Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks 1972
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2009
- Dan Hicks and the "classic" lineup of his Hot Licks - Sid Page (violin), John Girton (guitar), Jaime Leopold (bass) and Lickettes Maryann Price and Naomi Eisenberg! - performing "By Hook or by Crook" and "Shorty Falls in Love" - identified here as "Another Night". I would venture that this is perhaps a rehearsal for the Flip Wilson show of 9/28/1972 - of which there is a video here • Dan Hicks and his Hot ... - because the backdrop is the same. There is also "strange", misplaced laughter and applause, which might indicate that something else was going on at the same time.
The director didn't know what to do with us, so..laugh trax!!..ya that's it!! Anyway thanks for all the kind words and memories, amigos...Sid Page (violin)
Wow! I have always loved your ethereal, gripping solo in "I Scare Myself." Used to play it over and over and over... Man, you have chops, heart and soul. :)
Yeah, how ridiculous. They were a tremendous band. RIP Dan.
Wow, I immediately recognized that as really strange. I didn't know it was a laugh track though.
Sid - you were such an inspiration to me and I cannot tell you how many evenings I spent captivated by your playing. Many thanks. Hope you are travelling well.
i was watching the vid, thinking why the laugh track ;p
the fiddle's amazing
One of the most underrated bands of the 70s.
Best cut out bin records ever
Best bands ever.
@@johnm3152 Unfortunately that is true. Usually sitting right next to Ned Doheny's record...
By whom exactly❓🤷🏻 Certainly not by anyone who knew the difference between good & bad music -☝️😉
High Coin, the very magical on San Francisco nights album, it’s sounds like a Byrds song but has the magic. ❤
Jusr discovered Dan Hicks and after thinking id heard it all I think this is one rhe most original and fascinating bands I've ever heard. Absolute 1st class
One of my favorites of all time. Sid Page is one hell of a fiddle player! And Maryann and Naomi are the best!
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I first heard Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks in 72' and it changed everything in music for me....Always the Bomb
Really loved this eclectic group. My older brother introduced me to Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks around 70/71 and I’d never heard anything like it. Bought that album then as time passed Where's The Money? Striking It Rich an then
Last Train to Hicksville. By 73 a best buddy and I got jobs at Mc Donald’s while seniors in HS working cleanup (midnight till 8 or 9am depending on how much we goofed off. I’d bring my JVC stereo turntable and an assortment of albums and invariably at least one of the Dan Hicks albums to help rev us up! Great memories 😊
Nobody had ever heard anything like it. Before or since. The closest would probably be The Squirrel Nut Zippers, who were pretty good live, too, but these are just great songs.
I guess you could say I cut my teeth on Dan’s music. I’ve seen Dan many times over the years and have always been knocked out by the sheer fun these musicians are having. Nobody scat sings like Dan.
One of the best bands ever.
D Hicks’ “Last Train to Hicksville” was the soundtrack to my last two years in college, my roommate (and future best man) was a huge fan. Me too. Super talented musicians, perfect timing, a sensational ensemble. They’re hip enough for me.
Was you guys smoking up ..... lol I kinda think these guys fit in with greatful dead for some reason
You must have been a lot of fun at school.
Mine too
Can’t tell you how much I miss Dan. Saw him at the Troubadour the first time. He was a true original with the hell with it all attitude that only a fellow military brat can understand.
Most original band there ever was. Greatness. Imagination and originality. What it's all about.
it started in the charlatans....he took it with him when he started the hot licks.
Was hooked on the Hicks the minute I first heard them way back on their first album ! Saw him/them severals times over the years,,, RIP Dan,,, thanks for all the great music!
Talent just dripped off this band in buckets - amazing!
Pay attention punks these are what you call MUSICIANS. Extremely fucking talented.
I can do without the laughter (prompted or canned) but the performance is excellent, as it always was with these folks.
My wife and I met at a Dan Hicks show in '73. I had never heard of them until that show. They blew the crowd away--they were amazing. The opening act was Bruce Springsteen, whose name was misspelled Springstein on the flyer, which I have a copy of.
