Great White Caps

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Experience the ‘classic’ 1991 film ‘Point Break’ in all it’s ultimate glory with a live soundtrack!

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The film, which many consider to be the greatest surf/spy/extreme sports/cop drama of all time will be screened in its entirety with an ongoing interplay between the audio from the film and the band’s live performance. Great White Caps, armed with scripts and an assortment of cues, will be bringing the audio and dialogue of the film out to the forefront to preserve the storyline, before jamming alongside its memorable sequences. It is a well rehearsed production that has yielded not only a new and unique way to experience a movie you love, but a band as well.

At these special screenings which have been performed all over the East Coast, the key is just simply having fun. They strongly encourage audience participation and the crowd are asked to yell at the screen and recite their favorite dialogue. At the end of the day these performances are happening because they love the movie so much, as band member Montag the Magnificent said, “This was a labor of love, because since my first VHS copy of this movie, to the many hung over Saturdays catching it on TV,to now having rehearsed and performed in front of this movie well over a hundred times, it never stops being fun. It’s as simple as that.”

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INTERVIEW ON SURF GUITAR 101

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Hey everyone,

We are totally stoked to be hitting the road next week for a lead up to the amazing Instro Summit in Durham, NC!  Along the way we are going to be hitting up some sweet spots such as Richmond, VA with some amazing friends The Trillions.  A few more along the way including a hit on the coast in Wilmington, NC where we can hopefully jump in the ocean for a few, and Asheville, NC where maybe we can finally find Johnny Utah’s long lost cousin.  We’ll close out the week with a night at the fabulous Instro Summit to enjoy some much needed camaraderie with our fellow surf musicians and music lovers.

Before that happens though, we are going into the studio to re-record our love song to Point Break, “The 50 Year Storm” plus a new tune and maybe some other stuff just for fun.  The new recording will be rendered into an excitingly packaged 7″ record and should be available over the summer some time.  We will be sure to keep everyone posted about the progress.

As always, thanks for the continued support and we’ll see you on the road somewhere- Montag the Magnificent

Let’s start by saying I’m excited.  Why am I excited?  Well, that’s what I sat down at my computer to talk about.  There are so many things happening in my world right now that it seems like the inspiration won’t stop coming.  I am sifting through tons of footage from tour and composing interviews with key players from the GWC camp, and it’s starting to shape up into a watchable collection of images and sounds.  We just had the incredible honor of making dinner for Big Shrimp and Lady Lamprey, aka Warchild and Utah’s parents, and from that dinner I suspect another batch of great footage for the documentary.  I am writing a bunch of new songs and have started singing a lot in my car so get ready to hear some fresh beach rock in the next few months.  I made the first episode of my podcast “The Magnificent Record Shelf” and am working on #2, so check that out.  I am super super super excited to be doing our Point Break show in Brooklyn, if you haven’t had an opportunity to see us do this yet please do, we absolutely love this show and want to share that joy with everyone!  It never seems like the excitement of playing this music ever fades and that is truly an amazing feeling.  When I started playing surf songs many years ago by myself, I never thought that I would end up being able to share that love with so many people, but I have and for that I am grateful.  Now I have to get back to work!

On the beach in my mind-Montag the Magnificent

Cheers from us to you!

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We are very excited to be playing Memphis tonight, the home of rock n roll. Hope to see some of you there at the P&H Cafe!

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Check it out here. We did it!

Hey y’all, we are here in North Carolina this week.  Last night at the Cave in Chapel Hill was a total blast as always, and tonight we head to Boone and the Boone Saloon.  So tell all your friends to check us out!  Thanks for supporting!

News from the road here.

We announce a string of shows to welcome in our favorite time of year!  Bathing suits optional as always!

Hey everyone,

We are all gearing up for a great trip to the North this weekend to play some super great towns, and we hope to see some of your smiling faces there!  As always please check the tour page for updates on when we will be in your town, and to all you West coasters out there, get ready because it looks like the fall will bring a storm of Great White Caps your way, details soon…

Dreaming of glassy peeling waves-Montag

Needless to say, as a surf guitar player, The Ventures have had an amazing influence on what I do.  Well last night I was able to open for them with my fellow White Caps, and we get to do it again on friday.  What is happening!  I am so stoked!

Hey everyone,

Looking forward to the next four days bringing lots of adventures in the north.  We will be blowing through a few towns including Boston and Providence for the first time.  I hope to see lots of you out there, smiling and dancing as always.  Check back after the weekend for some musings from the road, and if you can’t wait until then just get on twitter and check out all the stupidness as it happens.  Thanks folks, and remember if you see us don’t be a stranger and lets share a drink and a laugh!

