Gary Lucas

Listed on Eastwood Artists page for Gary Lucas; includes video of him playing the guitar covering Grace with Natalie McCool

Gary Lucas can be seen in this video playing his Fender Stratocaster

As seen in this photo, Gary Lucas often plays a Gibson J-45

Gary Lucas has often used a National Style 0 Resonator, as seen in this photo.

Known from the following sources:

Guitar Player, September 1990, "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."

Premier Guitar, "Gary Lucas: Sincerely Strange" by Ted Drozdowski (June 13, 2016)

Guitars

• 1964 Fender Stratocaster
• 1966 Gibson Firebird
• 1946 Gibson J-45
• 1928 National Duolian

Gearnews, "Gary Lucas Interview: La Dolce Vita" by Paul Rigg (February 9, 2024; partially derived from an April 17, 2023 interview)

GN: You started playing guitar at nine. Some of your best-known include a 1920s National Steel, a Firebird, a Mexican Strat, and a vintage Tele – but you also use Italian Dophix overdrive pedals…

GL: Yes, my favourite is The Lussurria…it’s got a warmth and the sweetest tone of any distortion pedal. Plus, it is lit underneath, which enables me to see what I’m doing in the dark!