Posted on Nov 21, 2019
The Surfrajettes . In a Gadda Da Vida / Sunshine of Your Love . Tiki Oasis 2019
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the Surfrajettes ~ Paint It Black Pipeline Medley
at the New England Shake Up 2018
Thank you, my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for posting the interesting music video of Toronto, Canada band The Surfrajettes performing instrumental covers of short version for Iron Butterfly's "In a Gadda Da Vida" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" at the Tiki Oasis in September 2019.
"The Surfrajettes do a brilliant interpretation & kick it in to high gear. Just imagine its 1968 & all the crazy things going on back then. "
Interesting, they are very talented
here is another one of their videos
the Surfrajettes ~ Paint It Black/Pipeline Medley at the New England Shake Up 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-du_3vc0XPI
Background on the band from laweekly.com/the-surfrajettes-shake-up-surf-music-with-style-and-glamour/
"With their matching light-blue fringed dresses, ’60s beehive hairdos and knee-high white boots, The Surfrajettes look like glamorous mod superheroines as they prowl across concert stages up and down the state on their debut West Coast tour. As visually arresting as they are, it is the Toronto quartet’s distinctive approach to surf music — blending evocative original instrumentals with unusual covers — that’s shaking up the sometimes staid and historically male-dominated surf-music scene.
The Surfrajettes’ tour culminates this weekend with a key appearance at the Tiki Oasis festival in San Diego on Friday, August 9, followed by a show on Sunday, August 11, at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, where they have been added at the last minute to a bill with L.A. group The Volcanics, the aptly named Argentine surf band Los Frenéticos, and San Francisco’s The Greasy Gills.
The band’s refreshing twists on the surf-music formula attracted the attention of husband-and-wife duo Vincent Minervino and Magdalena O’Connell, who signed them to their Asbury Park, New Jersey, label, Hi-Tide Recordings. The Surfrajettes released a single with “Toxic” and “Party Line” on Hi-Tide Recordings in 2018, which was preceded by a self-titled debut EP in 2017, which features such original instrumentals as “Undercover Secretary” and “Mrs. Moto.”
“We’re a DIY band to the max,” says guitarist Shermy Freeman, 30, by phone as the group are driving to a show in Tempe, Arizona. “We were 1,000 percent self-made until a year ago. We couldn’t have done [the tour] without Vincent and Magda.”
Amid a large, curious crowd who were generally dressed down in shorts and white T-shirts at the Surf Guitar 101 convention at Alpine Village last week, The Surfrajettes might as well have been exotic creatures from another planet, as they were the only women to perform onstage at the daylong festival, apart from a hula dancer and a go-go dancer who briefly enlivened another band’s set. While there are other women who play surf music — L.A. trio The Neptunas have been around in various configurations for more than 20 years — they are relatively rare. Decades after female musicians shattered the glass ceiling in numerous other genres, surf music — much like fusion jazz — has stubbornly remained a boys’ club, hermetically sealed and stuck quaintly in the distant past.
“People are shocked that women are playing instruments. It’s just funny,” Freeman muses. “People say that it’s weird that we would like surf music. We’ve heard everything at this point. … There’s always that group that’s stuck in that mindset. I don’t think we’re ever going to get away from mansplaining. But we have had a lot of positive support from male musicians. We have lots of people in our lives that aren’t like that at all.”
“We have our own spin on surf, but it’s not as strict as some bands who play note for note,” says drummer Anna Liebel, 29.
“I think that’s what separates us from other surf bands,” guitarist Nicole Damoff, 29, says about how each of The Surfrajettes comes from a different musical background. “We bring a fresh take to it. … Within the surf-instrumental format, there is a lot of room to play with different styles.”
Damoff started as a blues guitarist, whereas bassist Sarah Butler played standup bass in Canadian rockabilly bands The Millwinders and Real Gone before switching to electric bass in The Surfrajettes. “The bass is more melodic and complex in surf music compared to rockabilly, which is more about the root notes,” Butler, 46, says. “It’s definitely more busy and intricate. It’s tricky training my fingers to move that fast.”
Although Butler carves out some elaborately rumbling bass lines, the approach by guitarists Freeman and Damoff is more about crafting radiant tones and shimmering melodies than full-on shredding. The Surfrajettes also defy expectations by juxtaposing traditional surf music with atypical song selections, such as a primal version of Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” that suddenly shifts into Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” and a heart-catching spaghetti Western–tinged interpretation of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” that morphs into “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” A remake of “She Loves You” replaces The Beatles’ euphoric harmonies with Damoff’s eloquently restrained guitar lines, which imbue the tune with a newfound poignancy.
“It’s hard to come up with something original that still has all the tropes of a surf song,” Damoff says. “We’re just always listening to music. When a song comes on, we think, ‘Could this be a surf song?’”
“You have to pick songs with interesting melody lines and vocal parts that translate well into an instrumental song,” Freeman says. “Beatles songs have so many interesting parts and chord changes. … We like playing classics by turning them into a medley. Why don’t we mush them together? We would never play ‘Pipeline’ at a surf convention, but because it’s paired with ‘Paint It Black,’ it’s possible because we did something creative with it.”
