Best known as the bassist and vocalist of the power trio, GODDO, Godovitz was a founding member of Fludd and played in Sherman and Peabody with Buzz Shearman (Moxy) and Gil Moore (Triumph). After years of success with Fludd and the chart topping single “Cousin Mary,” Greg left the band in 1975 to pursue his own musical direction. With Greg holding down the vocal and bass duties, he was joined by guitarist Gino Scarpelli and drummer Marty Morin in the first incarnation of the band, then named Godo. Marty eventually left due to family commitments and was replaced by Doug Inglis, the band’s name was extended to GODDO and they continued cutting their teeth on the Canadian bar circuit.

GODDO’s hard-edged sound combining rock guitar with a punk ethos eventually attracted management and a record deal with Polydor. The debut album GODDO captured the band’s raw sound and the first single “Under My Hat” blasted onto Canadian radio in 1977. Following up with 1978’s Who Cares and 1979’s An Act of Goddo, the band experimented with more polished production with tracks such as “Tough Times,” “Sweet Thing,” “So Walk On”, and the ballad “Chantal” permeating the radio waves across Canada. Known for his tongue in check lyrical content, “Oh Carole (Kiss My Whip),” an ode to Carole Pope, came about after seeing a Rough Trade show at the legendary Toronto haunt The Gasworks. Moving to Attic Records for their fourth release, Pretty Bad Boys, the single “Pretty Bad Boy” finally gave the band the breakthrough song they needed becoming a Top 40 hit and garnered the band a 1982 Juno Award nomination for Band Of The Year.

Along the way the band lived up to their title as Canada’s pretty ‘bad boys’ on the road. Highlights included opening slots for Rush, Triumph, Alice Cooper, Max Webster as well as being a part of the 1979 bill at Toronto’s CNE along with Aerosmith and Ted Nugent. Oh, and there is that show where they were banned from the Ontario Forum along with Teenage Head, but that’s a story for another day. Their energetic live show was captured in the ground-breaking 1979 CITY-TV simulcast filmed in St. Paul’s Church in Toronto. Their first live release, 1981’s Goddo Lighve – Best Seat In The House,” was recorded over two nights at the Roxy Theatre in Barrie, Ontario with comedian Jim Carrey opening (it was a tough beer drinking rock crowd and Carrey did make it to the second night choosing to turn down his $100 guarantee).

By 1983 though, with no US deal in sight, the band collapsed under the weight of its own excesses and debt.

A brief 1992 reunion to record King of Broken Heart’s, co-produced and mixed by legendary producer Terry Brown, gave the band a revival thanks for Canada’s Much Music and a distribution deal with Germany’s Mausoleum Records. Godovitz spent the rest of the 90s working on various projects such as The Carpet Frogs, The Anger Brothers and The Greg Godovitz Orchestra.

The band wouldn’t return to the studio again until their 25^th Anniversary in 2000. A new deal with label Bullseye Records brought a new live album, 2nd Best Seat In The House: 25th Anniversary Lighve, and a new studio album, Kings of the Stoned Age. In 2010, the band would retire again after releasing the live CD/DVD The Pretty Bad Boys Return: 35th Anniversary Reunion Concert, recorded at Toronto’s Sound Academy.

Greg Godovitz also released aMuse Me in 2013, a solo album co-written with Loverboy’s Paul Dean, plus two editions of the autobiography Travels With My Amp chronicling Goddo’s formative years on the road.

Now 50 years on, GODDO celebrates with the release of Decades, the first compilation to include tracks from every Goddo studio release all newly remastered for enhanced sound quality. Spanning 14 tracks, Decades features a new 2024 rerecording of the hit Pretty Bad Boy featuring original drummer Marty Morin plus guest appearances by guitarist Sean Kelly and keyboardist Drew Winters. Recorded at Iguana Studios in Toronto ON, Pretty Bad Boys is available in Dolby Atmos audio and a video for the track is on YouTube. Decades include a remix of the rare 1980 single “Fortune In Men’s Eyes,” recorded as a tribute from Greg Godovitz to his former Fludd bandmate Brian Pilling who passed away from leukemia at the age of 29. Decades also includes the Eddie Kramer remix of Under My Hat, which was remixed from the original masters bringing out additional instrumentation that was not used in the original mix.