Moggs wasn't the best drummer in the world so it wasn't long before he sold the kit and bought a motorbike instead. Within a year Moggs had saved more paper round money and decided to have another bash at being a musician. Realising that although he looked like a stick man he was never gonna be one; Moggs splashed out on a keyboard & drum machine and the first band was formed. Moggs recruited the young "Slim Shavey" on sax and another friend commonly known as Hoolie on guitar.

The first practice sessions took place in Mogg's parents dining room where the first song they ever learned was Double Barrel by Dave and Ansell Collins. Within a few months they had mastered a couple of Madness songs...well the first couple of verses anyway.
Soon they had reached the stage where they needed to be playing bigger venues, not that their music was wasted in the dining room, it was more a case of Mogg's parents were fed up with listening to Night Boat to Cairo and Swan Lake.

They solved their problems by recruiting a drummer called Kev (yes, the one and only Kev!). Ignoring the fact that Kev didn't own a drum kit or had ever sat behind one, they saw this as a wise move as Kev's parents had a large garage that they could play in. So they clubbed together and bought him a kit.
They may as well have bought him a biscuit tin and a hammer...'nuff said!
F*ck knows what happened to Hoolie, but Big Al was brought in to replace him, Kev was promoted (pushed) to lead singer and the "still slim" Shavey took over as stick-man, (no comments please!!)

After a while, Shave disappeared (again, no comments please!!) to work in Wales and Jon went to Australia for a year. We still don't know what his crime was, apart from purchasing the biggest, loudest, heaviest, ugliest, won’t fit in the boot of a MK3 Cortina, bass amp ever known to man!

With no rhythm section, in fact no rhythm whatsoever, all went quiet….
At this point the band ceased to exist, it was an ex-band, it was no more!!!

A year later, on his return to the Motherland, Jon in true “Blues Brothers” style, told the boys “I’m putting the band back together”.
In no time at all they had whipped out their instruments and got “Mucky” on the drums as Shave was still chasing sheep in the valleys. Mucky (christened Alan McMullen), was another Moggsy recruitment…..pity Moggs didn’t know any decent keyboard players as well!!

The new line up consisted of Kev on vocals, Big Al on guitar, Jon on bass, Moggs on keyboards & Mucky on drums.
Under names like Spyder Distraction, The Benny Hedgehogs & Uswe, they went on to do copious amounts of f*ck all, (not one gig) for about four years.
Big Al got married and left the band within two months of the “Big Day”. Being that he was the most talented musician in the band the boys really struggled.
They did recruit another guitarist but he was just a kid and no one can even remember his name. The chemistry wasn’t there and eventually in 1994 they split up when Jon left to join The Five O’clock Heroes, an up and coming local punk band.
The Heroes gigged in and around Portsmouth until in 1998, under the name of Supercat, they finally just faded away. That's when Jon got all “Blues Brothers” with himself for the second time and decided to get the old band back together again.

Older, wiser, larger, married, (and that was just Shave), the boys got back together for “old time’s sake” for a jam originally planned for Kev’s garage, but which actually took place in the function room at The Old Oyster House pub in Langstone Road. The “new” line-up was Kev, Jon, Moggs, Big Al and Shave. The only difference this time round was that Shave was now their full time drummer.

After playing around with a few old songs and some new ones, the boys realised they hadn’t lost what they previously had (whatever that was!), in fact they were actually better than before – with age had come maturity………sort of!!

This took place in December 1998, and another couple of practices were scheduled for the following January. It was at the second of these practices that Moggs introduced the band to a young, long hared, scruffy looking chap by the name of Matt. One day while working together, Matt had impressed Moggs with a rendition of “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”, which he plucked perfectly on a wood saw. When Matt told Moggs he could also play the guitar, he was invited along for an audition.
Matt played Rhythm guitar and fitted in perfectly with the rest of the band. It was at this point that Moggs decided he didn’t have the time to practice on a regular basis and resigned as keyboard player.
However, he did have a van and thinking that he had got off scot-free, offered to be roadie if they ever gigged.

Five months later the boys played their first gig, which took place in Moggs’ girlfriend’s parent’s garden (while they were away on holiday).
Under the name of Wasted and the influence of a few beers they entertained the masses…or to be more precise, some of their closest friends and most of the residents of Augustine Road in Drayton. The garden gig was such a success that they booked the Oyster House function room, for the following month and played to a capacity crowd.
Due to an element of doubt over the name Wasted, i.e. the possible reference to drugs rather than talent and the fact that at the time they had more of the first, it was decided that a name change was needed. Yellowstone was chosen from a list of names submitted by Sam, a close friend of the band. The fact that it sounded like mellow & stoned had been completely overlooked.

The first YellowStone gig was a Christmas special, again at The Oyster House. Then in January 2000 they performed their first pub gig at Lilly Sugars on Hayling Island, supporting local band Huxley. This lead to more local gigs in pubs like The Admiral Drake, The Contented Pig and The New Theatre Royal where they played to their largest audience to date supporting tribute band IN4XS. In all a total of 25 gigs were performed that year and the boys had finally established themselves in the Portsmouth music scene.

In the mean time, Moggs who was now full time roadie, sponsor & soundman, had introduced them to the multi-talented Mighty Ryan. By February 2002 Ryan was officially a full time member of the band adding a whole new dimension to the vocals and for reasons better known to Jon, the band was renamed as “The Numbers”.
The Numbers continued to practice but for various reasons the gigs were few and far between. This was frustrating as they had progressed as musicians and each gig they played was better than the last.
After an all time low in the summer of 2004 the band’s fortunes took a turn for the better when Dale was recruited as lead guitarist.