Giving To You: Free Downloads of New and Rare Gary Lucas MP3s and Clips (scroll down for more)
Gary Lucas on Captain Beefheart (video) - Gary discusses working with Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) in the early 80s, and the making of the track "Cardboard Cutout Sundown" from the 1982 Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band album "Ice Cream for Crow" -- interview filmed at the Swiss Cottage Hotel, London, September 2005, from the 2006 DVD documentary "Captain Beefheart: Under Review" (Prism Productions), d. Tom Odell
Cardboard Cutout Sundown (Van Vliet) - Gary Lucas (solo guitar) in the right channel; Jeff Moris Tepper (guitar), Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder (bass), and Cliff R. Martinez (drums) in the left channel; Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) - vocal in the center channel; Recorded at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, Ca.; produced and arranged by Don Van Vliet; engineered by Phil Brown from the 1982 Virgin album "Ice Cream for Crow"
The Weakness in Me (Lucas/Brucken/Humphreys) - excerpt of a new song from Onetwo's latest album "Instead"; Onetwo are Claudia Brucken from Propaganda and Paul Humphreys from OMD; for more info click here; Gary Lucas - electric guitar and fx; Claudia Brucken - voice and lyrics; Paul Humphreys - keyboards and programming; Produced by Onetwo
The Mad World (Zhuang Hung/Yen Huan) - Gary Lucas plays his
arrangement of this classic of 1930's Chinese Pop (originally
recorded by Chow Hsuan, and featured on Gary's album "The Edge of
Heaven") and talks about his music in a clip courtesy of the New York
Guitar Festival, Produced and recorded summer 2003 NYC by David Spelman, Gary Lucas - 1946 Gibson J-45
Gary Lucas Plays
"Sounds of the Surreal" (video) - excerpt from "The Cameraman's Revenge" (d. Ladislaw Starewicz, 1912, Russia); Music composed and performed by Gary Lucas on National steel guitar; Recorded live at the James River Film Festival, Richmond, Virginia 3/25/06
Swamp T'ing (Lucas) - Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters Live at CMJ, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, 11/4/06, Gary Lucas - guitar and vocals; Ernie Brooks - bass and vocals; Jerry Harrison - keyboards and vocals; Jason Candler - alto sax and vocals; Billy Ficca - drums, from their forthcoming new live DVD/CD
Gary performs his song "In a Forest" and Arthur Russell's "Let's Go Swimming" solo acoustic live on downtownTV.com here, Steve Paul's Puppet Music Hall show recorded NYC 3/21/07
One Man's Meat (Lucas) - clip of Gods and Monsters jamming with Roswell Rudd at Winterjazzfest, Knitting Factory NYC, 1/20/07:
Gary - acoustic and electric guitars, Ernie Brooks - bass, Billy Ficca - drums, Jason Candler - alto sax, Roswell Rudd - trombone
Watch a
Gary Lucas Podcast (interview and performance) on CultureCatch.com, interview by Dusty Wright, filmed 3/06
Rise Up to Be (Lucas) - Gary Lucas solo at Club Lek, Amsterdam, filmed live for VPRO 2/28/01
Gary and Jozef Van Wissem (video), performing live on National Dutch tv channel VPRO on the program "Free Sounds", hosted by Hans Flupsen, broadcast on 10/1/06
Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro (Abdullah Ibrahim) - Gary Lucas solo guitar, recorded live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, absolutely no overdubs - taken from his EP "Gary Lucas @ Paradiso"
A Toi La Seule (Lucas/Pigeard) - recorded by Tanger from their 2000 album "Le Detroit" (Mercury/Universal France); Produced by Gary Lucas
and Philippe Pigeard;
Recorded at Studio Vega, Carpentras, France;
Pro Arte Orchestra arranged and conducted by David Whitaker (Andrew
Loog Oldham Orchestra, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, et al), recorded at
Olympic Studios, Barnes, England;
Philippe Pigeard - vocals, lyrics; Gary Lucas - acoustic guitar;
Christophe Van Huffel - electric guitar; Didier Perrin - bass; Billy
