gary lucas

	captain beefheart and the magic band: doc at the radar station (1980, lp, usa, virgin)
	captain beefheart and the magic band: ice cream for crow (1982, lp, usa, epic/virgin)
1	gary lucas: skeleton at the feast (1991, cd, uk, enemy emy-126-2) - incl. 'king kong'(frank zappa); 'hard work drivin' man' (nitsche)
2	gary lucas: gods and monsters (1992, cd, ger, enemy 987.233) - incl. 'king strong' (g.lucas) = 'king kong'(frank zappa)
	jeff buckley: grace (1994, cd, usa, sony / columbia 475928 2) - feat. gary lucas
3	gary lucas: bad boys of the arctic (1995, cd, usa, enemy emy 146-2)
4	gary lucas: evangeline (199?, cd, usa, zensor zs 152) - incl. ‘ah feel like as syd’ (g.lucas) a reference to a beefheart song
5	gary lucas: busy being born (1998, cd, usa, tzadic tz 7121)
	francis dunnery: let's go do what happens (1998, cd, usa, razor & tie 82834) - incl. gary lucas
6	gary lucas: @ paradiso (1998, cd, usa, oxygen music works omwcd11)
	captain beefheart & his magic band: grow fins - rarities [1965-1982] (1999, 5cd-box, usa, revenant records revenant 210)
7	gary lucas: level the playing field (2000, cd, fr, last call records 3063132)
	project/object: absolutely live (2000, cd, usa, phoenix media group 3020) - feat. ike willis, gary lucas, joe deninzon, all comp. by frank zappa
8	gary lucas: improve the shining hour (2000, cd, usa, knitting factory records kfw-265) - incl.van vliet compositions, feat. don van vliet
	captain beefheart and the magic band: merseytrout (2000, cd, uk, milksafe bf 4003)
	cucamonga by rudy vanderlans (2000, book + cd, usa, emigre) - a photo-book plus cd incl. gary lucas: hurly burly comin' down
9	the du-tels: no knowledge of music required (2000, cd, usa, shimmy disc records shm-5103) - the du-tels = gary lucas + peter stampfel
10	gary lucas: the edge of heaven (2001, cd, fr, label blue lblc 2582 hm 83)
11	gary lucas: street of lost brothers (2001, cd, usa, tzadic)
	fast 'n bulbous, the captain beefheart project: 4 song demo (2001, cdr, usa, demo) - all compositions by don van vliet
	captain beefheart & his magic band: grow fins vol.III: grow fins (2001, 2lp, usa, xeric)
	jeff buckley - gary lucas: songs to no one 1991 - 1992 (2002, cd, usa, knitting factory / recall 020)
	jeff buckley: the grace eps (2002, 5cd5", uk, columbia 501178 2 - 5011782000) - feat. gary lucas
	captain beefheart: magnetic hands (2002, cd, uk, viper cd 011)
	the magic band: back to the front (2003, cd, uk, atprcd 7) - all compositions by don van vliet
12	gary lucas: operators are standing by (2003, cd, usa, knitting factory kfw316-2) - incl.'king strong' (= 'king kong' (frank zappa))
13	gary lucas & jozef van wissem: diplopia (2003, cd, nl, bvhaast 0103)
	free flying: free flying (2004, cd, czech, faust records fr 26-2331) - feat.gary lucas
	the magic band: live in concert & crow's milk (2004, dvd, uk, subdiva) - all compositions by don van vliet
14	gary lucas & jozef van wissem: the universe of absence (2004, cd, nl, bvhaast 0105)
1	fast 'n bulbous: pork chop blue around the rind (2005, cd, usa, cuneiform) - all compositions by don van vliet
	the magic band: 21st century mirror men (2005, cd + dvd, uk, proper records) - all compositions by don van vliet
15	gary lucas - gods & monsters: coming clean (2006, cd, usa, mighty quinn productions)
16	gary lucas: russian fireworks - gary lucas live in saint petersburg (2006, dvdr, usa, private release)
17	gary lucas: the golem (2006, dvdr, usa, private release)
18	gary lucas / gods & monsters: live at the knitting factory nyc (2006, dvdr, usa, private release)
	wild rumpus feat. cosmo and gary lucas: musical blaze-up (2007, cd-promo, uk, bitches brew)
	wild rumpus feat. cosmo and gary lucas: musical blaze-up (2007, 12", uk, bitch012)
	wild rumpus feat. cosmo and gary lucas: purple somersault (2007, cd-promo, uk, bitches brew)
	wild rumpus feat. cosmo and gary lucas: purple somersault (2007, 12", uk, bitch013)
	wild rumpus feat. cosmo and gary lucas with beardyman: rock the joint (2008, cd-promo, uk, bitches brew)
	wild rumpus feat. cosmo and gary lucas with beardyman: rock the joint (2008, 12", uk, bitch014)
19	gary lucas vs the dark poets: beyond the pale (2008, cd, uk, some bizarre)
20	najma akhtar & gary lucas: rishte (2009, cd, usa, world village world 450008)
21	gary lucas & gérald zbinden: down the rabbit hole (2008, cd, switzerland, border records)
2	fast 'n bulbous: waxed oop (2009, cd, usa, cuneiform) - all compositions by don van vliet
	gary lucas: music for the eden project (200?, 7", usa, 5nakefork records) - limited release of 300 copies (200 on green and 100 on orange vinyl)
22	gary lucas / dean bowman: chase the devil (2011, cd, usa, knitting factory)
23	gary lucas & gods and monsters: the ordeal of civility (2011, cd, usa, knitting factory kfr1111cd)
	wild rumpus feat. cosmo and gary lucas: cloudhopping / tikkety-boo (2011, 12", uk, bitch022)
	essra mohawk: zappanale 22 (2011, dvdr, ger, private release) - incl. zappa & beefheart compositions / feat. sandro oliva & gary lucas
	the plastic people of the universe: zappanale 22 (2011, dvdr, ger, private release) - feat. gary lucas
	the magic band: oxford, june 6, 2005 (2011, cd, usa, sundazed) - all compositions by don van vliet

