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
732
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
gary@...
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
737
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
gary@...
Aug 27, 2006 1:25 pm
741
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
gary@...
Sep 4, 2006 8:27 pm
744
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
gary@...
Sep 14, 2006 2:01 pm
752
... 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
761
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
gary@...
Oct 2, 2006 8:51 am
765
"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
gary@...
Oct 12, 2006 10:53 pm
768
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
gary@...
Oct 22, 2006 2:09 pm
771
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
777
...was the line fruity old Ernest Thesiger (Dr. Praetorius) delivered to a neurasthenic Colin Clive (Baron Frankenstein) in James Whale's 1931...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Nov 8, 2006 4:36 pm
778
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
gary@...
Nov 15, 2006 1:54 am
789
"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
gary@...
Nov 15, 2006 5:08 am
796
...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
gary@...
Nov 22, 2006 2:10 am
802
...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
gary@...
Dec 2, 2006 4:41 pm
805
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
gary@...
Dec 8, 2006 6:34 am
808
... 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...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Dec 29, 2006 3:57 pm
811
Writing this now ensconced south of the Mission District near Castro Street in old San Francisky where I left my heart/just got in from ("didja valk or did ya...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Jan 8, 2007 4:00 am
814
...was the title of a rather fine elegaic essay by Wyndham Lewis writtten in 1951, announcing to his readership at The Listener magazine, where he spent his...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Jan 17, 2007 6:42 pm
817
Gary, are you going to this? http://www.decasia.com/ I'm thinking about going Thursday. -- bob d. ====================== Opening Night's Performance will be...
have you seen it before? i might just do it...what show are you going to? what's your email address?...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Jan 25, 2007 12:40 am
819
Sorry for the delay in correspondence but a beastly bug (hey there, little insect!) is nestling stubbornly in my bronchial tract, delivery mechanism probably...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Jan 28, 2007 12:59 am
828
Yup, 'tis my blogcentennial, this being epistle one hunnerd since my inaugural blast-oma over 3 years ago winging its bit-torrential way to...to...well, who...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Feb 17, 2007 1:34 am
832
Freddie Redd that is-- consummate improvising keyboardist/composer whose original score on Blue Note for Jack Gelber's searing play "The Connection"...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Feb 24, 2007 6:51 pm
837
Writing this now in the lobby of the Days Inn in Claremore Oklahoma, not too far from Tulsa (maybe 10 minutes, definitely not 24 hours from...)(thank you Gene...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Mar 7, 2007 3:05 am
838
gary, please forward to anyone you can ... and please mention Thomas on the 50th anniversary of his birthday. -- bob d. v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}...
Just a few words on the way to packing for SXSW...My gig with "The Golem" on Sunday afternoon at the Bergamo Jazz Festival came off like a dream--an absolutely...
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