Larry Goshen

Larry Goshen (b. 1941 - ) – Drummer, historian, and photographer. Raised in the remote Needmore, Indiana, Larry Goshen caught the rock-n-roll bug in the mid to late 1950s and has never gotten rid of it. As a student at Indy’s Arsenal Tech, he played the flute and French horn and eventually the drums. Starting the 1950s, Goshen was the drummer for numerous Indy-based bands, some of which played throughout the Midwest. More less in chronological order, his bands included the Crowns (started in 1957), duo with Jimmy Ganzberg (started in 1957 or 1958), Jerry Lee Williams and the Crowns (started in 1959), Sounds of the Crowns (later and more popular manifestation of the previous band), the Marden Baker Quintet (early 1960s), Kenny Lee & the Royals (started in 1962), the widely-traveled Five Checks (started in 1963), the Crackerjacks (later manifestation of the previous group), the Sportsman (started in 1964), the Fifth Amendment (started in 1975), Them Changes (started in 1978), Sweetwater (started in 1980), and the Ronnie Haig Band (1990s). As an historian, Goshen has contributed two invaluable sources on music in Indiana. While the first was the titled Indy’s Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll (1985), the second book, which he wrote with Mark Shaw and published in 2002, is Let the Good Times Roll: An Anthology of Indiana Music (Rock, Pop, Jazz & Country; see above). As suggested by the books’ titles, the later work is much broader in scope, categorically (in terms of music) and geographically. Part of Goshen’s contributions as an historian is his vast photography collection, which he builds upon while running a photography agency (Face the Music) that specializes in publicity shots.