-Montag the Magnificent

Thanks go out to everyone at the Abbey Bar at Appalachian Brewing Company in Harrisburg, PA for a welcoming and really fun month-long residency. Next time you’re there, make sure to leave fat tips at the bar or with your waiter/waitress. Shoot some pool too, you’re gonna need practice for when Montag and I come back on 4/20 to wipe the tables with ya! Cheers, beers, and weirds!

-Sylvester “in the middle” Seaweed

New tour stories here. And a bunch new dates here.  Keep it tubed for more!

Please check out the latest ramblings here!

Hey everyone,

Here are a bunch of new videos for your viewing enjoyment from our amazing show on New Years Eve.  Thanks to everyone involved and in attendance, you all made it a wonderfully memorable evening.  Check em out…

Bradley Beach

Totally Pissed About These Shitty Waves!

NYE Montage

Some pretty exciting things are going on around the GWC camp as we prepare for whats to come in 2012. Later this month we make our first national TV appearance on Late Night with Johnny P Show which airs on both the east and west coasts! We will announce the air time and show info as soon as that becomes available.

Also, we are extremely excited to share the stage with surf guitar legends and rock-n-roll hall-of-famers THE VENTURES in February! Truly an honor! Also in February we will make 4 appearances at our favorite PA brewpub for a Wednesday night “Beach Party in The Winter” residency at Appalachian Brewing Company! Aside from all that we have plenty of shows coming up with our friends Start Making Sense as always.

…and of course, there’s always something new for us right around the corner, so stay tubed!
-Sylvester Seaweed

Hey everyone, please swing on by Itunes and get our smashed hit Holiday single “I’m Gonna Get Drunk For Christmas!”  Get it here.

Hey everyone!  As we enter the Holiday season, us Great White Caps start to get all festive and crazy so we got together and set up our own little Santa’s workshop and pumped out some super cool treats for our December gigs!  I don’t want to give away all the secrets so come on down and find out what we’ve got hiding in our sack!  You can find us in Massachusetts this coming Friday and next week we have our hometown Christmas party set up with our great friends Rumplestiltskinz and His Dumpster Full of Sound, at the Funhouse!  We will both be playing Holiday specific tunes as well as our normal sets full of mayhem and cheer.  In other Festivus related news our Christmas EP, featuring our soon to be smashed hit “I’m Gonna Get Drunk For Christmas!”, will be available for download very shortly and we will also be selling a “Gift Card” of the album at upcoming shows as well.  O Holy freaking Night, this Feliz Navidad business is off the stocking hook!!!!  Hope to see you all soon, check out our video and get some cheer!

Hey folks,

Something extra special and festive for you all.  Here is a video we just made featuring us and a bunch of our friends having a super fun party.  This tune is sure to become a Holiday classic the likes haven’t been known since Nat King Cole’s heyday!  Check it out here.

Hey everyone,

This weekend will commence yet another year of fantastical Halloween adventures!  Saturday night we return to our favorite hometown spot The Funhouse for our annual Halloween party.  This year we plan on bringing a special funky treat to all in attendance.  Slap on your best costume… or bikini, and get your ass down there!  We also have brand new t shirts for sale and this will be the first place they are available.  Sunday we head down to our nation’s capitol where we will rub elbows with President Obama!  Alright, maybe not, but we will be playing a show with our friends Start Making Sense at Sutra Lounge.  Then it’s Halloween, and where will we be?  Chapel Hill, NC at a frat house with Start Making Sense once again.  Halloween? Frat House? Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”?  Anyone else’s mind go straight to “Revenge of the Nerds”.  I just hope there isn’t anyone there trying to spit fire, or else we are in trouble.  We hope to see you along our trip and be sure to have a…

Greetings Tourists!  Here is what is happening…  Firstly, over the weekend Seaweed and I got to spend a few hours in the studio with DJ 3D aka Icebox International as he laid down some mind expansion on our “In the Soup” remix, look for it soon under the title “In the Soup (Surfin Gojira Dub) GWC vs Sonic Maximizer vs Icebox International”.  It is sure to set you amidst a cloud of smoke and water!  A huge thanks again to 3D for lending himself to our track, here is a pic of the man at work…

Coming up you can see us at our favorite hometown spot, The Funhouse on October 29, where we are planning a few Halloween surprises.  On the 30th we head to Washington DC and on the 31st we will be in Chapel Hill, NC.  Sure to be a great Halloween weekend and we hope to see many of you along the way.  Full show info is available on the “Tour” page.  Stay Tubed!

