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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French had to quickly hum the rift to Kuda and tell him it was an open G tuning and to wing it.
They got through the song, but then Beefot got an anxiety attack from the size of the audience.
He sang the opening lines of electricity, the
But then froze up when the band kicked into the riff.
He later told John French that he had seen a woman in the audience turn into a fish, which French interprets as beef had having an acid flashback, but which sounds to me more like him just making up an excuse for what happened next.
After freezing up he turned around and walked off the stage.
Not backstage, he walked right off the back of the stage and fell ten feet onto Bob Krasno, who tried to catch him in order to save his life.
The show was over, and so was this lineup of the magic band.
Raikuda quit the band there and then, refusing to work with anyone so maddening and unprofessional ever again.
Without their lead guitarist, the band weren't in any position to play Monterey and had to cancel their performance.
To replace Cuda, the band got in Jerry McGee, who had been a member of The Ventures and had gone to become a session guitarist.
It's McGee playing the riff on Last Train to Clarksville by the monkeys, for example.
McGee didn't stay in the magic band long enough to record with them, but according to French's autobiography, the instrumental outtake Flower Pot, which has been released as a bonus track on various beef art collections, was based around a riff that McGee came up with.
McGee only hung around the band for a handful of gigs though, including one supporting the Yardbirds.
They simply weren't professional enough and weren't making enough money for someone like him to find it worth his time.
In McGee's place, the group got in Jeff Cotton, the guitarist from French's old band Blues in a Bottle.
Somehow, despite the catastrophic loss of Kuda, Bob Krasno still had great expectations for the magic band, though most of the band's members at the time saw Kuda's departure as the point at which they became doomed to be a cult band, rather than the megastars Krasno saw them as becoming.
Maybe those expectations could still have been fulfilled, had the group's projected second album not been something of a fiasco.
Recording for what was initially titled It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper, projected as a double album, started in november nineteen sixty seven, shortly after the release of Safe as Milk, which, thanks to the failure of the promotional plans for the album, had not even made the top one hundred on the charts.
For this album, Van Vliet had a new influence on his songwriting.
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