Brian Godding

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.

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 (1980), Sanity Stomp (1980) and Pointing the Finger (1981).

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: 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.

With Magma Köhntarkösz (Vertigo, A&M, Seventh Day, 1974)

With Kevin Coyne Bursting Bubbles (Virgin Records, 1980) Sanity Stomp (Virgin Records, 1980) Pointing the Finger (Cherry Red Records, 1981)

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)