PAST NEWS: 2023
12/29/2023
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GETTING THE DROP ON TARANTINO
New review of Quentin Tarantino's "Cinema Speculation" up now at CultureCatch.com
New review of Quentin Tarantino's "Cinema Speculation" up now at CultureCatch.com
12/25/2023
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"NOT A FUCKING SOUND"
Gary's review of Jonathan Glazer's "THE ZONE OF INTEREST" up now at CultureCatch.com
Gary's review of Jonathan Glazer's "THE ZONE OF INTEREST" up now at CultureCatch.com
12/18/2023
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Gary gets a stellar review for his performance with THE GOLEM at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center 12/12/23 in the San Francisco Examiner
And check out two previews for the show in 48 Hills and Mission Local
And check out two previews for the show in 48 Hills and Mission Local
12/17/2023
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Just found this on the net! Gary Lucas solo concert at the New York Public Library 12/15/23
Gary says: What a magnificent space to play both visually and acoustically! It was an honor and an overwhelming experience. My sincerest thanks to the NYPL for bringing me in to play at their main library on West 42nd St and 5th Ave.
More clips here, here, here, and here
Gary says: What a magnificent space to play both visually and acoustically! It was an honor and an overwhelming experience. My sincerest thanks to the NYPL for bringing me in to play at their main library on West 42nd St and 5th Ave.
More clips here, here, here, and here
12/13/2023
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BEEFHEART ART: Gary is interviewed in a new feature in MOJO about Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)'s art, currently on exhibition at the Michael Werner Gallery in London till Feb 2024
part 1 | part 2 | part 3
A partial tour of Gary's Don Van Vliet art collection is available for viewing here
part 1 | part 2 | part 3
A partial tour of Gary's Don Van Vliet art collection is available for viewing here
12/11/2023
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THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AT The New York Public Library's "THE LIBRARY AFTER HOURS: UNCENSORED" EVENT, GARY IS PLAYING 3 SOLO SETS IN THE ROSE READING ROOM FROM 7PM TO 10PM. THE NYPL IS LOCATED AT 455 5TH AVE at 40th ST. IN MANHATTAN.
Tickets are Pay What You Wish, with a suggested cost of admission of $15. What you pay benefits The New York Public Library and helps make this event—and others like it—possible.
If you miss your chance to get a ticket in advance, a limited number of tickets are available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis.
Doors will open at the 42nd St entrance and the Marshall Rose Plaza (located at 40th St and 5th Ave) at 7:00PM, with final entry at 9:30PM. Both of these entrances are accessible.
The portraits to the left are of 3 of Gary's favorite banned authors as a young man, L to R:
The late American author IRIS OWENS, who wrote EXTREMELY PROVOCATIVE EROTICA under the pseudonym HARRIET DAIMLER for Maurice Girodias's OLYMPIA PRESS—check out "DARLING".
J.P. DONLEAVY, whose Black Humor comic masterpiece "THE GINGER MAN" was banned in THE UK AND THE US; for many years.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV, whose most famous work worldwide "LOLITA" ran afoul of the UK AND US CENSORS for years
Tickets are Pay What You Wish, with a suggested cost of admission of $15. What you pay benefits The New York Public Library and helps make this event—and others like it—possible.
If you miss your chance to get a ticket in advance, a limited number of tickets are available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis.
Doors will open at the 42nd St entrance and the Marshall Rose Plaza (located at 40th St and 5th Ave) at 7:00PM, with final entry at 9:30PM. Both of these entrances are accessible.
The portraits to the left are of 3 of Gary's favorite banned authors as a young man, L to R:
The late American author IRIS OWENS, who wrote EXTREMELY PROVOCATIVE EROTICA under the pseudonym HARRIET DAIMLER for Maurice Girodias's OLYMPIA PRESS—check out "DARLING".
