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  Dan Hicks - Music Downloads - Online
Hicks was born December 9, 1941, to a military family then living in Arkansas, and grew up in California, where he was a drummer in a number of high-school bands.
Hicks had formed the acoustic group Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks in 1968 as an opener for the Charlatans, but soon the new band became his primary project.
At the peak of the group's popularity, however, Hicks dissolved the band and did not resurface until 1978, releasing the solo LP It Happened One Bite, the soundtrack to an uncompleted feature by animator Ralph Bakshi.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/277/Dan-Hicks/1010082.html   (340 words)

  
  Genius of Cool: Dan Hicks and the Post-Ego Trip | PopMatters Music Feature
Somehow Dan Hicks detached from the modernist idea that the artist is or has a static, knowable, "self" to express, by inventing for himself a larger than life non-identity: an infinitely hip and deadpan personality, composed, in ever-changing proportions, of singing cowboy, Edwardian dandy, upscale hobo and merry prankster.
Dan Hicks was unique among psychedelic-influenced singer songwriters in formulating a musical identity that combined the extroverted masks of the early folk and popular musicians with the psychic masquerade of the Acid Tests.
Hicks can make such an un-cool boast without losing his cool because the "I" making this statement is no ego on a trip, but the trip that dissolves ego, the prankster spirit calling us out of our heavy selves onto the dance floor.
www.popmatters.com /music/features/010906-hicksdan.shtml   (1448 words)

  
 Triviana magazine
Dan Hicks is a loopy thread of 24-karat gold woven through the tapestry that is San Francisco Bay Area pop music, from the amazing '60s clear through to today.
Dan Hicks found the great players who were Hot Licks and put them together, and they added up, as several of them have said, to be more than the sum of their parts.
Hicks' latest live album, with new Hot Licks on hand, ''Alive and Lickin','' shows that he is still hilarious between tunes, and is not afraid of interrupting a song when he feels like it.
www.triviana.com /music/hicks.htm   (3076 words)

  
 Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks - CanEHdian.com
Dan Hicks is a multi-instrumentalist from the San Francisco area, who began his musical calling in various local folk and jazz bands in the mid-1960's.
Dan started playing drums at age 11 and switched to guitar at age 20, although he continued to play both, as well as harp and keyboards throughout his music career.
Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks are back with a vengeance on his first studio production in over twenty years, with Beatin' The Heat.
www.canehdian.com /non/artists/h/danhicks/biography.html   (656 words)

  
 MetroActive Music | Dan Hicks
Hicks, a longtime Mill Valley resident who grew up in Santa Rosa in the '50s and graduated from Montgomery High, got his start in the music business as a member of the colorful Charlatans, a proto-underground rock band.
Hicks is philosophical about his uphill career path, but also seems saddened that he doesn't have more fame and fortune.
Hicks is getting his fair share of packed houses and standing ovations on his tour across the country.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/11.09.00/hicks-0045.html   (917 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Dan Hicks
The now-defunct dance hall served as the summer lair of the Charlatans, a San Francisco folk-rock band (Hicks, Mike Wilhelm of the Flaming Groovies, and Boz Scaggs were among its members) with a taste for turn-of-the-century gambler chic and potent hallucinogens--and a penchant for packing sidearms onstage.
Originally, Hicks had planned the event as a tongue-in-cheek self-tribute, envisioning that he would be sequestered onstage in an easy chair and looking pleased with himself while those fellow musicians who had played such a big part in his career performed for him.
Tickets for Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks second annual Holidaze in Hicksville concert are $35 (all ages).
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/12.04.03/hicks-0349.html   (791 words)

  
 Dan Hicks on the comeback trail by Seth Rogovoy
The Dan Hicks revival is also about to get an additional shot in the arm with next month's re-release of classic Hot Licks material on "The Most of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks" (Epic/Legacy).
Clearly, we are in the midst of a full-fledged Dan Hicks comeback.
Hicks is as bemused as anyone by his sudden rebirth as a commercially viable performing and recording artist.
www.berkshireweb.com /rogovoy/interviews/feat010421.html   (776 words)

