Andrew Hickey
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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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Van Vliet also had a big problem with timing on stage.
Not with his sense of rhythm by most accounts, though some of his bandmates say even that, but with following structures.
He was a great frontman, but, according to Gary Marker, interviewed by John French, whenever Jerry Handy would get in trouble, I would fill in and I would have to play everything exactly the same.
It couldn't change, meaning there could be no flexibility in the arrangement which severely limited the spontaneity.
And Alex would be out there directing Don with the guitar neck as though it were a conductor's wand, because Don had no sense of time, and
Alex would cue him when to come in because he would always miss the cues.
He would know the songs but he learned them by vote.
It was weird because his intonation was fine, but the timing was
French, who would join the band himself later, goes on to say Van Vliet himself had mentioned, shortly after I joined the band, that he had previously had problems with timing and understanding musical cues.
He said that he had gone to Alex with a determination to learn and vigorously demanded Teach me this stuff you say I'm not understanding.
He was illustrating this by grabbing an imaginary Alex's arm and moving him over to a particular place in the room as he described the incident, stomping his foot on the floor and simultaneously pointing down in a defiant and determined posture, emphatically saying, Okay, now show me.
Through the years I saw evidence surface of Van Vliet's problem, which turned out to be less a timing problem, which could have been cured before I became a member, and more getting lost in the structure and missing cues.
Many of the musicians who worked with Van Vliet over the years would agree with French's assessment of him that he was a performer and not a musician.
Knowing this, it's understandable that Alex Sinclair still at the time thought of himself as the band's leader.
Not that that would last, especially after St.
Clair switched instruments.
Drummer Vic Mortensen had got drafted, and so St.
Clair switched to drums and brought in another guitarist, Richard Heppner.
And it was this lineup that recorded the group's first two singles, for A M Records.
That was a cover version of an old Bo Didley song.
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