J.P. DONLEAVY, whose Black Humor comic masterpiece "THE GINGER MAN" was banned in THE UK AND THE US; for many years.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV, whose most famous work worldwide "LOLITA" ran afoul of the UK AND US CENSORS for years
12/05/2023
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Check out a new interview and clip of Gary from the VOICE OF AMERICA RUSSIA
11/19/2023
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True Story From Gary:
I first noticed this painting—a copy of Arnold Bocklin's "Playing in the Waves" (1883, oil on canvas)—hanging in a pub near Studio Faust Records in Prague while I was having lunch with my pal musician / producer / studio owner Richard Mader (a/k/a Faust) in Nov. 2012. A sudden shaft of light through the window of the pub illuminated the ghostly white visage of a horned demon buried under the surface of the paint directly in a line down from the satyr's out-stretched hand into the waters. I quickly snapped this photo of the painting and then through painstaking internet search located the original. The satanic countenance you can clearly make out here is not in the original painting, and had to have been inscribed and then painted over by the painting's copyist, whoever that was. I bring this up as I just read about another similar demonic paint-over here.
P.S.: Faust bought the painting from the pub and it now hangs in his studio which I highly recommend if you need a great place to record in Prague (other satisfied customers include the late Keith Levene, Killing Joke, and myself). But the demon's head for some strange reason is not now visible!
My, my...
For further research...
I first noticed this painting—a copy of Arnold Bocklin's "Playing in the Waves" (1883, oil on canvas)—hanging in a pub near Studio Faust Records in Prague while I was having lunch with my pal musician / producer / studio owner Richard Mader (a/k/a Faust) in Nov. 2012. A sudden shaft of light through the window of the pub illuminated the ghostly white visage of a horned demon buried under the surface of the paint directly in a line down from the satyr's out-stretched hand into the waters. I quickly snapped this photo of the painting and then through painstaking internet search located the original. The satanic countenance you can clearly make out here is not in the original painting, and had to have been inscribed and then painted over by the painting's copyist, whoever that was. I bring this up as I just read about another similar demonic paint-over here.
P.S.: Faust bought the painting from the pub and it now hangs in his studio which I highly recommend if you need a great place to record in Prague (other satisfied customers include the late Keith Levene, Killing Joke, and myself). But the demon's head for some strange reason is not now visible!
My, my...
For further research...
11/19/2023
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Big thanks to HOWARD THOMPSON who played one of my archival rarities on his WPKN "PURE" radio show 11/17/23—a studio collaboration I did with JOHN CALE entitled "PETER LORRE". Listen about 28 min. in here
11/15/2023
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A couple of new film reviews by Gary ("May December" and "How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer") up now at CultureCatch.com
photo: Gay Talese, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal in 1993
photo: Gay Talese, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal in 1993
11/13/2023
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Check out Gary's new arrangement of Reverend Gary Davis's "O Glory"
photo: Rev. Gary Davis & Megan Ochs. Photography by Alice Ochs.
photo: Rev. Gary Davis & Megan Ochs. Photography by Alice Ochs.
10/29/2023
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Filming an interview, live performance and walking tour of the West Village on Fri. 10/27/23 for the Voice of America's Russian Service
·Updates made to the photos
·Updates made to the photos
10/29/2023
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JEWS DO COUNT
Gary's latest article up now at CultureCatch.com
Gary's latest article up now at CultureCatch.com
10/29/2023
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New interview with GARY LUCAS just published in Planet Guitar (Italy)
photo by Luca Zannotti taken on Lake Trasimeno Umbria at the Moon in June Festival
photo by Luca Zannotti taken on Lake Trasimeno Umbria at the Moon in June Festival
10/20/2023
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Gary's thoughts on the Israel-Hamas War
image to the left: cover of Gary's 2000 Tzadik Records album "Street of Lost Brothers", the painting entitled "Judengasse" (Jew Street) by Andreas Neumann Nachten
image to the left: cover of Gary's 2000 Tzadik Records album "Street of Lost Brothers", the painting entitled "Judengasse" (Jew Street) by Andreas Neumann Nachten
10/20/2023
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From Gary: I am extremely touched and honored to only now learn courtesy of Far Out Magazine that Lou Reed's final playlist of songs he was listening to before he passed included "Flavor Bud Living" from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's 1980 album "Doc at the Radar Station". This performance put me on the map as a guitarist—and I am gob-smacked that Lou even knew about it, much less listened to it! Needless to say, I loved Lou's work immensely, he was a friend and very supportive of my playing—and I continue to enjoy listening to his albums going back to the first Velvet Underground album.
