GARY LUCAS

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When Gary Lucas was nine, his dad suggested he take up playing the guitar. Although he followed his dad's suggestion, Lucas focused more on the French horn that he played for his elementary-school band, and continued to play that instrument until getting kicked out of his high-school band. Lucas then focused wholly on the guitar, and played in various groups throughout the '60s. As a campus station music director during his second year at Yale, Lucas saw Captain Beefheart in concert and immediately wanted to play with Beefheart's unique band more than anything. Shortly thereafter, he interviewed and got to know Beefheart.

Lucas soon performed as a soloist in the European premiere of Bernstein's Mass (From the Liturgy of the Roman Mass) (1973), and after graduating from college, moved to Taipei for two years. During that time, he led a locally popular group, the O-Bay-Gone-Band, until a chaotic 1976 show broke
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GARY LUCAS Gods And Monsters album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gods And Monsters
Jazz Related Rock 1992
GARY LUCAS Bad Boys Of The Arctic album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bad Boys Of The Arctic
Jazz Related Rock 1994
GARY LUCAS Evangeline album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Evangeline
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1996
GARY LUCAS Busy Being Born album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Busy Being Born
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1998
GARY LUCAS Street Of Lost Brothers album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Street Of Lost Brothers
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2000
GARY LUCAS The Edge Of Heaven - Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Edge Of Heaven - Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop
Exotica 2001
GARY LUCAS Gary Lucas / Jozef Van Wissem ‎: Diplopia album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gary Lucas / Jozef Van Wissem ‎: Diplopia
Third Stream 2003
GARY LUCAS Gary Lucas And Jozef Van Wissem ‎: The Universe Of Absence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gary Lucas And Jozef Van Wissem ‎: The Universe Of Absence
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2004
GARY LUCAS Coming Clean album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Coming Clean
Jazz Related Rock 2006
GARY LUCAS Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets : Beyond The Pale album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets : Beyond The Pale
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2008
GARY LUCAS Gary Lucas, Dean Bowman ‎: Chase The Devil album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gary Lucas, Dean Bowman ‎: Chase The Devil
Blues 2009
GARY LUCAS Gary Lucas & Gods And Monsters : The Ordeal Of Civility album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gary Lucas & Gods And Monsters : The Ordeal Of Civility
Jazz Related Rock 2011
GARY LUCAS Cinefantastique album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Cinefantastique
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2013
GARY LUCAS Music from Max Fleischer's Cartoons album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Music from Max Fleischer's Cartoons
Exotica 2016
GARY LUCAS Gary Lucas & Peter Willems : Double Dare vol. 1 & 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gary Lucas & Peter Willems : Double Dare vol. 1 & 2
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2022

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GARY LUCAS Live At The Knitting Factory album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live At The Knitting Factory
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1989
GARY LUCAS Skeleton At The Feast album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Skeleton At The Feast
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1991
GARY LUCAS @Paradiso album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
@Paradiso
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1999

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GARY LUCAS Level The Playing Field - Early Hurly Burly 1988-1994 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Level The Playing Field - Early Hurly Burly 1988-1994
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2000
GARY LUCAS Improve The Shining Hour album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Improve The Shining Hour
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2000
GARY LUCAS Operators Are Standing By - The Essential Gary Lucas 1988-1996 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Operators Are Standing By - The Essential Gary Lucas 1988-1996
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2003
GARY LUCAS The Essential Gary Lucas album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Essential Gary Lucas
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2021

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