Joe Gooch (born 3 May 1977) is an English musician who was known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of

Ten Years After Ten Years After are a British blues rock group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, the band had eight consecutive Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition, they had twelve albums enter the US ''Bi ...

from 2003 to 2014.

Biography

Gooch was introduced to

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and

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at an early age. By thirteen, taking his music seriously, he enrolled on a course of classical guitar lessons. The disciplines he learned were good grounding for him, but he soon realised his interest lay outside of the classical sphere, and moved towards

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and blues. At first he was influenced by his childhood heroes,

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and later

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. Gooch replaced

Alvin Lee Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Early life Lee was ...

, with limited success, and later formed Hundred Seventy Split with bassist

Leo Lyons Leo David William Lyons (born 30 November 1943) is an English musician, who was most known as the bassist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Biography Leo Lyons was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in November 1943 and became a profes ...

. In January 2014, it was announced that both Gooch and Lyons had left Ten Years After.

Album discography

SiRO *''SiRO'' – 1999 Ten Years After *''Now'' – 2004 *''Roadworks (Live)'' – 2005 *''Evolution'' – 2008 *''Live at Fiesta City'' (DVD) – 2009 Hundred Seventy Split *''The World Won't Stop'' – 2011 *''Hundred Seventy Split'' – 2014

References

External links

Ten Years After website

Hundred Seventy Split website
1977 births Living people English rock singers English blues singers English rock guitarists English blues guitarists English male guitarists English male singer-songwriters English singer-songwriters English rock musicians English blues musicians Blues singer-songwriters Electric blues musicians Blues rock musicians British blues (genre) musicians Lead guitarists People from Highbury Singers from the London Borough of Islington Ten Years After members 21st-century British guitarists 21st-century English singers 21st-century British male singers Musicians from the London Borough of Islington {{UK-guitarist-stub