10/19/2023
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Check out a clip from the world premiere of Gary Lucas and Alison Clancy's new project WRITTEN ON THE BODY: A series of films by 3 radical female film makers (Shirley Clarke, Maya Deren and Barbara Rubin) with live solo guitar soundtracks by Gary and dance and vocals by Alison Clancy, principal dancer of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Corps. Curated by Chuck Smith at Roulette NYC 10/15/23. Thanks to Marc Urselli for the clip.
10/14/2023
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Review of John Turturro's "Sabbath's Theater" (Philip Roth) 10/10/23
10/07/2023
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Check out a new clip for Gary Lucas and Feifei Yang's version of "Country Roads" from their forthcoming album THE EDGE OF HEAVEN VOL. 2, and check out The Edge of Heaven Live page
10/05/2023
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NEXT UP: GARY LUCAS AND ALISON CLANCY PRESENT "WRITTEN ON THE BODY: A SERIES OF 3 SHORT FILMS BY RADICAL FEMALE FILM MAKERS" at ROULETTE NYC SUN. OCT 15th 8PM, tickets and more info here
Top photo: from Barbara Rubin's "Christmas on Earth" 1963
Bottom photo: portrait of Barbara Rubin
Top photo: from Barbara Rubin's "Christmas on Earth" 1963
Bottom photo: portrait of Barbara Rubin
09/23/2023
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Recording at EastSide Sound NYC last week with a 12-musician global ensemble—a recording of my song, "One Home," for a forthcoming music video and tv series. The instrumentalists included slide and acoustic guitars, sitar, kora, erhu, kenacho flute, percussion, bass, accordion, cello, trumpet, with lead vocals by Carmen Borla and Feifei Yang, and producer/sound engineer Marc Urselli at the controls. The song was written for the WeSpeakNYC podcast series to be broadcast on WNYC cable tv next month and was produced for the Mayor's Office of immigrant Affairs and the Mayor's Office of Climate Justice. I composed the music for the series with assistance from Erdem Helvacioglu—and the script and song lyrics are by our friend producer David Hellman.
09/18/2023
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New profile of Gary just published by AM New York and The Villager
09/17/2023
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From Gary: With our friend Mourad Zowie, who was our Angel rescuing us in Nantes and getting us on board and on our way to the enchanted isle off the southwest coast of France we just spent a marvelous week at. Honestly we would never have made the connection in Nantes if he hadn't come up to me out of the blue outside the train station and say "Gary Lucas—GRACE!!"—and then start playing the intro on air guitar.
Photo by Caroline Sinclair
Photo by Caroline Sinclair
09/14/2023
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Gary's heading into the studio with Terry Derkach on Tuesday to cut a new version of Jenny Morris's 80's Aussie hit "She Has to Be Loved" for an Anti-Violence Against Women charity campaign—a bevy of young Australian female vocalists will be over-dubbed Down Under.
Gary: "For a very good cause! Thank you Florencia Esseling and Joe Dadic! I really love Jenny Morris's original version."
Gary: "For a very good cause! Thank you Florencia Esseling and Joe Dadic! I really love Jenny Morris's original version."
09/14/2023
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From the Hamlet Hub: ROCKER GARY LUCAS TO HIT WESTPORT LIBRARY STORYFEST OCT. 22ND
09/06/2023
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By special request of the Hotel Des Voyageurs dans Ile d'Yeu Bretagne, Gary is playing a solo acoustic concert this Fri. Sept. 8th at 6pm on the patio of l'hotel—with special guest vocalists Laure-Lucile Simon and (maybe) Catherine Despont. Free and open to the public!
