I Used To Go See These Guys Play When I Was 15 Years Old…

[BelairPlayer]

That hair is…fancy.

 

[radtz]

They have a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Wild-Thing-670935989584014/

 

[backporchmusic]

On second thought, they don’t look too different from the bands we were going to see when we were 15 or so
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It's not the hair, or the synchronized reach-arounds that makes them clownish. It's the fact that they're wearing their own band T-shirt.

 

[mandoloony]

At what point does a pompadour morph into a puff pastry?

 

[radiocaster]

That hairstyle is way before it became popular, i would have expected 80s, but this was late 60s and early 70s.

There's a discogs page:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1408222-Wild-Thing-2
There is a music player of youtube on discogs, but it works slow and not very well.

If you want to look up their music on youtube, use the info from discogs, otherwise the results will show the famous song with the same name.

Here's one song:

 

[Engine Swap]

Retro before their time

 

[radiocaster]

They were originally called “The Deltones” but then changed their name to “The Wild Thing” and they got progressively “wilder” as they went along.

Early photo:

Later photos:

They we’re actually a very good band and they always had all the cool gear at that time….Binson Echorec’s (the real deal, not the pedal) Standel Super Imperial amps, Gibson and Fender guitars, Hammond B-3 organ, etc.

Their home-base club was a joint called “The Jolly Roger” in Norfolk, Va. and it could be a pretty rough place at times…the guitar player’s name was “Pancho” and he was a nice guy though pretty quiet for the most part.

Their manager was a guy named Scott Ingram who was a heck of a promoter….the crazy hair was his idea….he had these guys booked all over the east coast…Boston, Philly, New York, Washington D.C, Baltimore, etc., they were a very successful club band back in the day.

Did they have a big biker following?

 

[Glen W]

They were great with Dick Dale…

 

[drf64]

The house is still there. Make a pilgrimage! It's right next to the airport so that would be easy.

They all lived together? You mean like the Monkees?