Gary Lucas
US guitarist/songwriter
Gary Lucas' Amplifiers
Gary Lucas uses a Fender Deluxe amp, as noted in the Premier Guitar article on him.
As mentioned here, one of Gary Lucas’ amps of choice is a Fender Hot Rod Deville.
Mentioned the September 1990 Guitar Player interview "Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters" by Mark Dery.
Lucas remains true to Beefheart's aesthetic. Backed by Gods and Monsters – country yodeler Julia Heyward, bassists Paul Now and Jared Nickerson, and alternate drummers Tony "Thunder" Smith and Tony Lewis – he rattles off strings of notes like a turret gunner spitting shells. He runs his sunburst '63 Fender Strat and red '65 Gibson Firebird (both strung with light-gauge D'Addario rock strings) through a maze-like signal chain: "My pedals sit on a percussion stand," he explains. "I go through a [Dunlop] Cry Baby wah into a T.C. Electronic Sustainer/Equalizer, a Boss Digital Metallizer, a Boss Flanger, another equalizer, which I use as gain-stage control, and then into a noise suppressor, a DeArmond volume pedal, a Whirlwind box – an effects loop with a gain stage – and then into a Boss Pitch-Shifter/Delay, a Boss Chorus, and then into another Pitch Shifter – which I manually manipulate – and then into a DigiTech 8-second delay, an Electro-Harmonix 16-second delay, an Alesis Midiverb, and a second Electro-Harmonix delay. At that point, I split the signal, running the direct sound into a Gallien-Krueger 250 ML and the effects into a Roland JC-120."
Mentioned the September 1990 Guitar Player interview "Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters" by Mark Dery.
Lucas remains true to Beefheart's aesthetic. Backed by Gods and Monsters – country yodeler Julia Heyward, bassists Paul Now and Jared Nickerson, and alternate drummers Tony "Thunder" Smith and Tony Lewis – he rattles off strings of notes like a turret gunner spitting shells. He runs his sunburst '63 Fender Strat and red '65 Gibson Firebird (both strung with light-gauge D'Addario rock strings) through a maze-like signal chain: "My pedals sit on a percussion stand," he explains. "I go through a [Dunlop] Cry Baby wah into a T.C. Electronic Sustainer/Equalizer, a Boss Digital Metallizer, a Boss Flanger, another equalizer, which I use as gain-stage control, and then into a noise suppressor, a DeArmond volume pedal, a Whirlwind box – an effects loop with a gain stage – and then into a Boss Pitch-Shifter/Delay, a Boss Chorus, and then into another Pitch Shifter – which I manually manipulate – and then into a DigiTech 8-second delay, an Electro-Harmonix 16-second delay, an Alesis Midiverb, and a second Electro-Harmonix delay. At that point, I split the signal, running the direct sound into a Gallien-Krueger 250 ML and the effects into a Roland JC-120."
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Discography
Skeleton at the Feast
1990
Gods and Monsters
1992
Improve the Shining Hour
2000
Chase The Devil
2002
Songs To No One
2002
Coming Clean
2006
Bad Boys of the Arctic
2007
Evangeline
2007
The Ghosts of Prague
2007
Monsters From the Id (Rarities and Verities)
2007
Beyond the Pale
2008
Level the Playing Field: Early HurlyBurly 1988 - 1994
2008
Album Credits
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The World of Captain Beefheart
Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas & Gary Lucas · 2017
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