THAT IS VERY MUCH A CHICK THING!! I have played with many GREAT female players over the years and they ARE different from playing with guys. They tend to dress better and match clothes and gear. They play with more emotion than most males, which often translates to a different sound. Most importantly, they try harder when you treat them respectfully and as equals and are loyal to the project.
The thing I love most about this is that while most amateur guitarists obsess about their guitars, pedals, amps, set-ups, strings, blah, blah, blah, Shermy and Nicole acknowledge the imperfections of their guitars, and then rock out on them. Good lesson here. Stop obsessing about the gear and friggin' practice your playing. Thanks for posting these videos. I'm curious how you get your sound.
My grandmother got me one of those Harmony guitars with S&H Green Stamps back in 1969. I think her tounge wore out licking all those stamps. I recently found an old Silvertone 15W tube amp at the dump and took it home. The power supply was toast. You could smell it. I found a Fender amp power supply that was really close to the original power supply specs. Now I wish I still had that Harmony guitar. Enjoyed your song ladies, look forward to hearing it in-person some day. Hope you can get out and play to a packed audience soon. Live music is the best!!
OMG! My Mom got me an acoustic (my first) guitar with S&H. I kept breaking strings because I didn't know how to tune it. The strings were about half an inch away from the fretboard. Frustrated, I Pete Townshened it in my bedroom doorway. Took another stab at it with an electric and have been playing for 50 years. When I saw this vid I just got done playing some slide on a Harmony identical to Nicole's. It has the whammy bar like the other one though. There are probably thousands of green stamp guitar stories.
My cat likes to lay his cheek and throat against the top of my Strat's neck. He likes to feel the vibration. And doesn't care at all that his head is an obstacle. He figures I can just improvise around him. I love the 60.'s vibe of those drop dead beautiful Harmony's and as always you guys sound incredible. Thank you for sharing !
Great tune. I like how you got your excuses in early regarding the guitars. We all started off with what we could afford before knowing what we really wanted. Keep the couch surfing coming
Awesome video! We had a band in high school from '70-'72. Our guitar player had a sunburst model. True to form it wouldn't stay in tune & the intonation was terrible, BUT he LOVED that guitar! U guys sound great, hope to hear you live someday-post Covid...
Thank you ladies you look and sound fab as usual. Love the tone of these Guitars. Thanks for bring me cheer during these difficult times. Really hoping to see you in England one day. BTW Shermy you look so cute wearing pigtails ❤️❤️
Sweet! Love the old Harmony guitars. I have a 1963 Harmony Stratotone Holiday. Those old foil pickups have a sound of their own. They do have quirks but what a joy to play.
Having grown up in Southern Cal and Hawaii as a beach bum Moondoggie along with my siblings, we ALL have loved "Surf Music" and it's part of my DNA first and foremost. My oldest brother had a Bobkat when we were growing up and he was Rad on that Beast. I continue to stay groovy and strut as I'm hoping All Of The Surfajettes and their Fans are doing too! Cheers
The most beautiful ladies in a band today . Thank you for keeping this style of music alive. Hearing your band play takes people back to a time that was so super cool . I was born at the end of that Era but was still able to grow up hearing the surfer sound ♥️♥️♥️🤟
My dad got the Airline brand version for Christmas in 1966 along with a Valco 5 Watt 1x12 combo. It looks very nearly like Nichole’s, and is quite fun to play, intonation issues aside. Love them gold foils!
My first electric was a Silvertone back in 1971...I don't think it was a Bobcat but it was similar. One of my cats likes to chew and lick my guitar strings while I'm playing, sometimes he'll even paw at the fretboard. I really think he's trying to play along with me, lol.
Awesome. Those guitars are hard to play. I used to have one. Look at it cross and it would fly out of tune. L! You girls wrangle them good. Much love from down south in southern New Mexico USA.
I swapped an amp I had in the attic for years for a 1958 Harmony Stratotone with 2 pickups. My Pal Roy had it for a year rebuilding it. It's got 'that' thing. Love it. Enjoyed the video.
