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...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 6, 2005 11:05 pm
560
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
566
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...
Gary Lucas
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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
572
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
575
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
598
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
599
fine fermata nazo nascent nasal dylan titular craig...
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Oct 4, 2005 12:59 pm
601
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
602
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...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 13, 2005 4:43 pm
605
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...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 21, 2005 8:57 pm
611
What is this thing called jazz? Originally a synonym for the old in-and-out (as in Armstrong's "Jazz Me Blues"), it is, in a word, perhaps the most universally...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 6, 2005 3:06 pm
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Well, guys and gals, the results of my last contest came in fast and thick and furious and the mighty Chris Dee was the first to correctly identify Traffic's...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 8, 2005 11:45 pm
614
Saw "Abigail's Party" last night, in previews on Theater Row here, Mike Leigh's savage/banal/ whiplash-across-the-face-o'-bourgeois-London-life circa 1977,...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 17, 2005 2:53 am
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This is gonna be a quickie as I am out here in Riverside California visiting my folks for Thanksgiving, just polished off a phenomenal meal courtesy of world's...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 25, 2005 12:47 am
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Just back from Down Under, wotta cool country, my first time evah, great trip, several smoking shows with the Amorphous Androgynous crewe (the brainchild of...
Gary Lucas
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Dec 6, 2005 4:53 pm
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The great science fiction writer Robert Sheckley has died, so sayeth the New York Times today (lit crit James Shattuck also; his tome on Parisian...
Gary Lucas
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Dec 10, 2005 7:44 pm
636
In the spirit of the holidays, some rough mixes and demos of several new songs Gary's been working on have just been posted on the home page of Gary's web site...
Sorry for the long hiatus from my last posting, but, well, sometimes its best to keep schtum until the thing in itself rears up Alien-like, erect and bristling...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 5, 2006 1:10 am
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The obverse of the preceeding end 'o year encomiums...encompassing some of the worst trends and developments I've observed and/or suffered through (Poooor...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 7, 2006 2:32 am
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And if memory serves John Cale scored the music for " The Tingler" , or parts of the score and if it isn't " The Tingler" and i'm all scuffed in my memory than...
cchalone@...
Jan 10, 2006 5:07 pm
643
Played this humongous tribute to Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" album in front of 2-3000 folks at the Wintergarden in the World Financial Center here last...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 15, 2006 6:07 pm
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This my 51st Blog? Well then I have the pleasure of ushering in the next 50, at least (I'm just getting started!) by announcing that Webster Hodges--Webster...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 25, 2006 1:35 am
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Had a coupla hot gigs here last week, starting with a particulalry piquant set at Merkin Hall (y'all know 'bout Merkins, doncha? Cue Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson's...
Gary Lucas
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Feb 3, 2006 4:51 am
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Checked out my sax-man Jason Candler's other aggregation The Hungry March Band last night at CBGB's Gallery (well he's also in Earth People with Daniel Carter,...
Gary Lucas
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Feb 18, 2006 10:57 pm
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Debbie Harry sang an incandescent version of Roxy Music's "More Than This" (well it's really Bryan Ferry's tune all the way, and Bryan would have been...
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