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.
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.
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 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 !
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.
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...
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
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.
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 ❤️❤️
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!
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 ♥️♥️♥️🤟
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!
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.
I have a 1964 H14 and it plays and sounds wonderful I really don't have any problems with the intonation... From what I understand these guitars were sold by montgomery wards out of the catalog and sears had the silver tone. They have no truss rod but my neck is straight as an arrow very comfortable lightweight and easy to play as you say did the arm and gold foil pickups are instant Robert Cray plugged directly into a Fender... I have tens of thousands of dollars wrapped up in guitars and I bought my bobkat at an antique/thrift store with the matching amp for $250 it holds its own against any of my other guitars and has a tone unique to itself. This guitar makes me second guess any of my other purchases... it's obvious that a great guitar can be made and stand the test of time for an affordable price. Oh and you two are beautiful I just want to bring my bobkat and hang out in the room with you 🥰
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 :-)
Great video, ladies! I loved those guitars and your playing. I'm in the UK now but I lived in Toronto from '66-'83. I owned a Kent Epiphone Casino copy from '69-'81 which was fun to play. I think Kent guitars were sold through Eaton's. I actually bought a real Casino a few years ago so I don't miss the copy too much.
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'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.
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!
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.
This was awesome and thanks! I bought my red 1966 Airline Bobkat in '19 after learning about the brand from Jack White and Dan from the Black Keys. I read articles about their love of them. After getting and having it set up, this thing was great. Those D'Armonds are fantastic and soooooo loud. Had to turn the amp volume down after plugging this in. Surprisingly, it stays in tune pretty well. Thanks again for sharing!
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 !!
My friend carved a custom Corian bridge for my Bobkat (Holiday branded). it is a work of art. I now would like to replace the mini pots with different pots. Fabulous demo song! Fender Excelsior?
Hearing you playing together, just the two of you, puts me in mind of what the original Ventures -- Don Wilson and Bob Bogle -- may have sounded like when it was just the two of them playing for dances, etc. -- no bass, no drums. Nice work, ladies.
These "couch surfin" segments are great! Been a fan for a few months. Did I miss one though, where you talk about your amps and any effects? For everything you said were shortfalls of these guitars, they sound fantastic together.
Love your channel. My first guitar was a Silvertone like Nicole's back in 1964 (along with a Silvertone twin twelve amp). I taught myself to play and wound up in a cool band in high school (Lincoln and the Continentals). I was finally able to buy a new Fender Mustang and move uo to better playing and greater venues in Hollywood.
Great playing and tune! Loved hearing the back story on how you came into these vintage Guitars and appreciate your keeping them mostly stock original ! There are some mods that would improve them, but then they might lose their originality. Lubing the Nut grooves and wrap locking the Strings at the Tuning keys may help them stay in tune. Best Wishes to all of You!
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.
Ladies, thank you for the inspiration. I have an old guitar I built years ago that is ready for a rebuild. I have wanted a surf guitar and the gold foil pickups have that sound I want. Much love to you both, stay safe.
Hi Girls , thanks for the history and the tune !! I had a Silvertone - ( Sears ) Guitar / Amp / Case -- combo`s as a kid growing up in the 60`s . I am soooo trying to get over it !! LOL I know how you both must feel , me too !! fond memories of youthful bliss !! Take care, Dreamer
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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.
SO nice to see young Adults keeping this music style alive and vibrant in todays world.
The Surfrajettes just make me smile 😁
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
That was cool! Love you, Shermy and Nicole! Love the Surfragettes!❤️
Thanks, ladies, for a warm, colorful video to watch on a cold, snow-packed day. And of course, your music is way cool.
You two stunningly beautiful and talented ladies always bring a smile to my face!🤗😍
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!
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!
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 !
These guitars sound great together!
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.
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...
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
tubular! that was a great live performance at the end! awesome tune. nice matching guitars too, girls, keep up the cool videos.
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.
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 for staying in touch and sharing more about your gear and history! Looking forward to your next video.
Wow! Cool video. Those two Harmonies sound great together. Nice Tune Too. :)
I love that you play "Cha-Cha Heels" at the end! One of my favorites!
I could listen to you play all day. Just really great.
Can't enough of you both since you two are so captivating with your melodic playing with intriguing dynamics and fun energy!
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!!
Great band. Never stop playing!
Love your music and look forward to each video. Keep it up.
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!
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 ♥️♥️♥️🤟
Thank you, a great way to take your mind off all the stuff that's going on and enjoy two very talented young ladies.
Love it, just love it. great that you like music from that era and bringing it back. Bravo!
I'm really enjoying these Couch Surfing episodes. I can't wait to see you live when this is over!
Two of my favorite beautiful ladies and very talented
guitar players
A very great admirer from the Netherlands
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 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!
Love what you do, and thank you for sharing your sounds with all of us. Definitely brightened my day!😀
8:40 That was great, thanks for sharing...really enjoyed you both playing
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.
I have a 1964 H14 and it plays and sounds wonderful I really don't have any problems with the intonation... From what I understand these guitars were sold by montgomery wards out of the catalog and sears had the silver tone. They have no truss rod but my neck is straight as an arrow very comfortable lightweight and easy to play as you say did the arm and gold foil pickups are instant Robert Cray plugged directly into a Fender... I have tens of thousands of dollars wrapped up in guitars and I bought my bobkat at an antique/thrift store with the matching amp for $250 it holds its own against any of my other guitars and has a tone unique to itself. This guitar makes me second guess any of my other purchases... it's obvious that a great guitar can be made and stand the test of time for an affordable price. Oh and you two are beautiful I just want to bring my bobkat and hang out in the room with you 🥰
My first amp was a sears silvertone that I found at a garage sale. Same brand as your guitars. Very cool song.
