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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The tragic band split up after this, and Beefheart was in contractual tangles that meant that as far as he was concerned he had no deal.
So he did what had worked for him before.
He went to Frank Zappa for help.
He first guested on Harmonica on the track San Bedino on Zappa's album One Size Fits All, credited as Bloodshot Rolling Red.
And then he joined the mothers on Sax Harmonica and Vocals for a tour, where he would sing on a few of Zappa's songs, both old ones like Willie the Pimp and new ones like Two Hundred Years Old, a blues song about the upcoming bicentennial of the USA.
They didn't do any of Beefheart's old songs, because it was a mother's show, not a Befheart one, but he had a couple of spots in the show to do recitals of his poetry and short stories, over semi improvised backing by the mothers.
When one of the other vocalists was singing, Beefheart would apparently sit on stage and draw unflattering caricatures of Zappa.
An album was released mixing tracks from that tour and studio tracks titled Bungo Fury, and it's one of the best things either man did in the seventies, and even better is the recent deluxe box set version which includes a couple of full live shows from the tour.
Following this, Beef Heart put together a new lineup of the Magic Band, now managed by Zappa's manager Herb Cohen.
John French and Elliot Ingber came back, this time both on guitar, though Ingber soon left and was replaced by new man Greg Davidson.
Jimmy Carl Black, the original drummer with the mothers, had reconnected with Zappa and joined on drums, and while they auditioned several bass players, they eventually hit on a unique solution.
Bruce Fowler, the trombone player who had played with Zappa for several years, including on the Bongo Fiori tour, joined the band and played trombone through an electronic octave splitter that allowed him to play the bass lines.
That version of the band toured the UK, including a performance at the Nebworth Festival.
Unfortunately, nobody in the UK could buy the new Zappa collaboration.
While Beefot's contract with Mercury Records in the US had ended, the contract with Virgin in the UK hadn't.
And Virgin prevented Bungo Fury from being released over here for several years.
Jimmy Carl Black left the band soon after that, and there were more lineup changes, with French returning to the drums, Davidson leaving, and a new guitarist, Maurice Tepper, who would become Beefheart's latest close collaborator, joining.
Along with them came Denny Wally, who had played guitar on the Bongo Fury shows with Zappa.
Wally, who took the stage name Feelers Rebo, was an old friend of both Beefheart and Zappa from their time in Lancaster.
Oddly, one final member to join this lineup of the band was John Thomas, who had previously played with Mallard on keyboards.
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