Gary Lucas - Grace (Rise Up To Be)

[aleydatmcg]

CE MA FAVORITE!!!! POUR GARY LUCAS

[sexypiratedisco]

@patrickinurface or might of died earlier..

[CargadosCarajos]

thank gary so much for creating this beautiful piece of music and jeff for the lyrics

[Meta1Head91]

From 5:27 onward, you can really hear the ideas and main "meat and potatoes" that went into the song "Hymne à l'Amour" on the album Songs to No one. If you haven't heard it, check it out. Jeff is singing in the song as well.

[splaticon5]

Good version, although the one on the "songs to no one"-cd is my favorite.

[CargadosCarajos]

very very beutiful piece of music, gary. thanks for that.

[fireblossom2u]

Thanks Gary. As always a very attractive and interesting piece of work.  Your Beefheart days were only the beginning. You continue to amaze.

[Ramentastic]

Oh man, I love this so much more than Grace.

[Radeo]

at kf in feb 97 jeff and gary performed this together, they seemed to be fighting each other through the whole thing,with gary pulling into avant-garde territory, and jeff trying to keep things congruent with the "grace" studio version

[garylucas]

@Radeo @Radeo That's absolutely not true. I played the original version guitar-wise that we recorded as a demo heard on "Songs to No One"--the only way i have ever played it!-- the same music as this instrumental clip, without the space guitar coda at the end...and Jeff sang it beautifully, as always. There was no tension between us at all on stage, it flowed seamlessly and elicited a tremendous response from the crowd which included Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Tom Verlaine, and Lenny Kaye.

[nat00ben06]

This is diffinently great it sounds like a half rock (very original) to an eerie symphonic piece with the effects, it just kicks ass! although like so many Jeff is one of my favorites. I like what did with it, but no denying Gary's greatest. Gary's a guitarist Jeff was a singer/guitarist. Jeff just wanted a younger group of guys in his band that's why he stopped playing with Gary.

[Feistism]

Coming up with the perfect vocal melodies (on top of writing some fantastic, heartfelt lyrics) for this song isn't exactly something to scoff at, Sam. Especially when that someone is trying to do it over the complexities of Gary's otherworldly riffing. Both of these musicians just happened to make their parts look so disturbingly easy.

[samanthahaley]

Oh wow, I knew that Gary Lucas wrote the riff but I didn't realise that Jeff only wrote the lyrics. I thought it was a full collaboration, with both the music and the lyrics.

Grace, and I guess this by extension lol, is my favourite song ever.

[Kaknelson]

@6j6r6 lol drop dead he can play it how he wants, boy

[subshrub]

What's the tuning for this AWESOME song?

[s1ygirl]

Gary is a fucking genius.

[MrRockaldo]

Great Song!! is good to know the original idea!! is great!!

[19dec1981]

welcome to cluj mr lucas :)

[groowey]

@19dec1981 indeed...

see you @ bontida

[pungello]

Gary Lucas is GREAT guitarist. Jeff Buckley sings FOREVER.

[mousseva]

I am a little disappointed realizing that half of the genius of this song is not Buckley's... Lucas is great!!

[mark1800]

Don't mean to further burst your bubble, but Jeff didn't write "So Real" either. The riff was given to him by Michael Tighe, the second guitarist.

Which makes more than half of the Grace album either partly or entirely written by somebody else. Not to say that it isn't frickin' awesome nonetheless. Jeff was too busy being the best singer ever to be the best songwriter ever. But he was still pretty good - Dream Brother and Mojo Pin are solid compositions.

[TheMrDobbins]

Jeff Buckley took this and made it into something that you'd actually want to listen to.

[jrcenina85]

@TheMrDobbins speak for yourself. either version is listenable.

[Kaknelson]

love this performance!

[git1958]

To jazznews: Nope. I'm just familiar with his work with the Captain, and his solo albums. As for your other comments, they don't apply to me. You do seem to have some "issues" regarding Mr.Lucas though. Hope you can resolve these. Best wishes.

