She’s a rainbow, strums Gary Lucas at the Grammy Museum

26 July 2011

She’s a rainbow, strums Gary Lucas at the Grammy Museum

Category: Music | Tags: don van vliet, gary lucas, grammy museum, scott goldman, she's a rainbow, the rolling stones

The instant Gary Lucas put his hand to his acoustic guitar and blasted into The Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow” at a guitar conversation with Grammy guy, Scott Goldman, and mini-concert at the Grammy Museum Wednesday night, I took off into the stratosphere. A one-way ticket into pure pleasure. [...]

10 May 2011

NYT’s Larry Rohter writes on guitarist Gary Lucas

Category: Music | Tags: don van vliet, gary lucas, larry rohter

Concerns Gary Lucas, guitarist. [...]

15 January 2011

Happy 70th birthday, Captain Beefheart

Category: Language & ideas, Music, Visual arts | Tags: captain beefheart, don van vliet, gary lucas, matt groening, terry van vliet

Fans of the iconoclastic music maker Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, gathered at the Echoplex off Sunset Boulevard to swap reminiscences, view video, and listen to music by Magic Band guitarist, Gary Lucas. [...]

17 December 2010

Glendale’s Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, dies

Category: Music, Visual arts | Tags: captain beefheart, don van vliet, michael werner gallery

Fine artist represented by Michael Werner gallery, New York & Köln. Van Vliet’s irrepressible California creativity captured in New York Times obituary — must reading.

photo: anton corbijn

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