Andrew Hickey

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2,253 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · Song 185: “Peaches En Regalia” by Frank Zappa · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

At the same time as all of this was happening, Zappa was also working outside the Mothers, getting more production and arranging experience.

Tom Wilson was working with the Animals on what would turn out to be their final album, Animalism, and brought Zappa in to work on the album.

Zappa wrote, arranged and played guitar on the album's opening track, All Night Long.

and he also played bass and arranged their version of Fred Neal's folk club standard, The Other Side of This Life, a song which, while it was never a hit, was also recorded around this time by Graham Parsons, Jefferson Airplane, and The Loving Spoonful.

Zappa and Eric Burden became friendly for a while, with Burden often coming round to visit Zappa and watch Zappa's 16mm experimental films.

Apparently most people found these boring or paranoia-inducing, but Burden would stay up till 4am watching them and expected Zappa to become a great director.

The two men, though, were fundamentally mismatched when it came to temperament, with Burden by this point fully converted to the hippie peace and love philosophy, and believing that Zappa's on-stage provocations and aggression made him the Adolf Hitler of music, as he famously said in a Record Mirror interview a couple of years later.

Zappa, meanwhile, was unimpressed with the animals as musicians.

He gave an interview to Hit Parader, in which he described the process, saying, I get to the studio at 11 o'clock.

I'm the only one there.

Then Tom Wilson comes in.

He asks, where are the animals?

I say, gee, I don't know, Tom.

I had called the musicians' union and I had brought down a girl who plays the bass and 12-string guitar who's a monster named Carol Kay.

She's really good, one of the top studio players in LA.

Also Don Randy on piano, Johnny Guerin on drums.

I was playing guitar on one tune and bass on the other side of this life.

and I had a guy on harmonica, the guy who originally wrote Hey Joe.

Eric shows up with his drummer around 1.30 or so because they had been to a monster party the night before, and they'd been out being spectacular celebrities, having a wonderful time in show business all over town, and paying very little attention to minding the store.

They come walking in and everyone starts playing demos for them because they didn't even know what they were going to record.

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