The Squid's Ear 1st Anniversary Celebration January 29, 2004

The Squid's Ear music magazine celebrates its first anniversary on January 29 with special performances by three of the musicians who have written articles for it during its inaugural year. Veteran guitarist Gary Lucas, a former member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, pioneering downtown pianist Anthony Coleman and postpunk guitarist (now oudist) Ron Anderson will present solo sets at East Village gallery Issue Project Room to mark the birthday of the online publication.

Guitarist, composer, arranger and manipulator Ron Anderson plays “anything that can make a sound, including the recording studio. He has 42 recordings to his credit, including recent CDs with his group PAK and Jason Willett. Ron was a co-founder of the notorious noise rock group RAT AT RAT R in Philadelphia 1980, and in 1990 founded the bad-boy new music group The Molecules in Oakland, CA. He has also worked extensively with Tatsuya Yoshida and The Ruins, the French band Ulan Bator, and performed at the 2003 Victoriaville festival (in Quebec) with his group The Infusion. He has performed and recorded with James Chance, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, the Sun City Girls, Shelley Hirsch, The Poool, Otomo Yoshihide, Seiichi Yamamoto, John Zorn, Donald Miller, Daniel Carter, Terrie Ex and many others.

Gary Lucas got his reputation as a guitarist's guitarist during the five years he spent playing with his childhood hero, the avant-garde rock visionary Captain Beefheart. A graduate of Yale University, Lucas used to cut classes to sneak off to hear his hero play, and eventually recorded two albums ("Doc at the Radar Station" and “Ice Cream for Crow") with Beefheart and the Magic Band in the early 80's. In 1988, Lucas began a solo career with a show at the Knitting Factory, and was soon dubbed “guitarist of 1000 ideas" by the New York Times. Lucas