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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I examined every facet of my personality to see what in the world could have allowed me to ever submit to such foolish and absurd accusations.
How could I possibly have ever felt this man would change and allowed myself to be trapped twice in this same situation?
However, I had signed a contract about a year ago, and I felt obligated legally to see it through.
I had about a month left.
Unfortunately this is what goes through my mind when I hear the spotlight kid.
It's probably a lot different than what you hear, right?
Now maybe you'll understand if I don't play it too often on my CD player.
So for the next album, which saw the magic band credit restored, as it would remain for the rest of Beefheart's career, there was another shuffling of members.
Art Trip returned to the drum kit to replace French, which meant there needed to be a second guitarist to play the parts he'd been playing on Marimba.
Boston moved from bass to guitar, and they brought in Roy Estrada, who, after the mothers of invention split up, had played with Little Feet on their first two albums, and who was given the magic band name Orion.
Clear Spot, the album in question, is the last album the group recorded for Warn of others, and is generally also considered the last great album by a version of the Magic Band that had some continuity with the original.
While there were now no members left other than Van Vliet from the lineup that had recorded Safe as Milk, as this was the first album not to feature French, the
The changes so far had all been organic, with members coming and going fairly straightforwardly.
Clear Spot is usually thought of as a step up in quality from the spotlight kid, but it's also undoubtedly yet another step towards making more commercial sounding music.
This is in part due to the choice of producer, Ted Templeman, who, like Richard Perry, is on paper someone you would never expect to be able to get good work out of Beefheart.
Templeman had started his career as a member of the soft pop vocal group Harper's Bizarre, who'd had a hit with their cover of Simon and Garfunkel's The Fifty Ninth Street Bridge song Feeling Groovy.
He'd moved into production and with Lenny Warrenka had co produced the first Doobie Brothers album, and it also produced Van Morrison's recent Chupelo Honey.
He would be the regular producer for Morrison for his next several albums, would produce all the Doobie Brothers' big hits, and would also produce records for Eric Clapton, Eric Smith and Carly Simon, as well as discovering both Van Halen and Sammy Hagar.
Templeman loathed working with Beefheart, who he describes in his autobiography as abusive towards the band members and to the engineer Templeman regularly worked with.
But he did his best to make clear spot into an album which standard off just enough of Van Vliet's rough edges to be saleable, while keeping enough to make it still recognizably a Captain Beefheart album.
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