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Brian Godding | |
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Born | Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales | 19 August 1945
Died | 25 November 2023 | (aged 78)
Genres | Pop music, rock, jazz rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician, session musician, composer |
Instrument(s) | Guitar |
Years active | 1964–2023 |
Website | lotsawatts.co.uk |
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"Blue Sun" from Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue |
Brian Godding (19 August 1945 – 25 November 2023) was a Welsh pop, rock and jazz rock guitarist. He was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Blossom Toes and was also a member of the jazz rock big band Centipede.
Godding was born on 19 August 1945 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, South Wales. [1] He died on 25 November 2023, at the age of 78. [2] He was a brother-in-law of English singer and actress Julie Driscoll.
In the early 1980s Godding contributed to three albums by Kevin Coyne: Bursting Bubbles (1980), Sanity Stomp (1980) and Pointing the Finger (1981). [3] [4] [5]
Regarding his 1988 solo album Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue, Dave Wayne in the New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock, said:
Intense jazz-rock fusion of the highest quality. Godding's guitar playing should please fans of McLaughlin and Holdsworth to no end. Heartily recommended to all fusion fans. [6]
Reviewing the same album for the Dorset Echo, Marco Rossi said:
Fans of Allan Holdsworth, John Etheridge and John McLaughlin had best be sitting down with a fortifying cuppa when they hear, by way of example, "Blue Sun" from Godding's 1988 album Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue - a warm-toned, hugely imaginative and wholly involving sound picture on which Godding conjures forth such a powerfully hypnotic extended intro that I actually jumped out of my seat when the drums came in. [7]
Godding was featured in 'Crossing Bridges', a 1983 music programme based around jazz guitar improvisation, and broadcast by Channel 4. [8]
Writing for dmme.net after his death in 2023, H.-Peter Pfeufer said:
Universally praised as a jazz player, Brian Godding, who passed away on November 25th at the age of 78, has always been, in fact, held in high esteem as half of a musical unit that influenced most of the classic rock twin-guitar pairs, a part, together with Jim Cregan, of the legendary BLOSSOM TOES. Their two albums, 1967's We Are Ever So Clean and If Only for a Moment from 1969, both overseen by Giorgio Gomelsky, are considered cult treasures now, but Brian felt his horizons were limited by what the band did, and a one-off gig with Julie Driscoll in 1969 presented Godding with a chance to move forward and expand his outlook in more than one way, thus targeting genuine greatness. [2]
With Blossom Toes
With Centipede
With Full Monte
With Magma
With Kevin Coyne
With Mike Westbrook
With Mirage
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (November 2020) |
Brian Godding | |
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Born | Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales | 19 August 1945
Died | 25 November 2023 | (aged 78)
Genres | Pop music, rock, jazz rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician, session musician, composer |
Instrument(s) | Guitar |
Years active | 1964–2023 |
Website | lotsawatts.co.uk |
Audio sample | |
"Blue Sun" from Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue |
Brian Godding (19 August 1945 – 25 November 2023) was a Welsh pop, rock and jazz rock guitarist. He was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Blossom Toes and was also a member of the jazz rock big band Centipede.
Godding was born on 19 August 1945 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, South Wales. [1] He died on 25 November 2023, at the age of 78. [2] He was a brother-in-law of English singer and actress Julie Driscoll.
In the early 1980s Godding contributed to three albums by Kevin Coyne: Bursting Bubbles (1980), Sanity Stomp (1980) and Pointing the Finger (1981). [3] [4] [5]
Regarding his 1988 solo album Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue, Dave Wayne in the New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock, said:
Intense jazz-rock fusion of the highest quality. Godding's guitar playing should please fans of McLaughlin and Holdsworth to no end. Heartily recommended to all fusion fans. [6]
Reviewing the same album for the Dorset Echo, Marco Rossi said:
Fans of Allan Holdsworth, John Etheridge and John McLaughlin had best be sitting down with a fortifying cuppa when they hear, by way of example, "Blue Sun" from Godding's 1988 album Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue - a warm-toned, hugely imaginative and wholly involving sound picture on which Godding conjures forth such a powerfully hypnotic extended intro that I actually jumped out of my seat when the drums came in. [7]
Godding was featured in 'Crossing Bridges', a 1983 music programme based around jazz guitar improvisation, and broadcast by Channel 4. [8]
Writing for dmme.net after his death in 2023, H.-Peter Pfeufer said:
Universally praised as a jazz player, Brian Godding, who passed away on November 25th at the age of 78, has always been, in fact, held in high esteem as half of a musical unit that influenced most of the classic rock twin-guitar pairs, a part, together with Jim Cregan, of the legendary BLOSSOM TOES. Their two albums, 1967's We Are Ever So Clean and If Only for a Moment from 1969, both overseen by Giorgio Gomelsky, are considered cult treasures now, but Brian felt his horizons were limited by what the band did, and a one-off gig with Julie Driscoll in 1969 presented Godding with a chance to move forward and expand his outlook in more than one way, thus targeting genuine greatness. [2]
With Blossom Toes
With Centipede
With Full Monte
With Magma
With Kevin Coyne
With Mike Westbrook
With Mirage