Rooftop Concert connected signifier and connected the floor. At the amusement I spot a oversea of grandmas shaking babies’ fists successful the air, a small lad successful a Woodstock hoodie headbanging, rockers successful studded vests with immense smiles connected their faces, and teenagers momentarily dropping their defenses against cringe successful speech for a infinitesimal of sheer joy.

Hanna and Ellie, teens from South Gate and Silver Lake, respectively, can’t incorporate themselves, pogoing, screaming and singing along. “I’m astatine a nonaccomplishment for words,” Hanna says, giggling. The girls hold that the amusement was amended than they expected.

On Snoopy’s rooftop everyone is simply a stone star: Abbey, a rubber chickenhearted and adjacent Charlie Brown.