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Reg Quantrell
(Wurzel 1966-1974)

Reg was Adge's original banjo and guitar player, and the longest serving member of the original band, apart from Adge himself. He left the band in 1974, only months before Adge died. As far as I know he only wrote one song for The Wurzels (with John Macey) recorded by the band - Drunk Again.

Reg was also the butt of much of Adge's on-stage humour, described as "the man who put the 'Sod' in Chipping Sodbury" (although this was also applied to describe John Macey), the "Engelbert 'Umperdinck of West 'Arptree", and as "Snake'ips Quantrill, the Elvis Presley of Chewton Mendip".

Reg was - and indeed still is - a well-known jazz musician in the Bristol area. He currently runs the Warmley Jazz Club, in Warmley just outside Bristol, putting on weekly jazz nights at the Warmley Community Centre (they were formerly at the Midnight Spinner pub in Warmley) on a Wednesday night.

Wurzel Discography

• Adge Cutler & The Wurzels (vocals, songwriter)
• Adge Cutler's Family Album (vocals, songwriter)
• Cutler Of The West (vocals, songwriter)
• Carry On Cutler! (vocals, songwriter)

Links

• Warmley Jazz Club website
• A recent video clip of him singing Pill Pill with Wurzel fan WadgeScutler has been posted onto YouTube.

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