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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Whatever the group were doing, it was something they intended to do, incorporating quotes from other pieces of music, and which they could do repeatedly.
What sounds to many ears like utter chaos is a level of discipline few bands have ever reached.
Along with the studio tracks, there are a few tracks on Trout Mask Replica that are remnants of the earlier field recording idea.
The instrumental hair pie appears twice as hair pie bake one and hair pie bake two.
Bake one is a recording from the house, while bake two is a studio re recording.
There were also three a cappella recordings of Beef Heart.
Orange claw hammer, a sort of Dada interpretation of a sea shantified
Well, a blues song, and The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back, which was recorded on a tape recorder with Beefheart improvising lines, and John French hitting stop after every line while Van Bleet thought of the next, the tape button almost becoming a percussion instrument itself with the little pops it makes.
There are also various elements of recorded dialogue, like Beefheart saying at the beginning of Pachuco Cadaver, a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
A line which is echoed by this at the start of Pina.
And there's one track which is absolutely not planned.
The Mothers of Invention had recorded a track called Charles Ives, inspired by the composer of the same name, a live version of which eventually ended up much later on the archival album You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume five.
While Zappa was working on that in the studio, he received a call from Van Vliet saying he needed to record something right now.
Van Vliet got Jeff Cotton to recite a poem Van Vliet had written down the phone and had Zappa record it.
The poem was apparently inspired by Dwight Fryers Renfield in the 1931 version of Dracula, though others have pointed out a similarity between the famous Oh the Humanity recording of Herbert Morrison reporting on the crash of the Hindenburg, and the poem was titled The Blimp.
Zappa recorded the poem from the phone call along with the music.
Appropriately enough given that Charles Ives himself was known for putting two different melodies together at the same time in his work.
Rather generously, Zappa gave Van Vliet sole songwriting credit for the track, titled The Blimp Mousetrap Replica, though he does take credit for Charles Ives on that track's later release.
Rather less generously, Van Vliet gave John French no credit whatsoever for his contributions to the album.
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