[patrickinurface]

where may i read this? i really wanna steal his biography 4m my friend

[patrickinurface]

no it was a guy called,,,,,,, keith foti (thank you wiki)

[beatles112]

is it me or did the guitar just go out of tune xD

[git1958]

Yep, it's his baby and he can do and go wherever he wants with it. Love to hear him collaborate with J.Beck.

[Broyd]

I want whatever you are having

[patrickinurface]

heres a thought... if this wasn written jeff might not have died

[VegaVelecka]

@patrickinurface it's the other way around really

[asktunes]

Fabulous! Really fun Gary....

Angel

[liquidhyper08]

unbelievable.. love the experimentation..

[Rafzorz1]

great guitar piece, but some very sloppy playing every now and then.

[garzaeduardo]

who the fuck are you?

[Anodne]

So much for grace, huh? It's his song, however he plays it is the right way to play it.

Thank you Gary Lucas for donating "Rise Up To Be" to a good cause, Jeff Buckley is my idol and "Grace" my favorite song, now I know where half the credit goes.

[dcdossett65]

Really not diggin this, much too busy compared to jeffs rendition

[RomanticBastard]

Gary played guitar for Jeff on Grace...

[karamelo7]

are the audience dead?????

common man

he is playing a great song, a legend!

[andpyramids]

Actually, karamelo7, I believe they were sitting in awe and holding their piece until after the song was finished, which turned out to be a great benefit for us listeners now, not having the song interjected with crowd woos.

Gary, like may other people, I know you because of Jeff. The work you did with him, and also Captain Beefheart and on your own, is great and I'm thankful to have found you. This is a really wonderful version of the song.

[Andywallenta]

simply great. a hypnotist. would like to be the guitar ;))

[garylucas]

I wrote the riff originally and I will play it anyway I please, mister 666

[sucramnormark]

Is this really you?

[garylucas]

it sure is

gary

[sucramnormark]

Oh!

Must say I really admire your work

[katalukon]

That asshole must not know who Gary is. Did Jeff change the order of the miniphrases or did you, Gary? Do you know why?

The "Grace" version of this sound much less busy-- did you play it differently then?

[CrazyGerman08]

@garylucas I thought i could play grace pretty well until i heard this. it sounds unreal! when are you going to put some lessons up of your style of guitar? that would be awesome!

[thadbrains]

@garylucas Gary I love this composition maaannnn!!!

[TheOutskirtsNL]

word !!!

[liamm5687]

@garylucas don't listen to that douche. you are the man. that crazy effects stuff you start doing at around 5 minutes is fucken awesome/amazing.

[s1ygirl]

@garylucas Thank you Gary for giving your riff and inspiring the lyrics to Grace. Jeff must've been so enthralled with you and your playing. If music was Jeff's mother and muse then you were the father.

[demeola88]

I like Jeffs verson the best, but this guy is amazing! I got to find some more of his stuff!

[b0lly]

he gets some incredible sounds out of those effects. great video

[nirvana3887]

like the both versions ...they just bring me different type of emotion

[Taman2057]

Man i was going to say how although gary wrote it i liked jeff's version better but how the fuck can you argue with that? Impossibly beautiful noise

[strav12]

A lazy first half - listen to the version of this on his Paradiso album - but second half sonic aesthetics like a vampire cathedral at night - haunting is one of Gary's favorite words - but there's haunting and shitting your pants with fear - er, thanks Gary and Laubster for posting - Gary owns this track and he is sheer genius!

[ArthurEricBlair]

holy fuck!

[RoboDouche]

holy fuck is right!

[Danao27]

thank you for putting it !!

<3Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas..

[BeckyRawMusic]

Wow. Amazing! Absolutely love this version.

[unicapb21]

Thanks Steve for putting this up! Great version!

PaulB