| Ghoti
Hook formed in November, 1991, when Joel Bell, Adam Neubauer and
former member, Justin Levy, started the band. The boys grew up in
the same church and discovered a passion for music in 1989. Christian
Ergueta, Dan Feliciano and Conrad Tolosa were other friends in the
church who became part of the original line-up. The band contained
three guitar players (Conrad, Dan and Justin), a bass player (Christian),
drummer (Adam) and a vocalist (Joel). They chose the name Ghoti
Hook from a suggestion by Adam's dad ("ghoti" is the phonetic
spelling of the word "fish" and is pronounced "go-dee").
Shortly after the band was conceived, Justin and Dan left the band
to pursue other interests.
After years of struggling
to make a name for themselves, finally in January of 1996, Ghoti
Hook signed their contract with Tooth &Nail. They embarked
on their first full length recording entitled "Sumo Surprise".
The band recorded at Oz Studios in Baltimore, MD with engineer
Drew Mazurek. Kevin 131 continued to act as the band's producer
and also worked on the album. "Sumo Surprise" was recorded
in ten days and contained fourteen original songs, though seven
of the songs included in the record had been included on the first
two independent releases. Ghoti Hook was pleased with their first
album and excited for their future on Tooth & Nail.
Since then, the band
has released several new albums and toured extensively. Their
latest album is "Two Years To Never" and was released
early this year.
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