TED LUCAS
It’s a gas That someday All your cares will pass. You’ll be laughing in the grass Isn’t a lovely day The words are gentle and simple and bring a contrast when compared with words of hate and revolution, of sorrow and denial. Simple yet expressed in such a way that brightness of the sun has caressed each word.
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TED LUCAS
It’s a gas That someday All your cares will pass. You’ll be laughing in the grass Isn’t a lovely day
The words are gentle and simple and bring a contrast when compared with words of hate and revolution, of sorrow and denial. Simple yet expressed in such a way that brightness of the sun has caressed each word.
This is Ted Lucas, gentle, simple, and also a damn good guitarist. Lucas has been around Detroit since the early 50’s, performing alone and with groups, the Spikedrivers and the Misty Wizards. Ted has studied classical, blues and folk guitar and also plays harp, auto-harp, mandalin harp and sitar with unbelievable dexterity.
Although he’s been around for quite a number of years and is now performing solo, Ted Lucas today has brought into the music scene firstly, loquacious ability and secondly and probably most important a new sound. This “something new” is just the “Lucas style” as he calls it;; the. final coagulation of himself and his music .
On stage Ted is very gentle and humble and yet there is a certain boldness in the way he performs. He has a simple inexhaustable wit about the “earthy” things' in life. His “Pimplelympics” oration and the reminiscent look at early rock sent the crowd, in De Roy (if you will excuse the expression) “rolling in the isles”. His music is at first hard to follow: he uses long introductions in the classical style, to set the mood and audience. His guitar work, the “Lucas style”, seems incomplete and lacking melody but as he proceeds the genius behind thewords and music is revealed. He is singing about the life that is within him and all about him, you and I.
Like most music you get more out of it if you take the time to listen and are aware of what is happening. Ted Lucas, a man who enjoys his music, has brought into the world “something new”.
All is love Love is all ***
Peace is Truth And Truth is Peace ***
All is Drawing Near.
JIM KIEINSORGE