Ficca - drums
Ice Cream for Crow video - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band; directed by Don Van Vliet (with much uncredited assistance from producer Ken Schreiber), cinematography by Daniel Pearl (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre); Don Van Vliet (vocals, harp), Gary Lucas (guitar), Jeff Tepper (guitar), Rick Snyder (bass), Cliff Martinez (drums); filmed on location in the High Mojave Desert near Lancaster, California; clip rejected by MTV USA as "too weird" upon release, now in the Permanent Film and Video Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; track taken from the 1982 Virgin album "Ice Cream for Crow"
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance (Bacharach/David, arr. Lucas) - Gary Lucas - National steel guitar; recorded by Jason Candler at Sound Dimensions NYC, rare version from the Street of Lost Brothers sessions, 2000; In Memory of Gene Pitney (2/17/41-4/5/06)
Skin the Rabbit (Lucas/McGinty) - video directed by Ken Greenblatt with Gary Lucas (guitar, standing in for Rolo McGinty on vocals) and Gods and Monsters '93 (Jared Nickerson, bass, and Jonathan Kane, drums) and featuring Ernest Rosenfelder as Sigmund Freud, Jon Langford, Tom Greenhalgh, and Mitch from the Mekons, Tony Maimone, Peter Keepnews, Irene Trudel, Robert Gonzalez as the Grim Reaper, Christina Kouta as the Rabbitess, and a cast of 1000's - filmed in Dumbo, Brooklyn and Studio Akiva 1/2/03; track taken from the Gary Lucas album "Gods and Monsters"; shown on European MTV 1993
Alice in Blunderland (Van Vliet) - recorded live at the Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, England, July 6, 2004; The Magic Band (Gary Lucas - guitar and solo, John French - drums, Denny Walley - guitar, Mark Boston - bass);
taken from the album "21st Century Mirror Men"
"Gary Lucas Plays The Golem" - a 5 min. clip from the 1920 silent film classic directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese, with original solo guitar soundtrack performed by Gary Lucas live, no overdubs; music by Gary Lucas and Walter Horn; the full DVD of The Golem with Gary's soundtrack is available here
Vampire Circus (video) (Lucas) - Gary Lucas video clip directed and edited by Pascal Plantinga, track taken from Gary's 1994 "Bad Boys of the Arctic" album; Gary Lucas - guitar, vocals, samples, words and music; Sammy Merendino - drum programming; filmed on location in Manhattan in the 14 St. Meat Market District, Times Square, St. John the Divine, UN Plaza, and Wall Street with Veronica Vera, Maja Wilder, Jeni Beck, Peter Keepnews, Irene Trudel, Mike Knuth and Ken Hurwitz as Les Vampires
New Video Clip: Medley, "Level the Playing Field/Amazing Grace/It's Like a Wheel" Gary Lucas solo acoustic and electric, live in Saint Petersburg Russia at the SKIF Festival, Baltiskey Dom, 4/25/04; "It's Like a Wheel" was one of John Peel's favorite tracks by Gary, and he played it on one of his last BBC shows -- taken from Gary's new DVD "Russian Fireworks - Gary Lucas Live in St. Petersburg", buy it now!
Verklarte Kristallnacht (Lucas) - Gary Lucas - solo guitar; recorded live at the Berlin Jazz Festival at The Delphi, Nov. 4 1988, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Kristallnacht (11/9/38). Never Again!
Wonderland (Lucas/Coyne) - Gary Lucas - slide guitar, electric guitar, music, Kevin Coyne - vocals, lyrics, Tom Liwa - keyboards, guitar, Ali Neander - guitar, Willy Wagner - double bass, Ralf Gustke - drums; a tribute from Gary to the late great Kevin Coyne, from Kevin Coyne's album "Knocking On Your Brain"
English Rose (Lucas/Coyne) - Gary Lucas - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, music, Kevin Coyne - vocals, lyrics, Tom Liwa - keyboards, guitar, Ali Neander - guitar, Willy Wagner - double bass, Ralf Gustke - drums; taken from Kevin Coyne's album "Knocking On Your Brain"
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