I'm serious... You guys give so much life to my life! Shermy is the sweetest and so intelligent and cool and Nicole I fell completely in love with seeing the video of Banzai Pipeline at that festival. You were SO ultimately cool! I watch your videos, along with other good music from Genesis to Hüsker Dü, Tom Waits to The Replacements. My God!!! You just started playing Cha Cha Heels!!! That's yours!!??? Toronto #1! "In a Hong Kong Drizzle on Cuban Heels, I rolled down the gutter to the bloodbank......I talked baseball with the Lieutenant over a Singapore Sling.... Come on girls!! My brother (Nelson Ferreira IMDb was nominated for a film Oscar for his work on THE SHAPE OF WATER!!!!! I live 2 hours away in London. Can I come to Toronto and we can hang out? No issues.
Funny. I've got a late 90's Danelectro U2, with the same cat bite marks on a couple of tuning keys. I know exactly what cat did it too. Lol. Love you guys!!
I have a Bobcat like Nicole that I bought after having a red one I bought for $40 at a pawnshop for years and loved it. They’re quirky but very 60s cool. Love your vids.
DOTS! I had to use a hole-punch on some white tape and stick them on the top edge of the neck of mine (an H45 from 1959). Low-tech but it works :) Also the cat story is hilarious and awesome
Steve Cropper tells the story that we guitarists just let the audience believe we know where to put our fingers through pure talent and is entertainingly cagey about letting on about the dots.
Thanks for these gear segments! I'd love to see a complete rig rundown with all of your pedals, amps, etc. and why you chose each piece. Keep up the great work!
Just happened upon your channel. Glad I did! I love this style of music. Was my dad's go to style on the guitar. I'm a big Ventures fan. Also love Chris Isaak, Brian Setzer, any surf and rockabilly. Keep up the great music and thanks for helping to keep this style alive.
Love the guitars, particularly the moment at the beginning when the light catches the crazing on Shermy's Bobkat. I mainly play a Silvertone 1446, and had the same intonation issues with the stock floating bridge. I asked my local luthier to install a Tune-O-Matic bridge instead, and it's made all the difference. It's not stock anymore, but what's the point of a guitar if you can't play it? And with those gorgeous DeArmond Gold Foil pickups, it may be worth the trouble :-)
I already love my Harmony Bobkat to death but that fact that you guys are rocking them too makes its all the more special, big fan of your work in music !!
Recently discovered your band love the retro style and great music ,guitar player myself you inspired me dig out some of those ventures classics ! Keep good work up
I had a BobKat many years ago. I changed the tuners & solved the intonation issue! I upgraded to a Harmony Rocket & changed the tuners as well. Great video!
I like that they're color-coordinated with their respective guitars.
Yes! The shirts says it all xD
Sooweeeeeeet
That's one of the advantages of watching female musicians with fine taste and sensitivity.
THAT IS VERY MUCH A CHICK THING!! I have played with many GREAT female players over the years and they ARE different from playing with guys. They tend to dress better and match clothes and gear. They play with more emotion than most males, which often translates to a different sound. Most importantly, they try harder when you treat them respectfully and as equals and are loyal to the project.
The Surfrajettes just make me smile 😁
SO nice to see young Adults keeping this music style alive and vibrant in todays world.
The thing I love most about this is that while most amateur guitarists obsess about their guitars, pedals, amps, set-ups, strings, blah, blah, blah, Shermy and Nicole acknowledge the imperfections of their guitars, and then rock out on them. Good lesson here. Stop obsessing about the gear and friggin' practice your playing. Thanks for posting these videos. I'm curious how you get your sound.
Shannon, I will ro just that!
I appreciate that you kept the guitars all original - they certainly have their own vibe even if they aren't the most reliable. Rock on ladies!
Thanks, ladies, for a warm, colorful video to watch on a cold, snow-packed day. And of course, your music is way cool.
My grandmother got me one of those Harmony guitars with S&H Green Stamps back in 1969. I think her tounge wore out licking all those stamps. I recently found an old Silvertone 15W tube amp at the dump and took it home. The power supply was toast. You could smell it. I found a Fender amp power supply that was really close to the original power supply specs. Now I wish I still had that Harmony guitar. Enjoyed your song ladies, look forward to hearing it in-person some day. Hope you can get out and play to a packed audience soon. Live music is the best!!