Here is a little montage of us killing at Nectar’s!

Check out a new story from the roadway!  Do it here.

We were just featured on a great radio show check out the podcast here.  Please check it out, it’s chock full of great garage rock and all wrapped up with the title track off of Sting of Death!  Thanks Tom!

Yet another fun recap right here!

This weekend we hit the road once again for a variety of killer shows.  All in PA and all quite different, here’s the rundown… Friday night we get on down at John and Peter’s in New Hope, PA with our friends The Almighty Terribles.  I have early memories of this place, walking by with my parents as a child and staring at all the motorcycles lined up for a block in each way. Saturday you can find us playing to a bunch of beer swilling hop enthusiasts at the Appalachian Brewing Company’s Beer Fest in Harrisburg, PA featuring a whole slew of regional brews and live surf rock by yours truly!  Finally, Sunday we perform our live score to Point Break at the School of Rock in Downingtown, PA.  Our previous attempt was taken down by the fifty year storm but this time nothing will stop us from bringing this event to the eager folks down there.  Check out a fan video from a previous performance here.  Full info for all of our events on the Tour page, stay tubed for more good times.

Check out a recap from one seriously great weekend here.  We had a blast!

Much more to come, stay tubed!

This week in the world of Great White Caps we have some exciting things going on.  First up on Friday night we will be in NYC at Sullivan Hall with our good friends Start Making Sense!  Sure to be a great time had by all.  Then on Saturday we will be making a very special performance at the first day of The Quicksilver Pro Surf Competition in Long Beach, NY guerilla style.  We will be set up on a friends deck which overlooks the competition.  With the amount of destruction caused by Hurricane Irene, including my freshly broken surfboard BOOOOO, we will bring some serious fun with us to lift spirits and help dry some flooded carpets as well.  Tonight, Tom Morey, the creator of The Morey Boogie left me a comment on our youtube video for The Morey Boogie, wow what a great honor.  Thanks for all the support everyone.  Full show details are found on the “tour” page.  Stay tubed!!!

Well folks, the 50 year storm is approaching, so we are putting off our performance of Point Break at Downingtown School of Rock, for a few weeks. The new date will be Sunday September 18. Details are the same, just check the tour dates page! As everyone flees the coast, Montag and Manatee Mark head straight for it! If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.

Hey all, it’s time for a brief update from the depths.  Next weekend, we will be making our third attempt at a live soundtrack to our favorite film of all time, Point Break.  This time at the Paul Green School of Rock in Downingtown, PA. we have had great success so far and can’t wait to bring this event to more and more people.  Full details on the tour page.  But first, we will be in the studio on Tuesday working on two things.  Keep tubed in for a super dubbed out remix of our reggae/surf smash “In the Soup”.  Montag and Utah will be spending the earlier part of the day exploring the far reaches of our minds with The Sonic Maximizer, our producer extraordinaire!  Then we will be joined by the rest of the gang for the recording of our very first original Winter Holiday smash hit, “I’m Gonna Get Drunk For Christmas”.  Sure to get Grandma shaking around the punch bowl of eggnog this Holiday season!  I think we may sell this one tucked into a 12 month calendar of Great White Caps ridiculousness, what do you think?  Would you buy one?  Steven Seagull, we may have a new job for you!  Thanks for all the support everyone, as Summer winds down we are getting geared up for a Fall full of fun and adventure.  Stay tubed!

Activities abound!  Coming up this week we play a blazing set at Musikfest Plaza Tropical in Bethlehem, PA. from 6-7pm. Check the tour page for other upcoming events.  We just spent a few days in the studio recording some “special occasion” tunes and will soon return to work on our next lp, which I am tentatively calling “Shred the Gnar!!”  Pick up your copy of our debut now!  Links on the music page.

On the night of June 3, 2011 Great White Caps will unveil their soundtrack to the epic bank robbery/surf/sky-diving/crime drama Point Break.  A labor of love indeed.  Performed live in front of the movie at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA.  Alehouse, yes that means you can drink a beer or 5 while you enjoy your favorite surf rock band and watch your favorite actors wax poetic on the trials and tribulations of being a surfing FBI agent.  Purchase tickets soon, they are going quickly!

“It unfolds like a story about young men going on a road trip to a beach in search of sunlight, intoxicants and nubile bodies”

“Shakes like bra-less boobies in a cotton t-shirt”