My first foray into music came at the Simon Langton school with David Jones and some others whose names elude me. We formed a jazz band called the Tar Baby Stompers.
My next band was called Warlock, we rehearsed and played around the Canterbury area, had the obligatory mentions in the local rag and had a whale of a time.
The next band was called Porcelain Frog. This band had Pete Robinson on keyboards, the late Bob Brown on drums, John Cheeseman on vocals, Mick Curd on guitar and myself on bass.
The band used to enjoy rehearsing at at the Longbridge Youth Club in Canterbury.
Nigel Blow, an old schoolfriend of mine replaced Pete on keyboards after a time.
We later got the opportunity to tour abroad via Folkestone agent Dave Watkins and spent a year in Italy and a year in Germany.
During this period we were left stranded by our agents and had strike up new associations to live and keep working. Agent Arno Lintner came up with work for 2 months in Zurich (Switzerland).

We also did some television through Renzo Menin.
Now called Frogg and stranded in Italy, we befriended 2 Italian bands called “Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso” & “Il Rovescio della Medaglia”. These fantastic guys actually paid for us to get home with the proceeds of a concert!
This period, although hard, was the time of my life and having arrived home I couldn’t wait to do it all over again, so, following a lineup change, Geoff Spinner replacing John on vocals, we headed out to Italy again.
The next band was Quint with Steve Marriott on vocals, Graham Quinten Jones on guitar, Roger Diamond on drums and me on bass.
We recorded several singles with Bradley Records, RCA & United Artists, reaching number 70 in the charts with one of them. I also recorded a solo single in this period which again got to about number 70 but we’ll say no more about that!
Graham left towards the end of Quint’s lifespan and was replaced briefly by Mick Warren on guitar and Trevor Hills on keyboards. This lineup lasted a short while but never recaptured the success of the original and Quint folded shortly afterwards.
I had a brief spell of inactivity, (which I absolutely hated), when I was approached by Gary Swinard and Steve Marriott to form the band I still play with today, Live’N’Kickin’