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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Hayden, on the other hand, they thought had an unearned sense of superiority over the rest of them.
Hayden also didn't have to share the house with the rest of them, and thus was spared much of the treatment the other band members were subjected to.
But Van Vleep was nearly a decade older than Boston, Cotton, French, and Harkelboad, as well as the undisputed leader of the band.
And what he said went.
And one of the things he said was that the band members were all going to get new names.
Harkelvod became Zuton Mallow.
A name which according to French was come up with by Alex Sinclair and was originally applied to French.
However, it seems likely to me that French is misremembering, and the name is some sort of pun on the flute, which Harkelrode also played a little bit.
French became Drumbow because he was the drummer.
Hayden on bass clarinet was the Mascara Snake, because his instrument was long and black.
Boston became Rocket Morton, because he was known for farting loudly and often, and Van Bleep would light his farts on fire.
And cotton became Antennae Jimmy Siemens, because he had a skin condition on his scalp which produced little flakes which looked like seeds.
For the new material he was writing, Van Vleek came up with a new writing technique.
Which French in his autobiography attributes to Van Vliet's attempts to imitate Frank Zappa.
Zappa would write pieces of music at a piano on manuscript paper.
He wasn't a great or even good pianist, but he knew music theory very well, so he'd write the pieces and then get Ian Underwood to come round and play back what he'd written.
As there was a piano in the house the band had moved into, Van Vliet started doing the same thing, though he could not play piano at all, and nor could he write sheet music.
Instead, he would plunk at the piano for hours with a tape recorder running, then get the band members to listen back to the tapes for the thirty seconds or so of inspiration that were in there somewhere.
French eventually got tired of this and pretended to Van Vliet that the tape recorder had broken.
Instead, how about French sit with him, and when Van Bleep found a bit he liked, French, who could read and write music, would transcribe it for him.
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