Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters w/ Spaghetti Eastern

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Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters w/ Spaghetti Eastern
SUN Dec 22nd, 2024
Doors 6pm | Show 7pm
GARY LUCAS GODS AND MONSTERS
INSURRECTION RESURRECTION: THE RETURN OF GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS
Guitar God GARY LUCAS (Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart) has released over 50 acclaimed albums as a leader or co-leader to date, and toured in over 40 countries worldwide, since cutting his teeth as a featured soloist and member of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Gary may be best known for co-writing and playing on Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” album (Jeff thanked him in the liner notes for “magical guitarness”)—but those who have heard him live in whatever context he is playing in are still shaking their heads in amazement and trying to pick their jaws up from the floor!
In 1989 he formed his longtime band GODS AND MONSTERS featuring a revolving cast of stellar players orbiting around Lucas’s incendiary guitar playing on both electric and acoustic. This show is the debut of his latest band lineup, now a psychedelic power trio featuring the rock-steady propulsive bass of Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers, Arthur Russell) and the exploding nebula of drummer extraordinaire Calvin Weston (James “Blood” Ulmer, Lounge Lizards). Prepare to have your mind blown!
“One of the best and most original guitarists in America.”—Rolling Stone
“A true axe god” – Melody Maker
“Without question, the most innovative and challenging guitarist playing today” – fRoots magazine
“The psychedelic guitarist for the post-modern set” – MOJO
“Phenomenal guitarist” – Bruce Springsteen
“Guitarist’s guitarist…jaw-dropping fretwork” – Billboard
“Gary Lucas astonishes” – The Wire (UK)
“Gods and Monsters is a 21stcentury Cream” – Rolling Stone
“I could listen to you play for hours, Gary…beyond cool” —Lou Reed
“An incredible guitarist” —Nick Cave
“Man, you were really wailing!” —Leonard Bernstein
“One of the best and most original guitarists in America…a modern guitar miracle” —Rolling Stone
“One of the 100 Greatest Living Guitarists” —Classic Rock Magazine
“One of the world’s greatest guitarists” —HITS Magazine
“Gary Lucas plays guitar like Salvador Dali paints…guitarist with a global beat.” —New York Times
“Can there be another musician as adventurous, ingenious, accomplished, diverse, intrepid, hard-working and well-travelled as Gary Lucas?” —Pete Frame, music journalist, founder/editor of legendary UK music magazine ZigZag, and author/creator of 5 volumes of “Rock Family Trees”
“The group is mind-blowing!” —Time Out New York
“Your band is really amazing!” —Mike Lang, founder of the original Woodstock Festival, after seeing Gods and Monsters perform at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock
“I think this is the best batch yet”—Gary Lucas
SPAGHETTI EASTERN
Spaghetti Eastern Music is the genre-leaping solo project of Hudson Valley-based
guitarist/keyboardist Sal Cataldi. Spaghetti Eastern Music marries funky, acid jazz-fueled guitar instrumentals and ambient soundscapes with bare-bones acoustic ballads straight out of the Nick Drake school. Cataldi debuted the project with the critically acclaimed 2016 album, “Sketches of Spam,” followed by several EPs and singles. The New York Times says Cataldi “has a beat unmistakably his own” while Time Out New York praises his “delicate guitar work and the hauntingly moody atmosphere he conjures.” Called “beautiful and unique” by WFUV’s Mixed Bag and “charmingly melodic and off-center” by WFMU. Hudson Valley One has called Spaghetti Eastern “part Sergio Leone fever dream, part Ravi Shankar raga, a whirling dervish of musical creation… a must-see.” Chronogram Magazine called his music “cool, melodic, inspired and transcendent, a wave of sonic warmth and light.” Psychedelic Baby Magazine labels it “the perfect sonic tonic for these troubled times.” Cataldi is also a member of the ambient guitar duo Guitars A Go Go, the poetry/music project Vapor Vespers and the psych/surf quartet, Spaceheater. He is also a contributing writer on music to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, PopMatters, InsideOut Upstate NY and NYSMusic. He is also the host of Reading Is Funktamental, a monthly show on WGXC 90.7 FM where he interviews authors of books about music, including some famous musicians.
Look for his music here at Spotify and www://spaghettieasternmusic.bandcamp.com