Artist description "Big John Bates - Two-fisted, four-barreled rockabilly' - Backfire Magazine

Music Style Rockabilly

Musical Influences Reverend Horton Heat, The Cramps, Southern Culture on the Skids

Similar Artists Rev H.H., S.C.O.T.S., Spectres, Dick Dale

Artist History Someone will have to write it when we're neck deep in the entrails of our success!

Group Members Johnny (Vocals / Geetar) - sCare-oline (Bass) - Ricardo (Drums)

Instruments 3-piece: guitar, bass and drums

Albums 2

Press Reviews In the grease-stained paws of a player like Vancouver's BIG JOHN BATES the old flamejob gets a new coat all over again. Like the Reverend Horton Heat, the Cramps, Southern Culture on the Skids, Deadbolt and the rest of the B-movie crew, Big John bookends his surf with psychobilly tales of drunken debauchery and reverb-drenched six-string virtuosity on Voodoo-Bar-B-Q, his debut longplayer” - The Salt Lake City WeeklyBack in the days of hair grease, muscle cars and chewing toothpicks was something called analogue recording --- remembered fondly for cranking sweaty, primitive and raunchy records for horny teenagers. Big John Bates dug it so much that he brought it back on this debut album. The result is: sweaty, primitive, raunchy and horny. And good for that, because this album's as fun as a midnight drag race fueled by a fifth of bourbon. With close references to The Reverend Horton Heat and the Cramps, Big John Bates is proudly old school in his approach to making music and the lifestyle around it. The psychobilly experience can't be complete without a sense of humor, however, and BJB has that in spades - Exclaim Magazine, Toronto

Additional Info Tracks on 5+ psychobilly compilation CDs

Location Vancouver, British Columbia - Canada

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