I was involved in a short lived Ted Lucas restoration project over 20 years ago. I can’t tell you how many months I spent listening to this music and scanning and restoring photographs. I never saw this. Thanks for the upload.
@@peterlucas2900 Hey man I'm a Big Spike Drivers fan, my old man had a yellow 45 that he played all the time. When all the catalog was put on CZcams I was stoked. Then I got to wondering, how the hell are they not bigger than acts like The Yardbirds or even Count Five? Spike Drivers were a better band. I found an article where one of them blames Ted's prejudice towards Atlantic Record's founder. A friend of mine, Peter, his mentor was there at this recording session where Ted apparently said "I ain't working for a damn Turk." I haven't had a chance to verify this with Peter, he probably doesn't even know. So I figure your an even better source, because the fact that Spike Drivers weren't bigger than they were is a mystery to me. Is that a true story?
Ted was inspired by Peter Walker as was I Peter went on to play sarod, I went on with sitar now surbahar, so long ago, the chessmate, lovely old Ann Arbor. Fifty five years on,
p.s. Never heard of the Tom Shannon Show either until now! Where have I been all my life?! I have made it my business to know about all things musical from high school age onward. How could I have missed Ted Lucas & Tom Shannon both? It's like what the Tootsie Pop Wise Old Owl once said, "A one, a two, a three, the world may never know."
Wow! Thank you so much for the upload. For years I've tried to find some video footage of Ted Lucas to no avail. This is incredible, absolutely beautiful. Do you have or know of any more footage that exists?
Mike, we just had about 10-12 videos that Ted left us with digitized last year including more of Ted with Tom Shannon, a full hour of him on a show called Free Play with Paul Winter and about 6 appearances of The Spike Drivers on Swinging Time (Unfortunately they play the same 2 songs on all)...and also an excerpt of a WABX tv show called Live From earth that has John Sinclair in the audience. We're currently looking at different ways to present the videos.
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Teddy was my first guitar teacher, circa 1962, at Fava Music Studio in Detroit. He was great teacher, very patient!
I was involved in a short lived Ted Lucas restoration project over 20 years ago. I can’t tell you how many months I spent listening to this music and scanning and restoring photographs. I never saw this. Thanks for the upload.
...i studied with Ravi along with Ted when we were musical partners in those days (around '67) . . . this is the guitartist i remember so well . . .
richard keelan " it is so nice to get stoned"
Dude that is so dope
In the sixties I met Ted when I was 15. I used to stop by his apartment in the Cass Corridor. He would teach me picking licks.
Have any stories to share?
@@peterlucas2900 Hey man I'm a Big Spike Drivers fan, my old man had a yellow 45 that he played all the time. When all the catalog was put on CZcams I was stoked. Then I got to wondering, how the hell are they not bigger than acts like The Yardbirds or even Count Five? Spike Drivers were a better band. I found an article where one of them blames Ted's prejudice towards Atlantic Record's founder. A friend of mine, Peter, his mentor was there at this recording session where Ted apparently said "I ain't working for a damn Turk." I haven't had a chance to verify this with Peter, he probably doesn't even know. So I figure your an even better source, because the fact that Spike Drivers weren't bigger than they were is a mystery to me. Is that a true story?
His lung capacity in this performance is amazing. What a brilliant artist
Ted was inspired by Peter Walker as was I Peter went on to play sarod, I went on with sitar now surbahar, so long ago, the chessmate, lovely old Ann Arbor.
Fifty five years on,
plain ol’ Ted Lucas 🕯❤️
Why have I never heard this guy's music he is now being played on British tv in a tv advert for etsy.what a voice and God a master of string.
Anybody here from the film Tallulah (Netflix).....Wow, what a guy !! Brilliant.
That was beautiful
Thank you. It's nice to see Ted is still appreciated.
Beautiful
Please keep us in touch with this creative spirit
Wow, awesome musicianship. And what a lovely person.
WHAT A BEaUTIFUL BEING
Thank you. We think so too.
Stunning, I wish there was more footage of Ted playing, or just speaking for that matter
waxidermy.com/blog/features/ted-lucas-interview/
One of my favorites
Incredible. I'm very grateful to have seen this. Thanks so much for sharing this video!
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolute favoriteee
Thanks for posting this!
thanks for uploading this
Our pleasure. We hope to make more available in the future.
Found it! Thank you! My bad thinking it was Red Stones.
Reminds me of Robbie Basho🤩
p.s. Never heard of the Tom Shannon Show either until now! Where have I been all my life?! I have made it my business to know about all things musical from high school age onward. How could I have missed Ted Lucas & Tom Shannon both? It's like what the Tootsie Pop Wise Old Owl once said, "A one, a two, a three, the world may never know."
Wow! Thank you so much for the upload. For years I've tried to find some video footage of Ted Lucas to no avail. This is incredible, absolutely beautiful. Do you have or know of any more footage that exists?
Mike, we just had about 10-12 videos that Ted left us with digitized last year including more of Ted with Tom Shannon, a full hour of him on a show called Free Play with Paul Winter and about 6 appearances of The Spike Drivers on Swinging Time (Unfortunately they play the same 2 songs on all)...and also an excerpt of a WABX tv show called Live From earth that has John Sinclair in the audience. We're currently looking at different ways to present the videos.
@@plucas23 will we ever see these videos?
We hope to be releasing them at some point. We're currently working on ways to best do that. WE may post some more here to promote new releases
@@peterlucas2900 Just chiming in to cross fingers for more footage soon :)
Glad this footage doesn't exist alone, love to hear what else is and could be floating around
Reminds me of Shawn Phillips
What are the lyrics to this song please?