Bobby Tench

Bobby Tench
Tench performing in 2007
Background information
Birth name	Robert Tench
Also known as	Bob Tench, Bobby Gass
Origin	United Kingdom
Genres	Rock, electric blues, blues-rock
Occupation(s)	Guitarist, singer
Instruments	Vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
Years active	1960s–present
Labels	A&M, Atco, Epic, Indigo, Jet, Line, Mercury, Parlophone, Polydor, RCA, RSO, Sanctuary, Stiff, Vertigo
Associated acts	Alan Price, Axis Point, Boxer, Catch My Soul, Eric Burdon, The Electric Blues Company, Freddie King, The Gass, Ginger Baker, Gonzalez, Junior Marvin's Hanson, Humble Pie, The Jeff Beck Group, Hummingbird, Linda Lewis, Peter Green, Ruby Turner, Topper Headon, Roger Chapman, Streetwalkers, Van Morrison, Widowmaker
Website	www.bobbytench.co.uk
Notable instruments
, Gibson Les Paul, Vintage Icon series V100MRPGM, Vintage Icon series V6MRBK

Robert Tench also known as Bob Tench, Bobby Tench and Bobby Gass is a British vocalist, guitarist, sideman and songwriter.

He is best known for working with Freddie King, and Van Morrison, also as a member of The Jeff Beck Group, The Van Morrison band,Gass,Hummingbird, Humble Pie and Streetwalkers.

At the start of his career he performed and recorded with Gass and also appeared with Gonzalez, before joining the Jeff Beck Group. He recorded with Ginger Baker before touring with Beck, Bogert & Appice as vocalist and recording sessions with Linda Lewis. Associations with Junior Marvin and the blues, rock guitarist Freddie King followed.

He signed to A&M Records and formed Hummingbird, later joining Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney in Streetwalkers. During this period he had brief associations with Boxer and Widowmaker, recording album tracks with each before working with Van Morrison. When his commitments with Morrison came to an end he moved on to work and record with Eric Burdon, also Axis Point, before Steve Marriott included him as an official band member in a new lineup of Humble Pie.