08/28/2023
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Just confirmed: Gary is performing Nov. 25th at MOSAE ZAPPA in Heerlen NL—both solo and sitting in with the band Wrong Object
08/28/2023
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John Schaefer rebroadcast a live session taped by Gary at home during the pandemic on his New Sounds program on WNYC FM on Saturday night 8/26/23—listen here
08/22/2023
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Gary recently met Jen Long, founder of TheWhaleGuitar.com project (devoted to cleaning up the air, water and environment on a global level) at legendary Carmine Street Guitars in the West Village.
He gladly signed their famous whale guitar which bears many famous guitarists's signatures, and filmed a clip playing "Grace" on the whale guitar.
Please check out the site and donate for a very good cause!
Jen just wrote Gary about her new bandana promotion, check it out here!
He gladly signed their famous whale guitar which bears many famous guitarists's signatures, and filmed a clip playing "Grace" on the whale guitar.
Please check out the site and donate for a very good cause!
Jen just wrote Gary about her new bandana promotion, check it out here!
08/22/2023
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Just confirmed: Tues. Dec. 12th
GARY LUCAS PLAYS "THE GOLEM"
SAN FRANCISCO JCC
as part of their "Jewish Magic" series
photo by Arjen Veldt
More details tba
GARY LUCAS PLAYS "THE GOLEM"
SAN FRANCISCO JCC
as part of their "Jewish Magic" series
photo by Arjen Veldt
More details tba
08/19/2023
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SYD BARRETT!
Check out the new documentary about Pink Floyd's main-man directed by Roddy Bogawa and the late Storm Thorgerson (one half of Hipgnosis).I don't think they could have done a better job frankly. My review of this important doc is now up at Rock's Backpages
Photo by Mick Rock taken at the Show Gallery in Staten Island
Check out the new documentary about Pink Floyd's main-man directed by Roddy Bogawa and the late Storm Thorgerson (one half of Hipgnosis).I don't think they could have done a better job frankly. My review of this important doc is now up at Rock's Backpages
Photo by Mick Rock taken at the Show Gallery in Staten Island
08/10/2023
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Review of "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" film
08/09/2023
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New clip Jeff Buckley — The Song Unsung (feat. Gary Lucas) up now on YouTube—Filmed in Sydney Australia Spring 2023 while Gary was on tour there
07/28/2023
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MY STONES STORY (on the occasion of Sir Mick's 80th birthday)
07/15/2023
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The new Syd Barrett doc "Have You Got It Yet?" now playing at the Quad Cinema here in NYC is quite good but very sad if not downright tragic and brought tears to my eyes (and I do not cry very easily). Syd's music, both with Pink Floyd and his own solo albums, and his enormously expressive guitar-playing had a profound effect on me, and I never much liked Pink Floyd after he cracked up and left. Some years ago I got a letter from a UK recording engineer (also named Gary Lucas, funnily enough) who'd recorded one of the 6 or so ill-fated Syd Barrett's Stars gigs in Cambridge in 1972. Many years had passed since and EMI, looking for more Syd material to release, contacted Lucas as they heard he'd recorded one of those Cambridge shows, which featured Twink (John Alder) from The Pretty Things and Pink Fairies on drums. They sent a limo to Lucas's home in Cambridge to pick him up with his tape, which he hadn't listened to since recording the gig. They went into a boardroom at EMI, and put on the tape—and after sitting through what was described to me as an extremely shambolic and discordant gig, the head of EMI A&R announced to the room: "THIS TAPE CAN NEVER COME OUT. IT WILL ONLY SERVE TO TARNISH THE LEGACY OF A LEGEND". Anyway, in 1986 or so Rolo McGinty of the Woodentops and I went into Elephant Studios in the Docklands part of East London and recorded this tribute to Syd with ace engineer Harold Burgon. For best audio fidelity listen to our version on my SoundCloud page.
