Denise Kaufman discusses Ace of Cups' new song 'Made for Love,' San Francisco in the Sixties and the band's legacy as an all-female band. Bob Weir and Jackson Browne guest on the new track
, and David Freiberg of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane, the track centers around the mantra “We were made for love” against spoken-word verses. “Remember what we came here for/It’s not for hate, it’s not for war,” Denise Kaufman sings.
From her home in Kauai, Hawaii, where Kaufman has owned an organic family farm since 1981, the singer discussed the new track, San Francisco in the Sixties, and Ace of Cups’ legacy as an all-female band.Mary [Alfiler] wrote the basic melody and the mantra of it, and then we had our friends Jackson and Bobby and Dave sing with us. So we started out with just that, and then I wrote the spoken-word verses and finished it just a week before the pandemic.
Not that there wasn’t some sexism — and not that there weren’t some guys who had an attitude about women playing electric guitars [] — but the truth was, we got a lot of support from the people around us. A lot of the bands that we played onstage with were supporting and encouraging. The Jefferson Airplane were so good to us.
Around the time that the Seva Foundation was formed [1978], Bobby came to Kauai. I had been living here for about six or seven years, and he came and stayed with me and played with the band that I had here. He’s just always been a good friend. We’ve done a lot of yoga together through the years.
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