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05/27/2022
9pm GMT tonight 5/27/22 on BBC4 and BBC iPlayer
05/24/2022
BOB NEUWIRTH—AN APPRECIATION
Gary's new article about his friend and collaborator and one of the most influential people of the 60's who sadly passed away this week, up now at CultureCatch.com
Gary's new article about his friend and collaborator and one of the most influential people of the 60's who sadly passed away this week, up now at CultureCatch.com
05/22/2022
And here's a 'nother one, 'nother one...BOHEMIAN RIPSODY, Gary's new article all about musical madness in the Czech Republic, just up now at CultureCatch.com
photo: Ahoj mateys—on the good ship FAUST
with Pat Fulgoni and Richard Mader somewhere on the Vlatava River
photo: Ahoj mateys—on the good ship FAUST
with Pat Fulgoni and Richard Mader somewhere on the Vlatava River
05/21/2022
Just Confirmed: Gary's TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY WORLD TOUR continues in WOODSTOCK NY FRI. JUNE 24th at THE COLONY, with special guests tba!! Tickets here
05/20/2022
RIP BOB NEUWIRTH
From Gary:
SAD NEWS: Bob Neuwirth was a dear friend and collaborator of mine
I met him playing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival years ago and went on to play, record and write with him. He gave me one of his paintings in fact.
A great man—I will really miss him.
Listen to Bob and Gary's collaboration on Bob's song "Cloudy Day"
recorded in Gary's apt. in NYC direct to DAT
Bob—voice and acoustic guitar
Gary—electric guitar
RIP BOB NEUWIRTH
From Gary:
SAD NEWS: Bob Neuwirth was a dear friend and collaborator of mine
I met him playing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival years ago and went on to play, record and write with him. He gave me one of his paintings in fact.
A great man—I will really miss him.
Listen to Bob and Gary's collaboration on Bob's song "Cloudy Day"
recorded in Gary's apt. in NYC direct to DAT
Bob—voice and acoustic guitar
Gary—electric guitar
05/20/2022
Yesterday Gary posted a photo on Facebook of a an Italian fan who'd tattooed his arm with the lyrics of the first verse of "Grace". (Jeff's lyrics, and his song title as well). Now this photo just surfaced from Gary's fan Luigi Pastore—who tattooed his arm with the opening repeated guitar motif of Jeff and Gary's "Mojo Pin"! Which is Gary's music—he wrote the underlying original guitar instrumental with all the riffs that became "Mojo Pin" under the title "And You Will".
05/13/2022
THINGS NEARLY GO ASUNDER DOWN UNDER: Gary's new article just up at CultureCatch.com
photo by Dianne Harris: Onstage in St. Petersburg with Garry Cobain during the White Nights 2003
photo by Dianne Harris: Onstage in St. Petersburg with Garry Cobain during the White Nights 2003
05/12/2022
BOOLA-BOOLA: from the Yale Alumni Magazine Class Notes just now, May-June 2022 issue, courtesy Alec Haverstick and Tom Strumolo, Class of 1974
photo: with the Yale Precision Marching Band 1973 at the Yale Bowl when we kicked Harvard University's collective ass 35-0
photo: with the Yale Precision Marching Band 1973 at the Yale Bowl when we kicked Harvard University's collective ass 35-0
05/10/2022
COMING UP!
05/10/2022
Read an essay about Gary's faves the Third Ear Band in the latest issue of The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music just out now! See the cover here
Note from Gary: the photo used for my article in The Wire about Third Ear Band is the cover of Glen Sweeney's personal copy of the actual shooting script of Roman Polanski's 1971 film of "Macbeth", written by Roman Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. Glen spontaneously gave me his copy as a gift at the end of my afternoon hang / interview with him in June '73 on my very first trip to London. Glen was the loveliest guy—a true musical visionary.
Note from Gary: the photo used for my article in The Wire about Third Ear Band is the cover of Glen Sweeney's personal copy of the actual shooting script of Roman Polanski's 1971 film of "Macbeth", written by Roman Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. Glen spontaneously gave me his copy as a gift at the end of my afternoon hang / interview with him in June '73 on my very first trip to London. Glen was the loveliest guy—a true musical visionary.
05/09/2022
Just added: Special guest Haitian vocalist Mariline Marolany just added to my Paris TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY show Fri. June 3rd @ 8pm at Sunset Jazz Club
The lineup includes Jean-Philippe Rykiel keyboards, Alain Nyame bass, Lukas Ligeti drums, and Estelle Perrault vocals
The lineup includes Jean-Philippe Rykiel keyboards, Alain Nyame bass, Lukas Ligeti drums, and Estelle Perrault vocals
05/08/2022
FOR MOTHER’S DAY: My mom ADELE LUCAS (nee Goldman) died of Covid at age 93 in a nursing home in Calfornia at the beginning of the pandemic on April 24th 2020. She could have lived to 100, she had such a strong life-force.