Yeah, I remember my grandmother filling out those stamp books. The stamps would come out of dispensers at the supermarket checkouts. Long time ago.
OMG! My Mom got me an acoustic (my first) guitar with S&H. I kept breaking strings because I didn't know how to tune it. The strings were about half an inch away from the fretboard. Frustrated, I Pete Townshened it in my bedroom doorway. Took another stab at it with an electric and have been playing for 50 years. When I saw this vid I just got done playing some slide on a Harmony identical to Nicole's. It has the whammy bar like the other one though. There are probably thousands of green stamp guitar stories.
@@sunsparkle8443 Cleaning out my MIL's estate we found books of S&H green stamps in a desk drawer.
same here, but around 1966
Two of my favorite beautiful ladies and very talented
guitar players
A very great admirer from the Netherlands
These guitars sound great together!
Great band. Never stop playing!
I love the tone ! Great! 🍻👍🏄
tubular! that was a great live performance at the end! awesome tune. nice matching guitars too, girls, keep up the cool videos.
That was cool! Love you, Shermy and Nicole! Love the Surfragettes!❤️
My cat likes to lay his cheek and throat against the top of my Strat's neck.
He likes to feel the vibration.
And doesn't care at all that his head is an obstacle.
He figures I can just improvise around him.
I love the 60.'s vibe of those drop dead beautiful Harmony's
and as always you guys sound incredible.
Thank you for sharing !
Great tune. I like how you got your excuses in early regarding the guitars. We all started off with what we could afford before knowing what we really wanted. Keep the couch surfing coming
Awesome video! We had a band in high school from '70-'72. Our guitar player had a sunburst model. True to form it wouldn't stay in tune & the intonation was terrible, BUT he LOVED that guitar!
U guys sound great, hope to hear you live someday-post Covid...
Can't enough of you both since you two are so captivating with your melodic playing with intriguing dynamics and fun energy!
Thanks for staying in touch and sharing more about your gear and history! Looking forward to your next video.
Thank you ladies you look and sound fab as usual. Love the tone of these Guitars. Thanks for bring me cheer during these difficult times. Really hoping to see you in England one day. BTW Shermy you look so cute wearing pigtails ❤️❤️
Thanks great stories. Cha Cha Heels as it would have sounded in the 60s👍👍
They sound great together, that hypnotic tone, so captivating. Canada's first lady's of surf. Jess wonderful.
Sweet! Love the old Harmony guitars. I have a 1963 Harmony Stratotone Holiday. Those old foil pickups have a sound of their own. They do have quirks but what a joy to play.
I could listen to you play all day. Just really great.
Having grown up in Southern Cal and Hawaii as a beach bum Moondoggie along with my siblings, we ALL have loved "Surf Music" and it's part of my DNA first and foremost. My oldest brother had a Bobkat when we were growing up and he was Rad on that Beast. I continue to stay groovy and strut as I'm hoping All Of The Surfajettes and their Fans are doing too! Cheers
The most beautiful ladies in a band today . Thank you for keeping this style of music alive. Hearing your band play takes people back to a time that was so super cool . I was born at the end of that Era but was still able to grow up hearing the surfer sound ♥️♥️♥️🤟
My first amp was a sears silvertone that I found at a garage sale. Same brand as your guitars. Very cool song.
My dad got the Airline brand version for Christmas in 1966 along with a Valco 5 Watt 1x12 combo. It looks very nearly like Nichole’s, and is quite fun to play, intonation issues aside. Love them gold foils!
I'm really enjoying these Couch Surfing episodes. I can't wait to see you live when this is over!
Oh Shermy, you just make me smile stupid. I could watch you all day! Cheers!
I love that you play "Cha-Cha Heels" at the end! One of my favorites!
Oh yeah another chatting video, love it and your home.
Ladies it's time to get a Mosrite--a baby blue for Shermy and a purple one for Nicole. Now that would be completely badass!