Symphony Sid... y’all live forever in my memories.
I saw Dan and this band back in 73 I think. At a club in New Jersey for 7 nights. Went every night. Got to hang with the Hot Licks and the boys. They were the best texas swing I had ever heard. Still are for that matter. Great stuff. Check out their other albums. Fun band.
more like, Quintette du Hot Club de France
Hot Licks indeed. These hippies are on fire. Wonderful mix of jazz, western swing and what have you. Love it.
I grew up in the 70's watching a lot of television. The purpose of the laugh track is mysterious to me. Can't think of a single reason that it should be there.
It's something along the line of the way Bruce Brown would put in comical, cartoon like, country music as background to some surfing scenes as though he felt the audience needed to have some humor infused.
I think it's insulting to the artists. They take their music seriously. The clown operating the laughter acknowledged should have been fired.
Dan Hicks is ledendary amoung many top performers. He combines musicianship, comedy and mixed styles like very few others were or are capable of.
TOO COOL...Dan Hicks is original, unique, and just a ton of FUN to listen to.
Great musicians all around, and his Hot Licks are lovely & talented, as well!
The leg work at around 1:52 is worth the price of admission. I've tried to "sell" Hicks to my musical friends for years with almost no success. I don't get it. If there was ever a more entertaining, "don't take yourself too seriously" musician anywhere, it was Dan Hicks. One of the mret talented people to come out of the original San Francisco music scene. RIP, man. You've earned it.
Dave James So did I! I gave up and since high school I still enjoy every single song.
In the 70's they were on my turntable constantly. Just a brilliant group. Fantastic musicianship, and Dan was a genius.
I feel the same way !!!
People don't seem to understand the brilliance here ..
The writing is unique and superb.
Dan is faster than the speed of light with grace and humor.
Pairing up with Maryanne Price in the early 70s was genius.
When she was young ~ she was a knockout with exploding talent and humor also.
This acoustic band is so smoothe and in its own genre.
And like I said at te beginning ..
Few people catch on.
Their studio records are fabulous..
My husband saw them before w met at a little club in Boulder before we met. It was Tulagi's.
Wish I had been there.
Amazing subtlety and versatility.
He wrote about everything !
" I scare myself" was the love song of the early 70s.
PS. I'm a musician.
I have tried to fix the Chordify chords in 'Vivando. '
Let me tell you ...I had to first figure out every single melody note.
It was nearly impossible.
Those notes slip away fro you in the harmonies and modulations.
I never really knew where I was for sure.
He works with chromatics in a smooth and tricky way.
Fantastic.
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He was the Original 'Dude', and his music still abides.
I didn’t discover him until’96! Been a huge fan sinse!! My favorite is “it happened one bite “
I was lucky to catch their show in Seattle a couple of times, in 72 and 73. This is what they played and how they sounded - amazing.
Was there.they also played outside in tacoma.
Saw DH&HL in a small theater in Indianapolis. Soon as the local inappropriate warmup act finished, their crowd cut out and left the choice seats to the real aficionados. It was pure aural nirvana. The PA wasn't even necessary; the sound from the stage was perfect. And I've never seen such great work appear so effortless. Every note from every performer was top notch. This is the stuff iTunes should have been battling over all this time. We are fortunate to have this music.
Sid Page is brilliant!
Saw Dan & his band at the Magic Bag in Ferndale years ago. Great show.
Talent, impeccable timing and vocals. Their style is FUN !!
He was a legend in s. Calif. in the 70s. Shout out to fellow patrons of The Troubadour in the 70s ☔️⛷🎤🎸🍺🌲
I miss Dan what a great songwriter entertainer he was
Saw them in 1972 (I believe) at Penn's Irvine Auditoreum...blew me away...loved their music....didn't realize Dan had died.....what a band and what a unique sound.....canned laughter track is unreal
RIP Dan Hicks....loved listening to these songs.
