C/D: Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

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Easily classic in my book. Their only great album was Striking It Rich , but a number of excellent assorted songs scattered about other albums.

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Highly classic. I can't think of any great albums of theirs, since I haven't gone through my collection in a while, but my mom likes to tell how she went to go see one of his shows, and he was too drunk to play.

And if a guy's so good you can tell a story about going to see him not play.. that's classic.

Stiv (Stiv), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...
revive! just kinda getting into Hicks lately and wondering if anyone has any updated opinions...

ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

my dad has several albums - are they worth stealing from him?

peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Scare Myself" is a great song. I don't remember what album it's on, though. My parents used to listen to them a lot.

Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Sad news -- he passed this morning:

http://danhicks.net/

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link

Can all of my musical heroes stop dying please?

Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 6 February 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link

^^^ exactly my reaction to this. RIP.

we salute you, our half-inflated dark lord (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 6 February 2016 23:46 (eight years ago) link

:-( oh man, rip dan hicks!

no lime tangier, Sunday, 7 February 2016 07:28 (eight years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Anyone who doesn't have it, do yourself a favor and drop 5 or 10 bucks on a copy of "The Most of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks" - it's basically "Original Recordings" (the first album on Capitol, with some slight remixes where original masters were lost) and early versions of songs that wound up on later albums. It's awesome.

Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 January 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link


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