The Troggs - I Can't Control Myself

The Sixties Flower Power

Peter Staples here playing base.

The Troggs - With a Girl Like You

Peter Staple here playing base for the Troggs " With a girl like You"

The Wild Things

Here is Peter with the band "The Wild Things" playing live on a special appearance gig for his daughter Lydia Staples and Spencer Mann's wedding

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The sounds of the sixties rocked out across the area, the night was a complete success which everyone still talk about today.

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Karen Ana: New Unsigned Singer & Vocalist

Karen Ana New Female Vocalist

This is Karen Ana whose beautiful voice has bought some of Peter Staples songs to life
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Karen who is keen to be heard as a new unsigned singer, can take the lyrics and make them into the sound you have in your mind, her voice has great qualities and brings the sixties alive again, real people and real music.

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The Wild Things

The Wild Things Band 1999

Leon Munkley – drummer and vocal
Having Leon in the band was like having Ronnie there without the F word. Leon was a good heavy drummer and had a very good voice as well.
John Fletcher – Lead guitar
Leo Staples – Rhythm guitar
Leo is very reserved, but you could rely on him 100% when things got tough. I asked him to play the guitar at my brother’s funeral and he sat by the coffin and played with tears rolling down his face. I don’t know how he did it.

Pete Staples - Bass Guitar

WILD THINGS 2000

Moon – Lead Guitar
Moon was very much like Chris Britton; quiet and a talented player. Moon teaches guitar around the schools in Berkshire. Listen to Moon’s guitar solo on ‘Would I Survive’
Andy Kennedy – Saxophone
Andy was our hero. The night our lead guitarist got drunk Andy played all the solos as well as his own stint. At the end of the evening his lips were very red and swollen, we said it was like a baboon’s bum!!
Peter Jenkins - Drums
Pete was a nice reliable drummer who wore ear plugs while playing, but he never missed a beat. If the gig went a bit quiet we would turn to Pete and say ‘Let there be drums’, his solo. That would get everyone back on the dance floor.
Sadly, he passed away a few years ago. It was a pleasure to know him and have him in the band.
Opkar Hans – Drums, keyboard, guitar and vocal
To have someone in the band with that much talent was marvellous. You’re never stuck when you have someone that can play nearly every instrument. I never saw him play the bass, but I bet he can do that as well.
Pete Staples - Bass Guitar
Leo Staples - Guitar

Wild Things at The Marriott Forest Hotel Birmingham
and here we are again at my daughter's wedding

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Pete Staples - Biography

 

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In the late fifties I was in the 2nd Andover Boys Brigade Company as drum major. At this time I also played acoustic guitar and sang with two other lads when not marching. In the adjacent hall was a 'proper' band. The Emeralds, and one day their singer Bruce Turner approached me as he was leaving them and starting his new band The Senators and asked me if I would like to join them
The new line up was Arthur Smart. me, John Walker and Bruce Turner

Practice night was in my mum's front room or Arthur's girlfriend, Yvonne parent's cattle shed! We played pubs, ballrooms and clubs in my first proper band.
One night at Boscombe, Bruce produced a Fender USA Strat, we were in awe of it's beauty and sound. However, this was short lived as, at the end of the gig he told us he was leaving to join 'The Trendsetters".
After trying to form another band, and even considering joining The Merchant Navy, Chris Britton approached me and asked if I would like to play Bass in his band. I told him "I play rhythm not Bass". His reply was that Dave Glover the outgoing bass player will show you what to do!! (Thanks Dave for the loan of your bass). We were called The Ten Feet Five..
When that group finally split up I found myself in the familiar position of not gigging and not knowing what to do with myself.
Our manager Lance Barratt and Stan Phillips, the manager of another group called The Troggs had the same problem with people leaving both groups. They suggested, (maybe in desperation), that we join forces. So Chris, me, Reg and Ronnie started practising together with the Ten Feet Fives' gear and The Troggs name on the drum kit.
The story of The Troggs and songs like Wild Thing are well documented everywhere, so I will not bore you with it here,,,,,
So....
After tree years I got married to a girl I'd been going out with whilst in The Senators. Returning from our honeymoon I was told after three years and, maybe, a thousand gigs I was not wanted in the band any more. My pay off would be the B side of the next single and three month's wages.



In the late nineties John Walker, who I had'nt seen since the sixties phoned me saying he'd bought a drum kit and wanted to get back together. With a new lead guitarist, Charlie Porter, the re-established 'Ten Feet Five' (the old codgers) were back on the road again. We had some great laughs.
My son, Leo was learning the guitar so I started my own band, The Wild Things'. We had many changes, sax player, keyboard players, 2 lead guitars and 2 drummers. Apart from one of the lead guitarists who let me down and got blind drunk, I enjoyed their company and lasting friendships.
  
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