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GARY LUCAS PLAYS LIVE ON FACEBOOK EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY AT 3PM EDT

Gary's live streaming solo concerts every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3pm EDT on Facebook have attracted a world-wide fanbase, and can be viewed by anyone registered on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/gary.lucas.5836

The concerts are archived at https://bit.ly/2ZkhFbh
Jeff Buckley's 1994 2-million selling "Grace" album-the first two songs of which were co-written and performed by Gary Lucas- comes in at #147 on Rolling Stone's revised 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list:

https://bit.ly/3cuQaBb

Gary Lucas has a long relationship with Film—going back to his time as a director and programmer of the Yale Film Society in the early 70's, where he also co-founded "Things That Go Bump in the Night", a longstanding weekly Horror Film Series, with present-day horror icon Bill Moseley.Since 1989, Lucas has composed a dozen live solo scores for classic horror and fantasy films and performed them at film festivals, theaters and venues all over the world, including the Cinematheque francaise, the Venice Biennale, Moscow's 35mm Theatre, St. Petersburg's Dom Kino, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, Prague's Roxy Theater, Petofi Hall in Budapest, Cineteca Nacional in Mexico, at the Havana Film Festival, the Sevilla Film Festival, the Jecheon Festival in South Korea, and at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center,

https://bit.ly/3cxxtNc

Gary's last live appearance before lockdown was at Cornell University in early March, where he performed his live score for the 1920 horror classic "The Golem" co-written with Walter Horn:

https://bit.ly/36djxHb

Gary Lucas reviews the Criterion Collection's new Blu-Ray edition of Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's 1979 documentary "Town Bloody Hall":

http://garylucas.com/www/writings/tbh.shtml

Gary has a long history of rock journalism going back to his high school days in Syracuse NY through the early 70's while a student at Yale University.

He recently made his Early Rock Writing archive available here:

https://bit.ly/3hkTzDg

Just published-an appreciation of Brian Jones by Gary Lucas at PleaseKillMe.com:

https://bit.ly/32ev6eI

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Recent Gary Lucas Interviews:

New interview in Guitar World Magazine conducted by Josh Miller:

Page one: https://rb.gy/ylog4p

Page Two: https://rb.gy/1bnmuf

Gary speaks about his friendship with the late Hal Willner in an article by Roy Trakin in Variety:

https://bit.ly/3bKjzGZ

New interview in The Quietus (UK) on the 40th anniversary of the release of Captain Beefheart's "Doc at the Radar Station" album, conducted by Sean Kitching:

https://bit.ly/3guiCUb

New interview in The Forward about Lucas's Jewish roots conducted by Benjamin Ivry:

https://bit.ly/3k587J7

New interview in Eighth Day Magazine (Ireland) conducted by Kevin Burke:

https://bit.ly/2YxXeHq

Gary has recently been digitizing select recordings from his tape archive going back to the earliest days of his career.

Listen to Gary's Nov. 1988 live solo set at London's Town and Country Club here:

https://bit.ly/2EUYdKA

Check out Gary's 1972 phone interview with Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) on Yale's WYBC FM—the first time they ever spoke:

Part One: https://bit.ly/2YoYUTv

Part Two: https://bit.ly/2Qhe0pu

Listen to a historic recording of Lucas's multi-racial group The O-Bay-Gone Band, recoded live in Taipei Taiwan at The Scarecrow Nov. '76:

https://bit.ly/2Em4fDV

COMING IN JAN. 2021:

"THE ESSENTIAL GARY LUCAS", a double CD retrospective album spanning 40 years of Gary Lucas's music over 30-plus albums as a leader, including many rare and unreleased tracks.

Released on Rare Lumiere / Knitting Factory Records

Updated Gary Lucas Bio:

https://bit.ly/3mjfv5E

New updated Gary Lucas Wiki Page:

https://bit.ly/3bHATN0



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