Ten Years After bass player, Leo Lyons, and Tony Crooks began a song writing partnership back in 1987: this led to the formation of the band KICK.
The band’s first gig was a festival in Hamburg, playing in front of 12,000 people: following this, they continued to tour extensively for several years throughout the mid 90s, during which time they released two CDs – ‘Heartland’ and ‘Tough Trip Through Paradise’.
‘Heartland’ was first released in Japan in 1992: the line-up was
Tony Crooks - guitar/vocals
Leo Lyons - bass
Andy Nye - keyboards/backing vocals (former Michael Schenker group)
Kex Gorin - drums (former Magnum)
‘Tough Trip Through Paradise’, was released in 1994, the line-up that year including:
Leo Lyons - bass
Tony Crooks - guitar/vocals
Steve Rodford - drums (now with the Zombies)
Mark Price - drums (now with Del Amitri)
Don Airey - keyboards (now with Deep Purple)
Jon Willoughby - guitar/backing vocals
The KICK are not currently touring but Tony and Leo continue to work together on different projects, building up a large catalogue of songs, many of which have been recorded by other artistes.
The reformation of Ten Years After in 2002 has generated a new interest in the KICK and in response to the many requests to re-release the back catalogue 'Tough Trip Through Paradise' is now available as a special edition.
Leo you are one of my favorite bass players in the whole world ,in fact you are in my top 2 ,my other favorite is Craig MaCregor of Foghat who was in my band called SmokeStack Lightning also , I would love to do some shows with you one day and PS I also believe that Alvin Lee is a criminally underated guitar player!!I love TEN YEARS AFTER!! Don't let the bastards wear you down,Keep BLuesin,Jack
leo..tony..good stuff man..glad to have u on board..like to do some writing with you..cuz it would ROCK all the best stay in touch john e..for THE SHAFTMEN
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