Skeleton at the Feast

Gary Lucas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Enemy
• ASIN: B0000042LN
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #384,419 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazzy Spacerock, April 23, 2003

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Kort "Art, Music, Book & Movie Enthusiast" (Boca Raton, FL, United States) - See all my reviews
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This live album is unique to Gary's other efforts. His masterful use of multiple distortion, echo, reverb....etc. devices creates music that you'd never believe came from just one guitar. I play this music when I'm working on my art, it triggers those creative centers and really gets me going.
If you are a fan of spacerock or jazz, or just good unique music, pick this up.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feast fit for a king 10 stars, March 8, 2003

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Jennifer L. Metcalf (USA) - See all my reviews
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Only recently have I been turned on to the music of Gary Lucas, and I am wholly immersed in his resplendent repertoire. "Skeleton at the Feast" is one of my favorite albums, not just of Gary's, but of all-time. His creations practically defy description with words. One doesn't just hear his music with ears; you experience it within your heart and soul.

This is an album of solo guitars, both electric and acoustic. I've never particularly been a fan of solo electric guitar because I often find it simply raucous. I have no idea how Gary does it, but his guitar sings with a voice all its own, serenading a sweet, psychedelic melody that is like a drop-dead gorgeous woman innocently sauntering by you - you cannot help but turn your head to see if she's for real.

Part of the album is dedicated to the music that Gary Lucas and Walter Horn wrote for live accompaniment to the 1921 German Expressionist film "The Golem." It's all hauntingly rich, stupendous surrealistic music, but one song is dangerously infectious: "The Junker and the Jewess." The first time I heard the song, I was cast completely under a spell under which I never wish to retreat. So sweet, so strange, so whimsical, so innocently devious - all of Gary's quirky but charismatic notes appear to be smiling in unison at their performance which seductively overwhelms the bloodstream. It may be impossible to listen to this song without the score being conducted on the body's muscles. It is that powerful.

"Christmas in Space Medley" is too amazingly beautiful to believe without listening to it oneself. "Bells" is so sweetly haunting, like it really is being broadcasted from space. It serenades the soul to paradise as you obediently follow along the dreamy path that it seems to carve especially for you. "Little Drummer Boyee" comes alive with Gary's special touches of punches of blues or jazz interjected with a brilliant stroke that only he can master. "Are You Experienced" has Hendrix's name on it of course, but Gary makes it all his own not by demanding that you listen but by irresistibly mixing combinations of his own style into the melody.

This is the album that prompted one critic to call Gary "A TRUE AXE GOD." The proof is in the pudding, and this album has been seasoned to perfection. Go ahead -- dig into the fabulous feast. You'll be begging for more.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Press Releases, January 23, 2000

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"5 STARS...Guitarist Gary Lucas...has advanced on traditional Delta blues as well as the high psychedelic ripping fever of Jimi Hendrix." MUSIK EXPRESS, Germany, 9/91