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The Guv

Bassist For Aussie Rock Band Monkeytin

About Me

John 'The Guv' Chadderton.I'm a pommie living in the State of Victoria, Australia. I do plenty of stuff with my time but this page is all about my music.I'm currently playing Bass for Ballarat original rock band Monkeytin, although I also play for Pete Donohue and the View when the band get together. I've been playing forever, and dig those growling tones that rumble your nuts.Check out Monkeytinmusic on myspace, and www.monkeytin.comMonkeytin

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My Interests

Bass, Bass, Bass (all Fender and Hartke), Collecting Guitars (Ibanez, Gibsons, and BC Rich).

I'd like to meet:

The dudes who built my bass, all of them, I owe them a beer.

Music:

Good songwriting and arrangements do it for me everytime. It's a shame that so much of the music that pollutes my ears every day has so little of either.

Television:

Bottom, Dr Who, All British Comedy

Books:

Anything by Bernard Cornwell

My Blog

hmmmm

Time is counting down to the Espy gig, it should be a good show. Hopefully we'll fit in 2 more gigs after that before Christmas. It's been a hard slog for the band this year, but I'm blown away by the...
Posted by The Guv on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:44:00 PST

Ol’ Smokey

Man this new bass kicks ass now I've had it set up... I've not put it down all evening. It was in the shop most of the day being sorted. The tech had several enquiries from people wanting to buy it as...
Posted by The Guv on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:28:00 PST

Man it’s time I wrote again!

I'm still here and alive... took delivery of my new Bass today. Bought it on Ebay from a dude in Arizona. Another Fender to join the tribe in my little corner of the world. She's got a tight punc...
Posted by The Guv on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:12:00 PST

Hitting our stride ready for the USA Gigs and recording

Things are heating up in the Monkeytin camp right now. Last Sunday was spent in the studio getting the Bass and Drums down for the new CD. The tracks sounded great as Dude and I really found our ...
Posted by The Guv on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:22:00 PST

Contemplation

Just sitting tight now waiting for the next gig... for the first time since I joined Monkeytin we've actually go no gigs in the book at the moment!! The situation won't last but it's a wierd feeling. ...
Posted by The Guv on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:53:00 PST

Boys and their toys gig

Played the Ballarat Boys and their toys expo today, great gig, several event girls got free CD's, probably because they couldn't pay us.... no room for money in those little pink outfits... I qui...
Posted by The Guv on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:31:00 PST

Bar related madness at the Hard Rock

Hey how about that gig at the Hardrock on Friday night!? Things really went off... it wasn't really a Monkeytin gig because we were playing accoustic covers most of the night as "Rocket, Dude, and The...
Posted by The Guv on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:45:00 PST

Things keep moving!

OK, so we didn't get any further than being shortlisted to support Wolfmother at their only Victorian show this year... but we're cool about that. Tomorrow we're back to the Noise Bar in Mel...
Posted by The Guv on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:28:00 PST

Hey ... Sunday's rehearsal was the dogs bollocks!

I don't know what happened on Sunday but someone must have spiked Dude's beer... he shook the shed and played like a demon for the whole afternoon, my head is still suffering from the pounding of his ...
Posted by The Guv on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST

Check out Sound of Mind...

Check out Sound of Mind's myspace page... they're in my top friends list. I played with these boys for a while but the travelling from Ballarat every week wore me down  (then I dis...
Posted by The Guv on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST