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Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks was formed in '68, and mostly played second fiddle - as you can see from the advert on our pages from back then. But they were good. And by the time their 3rd and last album came out (1973's Last Train to Hicksville, Hicks made the cover of Rolling Stone! Then really surprised everyone with his announcement that the band was bowing out!
Photo: Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks was formed in '68, and mostly played second fiddle - as you can see from the advert on our pages from back then. But they were good. And by the time their 3rd and last album came out (1973's Last Train to Hicksville, Hicks made the cover of Rolling Stone! Then really surprised everyone with his announcement that the band was bowing out!


The Oregon Music News just did an interview - and gave some insight into why the group stopped performing (and we thank them for using a quote from the LA Free Press!!) Please see the link to their own interesting interview, given below.


http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2011/05/25/dan-hicks-and-the-recuring-timelessness-of-retro-cool/


Still playin'!! and comin' to a town near you(?) Check out his up-coming play dates: http://www.danhicks.net/in%20concert.htm
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Gather ’round chillun and I’ll tell you of a time when the coolest thing you and your best girl could do was dress in 1940s retro, roll yourself a fat one and listen to the odd combination of Swing, Jazz, Folk and Country music that was known as Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.

  • BobShade PirateStudiosdotnet it's still the coolest thing, maybe followed by a little "word jazz" by ken nordine . oh yeah, make that fatty Oregon weed
  • Phillip Lee Morgan i should tell about the time i stole Dan's bottle of scotch and sat on stage behind him drinking it with a grin @ the santa monica civic
  • Terry Bolo Oh, man, I saw them sooooo many times!! Mostly at the Troubadour, I guess. LOOOOOOVED them!! Big FAN!!!!! Always excited when Dan Hicks was in town!
  • Phillip Lee Morgan this was posted by Bob Henley on my wall... tnx for backing me up buddy. Phil, since there was no comment space on the Dan Hicks link...remember when we went to see Dan Hicks, and you drank his scotch while he was playing? There was nothing he could do about it ;))
Who let Berkeley in the house? After seeing Berkeley on my resume I am always surprised to get gigs. Here's a compilation of groups as you can see by the title here and there is some nice footage. A three-bee. nv
Joy of Cooking & Yazoo & Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks
Bay Area originals: Joy of Cooking - The war you left(71), Yazoo (Nicholas & Wray & band)(74) - My mama told me, Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks - Canned Music(69)...


And you thought we 'D'isappeared? Well... for the record, we do take a 24 hour break Friday evening thru Saturday but... it's now a 'D' kind of day and we're back with....
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks....

There would, probably, been no ba
nd known as "It's A Beautiful Day" or an international hit called "White Bird" if David La Flamme had stayed in The Hot Licks, but he didn't, and we have them all to thank for that.
Dan, the band leader who didn't want to be a band leader, replaced David with jazz violinist Sid Page. Sid made playing worthwhile for Dan over the years as Dan loved the spirited playing and Sid's wild improvisation.
Here, from their debut self-titled album a.k.a. "Original Recordings", is "It's Bad Grammar, Baby". Story of my life and proof of the Peter Principle.
Ruben

Dan Hicks was primarily a string bender but his first real foray onto the music map was with the Charlatans, a folkish sort of pre-psychedelic sunshine pop outfit. He was the drummer. He wasn't too bad. He certainly wasn't great. But th
e group had IT. They had so much of it that they are still IT today. Many psyche aficionados cite them as signposts along the way.
Here is the long version of "Alabama Bound" from the release "The Amazing Charlatans".
Ruben

Continuing along the Dan Hicks route we'll stop at his 2nd album, 1971's great "Where's the Money?" and we'll dig the title track. Look closely at the cover photo there and you'll notice Mt. Tam in the background. The photo was shot on Da
n's houseboat at the main dock in Sausalito. A few docks down Dan's neighbors were Shel Silverstein and Alan Watts. That's some heavy action just to go outside. This original line-up sans David LaFlamme imploded in 1971.
Ruben

And to finish up with Mr. Hicks and his Hot Licks...
...here they are doing what they did best, performing live. They are 'on' in this show which features "By Hook or by Crook" and "Shorty Falls in Love" misidentified here as "Another Nigh
t".
This is presumably a rehearsal for the Flip Wilson Show and there is misplaced laughter and applause here which furthers the rehearsal argument. The actual show is available on YouTube but this is different and funny in places.
Ruben
  • Kurt Page The constantly cruising Lickettes!