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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Then, with French Gone Again, came the final Captain Beefheart album, Ice Cream for Crow.
By that album, Beefheart was being managed by one of the younger band members, Gary Lucas, who would later go on to collaborate with Jeff Buckley.
All three of these albums by the latter day versions of the Magic Band are excellent, but none of them are of articulate progression or stylistically divergent from each other.
While from safe as milk through Lick My Decals Off Baby, every album had been distinct, and then there had been a steady progression of albums each a little safer than the other, all the albums from Batchain Pullaron are essentially three parts lick my decals off baby to one part clear spot.
If you like beef heart, you'll like all of them more or less equally.
If you don't, you won't like any of them.
They're wonderful if you're a fan, but they're not anything new the way those earlier albums had been.
And the music industry was starting to assimilate aspects of Beefheart's work.
New artists like XTC, Devo and the B fifty two's were taking some aspects of what he'd been doing a decade earlier and making them mainstream, much to his disgust, though he didn't object to every musician who was obviously influenced by him.
He would remain friends with Tom Waits, who was also managed by Herb Cohen for the rest of his life, and he became friendly later with PJ Harvey, who was
You could hear little bits of beef art in Public Image Limited or Pear Rubu.
And in later bands like the White Stripes.
But in nineteen eighty two, Van Vliet retired from the music industry and became a painter.
This made a huge amount of sense for him.
He had always been a visual artist as well as a musician.
He got more fulfillment out of painting, and he was also told he could make more money from it.
But only if he gave up music and became a full time visual artist, so he wouldn't be viewed as a dilettante rock star.
He had never made any serious money from his decades in the music industry, and his canvases would sell for thousands of dollars, so it would have been foolish for him not to.
But there was another reason he gave up performing, though he never admitted it publicly, although it was an open secret.
He had been finding it more difficult to stand up as he entered his forties, and for the last magic band tour he needed to use a cane and be helped off stage.
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