Guitarist Gary Lucas has worked with everyone from Jeff Buckley to Nick Cave to Leonard Bernstein throughout his music career. But there's one artist who stands out above all others: Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, the mercurial blues singer whose avant-garde recordings with The Magic Band changed his life. Lucas worked as both Beefheart's manager and a member of The Magic Band before Vliet quit music entirely in the early '80s. Tonight, he'll hold a Captain Beefhart Symposium at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn and we spoke to Lucas about the history of The Magic Band, and eating ribs with Captain Beefheart.
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Gary Lucas, Guitarist/Captain Beefheart Symposium Director
Music is a Better Noise
On the cusp of November, Music is a Better Noise opened up at P.S.1. The exhibit brings together musicians who make art and (you guessed it) artists who make music - or at the very least, use music as a creative motivator in their art.
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