Photo copyright Anton Corbijn
Photo copyright Anton Corbijn
07/11/2023
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Three clips from Gary's new concert program AN EVENING WITH GARY LUCAS, which premiered 7/7/23 at the Royal Theater in Heerlen NL:
The packed audience in the historic 1938 theater was seriously entertained by a performance of Gary's 65 minute live solo guitar score accompanying Orson Welles's 1938 rare silent surrealist comedy 'TOO MUCH JOHNSON'.
After a 20 minute intermission, Gary returned with his one-man CAPTAIN BEEFHEART TRIBUTE, which saw the guitarist perform in front of slides of Don Van Vliet's beautiful art, regaling the audience with tales of the legendary musician and performances of his quirky, knuckle-busting composition "Evening Bell", a medley of Beefheart's "Click Clack" and "Ice Cream for Crow", and much more.
And a splendid time was had by all!
Photo of Gary Lucas copyright Anton Corbijn from his book STAR TRAK (Schirmer-Mosel)
The packed audience in the historic 1938 theater was seriously entertained by a performance of Gary's 65 minute live solo guitar score accompanying Orson Welles's 1938 rare silent surrealist comedy 'TOO MUCH JOHNSON'.
After a 20 minute intermission, Gary returned with his one-man CAPTAIN BEEFHEART TRIBUTE, which saw the guitarist perform in front of slides of Don Van Vliet's beautiful art, regaling the audience with tales of the legendary musician and performances of his quirky, knuckle-busting composition "Evening Bell", a medley of Beefheart's "Click Clack" and "Ice Cream for Crow", and much more.
And a splendid time was had by all!
Photo of Gary Lucas copyright Anton Corbijn from his book STAR TRAK (Schirmer-Mosel)
07/04/2023
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English translation of a new interview with Gary in Heerlen My City
Text: Marco Smeets
Photo: Phil Mango
Text: Marco Smeets
Photo: Phil Mango
06/24/2023
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Gary Lucas and Alison Clancy present "Written on the Body: A Series of Short Films about the Body by 3 Radical Woman Filmmakers" at Roulette in Brooklyn on Sunday Oct. 15th, more info here
06/20/2023
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Check out this fantastic artwork from Scottish cartoonist Nulsh for Gary's Birthday!!
06/18/2023
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Nice review in the Irish Examiner for Gary's FROM BEEFHEART TO BUCKLEY AND BEYOND solo show with his special guest Feifei Yang at City Winery NYC 5/28/23
06/01/2023
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Just confirmed: FRI. JULY 7th Gary is accompanying ORSON WELLES'S legendary 1938 silent farce TOO MUCH JOHNSON with his live solo score followed by his solo tribute to CAPTAIN BEEFHEART at the ROYAL THEATER in HEERLEN NETHERLANDS
06/01/2023
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Just confirmed: DOUBLE DARE (Gary Lucas guitar and vocals and Peter Willems acoustic bass and vocals) play the BimHuis, the Netherlands' premiere jazz club on Thurs. Dec. 7th
05/31/2023
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Watch the clip here!
05/29/2023
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JEFF BUCKLEY—26 YEARS GONE TODAY
See this article from Classic Rock today
See this article from Classic Rock today
05/20/2023
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Just confirmed @ Roulette Brooklyn Sun. Oct 15th:
Gary Lucas and Chuck Smith present
"WRITTEN ON THE BODY: A SERIES OF SHORT FILMS ABOUT THE BODY BY 3 RADICAL WOMAN FILMMAKERS"
w / original solo guitar soundtracks by Gary Lucas
and simultaneous solo dances onstage by Alison Clancy,
principal dancer of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet corps
The films:
Shirley Clarke A Moment in Love (1957)
Maya Deren The Very Eye of Night (1958)
Barbara Rubin Christmas on Earth (1963)—remix by Chuck Smith
Gary Lucas and Chuck Smith present
"WRITTEN ON THE BODY: A SERIES OF SHORT FILMS ABOUT THE BODY BY 3 RADICAL WOMAN FILMMAKERS"
w / original solo guitar soundtracks by Gary Lucas
and simultaneous solo dances onstage by Alison Clancy,
principal dancer of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet corps
The films:
Shirley Clarke A Moment in Love (1957)
Maya Deren The Very Eye of Night (1958)
Barbara Rubin Christmas on Earth (1963)—remix by Chuck Smith
05/18/2023
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Just in from from a fan on Twitter!
