Brian Godding
Born(1945-08-19)19 August 1945
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
Died25 November 2023(2023-11-25) (aged 78)
GenresPop music, rock, jazz rock
Occupation(s)Musician, session musician, composer
Instrument(s)Guitar
Years active1964–2023
Websitelotsawatts.co.uk
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"Blue Sun" from Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue
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Brian Godding (19 August 1945 – 25 November 2023) was a British 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.

Biography

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.

Work

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.[3]

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.[4]

Godding was featured in 'Crossing Bridges', a 1983 music programme based around jazz guitar improvisation, and broadcast by Channel 4.[5]

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]

Discography

As leader

  • Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue (Reckless Records: RECK16, 1988)

As sideman

With Blossom Toes

With Centipede

With Full Monte

  • Spark In The Dark (Slam, 2013)[6]

With Magma

With Kevin Coyne

With Mike Westbrook

  • Citadel/Room 315 (RCA, 1975)
  • Love/Dream And Variations (Transatlantic, 1976)
  • The Cortège (Original Records, 1982)
  • On Duke's Birthday (Hat ART, 1985)
  • Pierides (Jazzprint, 1986)
  • The Dance Band (Core, 1987)
  • London Bridge Is Broken Down (Virgin Venture, 1988)

With Mirage

  • Now You See It (Compendium, 1977)[7]

References

  1. ↑ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 986. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  2. 1 2 "Goodbye, Brian Godding". DMME.net.
  3. ↑ "New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock GI-GO". www.gepr.net. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Singular talents". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Crossing Bridges". BRIGHT THOUGHTS.
  6. ↑ https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz_on_CD_LP_and_C/OhEwAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Spark+In+The+Dark%22+full+monte+godding&dq=%22Spark+In+The+Dark%22+full+monte+godding&printsec=frontcover
  7. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/1861933-Mirage-Now-You-See-It
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