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The Great Lost Gods and Monsters

by Gary Lucas

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Even though I had problems receiving this album after I had bought it as a pre-order (I complained twice to the Bandcamp admin) it turns out to be a very good live album.

Gary's guitar work is brilliant, as it always is. Take Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro for instance. It is an incredible piece of guitar playing. And Billy Ficca's drumming on this track is great too.
After a 40+ year career in music Gary has left a stellar legacy. So many albums, collaborations and, of course, Captain Beefheart. Favorite track: Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro.
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Shaggy Maggot What a prog-rock album should be.
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King Strong 04:23
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To the warm part of that That country I am swimming to I'm into what you do From seeing what you do To the warm part of that That feeling I am feeling too ‘Cause everywhere you go Is everywhere I go I’m banging on your door Up in the clear blue sky Let’s Go Swimming All set all set to go Lets Go Swimming
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Follow 03:40
When you're feeling low Got no place to go When the love light doesn't glow And your friends don't want to know Follow Look past your mind, deep within you must find Follow When the frost begins to chill When you're dragged right through the mill You hear a voice that whispers slow A string drawn taut across the bow Look to your heart, and then make a new start Follow And you will fast endure The sickness without cure Follow free follow sure In this run-through, in this race In this time and in this space Rise to break this petty pace Choose to find a state of grace Follow When the wind begins to blow And the darkness starts to show You must take comfort, let it go For as above, so below Follow Look to your soul, like a child let it roll Don't let the hatred take its toll Follow When the feeling flows From your head down to your toes And the light within you shows There's a way beyond this woe Follow
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Swamp T'ing 04:16
Chilly scenes of winter The price of love comes A' tumbling down Like a play by Pinter You think you know her But she's nowhere around Her words a sharpened dagger One thrust will drop you right Straight to the ground And that's the way That's the way that it is A frosty blue horizon An arctic wind descends To billow and blow Around the corner something Might be a savior But uh you never know And in the distance calling Another lover, man How low can you go? And that's the way That's just the way that it is Come on and dance the tango Come on and join me In this sick pas de deux Come on now choose your partner Give her a tumble Before she tumbles you And if you're feeling frisky Well Ernie Brooks will make you Sadder than blue! And that's the way That's the way that it is
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Coming Clean 03:37
When I say, I want to know you Think of all the things, I want to show you You strip away the lies okay, that fall around me Breathing life into the day, your love surrounds me Riding on a steel rail Twisting past oblivion You bend before the wind so frail Giving me the strength to live again There's a simple song you sing, I want to hear it Heading out for better days, now don't you fear it Life is not a game you play, the rules aren't black and white Rising from oblivion Do not go gentle into that good night Like a pebble on the beach, unto a grain of sand Thrown and sown just out of reach, moving freely in his hand All of us come clean you know, there at journey's end Waiting for the wave to flow, waiting for a sign To start again
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Lime and limpid green, a second scene Now fights between the blue you once knew Floating down, the sound resounds Around the icy waters underground Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten Blinding signs flap, Flicker, flicker, flicker blam, pow, pow Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there? Lime and limpid green, the sounds around The icy waters under Lime and limpid green, the sounds around The icy waters underground
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She Cracked 03:46
Well she was sensitive She understood me She understood the European things from 1943 But she does all these things that I can't stand I can't care if she stays with another man She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right Well she cracked, I won't She did things that I don't She'd self-destroy, necessary to her self-enjoy I self-develop, necessary to self-help She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right Well she cracked, I won't She did things that I don't She'd eat garbage, eat shit, get stoned I stay alone, eat health food at home! She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right Alright And she cracked, I'm sad, but I won't She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right One more time, one more time And she cracked, I'm sad, but I won't She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right
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See No Evil 03:59
What I want I want now And it's a whole lot more Than 'anyhow'I want to fly Fly a fountain I want to jump, jump, jump Jump a mountainI understand all, I see no Destructive urges, I see no It seems so perfec, I see no I see, I see no, I see no evilI get ideas I get a notion I want a nice little boat Made out of oceanI get your point You're so sharp Getting good reactions With your BeBo talkI understand all, I see no Destructive urges, I see no It seems so perfect, I see no I see, I see no, I see no evilDon't say unconscious No don't say doom. If you got to say it Let me leave this room Cuz what I want I want now And it's a whole lot more Than 'anyhow'I understand all, I see no Destructive urges, I see no It seems so perfect, I see no I see, I see no, I see no evilI'm runnin wild with the one I love I see no evil I'm runnin wild with the one-eyed ones I see no evil Pull down the future with the one you love Pull down the future

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Somewhere between a steamroller and hellhound train, this record is here to run you over. The term that pops in my teeming word-cloud is drive. Taut and loose at the same time, monolithic, monomaniacal and when Lucas’s guitar bellows and screams, just plain maniacal, this downtown supergroup—recorded live in 2006—is more cohesive and focused than a hundred together-forever bands. So much so you wonder how the musicians could ever stand to be apart. Or how anyone could have left this on the shelf.

Experience has taught me to look askance at live rock albums (and while this may be avant-rock, the emphasis is resolutely on the back of the hyphen). But these sturdy, mostly up-tempo tunes, mostly by Lucas, gain crazy authority amid the sweat and beer. And the driving sound, produced by band member—and as reaffirmed here, B3 virtuoso—Jerry Harrison, gains an overdriven quality that’s perfect. In an imperfect, noisy way.

You may know the origin story of Gary Lucas—which starts with Beefheart (the idol he would eventually serve as co-lead guitarist) and continues through Jeff Buckley (the protege with whom he wrote “Grace” and “Mojo Pin”). If you don't, it’s a good ‘un. You may know Billy Ficca, founding member of Television. Ernie Brooks from the Modern Lovers. Harrison, from the Lovers and Talking Heads. Jason Candler, downtown sax ace. And the gifted Joe Hendel on ‘bone. But if you were curious about a through-line from “Sing Sing Sing” to “Third Stone from the Sun” to “20th Century Schizoid Man”—with stops for the Velvets, 
Wagner, Zappa, the Allmans, Sun Ra, Chet Atkins and Bukka White—climb abroad. 

Turns out, it’s not this album that was lost. It was us.
 
—Robert Duncan

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released June 17, 2022

Recorded Live at the Bowery Poetry Club NYC for the CMJ 11/4/2006

Gary Lucas – guitars, vocals
Jerry Harrison – keyboards, vocals
Ernie Brooks – bass, background vocals
Billy Ficca – drums
Jason Candler – saxophone, background vocals
Joe Hendel – trombone, background vocals
Jerry Harrison and Eric Thorngren – mixing engineer
Jerry Roche – producer

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