	tim berne

Guitar player, composer, producer and music legend Gary Lucas will be performing at Zappanale. The perfect reason to ask Gary some questions.

UniMuta : Hi Gary. I've seen you in concert a number of times (solo, with Jozef van Wissem, with Fast 'n Bulbous) and I've heard most of your albums, and what keeps on suprising me is the diversity of the music that you make. You play electric rock, acoustic blues, Beefheart, Chinese pop, ... How do you do it? I mean, are you always on the search for new music or are these things that just happen to cross your path?

Gary Lucas : Well I would put it down to being a double Gemini, like Walt Whitman said "I contain multitudes"... I like a zillion different kinds of music and I like playing it all too, why go around through life with one hand tied behind your back? I can find something worthy in just about any genre of music you might care to name as long as real soul shines through it--the sound of human struggle--that's what moves me the most.

UniMuta : Saying that you play the guitar is an understatement. You play electric, acoustic, dobro, and use slide, fingerpicking,... How does it work when you're composing. Do you pick the guitar and the sound in function of the composition, or is it the other way around?

Gary Lucas : I don't really know, its kind of a mysterious process, I just pass my fingers over the strings until I hit magic sounds that move me (Brian Wilson, fellow Gemini, does this as well on the piano apparently--he calls them "feels") and then I obsessively work the material and push it around through subjective intellection unjtil the composition takes on a definite shape, guided by my own sensibilities. If I compose an instrumental and then can remember it in the morning I think I have a keeper song-wise.

UniMuta : Do you have favourite guitars? For recording? For touring?

Gary Lucas : I play the same guitars everywhere I go pretty much in the studio and on the road--a '66 Fender Strat , a '46 Gibson J-45, and a National steel Duolian from 1926. I have some more but really am not a collector per se, I beat the shit out of these guitars constantty and I think they sound the better for it. I met a collector in Tokyo once who came to see me play a '64 Strat (which I lost on a train--boo hoo--but I had it insured--and I collected on it!) and he told me he owned 3 like them and kept them in a temperature controlled vault in his house. I laughed and said I had just the one and that I took it with me and played it everywhere I go. I hate being too precious about anything,

UniMuta : You're coming over to Europe in August for the Zappanale Festival and for the Captain Beefheart tribute at the Rochefort festival in the south of France. Do you think that the world is finally catching up on the music of Captain Beefheart?

Gary Lucas : Well I hope so! But we'll see, one should never underestimate the limitless capacity of--let's face it-- fundamental human indifference of the majority of people to art that is not automatically mainstream.

UniMuta : Besides doing concerts, you've recently also been doing a "Captain Beefheart Lecture / Symposion". http://garylucas.com/www/capt/ What is it like to dive into the Beefheart years again? Has it changed the way you look back on things?

Gary Lucas : I find it bracingly refreshing, like taking a swim in the Bering Sea. Yes, it definitely warped my perspective as far as having a similar window on the world/weltanschaung-- I learned so much from the guy in terms of the games people play. He ultimately wanted nothing to do with them--me, I am out to confront them and convert them :-)

UniMuta : Your Zappanale schedule looks rather packed. You will be performing the Don Van Vliet tribute "I Have A Cat" with Co de Kloet on the main stage, you might be playing a solo set, and you might even do a couple of guest appearances. Can you already tell us a bit about it?

Gary Lucas : Sure, I probably will be sitting in with Essra Mohwak, my old friend, a great singer/songwriter who should be much better known. Also my pals the Plastic People, fellow Bohemians I have performed with many times in NYC (I am of Czech ancestry on my father's side, and we hit it off right away when I met several of them in the late 80's). And perhaps I will sit in with my pals Project Object, whom I have guested with in the past. I really like their approach to Frank's music.

UniMuta : That sounds great. I know where I will be in a couple of weeks !
Really looking forward to see you again.
Thanks for the interview.

Gary Lucas will be performing at various times at the Zappanale Festival.
On Saturday, August 20, 2011, he'll be performing "I Have A Cat" with Co de Kloet, but he'll be performing solo and guesting with other bands as well !!
Zappanale - August 17 - 21, Bad Doberan, Germany