The live experience
What reaches the room
Gary Wilson is a boundary-pushing musician whose career spans decades of lo-fi brilliance and genre-blending experiments. Born October 23, 1953 in Endicott, New York, Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist whose work traverses new wave, rock, funk, jazz, lounge, and avant-garde sounds. His breakout album, You Think You Really Know Me (1977), was recorded in his parents’ basement and became a touchstone for independent artists and peers like Beck and the Sub Pop label family. The project’s enduring influence has led to repeated reissues since the 1990s and helped define a uniquely outsider approach to recording and performance.