Andrew Hickey
speaker
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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Getting Berman, who was a poet, to turn these ideas into full fledged lyrics, seems to have allowed him to overcome these insecurities.
The writing partnership wouldn't last very long, but it would provide much of the material for the first two magic band albums.
Later, Berman would go on to collaborate with the actor Dean Stockwell on an unmade film script, after the Gold Rush, which would become the inspiration for an album by Neil Young.
Rikuda, on joining the magic band, became the group's de facto musical director, charged with being the one to pull Van Vliet's ideas into some sort of shape and teach them to the rest of the group.
Beefheart, as he was increasingly becoming known, was admired by all of the group members for his creativity, but was a chaotic person with no discipline in himself, and so he tried to impose discipline on his band members in its stead.
But he was also lacking in the technical ability to communicate his ideas to musicians, and so at different times different musicians would have the role of band leader thrust upon them, and be given the task of translating Beefheart's ideas into terms the other musicians could not.
he could understand.
Kuda was the first of these, and was well suited to the role, as he was by far the best musician in the band.
French said of Kuda later.
Vi was the musical director on Saver's Milk.
He didn't have the power that Don had as far as controlling people and getting people to do what he wanted.
But he had this respectability and yet he was fairly easy to work with.
Rye had a lot of technical ability and he knew how to take normal things and piece them slightly differently.
Just shift it a little bit and then it became unique.
Cuda would, obviously, go on to become one of the most important musicians of his generation.
We've already heard about his collaborations with the Rolling Stones and the way in which he influenced Keith Richard's playing, but he's played with pretty much everyone.
Indeed, we heard him last episode on the original version of William by Little Feet.
Many lists of the greatest guitarists of all time have him near the top, and he was already a hugely impressive talent, but at this point he was a complete unknown, the rising suns having split before they could release an album.
Van Vliet saw the need for someone like Kuda, but was also getting worried about who was actually in control of his band.
Several people have talked about Van Vliet having what he insisted were heart attacks, but were actually psychosomatic chest pains caused by anxiety at this time.
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