Best guitars ever
Dillion makes an excellent copy of the Mosrite, and a lot more affordable.
And they can exercise lifting weights at the same time.
Wow! Cool video. Those two Harmonies sound great together. Nice Tune Too. :)
Love it, just love it. great that you like music from that era and bringing it back. Bravo!
My first electric was a Silvertone back in 1971...I don't think it was a Bobcat but it was similar. One of my cats likes to chew and lick my guitar strings while I'm playing, sometimes he'll even paw at the fretboard. I really think he's trying to play along with me, lol.
Love what you do, and thank you for sharing your sounds with all of us. Definitely brightened my day!😀
Love your music and look forward to each video. Keep it up.
8:40 That was great, thanks for sharing...really enjoyed you both playing
You two stunningly beautiful and talented ladies always bring a smile to my face!🤗😍
Awesome. Those guitars are hard to play. I used to have one. Look at it cross and it would fly out of tune. L! You girls wrangle them good. Much love from down south in southern New Mexico USA.
You girls rock...keep up the great tunes and waiting for your next drop!!!
Always a huge "upper" when you guys provide us with another video. Very authentic sound. I had one as teen. Wish the heck I'd kept it. Thank You!!
Absolutely love you girls! Great tunes . Fun videos. I dig this channel so much. ❤❤❤
I love both of you so much. Thanks for keeping surf alive😛
Thank you, a great way to take your mind off all the stuff that's going on and enjoy two very talented young ladies.
I swapped an amp I had in the attic for years for a 1958 Harmony Stratotone with 2 pickups. My Pal Roy had it for a year rebuilding it. It's got 'that' thing. Love it. Enjoyed the video.
I'm serious...
You guys give so much life to my life!
Shermy is the sweetest and so intelligent and cool and Nicole I fell completely in love with seeing the video of Banzai Pipeline at that festival. You were SO ultimately cool! I watch your videos, along with other good music from Genesis to Hüsker Dü, Tom Waits to The Replacements. My God!!! You just started playing Cha Cha Heels!!! That's yours!!???
Toronto #1!
"In a Hong Kong Drizzle on Cuban Heels, I rolled down the gutter to the bloodbank......I talked baseball with the Lieutenant over a Singapore Sling....
Come on girls!!
My brother (Nelson Ferreira IMDb was nominated for a film Oscar for his work on THE SHAPE OF WATER!!!!!
I live 2 hours away in London. Can I come to Toronto and we can hang out?
No issues.
Great guitars and I love the tone. Nice to know that not only us old dudes appreciate that kind of sound! ❤❤❤
Excellent as always ladies! Great guitars, lovely tune!
I'm so glad I found the surfrajettes!!! You guys are AMAZING
All hail the queens of reverb !
Pretty sure it's only a matter of time before these chicks appear in a Tarantino flick. 👍😎👌
and an old spring reverb beats digital bucket brigade any day.
Queens of Reverb needs to be their next album title
LOVE THEM!!! So much fun to see you ladies playing. Looking forward to the next video ❤👍😊😊😊
Funny. I've got a late 90's Danelectro U2, with the same cat bite marks on a couple of tuning keys. I know exactly what cat did it too. Lol. Love you guys!!
I LOVE IT! You ladies rock, I love these videos you do and I will follow your progress and watch what ever you post. Thank you
Thank you ladies for the background information and the performance to cap things off.
Have a good weekend.
That was really fantastic ladies of Surf!!!! Diggin' those surf rock sounds-- you guys are inspiring!
It's great watching you both jam on your guitars! Thanks for the video!!
I have a Bobcat like Nicole that I bought after having a red one I bought for $40 at a pawnshop for years and loved it. They’re quirky but very 60s cool.
Love your vids.
First post yay!! Another great video! Those are really cool guitars.
Cool Bobcats! I have a blue one myself. Keep the videos coming.
Love your style girls. Not only are you excellent surf guitarists but you embrace the 50s/60s style as well. I bet your shows are a blast!
