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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So the magic band should have been in a great position to actually become stars, given that they had all this interest from some of the most famous people in the world, and that their label was convinced they could be as big as the Beatles or Stones.
Sadly though, the keystone for Buddha Records' plan to make the Magic Band into megastars was for them to appear at the Monterey Pop Festival and while the crowds there.
Probably they would have done just that, had Van Fleet not been in one of his regular self sabotaging moods.
With the Monterey performance a week away, the Magic Band had rehearsed a set made up almost entirely of songs from the new album.
mostly rehearsing without the presence of Van Vliet, and were booked in to play at a Love Inn near San Francisco as a warm-up for the main event.
Lovins, for those who don't know, were essentially somewhere halfway between the acid tests we've talked about in relationship to Timothy Leary and the more formal rock festivals that started after Monterey.
Large gatherings of young people there to listen to rock music, protest the war, take drugs, and have casual sex.
This particular Love Inn was in fact a rock festival by any other name, and was a warm up for Monterey for many musicians.
Forty thousand people attended the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival to see acts as varied as the Doors, The Birds, Tim Buckley, Dion Warwick, Country Joe and the Fish, and the Fifth Dimension.
This was far and away the biggest audience the magic band had ever played to.
They'd played big events before, of course, they'd played the Hollywood Bowl supporting the Beach Boys the previous year.
But this had about twice as many people as that.
On the way to the gig, the band were hugely excited to hear themselves on the radio for the first time.
The album hadn't been released yet, but because of the event, the local radio station was playing ABA Zabba.
They saw this as an omen.
This was going to be their moment.
This was the show that was going to make them.
But Van Vliet would often self sabotage at any time it looked like the group were going to do well.
This time he started out by insisting to John French that their opening song should be a blues jum that the two of them had rehearsed when French had first joined the band.
The problem was, none of the other members of the band had been at that rehearsal.
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