Joe Gooch

Joe Gooch (born 3 May 1977) is an English musician who was known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of Ten Years After from 2003 to 2014.

Biography

Gooch was introduced to jazz and blues 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 rock and blues. At first he was influenced by his childhood heroes, Larry Carlton, Steely Dan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Buddy Guy and later Frank Zappa. Gooch replaced Alvin Lee in Ten Years After, with limited success, and later formed Hundred Seventy Split with bassist Leo Lyons.

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 London

Ten Years After members

21st-century British guitarists

21st-century English singers

21st-century British male singers