DOTS! I had to use a hole-punch on some white tape and stick them on the top edge of the neck of mine (an H45 from 1959). Low-tech but it works :) Also the cat story is hilarious and awesome
Steve Cropper tells the story that we guitarists just let the audience believe we know where to put our fingers through pure talent and is entertainingly cagey about letting on about the dots.
Just came across y'all a couple days ago and I am hooked! Thanks for the awesome vibe and keep it up!❤
Love your style. If we ever get back to something like normal I would really like to see you guys live. You always make me have a better day.
I love your face expressions whilst you are playing your instruments.
Both of you are so good together, it should be a law.
Sounds so rad!! I love these videos and can't wait for the next one. Take care!! 🤙
Very cool 😎 girls you and the guitars 🎸 keep it up 👍🏻
Thanks for these gear segments! I'd love to see a complete rig rundown with all of your pedals, amps, etc. and why you chose each piece. Keep up the great work!
Love guitars from this era- thanks for sharing this!!!
Bobkat. Now that's iconic.
You ladies just have that surf vibe down. Great playing, and the guitar sounds are excellent. I could listen to that background song all day.
But what is it. I've read where readers ask what it is but so far no one's identified it. Is it another Damoff/Freeman original?
Shermy’s bobcat is a match of GM’s Marina Blue paint used in ‘67. Looks just as good on a guitar!
FAB VIrgil. We need to know things like this.
Thank you Shermy and Nicole, for your explanations, and a nice demonstration of your song, with a great sound, congratulations and see you soon?
So cool 😎. Love you Nicole 😍 you all are amazing live!🎶🎸
Cool guitars! Thanks for the tune and rundown.
I noticed that you're now over 100k subs, congrats!
Love the videos about your gear. Always looking forward for more
Just happened upon your channel. Glad I did! I love this style of music. Was my dad's go to style on the guitar. I'm a big Ventures fan. Also love Chris Isaak, Brian Setzer, any surf and rockabilly. Keep up the great music and thanks for helping to keep this style alive.
Excellent! Its great to see you! Some chuck berry, teenage wedding. I'm very proud of you !
I love the cat eating the tuners!
Whoah those are super cool, warts and all.
Beautiful all four 👍🏻
BRAVO BRAVO You Really Made Me Go Back To Sunny Southern California Beach Those Years 1960
Your gear is so so sweet!
Nice vintage surf tones and I loved the song. Will look forward to your next post.
Love the sound of those pickups. Nice song.
Sounds great, beautyful Girls and Guitars. 🎹🎶🎛🎙🎼🎤🎵🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Very cool, ladies! Hi from Scarborough Ontario!
Love the guitars, particularly the moment at the beginning when the light catches the crazing on Shermy's Bobkat. I mainly play a Silvertone 1446, and had the same intonation issues with the stock floating bridge. I asked my local luthier to install a Tune-O-Matic bridge instead, and it's made all the difference. It's not stock anymore, but what's the point of a guitar if you can't play it? And with those gorgeous DeArmond Gold Foil pickups, it may be worth the trouble :-)
Silhouette?
Love the tune, ladies. Thank you for the video. 🎸🎵🎶🎵🎶
Great video! Informative and very cool.
Both guitars sounded good to me, human watching CZcams.
Thanks!
Thank you for the stories and for playing a song or two for us.
I already love my Harmony Bobkat to death but that fact that you guys are rocking them too makes its all the more special, big fan of your work in music !!
Thank You Ladies. I Love your music. I am so glad I fell into this place!!!
Great sounds! Awesome 🤘🤘
The admirer from the UK 🇬🇧👍🏻😀😍
I'm sucker for a matching headstock! Love that blue color
Recently discovered your band love the retro style and great music ,guitar player myself you inspired me dig out some of those ventures classics ! Keep good work up
Great song you girls did , great video too
Got my LP today! Thank you!
That sunburst one was my first electric guitar when I was a kid in the '60s. Wish I still had it. Also had a little Danelectro amp to go with it.
I had a BobKat many years ago. I changed the tuners & solved the intonation issue! I upgraded to a Harmony Rocket & changed the tuners as well. Great video!