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rel.date...[ 2009-01-10
store.date.[ 2008-03-28

menu.......[ Original
subs.......[ All
extras.....[ All
genre......[ Hardrock

format.....[ img
video......[ Untouched
audio......[ DD 2.0/5.1
size.......[ 58 x 50MB
playtime...[ 60 mins

source.....[ DVD (NTSC)

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"If indeed it is lonely at the top,
who cares," quipped Goddo on its
second album. "It's lonely at the
bottom, too." That rusty one-liner
could have been the band's motto.
It succinctly sums up not only the
tumultuous career of this long-serving,
hard-rocking Canadian power trio,
but also the fatalistic humor with
which the group viewed the whole
affair. Goddo's technicolor dreams
of global domination never came
true, but that never seemed to
stop the band from enjoying its
decades-long rollercoaster
ride through the Canadian music
industry. Goddo's long, arduous
slog to the middle began in 1975,
when bassist Greg Godovitz left
Toronto pop outfit Fludd. Intent
on forming a harder-rocking group,
Godovitz recruited Hendrix disciple
Gino Scarpelli (of glitter rock
outfit Brutus) on guitar and former
school chum Marty Morin on drums.
Adding a consonant to Godovitz's
nickname for clarity -- too many
people said Go-do instead of
God-o -- the trio braved the
Canadian bar-room grind, playing
three shows a night, six nights
a week, with day-long drives between
gigs. A year in these trenches was
enough for Morin, who became a
school bus driver, making room
for Ottawa drummer Doug Inglis,
a rock-solid timekeeper who also
happened to be a dead ringer for
Morin, thus saving the group the
cost of new publicity photos. With
a secure lineup in place, the group's
career began to accelerate.
A self-titled debut album
(featuring "Bus Driver Blues,
" Godovitz's parting shot at Morin)
appeared in 1977, introducing the group's
hybrid of meat 'n' potatoes rock,
poignant balladry, and lascivious
lyrics. It was followed in 1978 by
the outstanding Who Cares. Produced
by Godovitz under the pseudonym
Thomas Morley-Turner -- reputedly
to snow label execs who wanted
a "proper" producer -- Who Cares
was Goddo's high-water mark. An
ambitious album for its time, Who Cares
fused poppier hooks, classical passages,
and comic vignettes with libidinous
rockers such as "Sweet Thing," a
groupie ode that became the band's
signature song. Who Cares' success
spiked the band's popularity. But
as their income and touring increased,
so did their drug intake and egomania.
While cutting their third CD, 1979's
An Act of Goddo, at the Bee Gees'
studio, Godovitz supposedly rebuffed
collaborative overtures from Maurice
Gibb by calling his music "disco crap."
Godovitz cut his throat deeper by
including the anti-music biz screed
"Sign on the Line" on the album.
An Act of Goddo garnered little
critical or commercial attention,
and not surprisingly, Goddo was soon
label-less. The band landed briefly
at Attic Records, which issued 1981's
Lighve: Best Seat in the House,
followed later that year by a fourth
studio album, Pretty Bad Boys. Its
poppy title-cut earned Goddo its first
(and only) hit single, along with a
Juno Award nomination in 1982 -- ironically,
for Most Promising New Group. But it was
too little too late. Continually broke and
at each other's throats, the band imploded
in 1983. Scarpelli and Inglis went on to
other bands, while Godovitz unsuccessfully
tried to float a new version of the band
(now called Godo) with different members.
By 1989, tensions had eased and the trio
reunited, joined by original drummer Morin
on percussion. In 1990, Goddo issued the
best-of CD 12 Gauge Goddo, followed in
1992 by the studio album King of Broken
Hearts. When it tanked, the group split
again. In the late '90s, Goddo regrouped
once more. In 2001, Goddo issued its
first CD in a decade, 2nd Best Seat
in the House: 25th Anniversary Lighve,
on Canadian label Bullseye. After terrorist
attacks in the U.S. that year, the
band wrote and released a single,
"New York City's Burning," to raise
funds for the Red Cross.

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Track Listing

Recorded 1979 at the Church, Toronto, Canada:
01 Anacanapanacana
02 So Walk On
03 Work It Out
04 Let That Lizard Loose
05 Tough Times
06 Cock On
07 Once Again
08 Sweet Thing
09 Sign On The Line
10 Rosie (Just Hang On)
11 Drive Me Crazy
12 Too Much Carousin'

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