DVD now upgraded visually using the best source print currently available ("restored" and colour tinted), and all CDs and DVDs for sale are now autographed by Gary — see the merchandise section
(Paul Simon, Bob Dylan et al) selects Gary Lucas as one of his favorite artists in his recent Huffington Post blog:
New York native guitar monster and devilish-voiced composer Gary Lucas lives in his own frequency. A compulsive truth-teller and an earnest artist with a riveting presence. The Grammy-nominated Lucas co-penned Jeff Buckley's "Grace" and "Mojo Pin" and Joan Osborne's "Spider Web", to name a few. Collaborations include the great Captain Beefheart, Jerry Harrison (of Talking Heads), John Cale, Lou Reed, Yael Naim, Iggy Pop, Van Dyke Parks, and Chris Cornell. Lucas's music imagination is infinite, but startwith his take on the Syd Barrett title "Astronomy Domine," from the 1992 album "Gods and Monsters". It's spooky and enigmatic. Currently touring.
Check out live clips from all over
the world spanning Gary's career now on YouTube at the OutFromUnderLive Channel — new clips added frequently
Gary is on the cover of the METRO paper today in Portugal! click on the magazine cover and scroll to page 8 to read an interview in Portuguese
He is also on the cover of national newspaper Diario de Noticias today! Read the interview in Portuguese here
Updates made to the pics
01/25/2012
Just confirmed: Gary will play the Texas premiere of his live solo guitar score accompanying a screening of Jose Mojica Marins a/k/a Coffin Joe's 1967 Brazilian cult shocker "Esta Noite Encarneri no teu Cadaver" at SXSW in Austin on Sat. March 17th at The Hideout!
Updates made to the tour section
01/23/2012
Gary just did a 7 hour session in the studio in London with with his friend legendary Bryan Ferry—including a new song collaboration!! Check the photo here
Read rave reviews from The Word, Audio Apocalypse, and SevenStreets of Gary's sold out Captain Beefheart Symposium in Liverpool this weekend!
01/21/2012
Just confirmed: Friday Aug. 3rd—The return of FAST 'N BULBOUS at the ZAPPANALE in Bad Doberan Germany!!
Gary sold out his solo show at the posh Standard East Hotel in NYC Tuesday night before several hundred delighted onlookers—check out Gary's tribute to Vaclav Havel...now off to Bilbao Spain for his Spanish "Dracula" show at the Musiketan Festival...he will perform live tomorrow Fri. 13th at 10am EST on National Basque Radio Euskadi's "La Jungla Sonora" show, listen live here
01/05/2012
Just confirmed: Gary sits in with the great BERNIE WORRELL and his band this Saturday night at Le Poisson Rouge NYC as part of Winter Jazzfest, show starts at 8pm
01/03/2012
Gary's first show of 2012 is FREE—next Tues. Jan 10th at the Standard Hotel East Village NYC, details here
Gary's Top 10 of 2011 from Portuguese website Bodyspace—scroll halfway down
12/30/2011
Gary plays his Spanish "Dracula" in Bilbao's annual Musiketan Festival Jan 15th (Don Van Vliet's birthday) in Spain
Gary just confirmed for two solo shows in Portugal! January 27th - Lisbon - Galeria Zé dos Bois, January 28th - Porto - Plano B
12/23/2011
BEST OF THE YEAR: Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters "The Ordeal of Civility" comes in at #6 on North Fork Sound's Top 25 Albums of 2011
and "The Ordeal of Civility" is selected as one of the Best Albums of the Year by Artists Over 50 in Rock's Back Pages by Jim Green (#1) and Richard Gehr (#9)
12/21/2011
Happy Holidays from Gary!! Holiday cheer here, here, and here!
RIP VACLAV HAVEL (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011)—A friend of and supporter of Gary's
(l to r: Vaclav Havel, Jerry Harrison, Gary Lucas, David Byrne, Ernie Brooks; backstage at the Knitting Factory NYC, Nov. 13 2006, photo by John Bentham)
12/19/2011
One year gone: Gary is quoted in John Kruth's memorial to Don Van Vliet published in Sing Out! Magazine
Read an interview with Gary about his new score for Bunuel's "El Angel Exterminador" in the Diario del Festival of the 33rd Havana Film Festival
12/07/2011
Just added: Gary presents a special in old Havana this Sat. night on the roof of the the Gaia Arts Center in Havana Vieja, Teniente Rey #157—9pm till the crack of dawn—plus he will jam with amazing 6 piece all-female Cuban group Sixth Sense
Read a profile and a rave review of Gary's new "Bohemian Classics" LP from Czech Position magazine!
Listen to a recent interview with Gary on National Danish Radio, recorded in Copenhagen
12/05/2011
Gary presents the world premiere of his new live solo guitar score accompanying Luis Bunuel's 1962 surrealist masterpiece "El Angel Exterminador" at the 33rd Havana Film Festival this Thursday Dec. 8th at 8pm at 23 y 12 Cinema in downtown Havana
Autographed copies of Gary's new vinyl only album "Gary Lucas Plays Bohemian Classics" available here!
12/02/2011
From the Lucas Archives: Read a profile of Captain Beefheart by Gary Lucas from Zoo World Magazine May 1973
11/30/2011
Added "Gary Lucas plays Bohemian Classics" to the discography
11/28/2011
Gary receives the Golden Boot Award at the Festival of European Cinema Cinergia Lodz 11/12/11 before closing the fest with Spanish "Dracula"—about 3:00 in
11/21/2011
More photos from Gary's Spanish "Dracula" show closing the Lodz Festival of European Cinema Cinerga Sat. Nov. 12th, plus a live clip from the performance!
11/20/2011
Gary and Dean Bowman's Chase the Devil album is short-listed for Blues Album of the Year in the Dec. 2011 DownBeat Reader's Poll!!
11/17/2011
Happy Birthday Jeff Buckley
...and some photos from Sat. night closing the Cinergia Lodz with Spanish "Dracula"
11/14/2011
Gary triumphed before 500 souls Sat. night closing the Festival of European Cinema Cinergia in Lodz Poland with Spanish "Dracula", and received the Golden Shoe Award from the Festival right before playing—pictures here
Gary is featured in UK film maker Sebastian Doggart's article in The Telegraph today about the origins of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
Just Confirmed: Gary will play a solo concert in Paris' New Morning club featuring a mystery vocalist and Daniel Yvinec on Monday Jan. 30th!!
Read an interview with Gary about his Spanish "Dracula" project this Sat. night at the Festival of European Cinema Cinergia Lodz from Polish national newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza
11/04/2011
Read a rave review for new Gary Lucas vinyl only album "Gary Lucas Plays Bohemian Classics" from Czech media site Tyden.cz
11/03/2011
Just confirmed: Gary is presenting his CAPTAIN BEEFHEART SYMPOSIUM in LIVERPOOL ENGLAND for 2 nights, Fri. Jan. 20th and Sat. Jan. 21st, in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall—more details soon!!
This just in from COFFIN JOE (Jose Mojica Marins) about Gary's new live score for his film "Esta Noite Encarnerei no teu Cadaver":
"Excelente! Fabuloso! Gary is a first class musician! I have always maintained that music is a totaly essential tool to horror films and in the case of this new score to my film 'This Night I Will Possess your Corpse', created so many years after the film was produced, Gary Lucas's score penetrated the soul of the film, as Coffin Joe is empowered to penetrate Souls at Midnight. I definitively hope we can collaborate again!"
