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Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas

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Leonard Bernstein: Lenny's song and dance in Vienna

Report and Interview by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 25 October 1973

  LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S Mass, the piece commissioned to open the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, was premiered this summer in Europe. A company of 200 took ...

Gary Lucas: Guitars and Monsters

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, June 1998

Former Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas might not have fulfilled his childhood ambition to become a vampire, but in wielding his avant-roots-noise music like a stiletto, ...

Gary Lucas: Improve The Shining Hour: Rare Lumiere 1980–2000 (Knitting Factory)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, June 2000

THE GLITTERING career of US guitarist Gary Lucas has inevitably become overshadowed by the work he produced for Captain Beefheart during the early 80s on ...

Invisible Jukebox: Gary Lucas

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, February 2001

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...

How Nona Hendryx Captured the World of Captain Beefheart

Interview by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 9 November 2017

Drawn together: Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx channel Captain Beefheart on their new album. ...

Vin Diesel, Arthur Russell and me

Memoir by Gary Lucas, Please Kill Me!, 30 March 2021

Mixmaster Arthur Russell meets wannabe rapper Mark Sinclair (aka Vin Diesel). What could possibly go wrong? That's what Gary Lucas thought when he brought these ...

see also Captain Beefheart

see also Gods and Monsters

see also Du-Tels, The

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