GARY LUCAS: PART 6 LIVE IN ST. PETERSBURG; SKIF FESTIVAL

GARY LUCAS: PART 6 LIVE IN ST. PETERSBURG; SKIF FESTIVAL, 4/25/04
On April 25th 2004, Gary Lucas, "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" (Rolling Stone) performed solo at the 6th Annual Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival of the Arts in St. Petersburg, his fourth trip to Russia. Gary took the stage at 1am after an introduction by his friend noted avant-guitarist Henry Kaiser, and proceeded to play his heart out, as documented here by local fan Nick Kuznetsov. This set stands as one of Gary's finest solo guitar perfomances ever, with the 3 customary Lucas road guitars ('66 Fender Strat, '46 Gibson J-45, and '28 National steel) in full effect.
Here Gary goofs on the Russian audience at with a fantasia on the
Russian perennial "The Volga Boatman", and then segues into his
arrangement of Robert Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail". This is
followed by Gary performing his composition "One Man's Meat", to be
continued in pt. 7

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