beerfart

from his acclaimed album "The Ordeal of Civility"
garylucas.com/www/civil

Produced by Jerry Harrison

Gary Lucas--guitars, lead vocal
Jerry Harrison--keyboards
Ernie Brooks--bass
Billy Ficca--drums
Alva Rogers--vocals
Jenni Muldaur--vocals
Jason Candler--alto sax
Joe Hendel--trombone

words and music by Gary Lucas

A track from our new album commemorating the pogrom in Jedwabne Poland July 10th 1941 in which the entire Jewish community (including my family on my mother's side) was rounded up and herded into a barn which was then torched
drawing by Cheyenne Schiavone 
http://garylucas.com/www/grfx/LETTER_FROM_JEDWABNE.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaL_uyEcaM8

"Jedwabne"--Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters

original song by Gary Lucas & Essra Mohawk

Gary Lucas--acoustic guitar
Essra Mohawk--vocal, percusssion

Gary and Essra will be performing together at the Zappanale in Bad Doberan Germany and the Rochefort-En-Accords Festival in France August 2011

recorded in NYC spring 2005

The Devil's Gotta Move Along--Gary Lucas and Essra Mohawk

from Kevin Coyne's album "Knocking On Your Brain"

Kevin Coyne--vocal
Gary Lucas--guitars

(Coyne/Lucas)

with Ali Neander, Tom Liwa, Willy Wagner and Ralf Gustke

recorded in Dusseldorf 1996



English Rose--Gary Lucas and Kevin Coyne

Live in Tokyo at the Volga Club, Roppongi 3/96

Gods and Monsters East:

Gary Lucas--electric guitar
Shu Yamaichi--drums
Lloyd Love--bass
Misako Kano--electric piano


(Trad. arr. Lucas/Freddy King)

from compilation "Operators Are Standing By--Essential Gary Lucas 1988-1996"




"The Volga Boatman/The Stumble"--Gary Lucas Live in Tokyo

composed and performed by Gary Lucas 
recorded to iPhone on his 1941 Gibson J-45 acoustic 
6/12/24 NYC
watercolor and pen and ink drawing by David Scher

"That taut rope sound" was how my friend Paul Haines, the late Canadian poet and jazz lyricist ( Carla Bley's "Escalator Over the Hill" and Kip Hanrahan's "Darn It") once described my playing

"That Taut Rope Sound"--Gary Lucas

composed by Richard Wagner for his opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" 1843
arranged for solo electric guitar by Gary Lucas
recorded by Marc Urselli at Eastside Sound NYC

absolutely no overdubs

collage by 3XA

Fantasia on "The Flying Dutchman" Overture--Gary Lucas

"She's a Rainbow" Gary Lucas solo acoustic

Recorded live NYC by Gary Lucas, absolutely no overdubs

composed by Florian Fricke/Gary Lucas

"Höre, Der Du Wagst" (Listen, You Who Dare)
taken from the soundtrack of Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979), music by Popol Vuh

Gary Lucas--'64 Stratocaster, fx


from the Gary Lucas album "Improve the Shining Hour--Rare Lumiere 1980-2000" 
originally released 2000 on Knitting Factory
available now on iTunes on Rare Lumiere Records




Listen, You Who Dare/Improve The Shining Hour--Gary Lucas solo

original composition by Gary Lucas

recorded on his 1942 Gibson J-45

from the album "Street of Lost Brothers" (Tzadik)

"Level The Playing Field"--Gary Lucas solo acoustic

extemporized by Don Van Vliet live on the Hampton Jitney on a trip to Bridgehampton with Gary Lucas 7/83


painting by Don Van Vliet
"Stagecoach to Hell"

"Luxury Crunch"--Don Van Vliet

Doctor Dark's cover of the Captain Beefheart song "Ella Guru" performed live at Best video Performance Space in Hamden, CT.

DOCTOR DARK - Ella Guru

Jeff Buckley--voice  Gary Lucas--guitar photo   copyright Chris Buck
Recorded live Feb. 4th 1997 at the Knitting Factory 10th Anniversary Celebration in the MainSpace on Leonard Street NYC--a private party  hosted by founder Michael Dorf which gathered many Downtown performers who had helped establish the club's reputation, various journalists and celebrity friends of the club, and a large contingent of Sony Music employees who came to hear their signed artist Jeff Buckley preview songs from his projected second album which Jeff had been working on for 3 years. In the audience was Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Tom Verlaine, Lenny Kaye, WFMU's Nick Hill, and Gary Lucas, co-writer of a dozen songs with Jeff including "Grace" and "Mojo Pin", and Jeff's partner & collaborator in 1991-92 in a version of Gary's longtime band Gods and Monsters.  Here, in a move that surprised Lucas, who had been sidelined by Buckley since Buckley quit Gods and Monsters in March '92, Jeff invites Gary onstage to perform their anthem "Grace", hands him his Telecaster, and away they soar. The duo's performance brings the house down, and an elated Lucas later visits Jeff in his dressing room to thank him for inviting him onstage to play. Gary leaves the club on an upbeat note, feeling that his relationship with Jeff had turned a corner, that their creative bond was still strong, and that he still loved his old friend. A month later Jeff's Sony A&R guy informs Gary that he may be getting a call to go down to Memphis to work with Jeff on new songs, as things had not been going  well for Jeff with the second album sessions, that Jeff had dismissed his band and his producer Tom Verlaine and was struggling to write new songs by himself. Gary is intrigued by the possibility of writing new anthems with Jeff (at Jeff's invitation earlier that year, Gary had sent Jeff 3 new solo guitar instrumentals as possible new song templates, the way they had always worked on all their songs together). But wary of putting too much faith in this projected scenario, it being the fickle music biz, Gary continues to work on his own projects as usual, in the back of his mind wondering if he really will get a call to go to Memphis and work with Jeff. On Friday May 30th--Memorial Day--Gary received a call, but not the call he was hoping for. It was from a friend at MTV News informing him that Jeff was missing, and was presumed to have tragically drowned in the Mississippi River. This historic recording thus documents the last time Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas ever performed together.

The Last "Grace"--Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas at the Knitting Factory 2/4/97

Original song by Don Van Vliet a/k/a Captain Beefheart
recorded in Gary Lucas' apartment in the West Village Manhattan the day after Don appeared on the David Letterman Show for the second time

Title used for the first Fast 'N' Bulbous album (Cuneiform) in homage to Captain Beefheart

RIP DON VAN VLIET
1/15/41--12/17/10

"Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind"-- Don Van Vliet NYC 7/83

gary@garylucas.com

Recent comments

Benign Tremors

Related tracks