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The Shanghai Gesture

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About Me

The Shanghai Gesture is named after a great schlock filled B-movie from the 1940's about a girl who falls into the evil clutches of decadance and is the latest band from Atlanta guitarist/singer/songwriter Ray Dafrico. As founding member of The Nightporters, Shades of Shame, Kathleen Turner Overdrive and Kickstand, he has years of experience, opening for the likes of The Clash, REM, The Ramones, The Replacements, Joan Jett, Richard Hell and many others. He has also recorded with Peter Buck, Rob Fraboni and Brendan O' Brian, and has earned himself a reputation for writing upbeat, hook filled, to the point pop songs that still maintain an edge and are deeply rooted in rock and roll tradition. One review described Dafrico's songs and performance "like Keith Richards fronting The Kinks and a little Brian Wilson thrown in as a sweetener. He has also been called by one Atlanta writer as a "Nose on a stick"... Pretty deep stuff.Atlanta native and drummer Mike Scoop Davis has been playing with drums alongside Dafrico in Kickstand since 1999. A Bob Dylan and Tom Petty fan, Davis provides a foundation for the band and as a newspaper reporter, gets to witness various courtroom dramas and crime scenes. The occasional finding of a dead body provides the drummer with really cool stories at band practice. Our newest member is bassist Katy Graves, who was in Atlanta's all-girl sensations, Catfight! She comes equipped with brand new groove tubes for her giant SVT and can quote lines from any of The Kissology DVD's.The Shanghai Gesture's combination of influences from various 60s British invasion bands, punk, psychedelia, soul, 70s rock, glam and folk, topped with great musicianship and a sense of humor make them a unique creative rock and roll band in a time when it seems like that is getting to be few and far between.

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Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Members: Ray Dafrico - Guitar, Vocals / Mike Davis - Drums / Katy Graves- Bass
Influences: The Rolling Stones, The Clash, The Who, The Kinks, The Pretenders, The Lyres, Rank and File, Sam & Dave, Bob Dylan, Small Faces and The Faces, The Flamin' Groovies,Television, The English Beat, Selecter, The Seeds, Rich Kids, The Animals, Chuck Berry, Big Audio Dynamite, Rufus Thomas, The Band, Cheap Trick, The Troggs, Nick Cave, Willie Nile, Pink Floyd, The Wonderstuff, NRBQ, The Attractions, The Nazz, Slade, The Move, The Only Ones, The Records, Yardbirds, Ian Mc Glagan's Bump Band,The Attractions, Pretty Things, The Soft Boys, Booker T and The MG's, Paper Lace, The Jam, Patti Smith,The Downliners Sect, Jimmy Cliff, Ramones, Count Basie, The Byrds, Les Paul, Gram Parsons, DEVO, MC5, Generation X, Thin Lizzy, Gene Vincent, Mott The Hoople, Jackie Mitoo, Tom Waits, Gram Parker, The Rascals, The Moving Sidewalks,Queen, Sweet, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Bay City Rollers, The Beatles, Glen Branca, Partridge Family, Dusty Springfield, Johnathan Richman, The Standells, Moby Grape, The Shadows of Knight, Howlin Wolf, Heptones,The Experience, The Count Five, Bob Marley, Iggy, Jimmy Smith, Neil Young, Chuck Berry, Richard Thompson, Bo Diddley, Al Stewart, Andy Kim, Jon Jett, The Rasberries, The Replacements, Ohio Express,Toots and the Maytals, Fountains Of Wayne, Blondie, X, The Old and New Barbarians, ZZ Top, Tom Jones, Holy and The Italians,The Paley Brothers, The Rutles, The Jam, ? and the Mysterians, Sly Stone, Tenpole Tutor, The Rutles, Badfinger, Big Star, Screamin Jay Hawkins
Sounds Like: Rock and Roll
Type of Label: None

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Shanghai Gesture T-Shirts

We have T-shirts for sale! $10.00 each...assorted colors and sizes w/ The Shanghai Gesture "Cheap Trick" style logo on them. By now via Pay Pal and we will ship ASAP. Email us if you want one, or two,...
Posted by The Shanghai Gesture on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:19:00 PST

CD of the year: Wile Nile- "Streets of New York"

Hands down...Buy it now and it will make you smile
Posted by The Shanghai Gesture on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:40:00 PST