The band was originally formed by Arthur Skuggs (nee Brian Jones) of Wapping, who formed the band with his high school chum Geordie McGlumpher, the son of a Scottish welder called Tam. They recruited the able assistance of drummer Mickey Spoons from Poplar, already arrested for drunken and disorderly behaviour nine times by the age of seventeen. They also teamed up with the irreverent and foul mouthed Alf Wagnott (bass guitar) and the standoffish but smartly dressed Oliver Weasley (Hammond organ), both of them students at the time.