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?
Oh yeah another chatting video, love it and your home.
Excellent! Its great to see you! Some chuck berry, teenage wedding. I'm very proud of 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!
Absolutely love you girls! Great tunes . Fun videos. I dig this channel so much. ❤❤❤
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?
I love the tone ! Great! 🍻👍🏄
Excellent as always ladies! Great guitars, lovely tune!
You girls rock...keep up the great tunes and waiting for your next drop!!!
Great work ladies. Wishing you huge success and enjoyment in your work.
Great video, ladies! I loved those guitars and your playing. I'm in the UK now but I lived in Toronto from '66-'83. I owned a Kent Epiphone Casino copy from '69-'81 which was fun to play. I think Kent guitars were sold through Eaton's. I actually bought a real Casino a few years ago so I don't miss the copy too much.
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
Cool Bobcats! I have a blue one myself. Keep the videos coming.
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.
Cool guitars! Thanks for the tune and rundown.
I noticed that you're now over 100k subs, congrats!
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'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.
I love both of you so much. Thanks for keeping surf alive😛
Great guitars and I love the tone. Nice to know that not only us old dudes appreciate that kind of sound! ❤❤❤
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'm so glad I found the surfrajettes!!! You guys are AMAZING
LOVE THEM!!! So much fun to see you ladies playing. Looking forward to the next video ❤👍😊😊😊
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.
This was awesome and thanks! I bought my red 1966 Airline Bobkat in '19 after learning about the brand from Jack White and Dan from the Black Keys. I read articles about their love of them. After getting and having it set up, this thing was great. Those D'Armonds are fantastic and soooooo loud. Had to turn the amp volume down after plugging this in. Surprisingly, it stays in tune pretty well. Thanks again for sharing!
Dan Auerbach is fucking brilliant
Love the sound of those pickups. Nice song.
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 !!
Oh Shermy, you just make me smile stupid. I could watch you all day! Cheers!
Thank you Shermy and Nicole, for your explanations, and a nice demonstration of your song, with a great sound, congratulations and see you soon?
They sound great together, that hypnotic tone, so captivating. Canada's first lady's of surf. Jess wonderful.
Love the tune, ladies. Thank you for the video. 🎸🎵🎶🎵🎶
Really really cool to hear you too talking so passionately about your instruments
Just came across y'all a couple days ago and I am hooked! Thanks for the awesome vibe and keep it up!❤
Great video! Informative and very cool.
Both guitars sounded good to me, human watching RUclips.
Thanks!
It's great watching you both jam on your guitars! Thanks for the video!!
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.
My friend carved a custom Corian bridge for my Bobkat (Holiday branded). it is a work of art. I now would like to replace the mini pots with different pots. Fabulous demo song! Fender Excelsior?
Very cool, ladies! Hi from Scarborough Ontario!
Very cool 😎 girls you and the guitars 🎸 keep it up 👍🏻
Great to see you. Hope to hear you live someday. Cheers from Vancouver.
2023 - still hoping for a Western Canada tour!
Hearing you playing together, just the two of you, puts me in mind of what the original Ventures -- Don Wilson and Bob Bogle -- may have sounded like when it was just the two of them playing for dances, etc. -- no bass, no drums. Nice work, ladies.
Love the barbie guitars....You'all jam out pretty nice...love your tunes..
Amazing song! I have never encountered people like you all in real life. No one Ive ever met was very cool or knowledgeable about cool things.
These "couch surfin" segments are great! Been a fan for a few months. Did I miss one though, where you talk about your amps and any effects? For everything you said were shortfalls of these guitars, they sound fantastic together.
Thank You Ladies...Hope to catch you live someday..But, for now, thanks to RUclips !!!
Love your channel. My first guitar was a Silvertone like Nicole's back in 1964 (along with a Silvertone twin twelve amp). I taught myself to play and wound up in a cool band in high school (Lincoln and the Continentals). I was finally able to buy a new Fender Mustang and move uo to better playing and greater venues in Hollywood.
Nice vintage surf tones and I loved the song. Will look forward to your next post.
Great playing and tune! Loved hearing the back story on how you came into these vintage
Guitars and appreciate your keeping them mostly stock original !
There are some mods that would improve them, but then they might lose their originality.
Lubing the Nut grooves and wrap locking the Strings at the Tuning keys may help them stay in tune.
Best Wishes to all of You!
I love your face expressions whilst you are playing your instruments.
Both of you are so good together, it should be a law.
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.
First post yay!! Another great video! Those are really cool guitars.
Great song you girls did , great video too
Thanks great stories. Cha Cha Heels as it would have sounded in the 60s👍👍
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.
Sounds great, beautyful Girls and Guitars. 🎹🎶🎛🎙🎼🎤🎵🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
I had a Silvertone when I used to play. I replaced it with a Mosrite - Enjoy your group!
Ladies, thank you for the inspiration. I have an old guitar I built years ago that is ready for a rebuild. I have wanted a surf guitar and the gold foil pickups have that sound I want. Much love to you both, stay safe.
Hi Girls , thanks for the history and the tune !! I had a Silvertone - ( Sears ) Guitar / Amp / Case -- combo`s as a kid growing up in the 60`s . I am soooo trying to get over it !! LOL
I know how you both must feel , me too !! fond memories of youthful bliss !! Take care, Dreamer
cool clean clean guitar playing, surf guitar rocks and so do you guys, i enjoy your videos.
Those gold foil pickups have TONS of mojo! Awesome video!
Great sounds! Awesome 🤘🤘
Nice guitars! These were built at the new Harmony plant in Chicago ,IL at 46th and Kolin Ave. Surfrajettes are the bomb!