Brian Godding


Brian Godding 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.
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Biography

Godding was born on 19 August 1945 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, South Wales. He died on 25 November 2023, at the age of 78. He was a brother-in-law of English singer and actress Julie Driscoll.

Work

In the early 1980s Godding contributed to three albums by Kevin Coyne: Bursting Bubbles, Sanity Stomp and Pointing the Finger.
Regarding his 1988 solo album Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue, Dave Wayne in the New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock, said:
Reviewing the same album for the Dorset Echo, Marco Rossi said:
Godding was featured in 'Crossing Bridges', a 1983 music programme based around jazz guitar improvisation, and broadcast by Channel 4.
Writing for dmme.net after his death in 2023, H.-Peter Pfeufer said:

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Blossom Toes
With Centipede
With Full Monte
With MagmaKöhntarkösz
With Kevin Coyne
With Mike Westbrook
With Mirage
  • ''Now You See It''