  
 DrP Dan Hicks
Hicks’ voice – velvet swoops from falsettos to deep bass, impeccable timing, total control – makes him a pleasure just to listen to as a singer, and he sang a broad range of songs, ranging from many of his own to a Jon Hendricks jazz ballad.
Hicks was in good form between songs, too -- but at first too subtle for the lighting guy, whom he requested in past tense and third person to turn down one pink light that spotlighted him.
Hicks was a product of the same time and place (as well as many of the same country-folk influences) which produced the Grateful Dead but he made music at right angles to theirs, and yet wholly compatible with theirs.
www.holeintheweb.com /drp/drpdanhicks.htm   (1275 words)

  
 Dan Hicks News: liveDaily Interview: Dan Hicks >> liveDaily
Dan Hicks (music)' manner of speaking is slow and droll, somewhat like his brand of music.
Though Hicks is a trained jazz drummer, his on-again, off-again band Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks is almost a throwback to a bygone era--one before drum backbeats became prominent.
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks were fairly active until 1973, and then Hicks did a few solo albums over the next two decades.
www.livedaily.com /interviews/liveDaily_Interview_Dan_Hicks-3680.html?t=6   (995 words)

  
 The Amazing Charlatans
In the summer of 1965, The Charlatans were recruited by Chandler Laughlin to audition as the house band for the newly-opened Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada.
Dan was skeptical and somewhat reluctant to go, but the other members prevailed upon him, and their LSD-fueled audition at the Red Dog was a success.
Dan left the band in 1968 to concentrate on developing His Hot Licks, which had become an opening act for the Charlatans.
www.danhicks.net /amazingcharlatans.htm   (504 words)

  
 Player Bio: Dan Hicks :: Wrestling
Hicks has worked tirelessly at clinics and tournaments to bring a personal message of the program's improved health.
Hicks, a native of Corvallis, Oregon, graduated from OSU with a degree in applied physical education (1980) and later earned a master¹s degree in counseling (1990) from OSU.
Hicks¹ wife, Jill, is a former OSU gymnast and was an assistant women¹s gymnastics coach at Oregon State.
fullertontitans.cstv.com /sports/m-wrestl/mtt/hicks_dan00.html   (704 words)

  
 Dan Hicks Discography -- Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music
Hicks' voice is gruffer and boozier than in his youth, but the writing is still solid, as is the backing band.
Hicks is not merely undiminished in his powers, but also still at the top of the form in a musical style he helped create.
Dan Hicks and a slew of his Bay Area buddies slide and elide through a warm, fuzzy set of goofy roots-music holiday tunes.
www.slipcue.com /music/country/countryartists/danhicks.html   (1883 words)

  
 Dan Hicks (sportscaster) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hicks was also a play-by-play man for The NBA on NBC, and The NFL on NBC, and was a tower announcer for NBC's golf coverage until Dick Enberg left NBC for CBS in 2000, promoting Hicks to the top spot.
During the Summer Olympics, Hicks is the stroke-by-stroke announcer for swimming, and he is the play-by-play announcer for speed skating for the Winter Olympics, in addition to serving as co-host of the Closing Ceremony.
Hicks graduated from the University of Arizona in 1984.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Hicks_(sportscaster)   (667 words)

  
 Bread & Roses - Dan Hicks at Delancey
Since the early 1960's, singer-songwriter Dan Hicks has deftly blended elements of swing, jazz, folk and country music.
His band for the Delancey Street show included: Dan on lead vocal and rhythm guitar; Linda Groves and Susan Rabin on background vocals; Corky Rodrigues on string bass; Dave Bell on lead guitar and Richard Chon on violin.
A close-up of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks(left to right)Linda Groves and Susan Rabin.
www.breadandroses.org /ds_danHicks04.shtml   (206 words)

