Was up at Yale, my alma mahler I mean mater, on Monday night, to see my old friend and former classmate Bob "Rocket" Rubin deliver a lecture and slide...
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Apr 8, 2005 10:43 pm
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Not mine, and I can't tell from the info filke whether it is studio cuts (doubt it) or live (with original source info) but I'm downloading it now... Peace,...
So synchronistic... check my early November blogs relating how Swiss avant-guitar slinger Gerald Zbinden, whom I was visiting in preparation for recording a...
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Apr 20, 2005 1:03 pm
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Hi everyone, I just posted a fantastic recent interview with Gary on the "Mint" show with Marc Riley, from the BBC's 6music radio (they are SO cool, I'm a...
April 30th, and the witches' sabbath is upon us, Faustian bargains are being struck on the Harz Mountains in eastern Germany, bonfires are burning all over...
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Apr 30, 2005 9:29 pm
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The gloomy mists of Walpurgisnacht melt into May Day, the mental terrain transfigured (verklarte walpurgisnacht) after much brooding on past tensions and...
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May 9, 2005 11:43 pm
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Hi Gary: Hope you don't mind me asking, but do you know of a good place to stay in London for my 12 year old son and I? We are planing to visit there for a...
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May 16, 2005 6:10 pm
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yes, check out the swiss cottage hotel at 4 adamson road--011 207 722 2281 it is a very nice, inexpensive hotel in a quiet neighborhood hope this helps xxgary...
Gary Lucas
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May 16, 2005 6:23 pm
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gosh! didn't know I was broadcasting! ooops!! haven't made THAT mistake in a while. best to Gary fans, everywhere.......
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May 16, 2005 6:26 pm
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... It is killing me to be constantly reminded (via email through this group) that they will NOT be playing in my town. I asked Gary why that was and he told...
Yes, after a 6 week hiatus where I took time off from writing these serial epistles to go on a splendid UK tour with The Magic Band I'm back on the aether,...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 20, 2005 1:18 pm
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... the Magic Band gigs ! I was wondering when you were gonna blog again... Hope the Magic Band video gets an American release ! Happy Birthday ! k duvall...
... Oh trust me, it could be much worse. You could live in the midwest, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, where the local record stores carry nothing but ...
Yes, you guessed it, I've been strummin' on the old banjo I mean Duolian (my 1928 National steel--a steal at a thousand bucks in 1980--to be heard on good...
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Jul 6, 2005 11:05 pm
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Here I am in hot humid Moscow ensconced in a lovely airconditioned suite (yeah!!) overlooking the multicoloured onion domes of Saint Peter Basilica and the...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 22, 2005 7:06 am
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Taking the Golem out for a walk in Saint Petersburg proved as thrilling and exhilarating an experience as in Moscow. In both cities I was given dream venues to...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 25, 2005 7:49 am
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Just back from Russia, and I must say, in retrospect of a couple of very jetlagged days back home it was probably the most satisfying series of gigs in a...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 31, 2005 4:46 pm
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Just checked out "The Devil's Rejects" (so what are they then...angels?) at the AMC 42nd Street principally to catch the lead performance by my old pal and...
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Aug 11, 2005 2:58 pm
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We're back from a sybaritic 10 days of v-a-c-a-T- I -O- N in luscious Lisbon, my new favorite watering hole, ironic as Portugal is beset with severe drought...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 30, 2005 1:26 pm
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Was Bob Dylan a Weldon Kees fan? An oh-so- germane question in these days of the ongoing canonization of Bob and general voracious media scrutiny of all things...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 5, 2005 11:32 pm
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Yes we've had several winners for my last contest; in fact 2 folks emailed me within 10 minutes of me posting my last blog on Sunday, with 2 different correct...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 8, 2005 5:23 pm
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Stravinsky, of course, Gary. But I got the DVD of course too. Love, Henry PS: I got about 400 boot concerts by the D by now!...
Received an email from James Riedel, who wrote a recent biography of Weldon Kees (please refer to 2 blogs back; you might also scroll through all of them again...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 13, 2005 12:00 pm
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I realize there is a lengthy hiatus again from my last epistolary whistle down the wind but honestly I've been busy...back home in nyc now and will attempt to...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 3, 2005 9:58 pm
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fine fermata nazo nascent nasal dylan titular craig...
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Oct 4, 2005 12:59 pm
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How appropriate to revisit my recent European sojourns on Columbus Day! As I wrote in the program notes to a tribute concert to saxophonist/composer Steve Lacy...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 10, 2005 5:38 pm
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Today is the first anniversary of John Peel's death, and it's officially John Peel Day in the UK where he was deservedly regarded as a national treasure (think...
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Oct 13, 2005 4:43 pm
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Been hitting a spate of current and not/so current films here whilst recharging for my next trip abroad (rehearsals with Future Sound of London next week in...