Once infected, she had a pronounced rapid decline. We were allowed only a FaceTime Messenger visit courtesy of a nurse inside the home, Caroline and I shouting into the phone "We Love You, Mom!!" My mother was too far gone, she was unable to acknowledge us. She couldn't move a muscle. It was pretty grim.
She raised us (my two older sisters and younger brother) liberal Democrats and instilled a love of art, literature, music, film, theater, nature, animals, and learning in us.
She was so beautiful, one of a kind.
Here she is pictured in better days on her honeymoon.
WE MISS YOU MOM
Once infected, she had a pronounced rapid decline. We were allowed only a FaceTime Messenger visit courtesy of a nurse inside the home, Caroline and I shouting into the phone "We Love You, Mom!!" My mother was too far gone, she was unable to acknowledge us. She couldn't move a muscle. It was pretty grim.
She raised us (my two older sisters and younger brother) liberal Democrats and instilled a love of art, literature, music, film, theater, nature, animals, and learning in us.
She was so beautiful, one of a kind.
Here she is pictured in better days on her honeymoon.
WE MISS YOU MOM
05/06/2022
JUST BACK IN THE SHOP! High quality Gary Lucas tees all sizes!
05/06/2022
WHEN JOHNNY MET GARY: Gary's new article DEPP FOR MEN / SCENE AND NOT HEARD: just up at CultureCatch.com
05/02/2022
NEW REVIEW OF "DOUBLE DARE", Gary Lucas and Peter Willems, just in from Written in Music (NL), 4.5 out of 5 Stars!
05/01/2022
BEEF-A-ROONIE! BIG FUN mixing it up with the fabulous NONA HENDRYX 4/29/22 at Roulette Brooklyn with THE WORLD OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, live at the Bang on a Can Long Play Festival—our first show in 5 years! With Jesse Krakow bass, Jordan Shapiro keys and Richard Dworkin drums, more info on the project here.
Stay tuned for more news!!
Special thanks to Bang on a Can and Roulette for hosting us at this event—Roulette is a great place to play and the audience ate it up!
Stay tuned for more news!!
Special thanks to Bang on a Can and Roulette for hosting us at this event—Roulette is a great place to play and the audience ate it up!
04/28/2022
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED ROCK?—Gary's new article up now at CultureCatch.com
04/27/2022
NEW REVIEW from BLUESTOWN (NL)
DOUBLE DARE Vol. One and Two: Gary Lucas and Peter Willems
Just out on ZenneZ Records
DOUBLE DARE Vol. One and Two: Gary Lucas and Peter Willems
Just out on ZenneZ Records
04/23/2022
Just Confirmed: Thurs. June 16th (Bloom's Day) at The Peppermint Club in LA, my TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY at 7:30pm, tickets here
04/23/2022
RETURN TO GERMANY!!
SAT. JUNE 4th at the Jazzclub Tonne Dresden
My TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY
with special guest vocalists Veronika Kralacek and Hallam London
Tonne Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
SAT. JUNE 4th at the Jazzclub Tonne Dresden
My TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY
with special guest vocalists Veronika Kralacek and Hallam London
Tonne Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
04/21/2022
LISTENING PAST THE GRAVEYARD / EAR OF THE BEHOLDER—My new article is up now at CultureCatch.com
04/17/2022
TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY WORLD TOUR 2022 continues with a show just confirmed in Maastricht, Netherlands on
WED JUNE 8th at SINT JANS KERK w/Gary's DOUBLE DARE partner Peter Willems on vocals
More dates:
Sun. May 29th Dublin—Whelan's
Fri. June 3rd Paris—Sunset Jazz Club with special guests Estelle Perreault and Mariline Marolany
Sat. June 4th Dresden—Tonne Jazz Club
Wed. June 8th Maastricht—Sint Jans Kerk with special guest Peter Willems
Thurs. June 16th Los Angeles—The Peppermint Club
Fri. June 24th Woodstock, NY—The Colony
Thurs. July 28th NYC—The Cutting Room with special guest Francesco Arpino
More Dates TBA
More dates:
Sun. May 29th Dublin—Whelan's
Fri. June 3rd Paris—Sunset Jazz Club with special guests Estelle Perreault and Mariline Marolany
Sat. June 4th Dresden—Tonne Jazz Club
Wed. June 8th Maastricht—Sint Jans Kerk with special guest Peter Willems
Thurs. June 16th Los Angeles—The Peppermint Club
Fri. June 24th Woodstock, NY—The Colony
Thurs. July 28th NYC—The Cutting Room with special guest Francesco Arpino
More Dates TBA
04/17/2022
GOLEM ITALIAN-STYLE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE—My new article is up now at CultureCatch.com
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