The Godz

Started in 1966 The Godz is a seminal group of what became the punk movement. Forming at the same time and place as The Velvet Underground, and being heavily influenced by Dylan, The Fugs, Ginsberg, The Stones as well as free form new music artists such as Sun Ra and Albert Ayler. Combine that with a heavy dose of British rock muscle, American roots music and you have a pretty good aural picture of the group in those years. The first recording distributed by esp disk' at the close of 1966 was a raw, honest expression of emotions among four friends and an attempt to rise above the limitations and accepted norm for popular music at the time. It was a time of great and wonderful change in the world and music was reflecting/propelling that. 1967 produced the second recording, a bolder, more adventurous soundscape which is, in some people's opinion, the group's masterpiece. The third album, in 1968, saw the quartet become a trio with large groups of invited friends, family and musicians contrasting with quieter songs. A fourth LP was recorded in 1973, more of a collection of individual projects, than a band effort. The following years saw various solo and collaborative recordings branching off from The Godz. Several attempts to reunite the bandmembers met with less than unanimous enthusiasm. Life went on. Families, travel, acting, photography, grandchildren. Life went on, until the death of the fourth member, Jay Dillon, brought Larry, Jim and Paul together in 2006. Jim and Larry discussed the possibility of collaborating again and proceeded to record some current ideas in February 2007 with Paul's sessions lying ahead. The band hopes to gain major support for their "Senior's Right To Rock" campaign.