See the Ultimate Tench Discography
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After the original Jeff Beck Group (with Rod Stewart) broke up, Beck hooked up with Max Middleton to plan a new LP. Bass player Phil Chen had been in a band of West Indies musicians named Gonzalez, along with Bob Tench (also of Gass, and Hummingbird) ...
"It was a Latin-Reggae-Funk sound. We used to to sessions for Linda Lewis and Maggie Bell with Max Middleton on keyboards. Max would be the keyboard player whenever Gonzalez played live. Jeff Beck used to check us out and sometimes he would jam with us in the clubs."
They cut ROUGH AND READY in 1971, which hit #46 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and toured from November 1971 to June 1972 with a lineup of Beck, Tench, Middleton, Cozy Powell and Clive Chaman (bass). On some early European dates Cozy Powell was replaced by Mitch Mitchell due to illness. In 1972 they released JEFF BECK GROUP (also known as "the orange album") which was produced by Steve Cropper. It hit #16 on the U.S. Billboard charts. Beck, Tench, Middleton, Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice performed a one-month tour before Beck broke up the band to form the power trio of his next stage.
In the winter of 1973/1974, Tench played on Chapman/Whitney's STREETWALKERS and played the supporting dates along with old friend Phil Chen. Tench was kept for the formal Streetwalkers outfit, which kept him busy from February 1975 to the end of 1977.
Bob Tench and Michael Feat (Streetwalkers bassist) played on Van Morrison's WAVELENGTH album in 1978. In 1980 Steve Marriott and Dave "Clem" Clempson resurrected Humble Pie with Tench on vocals. They recorded ON TO VICTORY (1980) and GO FOR THE THROAT (1981) for Atlantic Records and toured, but dissolved in 1982. Don Henley's Building The Perfect Beast has a "B. Tench" listed as cowriter of "Not Enough Love in the World" and the hit "Sunset Grill". In March/April 1991 there was "An Evening of Thin Lizzy Music" tour of Ireland featuring Brian Downey, Brian Robertson, Doish Nagle, Doug Brockie and Bobby Tench on vocals playing a Live and Dangerous-era (1978) set. And he makes an appearance on the 1995 tribute to Peter Green, RATTLESNAKE GUITAR. He performs "Watcha Gonna Do" with Zoot Money, and the classic "Albatross" with Paul Jones and Max Middleton.