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
gary@...
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
gary@...
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
gary@...
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
gary@...
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
gary@...
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...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Dec 29, 2006 3:57 pm
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Mar 15, 2007 1:48 am
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Just back from SXSW, best batch yet for me and my boys from the point of view of performance and venue(s) to play in...weather was fair, Jetblue flight last...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Mar 21, 2007 5:52 pm
849
...Holy-O? ("He rolled around in Oleo"-- variant lyrics to the celebrated Van Vliet ditty). "The Host" the Most Holy-O? Well, not if you stack it up against...
What a fershlugginer AMAZING week of really different kind of musical performances for me...some different shit, for sure...and yet, despite the radically...
you can always go-- "Downtown"!...an excellent zip-code, a wunnerful weltenschaung, a spectacular new movie produced written and starring Joey Dedio, a canny...
Such a week of wonders--from genesis to revelation, global tribal incantations, new skeins for the old ceremonies, stone fresh waters hauled up from an ancient...
Wednesday night I attended a terrific concert at Birdland, by Jan "Ptaszyn" Wroblewski--not exactly a household name in this country, but a legend in his...
I'm writing this hastily as I am dashing to complete packing for a Gods and Monsters Dutch tour, leaving late afternoon in fact.But I wanted to tell you before...
Back in NYC now for a few days from a whirlwind of a Dutch tour, an excellent outing with the guys and myself playing in Utrecht and Amsterdam wherein the band...
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