05/14/2023
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Nice review of Gary's live solo guitar performance accompanying Orson Welles's rare silent farce TOO MUCH JOHNSON at the James River Film Festival in Richmond Virginia recently:
"Attention lovers of cinema, film programmers, and kids of all ages! Raving maniac of the cinema and musical magician Gary Lucas has done it again. His cinemaniacally-improvised score for Orson Welles's TOO MUCH JOHNSON (1938) performs the ultimate sleight-of-hand, fooling us into believing that he and we are Mercury players screening the dailies for our upcoming multimedia production. Instead of being abandoned for 'Citizen Kane' and lost for years, this unique presentation of 'Too Much Johnson' slapsticks us into an alternate reality, a present-day promised land of creative possibilities."
—James Parrish, co-founder and former vice president of the James River Film Society
"Attention lovers of cinema, film programmers, and kids of all ages! Raving maniac of the cinema and musical magician Gary Lucas has done it again. His cinemaniacally-improvised score for Orson Welles's TOO MUCH JOHNSON (1938) performs the ultimate sleight-of-hand, fooling us into believing that he and we are Mercury players screening the dailies for our upcoming multimedia production. Instead of being abandoned for 'Citizen Kane' and lost for years, this unique presentation of 'Too Much Johnson' slapsticks us into an alternate reality, a present-day promised land of creative possibilities."
—James Parrish, co-founder and former vice president of the James River Film Society
05/09/2023
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"Renowned guitarist/composer Gary Lucas headlined the recent 29th James River Film Festival in Richmond VA on April 22, 2023 at the historic Byrd Theatre. Making a record fifth appearance, Lucas wowed a packed auditorium with his original score for Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles' lost-found film curio, 'Too Much Johnson', starring American actor Joseph Cotten, a wacky slapsticky homage to the silent film comedy of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and the experimentation of the avant-garde. The next day Mr. Lucas led a delegation of fans to Joseph Cotten's grave in nearby Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, VA."
—James River Film Festival major domo Mike Jones
—James River Film Festival major domo Mike Jones
05/02/2023
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WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica" selected as the #1 Weirdest Album Ever in the latest issue of MOJO (UK)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica" selected as the #1 Weirdest Album Ever in the latest issue of MOJO (UK)
04/30/2023
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Read a new interview with Gary in Flicker Noise:
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
04/26/2023
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Gary's guitar playing is praised in DownBeat magazine in a review of the HAL WILLNER AMARCORD NINO ROTA concert at Roulette Brooklyn recently
04/22/2023
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RIP MARK STEWART (The Pop Group, OnU Sound)
Gary's friend Mark Stewart, one of the most brilliant voices and recording artists of the post-punk era, has sadly passed at the very young age of 62. This photo was taken in London in 2013.
Gary's friend Mark Stewart, one of the most brilliant voices and recording artists of the post-punk era, has sadly passed at the very young age of 62. This photo was taken in London in 2013.
