(c’53-’66) Bob Potter (drums), George Cooke (guitar). Terry Moss (?), John Horton (vocals) and ?.
Potter is well known locally and earlier in his music career was a band leader and drummer. He started out by forming Bob Potter’s Aldershot Aces but soon had three bands on the go: The Bob Potter (Dance) Band, The Rhythm Aces and The Aldershot Aces.
In ’59 the band performed at Farnborough’s National Gas Turbine Establishment (NGTE Pyestock), part of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), Xmas Dance as Bob Potter & His Band. At some point Jock Cree, known to many as the manager of Potter’s Music Shop, Aldershot during the ’60’s Beat Boom, joined and played with many of Bob Potter’s bands in the 50’s and 60’s.
On 22 October ’66 they appeared on the BBC Light Programme with J. B. Byrd, Brenda Scott, Don Chance, and The Alan Wolkes Four, broadcast from The Top Rank Suite, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
Potter went on to own and/or manage a number of venues, starting with The Palais, Aldershot and adding The Agincourt, Camberley and The Atalanta, Woking. His band/s would rehearse and perform at the latter. Potter also promoted the Town Hall, Farnborough and opened a recording studio in Mychett. He went on to build Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green
Bob Potter OBE, passed away peacefully in his sleep after a short illness on 14 April 2023. He was 94.
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