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surfing, kitesurfing, snowboarding , and playing bass bass bass
Music
rockabilly, metal , swing ,
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Movies
where eagles dare, the wild one, on the waterfront, the godfather, chitty chitty bang bang, shawshank redemtion, dead men dont wear plaid , kes , the evil roy slade , and most defo Mississippi Burning
Television
why dont you just switch off your television set and go do something less boring instead !!!
Books
biographys &(auto)victor annuals and commando books, the BROONS, OOR WULLIE
Heroes
Marlon Brando, Elvis , Hank , Alan Shearer, Richard Harris ,Oliver Reed , Flea , Chris Squire , Dave Phillips ,
Randy Jackson , Nathan Watts , Rob Stoner , Paul (Korka) Kirkham(the best unknown bass player ever !!)
About me: my name is kev charlton aka kev bucket because of my band the LEGENDARY BESSIE AND THE ZINC BUCKETS, , im also bassist with the GROOVEDIGGERS a stripped to the bone rockabilly band ,and im playing bass with a red hot chili peppers tribute band, going by the name of the "REET HOT CHILI PEPPERS,
, my main basses are a 1977 musicman stingray , a 1979 musicman stingray , 1983 musicman cutlass , ernie ball musicman 5 string in vintage sunburst, a 1976 rickenbacker 4001 in burgundy , a 1995 usa fender jazz which i replaced the pick ups for quarter pounders and added a badass mark 3 bridge as the strings go through the body , , 12 string hamer bass ala cheap tricks tom petterson , a aria zzb custom deluxe ,a hondo rickenbacker 4001, and i bought a epiphone thunderbird bass because i tried about 9 gibson thunderbird basses at ghruns geetar shop in nashville and couldnt justify the price of an (original) !!
an ashbory bass with silicon strings and talcom powder !! and anyone who has tried or saw one of these basses will agree they are mad !! , two double basses, one is set up for jazz and blues, it's chech made, and one set up for rockabilly which is chinese, with a custom spray job by Kev Bambra (of HOLY RACKET) ,i have one set up with a fishman pickup into the fishman probass preamp/compresser and use steel strings on this one , and my rockabilly flash assed bass is rigged up with the k&k rockabilly pickup which i love !!! but i must admit when i heard a bassplayer from denmark called CURTIS JENSEN using the akg amplfied bridge my eyebrows were well and truly raised !!i just gotta get one ! i use la bella SUPERNILS and play allday and night without blisters due to these babys i play through a ashdown rackmount chrome evo 500 amp into an ashdown 4 x 10 , into an ultra rare ashdown powered 1x15 powered sub cab which can be felt all over the town we play in, i recently bought a mark bass 1x12 combo and it,s a little beauty , my REET HOT CHILI PEPPER rig is a Gallien Krueger 700rb 11 combo linked to the GK 1x15, a boss od-3 distortion, a digitech synth wah, job done ,NICE.
i love all boardriding sports , my 39 year love affair with Newcastle United has kept me sane all my life , music lover , oh and hang the dj, (cheers morrisey) death to false metal, All things good to know are difficult to learn.
Founder member of nwobhm band THE MIGHTY HELLANBACH, I've been playing bass for over 30 years now and still lovin it , now playing in a rockabilly band going by the name of "the legendary BESSIE AND THE ZINC BUCKETS, we've been together for 22 year now and worship in the house of rockabilly, played with many different people on both sides of the pond including some 50's SUN STUDIO legends , like to do a lot of travelling and surfing in between gigging , and my next mission is to sort out my myspace AND POST PHOTOS OF MY BASSES
Who I'd like to meet: Brian Setzer (i have to change this now as iv'e just met him in NYC, and he's even more of a god now as he's a really round good guy !!)
Hey ! Thanks for the friendship and the best of luck and happiness for you... Stop by my other web site and let me know what you think of my art and or maybe call me to order one. That would be so cool. Thanks again and best to you….
BACK TO THE GRAVE KLUBNIGHT presents MOJOKINGS+THEE CHILLS live at Satans Hollow Manchester. +BACK TO THE GRAVE dj's. Doors open at 9pm, music until 3am!! A night of Rockabilly, Garage, Psychobilly, Rock'n'Roll...
BACK TO THE GRAVE KLUBNIGHT presents MOJOKINGS+THEE CHILLS live at Satans Hollow Manchester. +BACK TO THE GRAVE dj's. Doors open at 9pm, music until 3am!! A night of Rockabilly, Garage, Psychobilly, Rock'n'Roll...
Two new songs from the new J. Tex album "Misery" - out 28 Sep. 2009 "Misery" and "Union Army" are the songs from the great man J. Tex first solo album. HepTown Records!!
Hope you are doing great. Looking forward to a nice cool Fall. Here is
some new video! Hope you like it. Rate it and comment if you want to. Have a great week. Ronnie.