04/14/2023
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Master, Master
Gary's new review of "Renfield", opening theatrically in the US today up now at CultureCatch.com
Gary's new review of "Renfield", opening theatrically in the US today up now at CultureCatch.com
04/13/2023
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From the Richmond Style Weekly magazine about the upcoming JAMES RIVER FILM FESTIVAL in Richmond Virginia, where Gary will be accompanying Orson Welles's lost surrealist silent classic "TOO MUCH JOHNSON" at the historic art-deco movie palace The Byrd Theatre on Sat. April 22nd at 9:00pm. Also read a new interview with Gary, "All is Welles", in the latest issue of the Richmond Style Weekly
Photo: Joseph Cotten in "Too Much Johnson"
Photo: Joseph Cotten in "Too Much Johnson"
04/09/2023
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Three different live views of Gary's stark, hypnotic acoustic guitar solo last night 4/8/23—his arrangement of Nino Rota's "Tema di Giton" from the soundtrack of "Fellini Satyricon". The concert at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn was a sold-out tribute to the late producer/conceptualist Gary's friend Hal Willner under the title AMARCORD HAL WILLNER NINO ROTA. An all-star cast of incredible musicians 40 strong filled the hall with 2 and a half hours of Rota's mystical and magical music for Fellini, and spectators in the house included Elvis Costello.
Clip 1 by Peter Bull, Clip 2 by Marc Urselli, and Clip 3 by Peter Bull
photo by Peter Cherches
Clip 1 by Peter Bull, Clip 2 by Marc Urselli, and Clip 3 by Peter Bull
photo by Peter Cherches
04/08/2023
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EARLY HALLOWEEN: Sunday Oct. 22nd at StoryFest 2023 at the Westport Library in Westport CT, Gary is performing his live solo guitar score with the legendary 1931 SPANISH DRACULA—more details tba. Neil Gaiman will be the keynote speaker at this annual arts festival
photo at the 2009 world premiere of Gary's live score at La Rampa Cinema in Havana
photo at the 2009 world premiere of Gary's live score at La Rampa Cinema in Havana
04/03/2023
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RIP SEYMOUR STEIN
04/03/2023
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On April 2nd 2023 Gary Lucas performed an excerpt of his celebrated live solo guitar score accompanying a clip from the 1920 German expressionist silent horror classic "The Golem" as part of Michael Dorf's annual Downtown Seder held in the elegant Mainspace of Michael's flagship City Winery NYC club at Pier 57 in the West Village. Gary has taken part in numerous iterations of the Downtown Seder beginning in 1993 at Michael's original club The Knitting Factory, and was honored to be part of this year's event, going on stage to play directly after an impassioned speech by NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Other luminaries taking part in this year's event included Israeli singer/songwriter David Broza with Peter, Paul and Mary legend Peter Yarrow, soul icon Bettye LaVette, singer/songwriter/cantor Basya Schecter, and her son Jason Flom of the Innocence Project, Paul Shapiro's Ribs and Brisket Review, a cappella female trio BETTY, and many others. Thanks to Caroline Sinclair for the clip, and to Michael Dorf for organizing such a timely event, which brought over 300 people together for a glorious afternoon in NYC. In this clip you see Gary playing his score while looking directly into a video monitor in front of him—the audience however was treated to the film's fantastic imagery on two giant video screens flanking the stage of the City Winery Mainspace.
03/30/2023
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The reissue with bonus tracks of the 2000 album "No Knowledge of Music Required" by The Du-Tels (Gary Lucas and Peter Stampfel) gets a 4 star review in the latest issue of MOJO Magazine (UK). Available now on Don Giovanni Records
03/29/2023
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Track #9 featuring Jonathan Kane drums and Kato Hideki (Gods and Monsters—"Breath of Bones") and Track #19 featuring David Sisko beats and samples (Le Beast Concrete—"Brooklyn Cat") included on WPKN's Favorite Tracks of the Week - 3/26/23
03/25/2023
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Gary has an appreciation of his friend and collaborator the late great Bob Neuwirth now up on Gary's page in the archive of Barney Hoskyns's Rock's Back Pages, originally published in Dusty Wright's Culture Catch last year, thank you Barney, Dusty and Mark Pringle
03/18/2023
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Gary was just confirmed as a special guest at City Winery NYC's DOWNTOWN SEDER in their mainspace on Sunday April 2nd performing an excerpt of his live score accompanying the German expressionist fantasy classic THE GOLEM (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese). Doors open at noon, the Seder starts at 1pm. Tickets are available here. Gary goes way back to 1991 performing at the Downtown Seder at the old Knitting Factory and is really looking forward to this special event!
