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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Not that the band themselves saw it that way.
Most of the band members saw the re recorded versions as being significantly inferior to the original recordings.
Krasno used a lot of phasing effects on the tracks, which has come in for a lot of criticism both from the band and from critics over the years, though there's some dispute as to whether that was Krasno's sole decision or Beefhearts.
According to Marker, Don came over to my house and gave me a copy and said, I think you're going to like this, this is really good.
I put it on and I'm hearing all this phasing going on.
I said, What's a little crazy with the phasing and flanging?
And he says, Yeah, but it has a feel to it.
So that was his position then.
The plain fact is Bob Krasno was in such awe of Don that he would never ever release anything without Don's personal stamp of approval.
Not everything on Strictly Personal was a remake of a song recorded for the Plain Brown Rapper album.
The opening track I feel like Acid, clips of which were actually scattered through the record to give it a certain amount of continuity.
was inspired by Sunhouse's classic Death Letter Blues.
Beefart took the opening of that and combined it with references to Alsley's technique of putting LSD on postage stamps.
So instead of what do you reckon it read, the lyrics became What do you reckon it read, blue and green?
But for the most part, strictly personal is just a more coherent but also more psychedelicised, reworking of what would have been the beef heart disc of plain brown wrapper.
After the recording was strictly personal, but before it was released, Alex Sinclair left the band he had founded, and was replaced by nineteen year old Bill Harkelrode, previously the guitarist in a band called BC and the Cavemen, which seems to have been the band formed by some of the former members of Blues in a Bottle and the former magic band drummer PG Blakely, we mentioned earlier.
At least it included both Blakely and the former Blues in a Bottle bass player, Mark Boston.
In his autobiography, Harklead, who was a year or two younger than the newer members of the Magic Band but have been moving in the same circles as them, talks about how he just expected to be invited to join the band sooner or later, because his old friends were joining and he jammed with them.
Harkelroad was already an excellent guitarist and was very influenced by Hubert Sumlin, Harlan Wolfe's guitarist, which made him a good fit with Beefheart, whose own vocals were very obviously influenced by Wolf.
He moved in with Van Vliet, French and Cotton in their communal home, where Van Vliet had his own bedroom and the rest of the band except Jerry Handley had to share.
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