Andrew Hickey
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2,253 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Andrew Hickey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Van Vliet also wanted to get rid of Doug Moon and replace him with Rai Kuda, who he'd been subtly courting since the Teen Expo.
Now the rising suns had split up, and Gary Marker, who was friendly with Van Vliet, was moving into management and production.
Deciding that the magic band were obviously about to make it big, he came to Van Vleep with a deal.
If he could get Kuda to join the band, Marker could be their producer.
So Marker went to his former bandmate Kuda and told him, You can virtually control this band.
This will be your band and Don will think it's his band, but really it will be your baby.
With Kuda now on board but Moon not yet out, the group and marker went into Art Lebau's original sound studio, coincidentally built by Paul Buff, the same engineer who had previously built the studio that became Studio Z, to cut a few demos.
These sessions were funded by Bob Krasno of Buddha Records, a new label that was being started by the owners of Kama Sutra Records, the Love in Spoonfuls label.
As they were unhappy with the distribution deal Kama Sutra had with MGM.
For those reading the transcript rather than listening to the episode, yes the record label was spelled BUDDAH rather than BUDDHA.
This was a misspelling on their part.
Buddha was a label with two very different operating philosophies when it started up.
On the West Coast, Bob Crasto, who had mostly worked with R and B and soul artists previously, was interested in the explosion of some of the
psychedelic rock and wanted to make albums that would appeal to the hippie crowd.
On the East Coast, meanwhile, Butter were more interested in making hit singles, and with the production team Jerry Kasanets and Jeffrey Katz, they put out records like Yummy Yummy Yummy by the Ohio Express.
and Green Tambourine by the lemon pipers.
Much of the material that the Magic Band cut at these demo sessions for Buddha was written by Van Vliet along with his new collaborator, Herb Berman.
Several of Van Vliet's fans were under the impression that Berman didn't exist and was in fact a pseudonym, a way for him to do some sort of contractual shenanigans, and some say that Van Vliet introduced them to several people who he claimed to be Berman.
Characteristically this seems to have been Van Bleet's way of taking credit away from a collaborator, as Berman definitely exists and even wrote an autobiography in twenty fifteen.
While Van Fleep would go on later to become a genuinely impressive lyricist, at this stage he seems to have been worried about his own abilities, and would often write little scraps of ideas that would go nowhere.
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