Brian Godding

Brian Godding
Born	(1945-08-19) 19 August 1945, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
Genres	Pop music, rock, jazz rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, session musician, composer
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	1964 - present
Website	lotsawatts.co.uk
Audio sample
"Blue Sun" from Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue file help

Brian Godding (born 19 August 1945, Monmouth, South Wales) is a pop, rock and jazz rock guitarist.

Reviews

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.

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.

Discography

As leader

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

As sideman

With Mike Westbrook

• 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 Kevin Coyne

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

With Centipede

• Septober Energy, (Neon: NE 9, 1971)

With Magma "Könhtarkösz" (Seventh records 1974)

External links

• Brian Godding's official website
• The Musician's Olympus at the Wayback Machine (archived October 26, 2009)
• Godding @ Olliehalsall.co.uk