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"The Surfrajettes do a brilliant interpretation & kick it in to high gear. Just imagine its 1968 & all the crazy things going on back then. "
Interesting, they are very talented
here is another one of their videos
the Surfrajettes ~ Paint It Black/Pipeline Medley at the New England Shake Up 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-du_3vc0XPI
Background on the band from laweekly.com/the-surfrajettes-shake-up-surf-music-with-style-and-glamour/
"With their matching light-blue fringed dresses, ’60s beehive hairdos and knee-high white boots, The Surfrajettes look like glamorous mod superheroines as they prowl across concert stages up and down the state on their debut West Coast tour. As visually arresting as they are, it is the Toronto quartet’s distinctive approach to surf music — blending evocative original instrumentals with unusual covers — that’s shaking up the sometimes staid and historically male-dominated surf-music scene.
The Surfrajettes’ tour culminates this weekend with a key appearance at the Tiki Oasis festival in San Diego on Friday, August 9, followed by a show on Sunday, August 11, at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, where they have been added at the last minute to a bill with L.A. group The Volcanics, the aptly named Argentine surf band Los Frenéticos, and San Francisco’s The Greasy Gills.
The band’s refreshing twists on the surf-music formula attracted the attention of husband-and-wife duo Vincent Minervino and Magdalena O’Connell, who signed them to their Asbury Park, New Jersey, label, Hi-Tide Recordings. The Surfrajettes released a single with “Toxic” and “Party Line” on Hi-Tide Recordings in 2018, which was preceded by a self-titled debut EP in 2017, which features such original instrumentals as “Undercover Secretary” and “Mrs. Moto.”
“We’re a DIY band to the max,” says guitarist Shermy Freeman, 30, by phone as the group are driving to a show in Tempe, Arizona. “We were 1,000 percent self-made until a year ago. We couldn’t have done [the tour] without Vincent and Magda.”
Amid a large, curious crowd who were generally dressed down in shorts and white T-shirts at the Surf Guitar 101 convention at Alpine Village last week, The Surfrajettes might as well have been exotic creatures from another planet, as they were the only women to perform onstage at the daylong festival, apart from a hula dancer and a go-go dancer who briefly enlivened another band’s set. While there are other women who play surf music — L.A. trio The Neptunas have been around in various configurations for more than 20 years — they are relatively rare. Decades after female musicians shattered the glass ceiling in numerous other genres, surf music — much like fusion jazz — has stubbornly remained a boys’ club, hermetically sealed and stuck quaintly in the distant past.
“People are shocked that women are playing instruments. It’s just funny,” Freeman muses. “People say that it’s weird that we would like surf music. We’ve heard everything at this point. … There’s always that group that’s stuck in that mindset. I don’t think we’re ever going to get away from mansplaining. But we have had a lot of positive support from male musicians. We have lots of people in our lives that aren’t like that at all.”
“We have our own spin on surf, but it’s not as strict as some bands who play note for note,” says drummer Anna Liebel, 29.
“I think that’s what separates us from other surf bands,” guitarist Nicole Damoff, 29, says about how each of The Surfrajettes comes from a different musical background. “We bring a fresh take to it. … Within the surf-instrumental format, there is a lot of room to play with different styles.”
Damoff started as a blues guitarist, whereas bassist Sarah Butler played standup bass in Canadian rockabilly bands The Millwinders and Real Gone before switching to electric bass in The Surfrajettes. “The bass is more melodic and complex in surf music compared to rockabilly, which is more about the root notes,” Butler, 46, says. “It’s definitely more busy and intricate. It’s tricky training my fingers to move that fast.”
Although Butler carves out some elaborately rumbling bass lines, the approach by guitarists Freeman and Damoff is more about crafting radiant tones and shimmering melodies than full-on shredding. The Surfrajettes also defy expectations by juxtaposing traditional surf music with atypical song selections, such as a primal version of Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” that suddenly shifts into Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” and a heart-catching spaghetti Western–tinged interpretation of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” that morphs into “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” A remake of “She Loves You” replaces The Beatles’ euphoric harmonies with Damoff’s eloquently restrained guitar lines, which imbue the tune with a newfound poignancy.
“It’s hard to come up with something original that still has all the tropes of a surf song,” Damoff says. “We’re just always listening to music. When a song comes on, we think, ‘Could this be a surf song?’”
“You have to pick songs with interesting melody lines and vocal parts that translate well into an instrumental song,” Freeman says. “Beatles songs have so many interesting parts and chord changes. … We like playing classics by turning them into a medley. Why don’t we mush them together? We would never play ‘Pipeline’ at a surf convention, but because it’s paired with ‘Paint It Black,’ it’s possible because we did something creative with it.”
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"Pipeline", by California surf rock group The Chantays, in 1962 became an instant hit reaching the #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in and is considered one of th...
Interesting song selection, CW5 Jack Cardwell, and most enjoyable! However, with a group name like Surfrajettes and an all instrumental selection, I'm surprised that they didn't play a medley of the early instrumental surfing songs. Pipeline (1962) by the Chantays comes to mind. There are many others also.
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Album: The Beach Boys Song: Surfin USA LYRICS: If everybody had an ocean Across the U.S.A. Then everybody'd be surfing Like California You'd see 'em wearin' ...
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Surfin’ USA ——> Always ready to deploy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0dWXyTa2Cw
Surfin’ USA ——> Always ready to deploy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0dWXyTa2Cw
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LTC Stephen C.
Here's another. Wipe Out (1963) by the Surfaris! Like that car!
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LTC Stephen C.
Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show. August 27, 1960. Re-posted by request.
I could go on and on, but I'll stop with Walk Don't Run (1960) by The Ventures!
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