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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We didn't even have Call On Me.

We didn't have any original stuff then.

I mean we had the stuff we were doing.

So we played two or three tunes for these guys, and they said That's enough, boys, come with us.

We go back into their office and they pull out a little old record machine and play a forty five.

Okay, can you boys play that?

We said, Yeah, we could play that in our sleep.

He says, Here's the deal, boys.

This music was done by a bunch of our engineers in the studio.

We have the music and it's already moving on the charts.

We don't have a band.

The deal was the group was called the Bats.

Now, being Hanna Barbera, they wanted to have a group called the Bats doing live, and also spin that into an animated deal.

I mean, we looked in our agent's face, like I say he was a young guy.

His face just started flushing like he was counting the money already, right?

Then we said No, we're not the bats.

We're Captain Befart and his magic band.

The man who would become Captain Beefheart was Don van Vliet, to give him the name he went by in later life.

His birth name was Don Vliet, and the van was an affectation he made part of his name as an adult.

Van Vliet was a serial self mythologizer, and would tell people very different stories about his upbringing.

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