Surf Goddess is an EP by the American punk rock band the Queers, released in February 1995 by Lookout! Records. It marked the return of longtime drummer Hugh O'Neill to the band, after a forced leave of absence to deal with heroin addiction. Former Screeching Weasel member Dan Vapid, who had been a member of the Queers in 1994, played on the EP as a guest guitarist. Surf Goddess was the result of band leader Joe King and Lookout! head Larry Livermore being dissatisfied with the production techniques on the band's prior album, 1994's Beat Off, which producer Ben Weasel had insisted on keeping basic. King and Livermore wanted to incorporate overdubbing and other effects which Livermore felt were essential to the Queers' sound. In addition to the title track, which was co-written by Weasel, and the Queers original "Quit Talkin, the EP includes cover versions of Tommy James and the Shondells's "Mirage" and the Undertones' "Get Over You". After the Queers rescinded their master recordings from Lookout! in 2006, the tracks from Surf Goddess were included on a reissue of their 1995 album Move Back Home, having been remixed and remastered by recording engineer Mass Giorgini. Background Longtime Queers drummer Hugh O'Neill had taken a forced leave of absence from the band in 1993, after singer and guitarist Joe King (aka Joe Queer) had staged an intervention to get him to stop using heroin. Jay Adelberg, drummer of the Hartford, Connecticut-based band Forklift, filled in with the Queers, performing on the live album Shout at the Queers (1994) and their cover version of the Ramones album Rocket to Russia (released in 1994 as part of Selfless Records' Ramones covers album series). Screeching Weasel drummer Dan Panic then joined the Queers, along with his bandmate Dan Vapid joining as a second guitarist, for the band's fourth studio album, Beat Off (1994), and the live album Suck This (1995). Beat Off had been recorded in Chicago in April 1994, engineered by Mass Giorgini and produced by Screeching Weasel frontman Ben Weasel. Lookout! Records head Larry Livermore was present for the sessions, and was displeased with Weasel's insistence on a no-frills punk rock sound for the album, including eschewing the guitar and vocal overdubs that Livermore felt were "fundamental to [the Queers'] Beach Boys-meet-the-Ramones style." Weasel also removed Vapid's tracks from the album's final mix without the guitarist's knowledge, causing Vapid not