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Residents of Yokosuka Naval Base gathered around the stage

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to see a special performance by Kristian Bush during his tour across bases in Japan

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but before the official concert even got started the country music star visited USS McCampbell

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and spent some time to get to know the Sailors in a more personnel setting

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I'd say there's two reasons why I've been wanting to do this tour

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One my dad and my granddad were both in the armed forces

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so I've always been kind of fascinated with what life must have been like

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or the people who were like my parents who were stationed on bases around here

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and they must have fallen in love and they were probably 23 and they decided to have a kid

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so I'm curious from that angle, also you know there’s just really nothing like coming to play for people who are so far away from home

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and to try to bring some music and some home back to these folks who are obviously missing everything about their life

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I'm honored and humbled and lucky to be able to come and perform

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Bush's performance didn't just bring joy to the audience, he also happened to make a life long dream come true

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when he invited Chief Warrant Officer Bo Walters up on stage to join the show

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Growing up my mother was in a band when she was younger; she was actually a country singer

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so that was one of the things that I always wanted to do with my life, I wanted to be a singer

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however I decided to join the Navy when I was 17, so that took a back seat to this job

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but tonight being on stage and being able to participate, I can't even begin to describe how it made me feel

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I think that he is a very welcoming person, very humble person; it was amazing to have him here

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and to treat us with his new album, it was just great

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everyone was welcome at the free outdoor performance and walked away with the gift of Bush's personnel philosophy on music.

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I believe that music should do one of two things, it should either shake your hips or explode your heart

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and if it’s not doing one of those two things, maybe you should turn it off

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I hope to take a bunch of military personnel and their families and maybe three minutes at a time, squished together to maybe an hour or so

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make it a little less lonely, you can start dancing or laughing or crying, suddenly you doing it together and that’s what music is all about

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Petty Officer Kirk Putnam Yokosuka Naval Base japan