Vivian Stanshall was the strikingly eccentric ringleader of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, often described as the UK’s version of the Mothers of Invention. Affecti...
Mixmaster Arthur Russell meets wannabe rapper Mark Sinclair (aka Vin Diesel). What could possibly go wrong? That’s what Gary Lucas thought when he brought these...
Guitarist Gary Lucas found himself smack dab in the middle of two of America’s musical geniuses, Don ‘n’ Frank. Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa were boyhood c...
A new doorstopper-sized (900+ pages) biography of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman got musician Gary Lucas thinking about one part of the former Sex Pistol/Bow Wo...
The acclaimed guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Gods and Monsters, Lou Reed, et al.) has long held a special flame for Brian Jones, the co-...
Peter Green, inheritor of Eric Clapton’s spot in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, was, said B.B. King, ‘the only guitarist who gives...
GARY LUCAS has been called “one of the best and most original guitarists in America” by Rolling Stone and is also a Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer. He has toured in 40-plus countries including China, Japan, India, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, South Korea, Morocco, Israel, and all over Eastern and Western Europe, and released 30-plus acclaimed albums in his own right in every conceivable genre. He is known widely for his work with Jeff Buckley and Captain Beefheart, but has also worked and collaborated with Lou Reed, John Cale, Chris Cornell, John Zorn, Joan Osborne, Nona Hendryx, Leonard Bernstein, and many other artists.
