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The Essential Gary Lucas The Ordeal of Civility (Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters) Spanish-language "Dracula" Rishte (with Najma Akhtar) Waxed Oop (Fast 'N' Bulbous) Beyond the Pale (Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets) Coming Clean (Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters) Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind (Fast 'N' Bulbous) The Universe of Absence (with Jozef Van Wissem) Operators Are Standing By Diplopia (with Jozef Van Wissem) Songs to No One (with Jeff Buckley) The Edge of Heaven No Knowledge of Music Required Street of Lost Brothers Level the Playing Field Improve the Shining Hour @Paradiso Busy Being Born Evangeline Bad Boys of the Arctic Gods and Monsters Skeleton at the Feast Live Performances "The Golem" Work with Captain Beehfheart

FOR WORK WITH CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: "GARY LUCAS wrestling with the tortuous anti-logic of Captain Beefheart's solo guitar composition 'EVENING BELL' still astonishes." THE WIRE (UK), 11/97 "'EVENING BELL' is a lovely solo guitar piece exercise for which GARY LUCAS should receive some sort of award for finger contortioning..." ROLLING STONE, 4/83 "CARRIED OFF WITH HEROICALLY MANIC PRECISION BY GUITARIST GARY LUCAS..." STEREO REVIEW, 1/83 "Consider Gary Lucas' solo spot 'Evening Bell,' an astonishing exercise in knuckle-cracking inversions and flamenco trills played live on a Fender Strat." MUSICIAN, 10/82 "GUITARIST GARY LUCAS HAS THE FOLKIEST ACCENTS of any Beefheart accompanist since Ry Cooder." THE BOSTON PHOENIX, 9/82 "'EVENING BELL,' a solo guitar piece for which Magic Bandman GARY LUCAS apparently grew extra fingers in order to negotiate his way through it..." ESQUIRE, 12/82 "Where other groups take a lull the Magic Band take off. Gary Lucas came on and played 'Flavour Bud Living,' its taut high-pitched finger picking attack stinging the skin like a swarm of bees." NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS, 11/80 — printable page —