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The best possible of Britain’s first generation skiffle bands, and perhaps probably the most purist aswell, the Vipers were formed in early 1956 at London’s fabled Bread Container Coffee Pub by guitarists Wally Whyton, Johnny Booker, and Jean Van Den Bosch and washboard wizard John Pilgrim — there is by …

Wally Whyton played a significant role within the shaping of post-World Battle II Uk music. As co-founder and business lead singer of important past due-’50s skiffle music group the Vipers, Whyton affected a diverse selection of artists, like the Beatles, the Moving Rocks, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, Davey Graham, and …