  
 Dan Hicks still gets in his hot jazz-folk licks
Hicks and the Licks cut three albums for the Blue Thumb label in the early 1970s, presenting a sleek and hip acoustic sound unlike anything coming out of San Francisco in preceding years.
He initially was a drummer with the group, but Hicks and the Charlatans soon found themselves on Fillmore West bills with the Dead and the Airplane.
Hicks left the Charlatans, which had yet to release an album, in 1968 and devoted his full energy to the Hot Licks.
www.gotorenotahoe.com /news/stories/html/2005/04/06/1653.php   (669 words)

  
 Something Like a Comeback / Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks put out a trademark CD after being far from the spotlight for ...
Hicks was joined on his new album, ``Beatin' the Heat,'' by Tom Waits, Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, Brian Setzer and Rickie Lee Jones (she plays a concert next weekend with Hicks at Oakland's Paramount Theatre).
Hicks took the drum chair in the group, which kick-started the whole '60s acid- rock scene during a summer 1965 engagement at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nev. When the Charlatans headlined San Francisco's first acid-rock dance-concert that fall at the Longshoremen's Hall, the opening act was the Jefferson Airplane.
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks started playing around San Francisco in 1968, a refreshing change from the heavy blues and loud electric guitars of the day.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/17/PK24389.DTL   (1374 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Music: Fast Train to Hicksville: A Tip O' the Hat to Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Dan Hicks grew up as a jazz drummer in the Bay Area, a most auspicious place to be in the Sixties.
Hicks says he found "two chick singers and a jazz milieu" to play as the newly formed Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks.
Hicks' witty lyrics were as wise as they were whimsical, and his deadpan vocals droll and devastating.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-07-13/music_feature.html   (1484 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Hicks, Dan: Ol' Dan's new again
Seems Hicks, once a drummer for the seminal '60s psychedelic group The Charlatans, encountered a similar name-battle with a '90s Britrock group.
Hicks' observational humour would take off by 1968 when he picked up a guitar and focus on writing his own acoustic-based songs coloured with female background vocals.
The result was Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, a marriage of complex rhymes and jive vocabulary about ironic romances, barflies, innocent freedoms and flying saucer pilots.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/H/Hicks_Dan/2000/07/27/745977.html   (468 words)

  
 DAN HICKS & HIS HOT LICKS booking - Country Rock Music Artists - Corporate Entertainment Booking
Dan had other ideas about the kind of music he wanted to make, and began putting together an acoustic act.
Dan's "Beatin' The Heat," featuring a new Hot Licks lineup, was released nationwide in August of 2000 by Surfdog Records.
Dan Hicks continues to delight his longtime fans, and has earned the attention of a new generation of music lovers.
www.delafont.com /music_acts/dan-hicks.htm   (593 words)

  
 RGJ.com - Dan Hicks has got Hot Licks
"Beatin' the Heat" is Dan Hicks' first album in six years, but for Hicks fans, there's something even bigger about this batch of music.
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks recorded three albums in the 1970s that caught the ear of lots of people who were lured in by the jazzy acoustic swing of "Where's the Money?" "Striking It Rich," and "Last Train to Hicksville."
Back in the mid-1960s, when everybody was moving to northern California, Hicks and a band called the Charlatans moved from the Bay area to Virginia City, where they became the house band for the Red Dog Saloon.
www.rgj.com /news/stories/entertainment/964734444.php   (392 words)

  
 A Conversation with Dan Hicks
But I was completely enchanted by the middle act, a group called Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (1969), Where's the Money (1971), Striking It Rich (1972), and Last Train to Hicksville (1973) are a consistent string of fabulous recordings, and astonishingly different from everything else that was happening in music at the time.
It's no wonder Dan Hicks ended up on the cover of Rolling Stone twice, because there's never been anyone like him, even in the more than 25 years since those first records were made.
www.puremusic.com /hicks.html   (500 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Alive & Lickin': Music: Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dan is an accomplished musician but this isnot one of his finest collections.
But Hicks is in fine form and sure to put a smile on your face and set your toe to tapping with this fine live set.
Dan is absolutely one of the last true sixties icons still playing and recording and making jokes.
www.amazon.com /Alive-Lickin-Dan-Hicks-Licks/dp/B00005N8TJ   (1243 words)

