Fuckin' el those pictures from the 'cuse are cool. glam bam kid shazam. keep it
solid.

craig


Quoting Gary Lucas <gary@...>:

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> Laid up at home for a couple days now with a spectacular head cold, my second
> this season...home is okay by me as the streets of the West Village where I
> live are a sodden miasma of 30 mph winds and chilly driving rains. The sky is
> crying, Elmore James sang, and in truth the floodgates seem to have opened up
> in tandem with the sad news of my friend Kevin Coyne's passing. And yet
> another death just reported to me, that of a fellow Syracusan, Joe Behnke,
> who did construction jobs in and around my building, killed in Iraq...it
> truly feels like the universe of absence this week...but perserverance in the
> face of tragedy, I am more determined than ever to rage against the dying of
> the light (Lucas derives from Lux, the Latin word for light; and in truth, I
> have always felt I was on a musical quest to throw light into dark corners).
> Improve the shining hour...
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> And indeed we were throwing off much light and heat at the Knitting Factory
> last Friday night--my longtime band Gods and Monsters celebrating 15 years in
> action all present and accounted for with the added firepower of our
> brilliant spiky jazzy horn section (Jason Candler on alto sax and Joe Hendel
> on trombone), and guest vocalists Ellis Hooks, Amica, and China Satomi
> augmenting the rhythmic fury of Billy Ficca and Ernie Brooks. We just cut a
> track with Ellis in the studio singing a new version of "Grace", the song I
> co-wrote with former Gods and Monster Jeff Buckley (the original version has
> become an anthem, particularly in France, where they play it every day on the
> national radio)--and Ellis was in rare form live at the Knit, and gave a
> spectacular stomping performance. He is truly a modern soul man. We encored
> with Muddy's Mannish Boy, and rocked the house down...
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> Much live activity happening soon, getting ready to play a solo performance
> at a tribute to John Lennon gig at the Bowery Poetry Club this Saturday
> night, a benefit for New Yorker's Against Handguns...and then Fast 'n Bulbous
> celebrate the release of our new Cuneiform CD "Pork Chop Blue Around the
> Rind" next Friday night Dec. 17th there, with special guest Denny Walley
> sitting in. The new CD is out Jan. 20th, but my co-leader/arranger Phillip
> Johnston and I thought we'd ring out a little Beefheartian cheer now in order
> to ring in the New Year properly in NYC...
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> Meanwhile enjoy the photos herein (webmistress Tanya has promised to size and
> post them at the top of this blog soon, in exchange for a little
> Stoli--chocolate just won't do anymore!): the exuberant colorful drawing is
> by the visionary Swiss artist Henry Meyer who was inspired to create it
> spontaneously at my recent session in Lausanne with Gerald Zbinden at Artefax
> studio, Henry sat quietly in a corner and sketched and painted while we we
> threw thunderbolts ...there's also a shot of sweet and patient studio whiz
> Bernard Amaudruz.
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> I hope the other two photos, retrieved by my sister Bonnie recently from the
> Lucas ancestral manse, and cataloguing various stages of my "fine fine
> superfine career" (pace Frank Zappa) make you smile as much as they do me.
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> Stay stay stay warm...
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> Gary
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> Posted by Gary Lucas to Gary Lucas at 12/7/2004 07:09:02 PM
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