This weekend in Havana: Gary Lucas accompanies Antonioni films at rooftop screening

7 December 2012

This weekend in Havana: Gary Lucas accompanies Antonioni films at rooftop screening

Category: Film, Music | Tags: antonioni, casa gaia, gary lucas, havana, la habana, michelangelo antonioni, red desert, zabriskie point

Globe-trotting cinephillic guitarist Gary Lucas has an usual gig this weekend in Havana. Celebrating the centennial of Michelangelo Antonioni. [...]

18 July 2012

Gary Lucas’s “scary magical Jews” terrify in “Der Golem” @ Cinefamily

Category: Film, Music, Reviews | Tags: cinefamily, der golem, gary lucas, the golem

Oh, Gary Lucas. More cultural voyaging with the brilliant and versatile guitarist. [...]

23 November 2011

On Thanksgiving weekend, love for Lydia the Tattooed Lady

Category: Film, Music | Tags: gary lucas, groucho marx, lydia the tattooed lady

Groucho loved Lydia first. Guitarist Gary Lucas gives the lady more love. [...]

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. [...]