03/18/2023
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Save the date:
HAL WILLNER'S AMARCORD NINO ROTA @ ROULETTE BROOKLYN
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2023, 8:00 PM
TICKETS $45
The NY concert premiere of the late Hal Willner's 1981 "concept album," the first time he approached recorded albums as sonic cinema. Featuring a great all-star lineup organized and led by Steven Bernstein, this is basically the show that was cancelled due to rain a few years ago at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. More info and tickets here.
Gary is playing several pieces, including a solo "Tema di Giton" from "Fellini Satyricon".
Photo: Magali Noel from "Fellini Satyricon"
HAL WILLNER'S AMARCORD NINO ROTA @ ROULETTE BROOKLYN
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2023, 8:00 PM
TICKETS $45
The NY concert premiere of the late Hal Willner's 1981 "concept album," the first time he approached recorded albums as sonic cinema. Featuring a great all-star lineup organized and led by Steven Bernstein, this is basically the show that was cancelled due to rain a few years ago at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. More info and tickets here.
Gary is playing several pieces, including a solo "Tema di Giton" from "Fellini Satyricon".
Photo: Magali Noel from "Fellini Satyricon"
03/18/2023
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Gary's recent Tribute to Jeff Buckley Tour in Australia's New South Wales sold-out in Sydney and drew large crowds in Wollongong, Katoomba and the Central Coast. Big Thanks to vocalist / guitarist John Dixon, bassist Michael Carpenter, and drummer Russell Crawford for their excellent musical support, to Pippa Casey for organizing such a wonderful tour, and to Florencia Esseling for her tour photography and clips
03/17/2023
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A new book about the infamous massacre of the Jewish community in Jedwabne Poland in July 1941 has just been published in Spain in Catalan by Prof. David Serrano Blanquer and will be published in Spanish in Argentina soon. Gary Lucas, whose Polish-Jewish family on his mother's side was wiped out in this atrocity was interviewed for the book. Gary recently had his account of his attendance at the official Polish government apology ceremony for this horrific crime published in The Forward
See additional images of the book here: image 1 | image 2 | image 3
See additional images of the book here: image 1 | image 2 | image 3
03/12/2023
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With my Australian agent and manager Pippa Casey here in the Blue Mountains of Katoomba Australia—our Jeff Buckley Tribute sold-out in Sydney!!
03/12/2023
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Superfan Natalie Bambi requested TWO autographs last night after our wonderful sold-out show at Sydney's Camelot Lounge Last week
03/11/2023
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Gary just back from a whirlwind tour of New South Wales Australia with a Tribute to Jeff Buckley organized by Pippa Casey. Their Sydney show was sold-out, and Gary was honored to play with Australian musicians John Dixon, Michael Carpenter, and Russell Carpenter. Clips forthcoming!
03/11/2023
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Check out Irish singer/songwriter Paul McCann's gorgeous new song "Love is All That Matters" featuring an acoustic guitar solo by Gary
01/27/2023
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From Gary: NEVER FORGET
Today January 27th marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day worldwide. I had the honor of playing before the UN General Assembly several years ago on this occasion. It remains my most cherished memory in music.
Today January 27th marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day worldwide. I had the honor of playing before the UN General Assembly several years ago on this occasion. It remains my most cherished memory in music.
01/20/2023
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Gary's playing is featured on Irish singer/songwriter Paul McCann's new single "Love is All That Matters", released today 1/20/23. And Paul gives him a big shout out in the Irish press. Listen to the song here
01/12/2023
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RIP JEFF BECK—one of Gary's biggest heroes growing up. Gary reviewed Jeff Beck's TRUTH album in Aug. 68 for his high school underground newspaper Cogito in Syracuse NY
01/11/2023
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This Saturday Jan 14th at 3pm Eastern time! Listen live at concertzender.nl to Co de Kloet's Co Live! as he spins 3 tracks from Gary and Peter Willem's "Double Dare" album