Huzzah! The Village Green Preservation Society (member in good standing I am haha courtesy civic-minded Danny Fields) has successfully rolled back the...
Gary Lucas
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May 9, 2006 2:16 am
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...was the title of Bob "I Love a Man in Uniform" Hope's 1965 laff riot, and it might well serve as a credo for my recent tour there with the Magic Band,...
Gary Lucas
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May 24, 2006 10:28 pm
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Played the Bacardi B-Live promotion this week at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London with my old pal Cosmo (Colleen Murphy)--an absolute pleasure, a...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 4, 2006 11:26 pm
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"Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish, ketchup, and Jamaican Pickapeppa sauce the inner organs of beasts and fowls..." and so do I partaketh also (namely, chopped...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 16, 2006 9:05 pm
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The Times last Sunday ran a front page story about employers snooping on potential employees by scanning their blogs for tell-tale signs of (supposed) abberant...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 24, 2006 8:52 pm
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Hey Gary, Are you guys planning on a tour of Canada, specifically Toronto when you get through with Europe? BTW, is there much demand on this side of the pond?...
...was the name of Ken Russell's classic 1968 BBC Monitor film about the great English composer Frederick Delius, based on Eric Fenby's memoirs (Fenby the...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 3, 2006 3:36 pm
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There was a Bantam paperback anthology called "Black Humor" that came out around 1965 that functioned as one of the key incendiary devices of my youth,...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 9, 2006 2:53 pm
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I write this from Goa now, where we've arrived to start a serious holiday by the sea after a very fraught week to put it mildly...arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 17, 2006 2:32 pm
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India, mmmmmm... ...let me count the ways, thoroughly enchanting country, friendliest people I've ever met in I dont know, 25 or so countries I've performed in...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 4, 2006 1:17 pm
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Summer bloody summer--fresh on the heels of Syd Barrett's untimely demise (one shudders to think this, but as a notorious recluse for years, one wonders if Syd...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 10, 2006 6:45 pm
735
Semi-recovered now from a little Bacardi-fueled weekend jaunt to lovely Romania, a country I was fascinated by as a lad due to its deep Dracula...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 16, 2006 4:53 pm
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I was wondering if you will be making any stops in Minneapolis in the not too distant future? I was also wondering if you have any plans to record for Tzadik...
Caroline and I had the most delightful dinner the other night at Indochine here with my old friend, the legendary Andrew Loog Oldham, who was in town on a...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 27, 2006 1:25 pm
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Labor Day today, and I actually got a whole 6-7 hours of sleep, for a change-- and thankfully without the aid of Ambien, introduced to me by my friend the Emmy...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 4, 2006 8:27 pm
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Hey, I just signed (inked, in Variety-speak) with Mighty Quinn Records here for release of my new Gods and Monsters album in the US, Canada and Japan! Deal was...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 14, 2006 2:01 pm
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... unless it's pastis, which Jason Candler and I were sip sip sipping after our incandescent new Gods and Monsters record release thingy at Bob Holman's house...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 25, 2006 6:22 pm
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Yesterday was a dream, a seeming seminal culmination of 16 years obsessively plowing the furrowed lowlands of Holland on tour (must have played at least, oh,...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 2, 2006 8:51 am
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"Canadian Sunset" was one of my favorite tunes growing up a wee sprout in Syracuse, the number two track side one of UA's double gatefold sleeved LP "Ferrante...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 12, 2006 10:53 pm
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And speaking of les maisons de musique spirituelle/houses of the holy (see my last blog concerning playing "The Golem" in the Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste up...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 22, 2006 2:09 pm
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That was the week, that was, time-shifting wildly now under daylight's savings, dunno where to begin except at the beginning jetted west out of the ice age...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 30, 2006 6:20 am
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...was the line fruity old Ernest Thesiger (Dr. Praetorius) delivered to a neurasthenic Colin Clive (Baron Frankenstein) in James Whale's 1931...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 8, 2006 4:36 pm
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Though I don't remember too much of it... here's a recording of Gary solo, with Gods & Monsters, and also the Arkestra from Saturday 10/28/06. ...
"Egon Bondy's Lonely Hearts Club Banned" was the first Plastic People of the Universe album I heard (and the first one they actually recorded) after moving to...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 15, 2006 1:54 am
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"Egon Bondy's Lonely Hearts Club Banned" was the first Plastic People of the Universe album I heard (and the first one they actually recorded) after moving to...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 15, 2006 5:08 am
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...and draw we did on this European Fast 'N Bulbous European tour from which I write you perched in a chair at the computer terminal in the lobby of the good...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 22, 2006 2:10 am
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...is the title of one of Ornette Coleman's most lustrous compositions...but it is my happy duty to report that beauty was not to be found in short supply in...
Gary Lucas
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Dec 2, 2006 4:41 pm
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Saw an extremely entertaining and fun new show over the weekend, the new Broadway musical "High Fidelity" based on Nick Hornby's classic novel (later made into...
Gary Lucas
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Dec 8, 2006 6:34 am
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... begins "The Anniversary Song", Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin's morose, faux Ruritanian schmaltzer, one of Don Van Vliet's favorite songs in fact, which he...
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