  
 John Orr reviews Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks DVD
People Hicks played with in high school, back in the 1950s, in addition to members of all of Hicks bands since then, including the Charlatans, and current and former Hot Licks.
On ''I Scare Myself'' at the Hicks show, Page started with a few little licks and musical references, then dived deep with slides, slurs and hammers into a stunning solo that was even more impressive than what he recorded with Hicks on the album ''Striking It Rich'' back in 1972.
Hicks calls out everyone's name at some point during the show, but it's hard to keep track, and something in the credits or the enclosed booklet would have helped.
triviana.com /film/dfilm/danhicks.htm   (944 words)

  
 Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks - Beatin' The Heat
Hicks carried on sporadically in the Bay Area as a solo artist sometimes billed as Lonesome Dan Hicks.
Hicks' off center point of view and playful melodies perfectly compliment his quirky lyrics and complex rhymes and jive vocabulary.
Beatin' The Heat is a terrific return to form for Dan Hicks and a triumphant comeback.
canehdian.com /non/artists/h/danhicks/reviews.html   (1060 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Selected Shorts: Music: Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dan is back with special guests Jimmy Buffett, Willie Nelson, Gibby Haynes, Van Dyke Parks, and Thomas Dolby, lending their talents to Hicks' first studio effort since his critically acclaimed 2000 comeback release, "Beatin' The Heat".
Dan Hicks took four years between "Beatin' the Heat" and "Selected Shorts", and it's well worth the wait.
The dearth of new Hicks tunes here (included are three re-done songs from 1994's live "Shootin's Straight" album, and three covers) may signal that in his senior years, Dan has hit a songwriting wall, but it matters little.
www.amazon.com /Selected-Shorts-Dan-Hicks-Licks/dp/B00031TXWC   (1148 words)

  
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Tulsa architect Dan Hicks, supported by a petition signed by 2000 area residents, plus a scientifically conducted poll showing that over 2/3 of the city's population believed the zoo should not promote evolution, was able recently to persuade city officials to remove exhibits depicting horse evolution and human evolution from display at the zoo.
Early in 1995, a private citizen (and member of Tulsa Zoo Friends) by the name of Dan Hicks approached the Zoo staff with requests that some Zoo signage be modified.
Although we did not feel it was appropriate to honor all of his requests, we did agree to the following: (a) to place a sign at the Zoo's entry which states, 'There are many views on the origin of biological species and their behaviors.
www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/zoolies.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Archives: Vibes: Dan Hicks of Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks
It has been over two decades since Dan Hicks was regular guest on "The Tonight Show" and graced the cover of Rolling Stone three times, but his dry wit and acoustic swing have hardly waned.
Reunited with his former backup band, Dan's latest release is his first with the Hot Licks since 1976.
The CD includes a batch of oddball originals such as "I've Got a Capo on My Brain" and the stoner anthem "He Don't Care," as well as remakes of gems like "Hell I'd Go" and "I Scare Myself." After his band's Music Midtown performance, a live recording is in the works.
atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2001-05-02/vibes_show.html   (735 words)

  
 Selected Shorts from Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks: No One Does it Like Dan! - Associated Content
Dan Hicks is back again with Selected Shorts, crisscrossing genres with his usual unusual blend of songs.
His fans have come to expect the unexpected in Dan’s music and they won’t be disappointed with this enjoyable set.He creates music that sounds contemporary yet would sound natural coming off of a scratched-up 78.
Hicks is a musician’s musician, which is evident from the impressive line-up of guests he has gathered once again.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/10070/selected_shorts_from_dan_hicks_the.html   (573 words)

  
 Dan Hicks : Hey Good Lookin' - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dan Hicks' involvement with the project began in 1974, shortly after the dissolution of his Hot Licks.
His then record company, Warner Bros., decided that since Hey, Good Lookin' had yet to be scheduled for release, they would revisit the recordings for a Dan Hicks solo album -- which was humorously titled It Happened One Bite.
As the music was cinematic in nature and origin, Hicks chose the title as a send-up of the 1934 Frank Capra film It Happened One Night.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,102005,00.html   (390 words)

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