Early today, I somehow found myself singing "I Scare Myself" to myself--& couldn't remember whose song it was. Then I read the news, & I remembered... Loved him & them. Another sad day for music. ~❀R.I.P. Dan Hicks❀
+Gita Isak So weird ... and two weeks ago, I had this urge to listen to Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks after really not having thought of them for decades. Then I heard the news yesterday morning. I kid you not.
RIP Dan and thank you for the outstanding music and show!
Had the pleasure of listenin' to & meetin' DH&HHLs in ('70, or was it '71 - memories of those times a bit cloudy/smokey? LOL) in a small little saloon ("The Inn of the Beginning") in the Russian River/Redwood area (Cotati, CA). Was still in Unc' Sam's club near Petaluma then but on wknds played in a jug band (w/wig-LOL) and knew all their songs -we couldn't play them - who can?! DH&HHL deserve more kudos for all the pleasure they've given us!! OH yeah - it's NOT canned!! It's called performin'!
This was the very best Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks lineup. Three great albums. What else can be said?
FUN
This was the lineup I saw in the early to mid 70s!
This is brilliant music with a delightful quirk. It is so compelling O can’t take my eyes a ears off till it’s done
wonderful Dan and the hottest licks and the best Lickettes singers.. Vale Dan! thanks for the music.
Im 17 years old and I grew up listening to this music because my parents played it all the time. Absolutely love it, i'm so glad my dad had this taste in music
"Hot licks" has got to be the understatement of the century. "Ridiculously amazing, mind blowing licks" would be more like it.
The Lickettes certainly were hot!
True Story..... My brother and I went to see DH & HHL's and in between songs my brother hollered out a big "Whooooooooo" only to get a remark from Dan stating that "We reserve this time in our show for all the "ASSHOLES in the crowd to speak up!!!!! Fucking Awesome....Then they played back to back "Canned Music" and "News from up the Street".It was magical!!...He controlled that stage from the minute he started the show till he walked off stage.....I Loved Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks as well as each individual band member.......Sid Page , Jaime Leopold John Girton Including Maryann Price and Naomi Eisenberg ...I was proud to be an early fan......And still am to this day!!! RIP Dan and Jamie!!
Dan Hicks. Thank you so much for all the smiles your silly little song The Euphonious Whale brought me since my teenage years long ago. Not many people have given me something that last over 40 years.
Saw them many times in SF...starting in 73 at the Boarding House on Bush St. Loved them!!!
Just saw Dan last night in New London CT @ The Garde Theatre....he's AMAAAZING, and as laid back as ever! His percussive rhythm style & awesome vocals support the incredible musicianship from his band! His latest "lickettes" are incredibly talented on vocals, hand percussion, & even blowing the concertina!!! WOW!!!!!! Still funny too with his narrative & moves!!!
Unfreaking amazing talent. Insane confluence of genius. God to see and hear them together again!
Sid , you guys were amazing my favorite all time group ever , especially your playing thanks for so many great tracks !
Saw them live back in the day. One of the best concerts ever.
Many influences but still one of a kind, love you Dan, your music will live on in my heart.
just discovered this band after re visiting the sopranos and herd a song by them in the credits. what a jam these guys are
It's a cruel indictment of our society that Dan wasn't ever a household name.
He never cared about writing Top 40 shit. Hicks was more concerned about maintaining his vision for this music. And I am glad that he did.
He was always an individual, gotta admire that in these days of pop out clones
Man i just found about him because Tom Waits. His voice is spectacular
My friends and I went nuts for him in high school and I've been nuts for him ever since. I'm an artist, and his music makes all my planets twirl, makes good things happen, makes me want to get up and go.
Just had to go to the right house. :-)
Saw these guys in Austin circa 1972. Unforgettable.
One of my favorite bands. Greatly under-rated, like most of my favorite bands.
There is a corner in hell for the guy who injected the laugh track.
I seen them live in 72 blew me away I instantly became a fan.
One of my favorite memories... Santa Cruz Auditorium with Dan Hicks and his "lickettes"... :)
This group was the hippest band!Myself and three other friends would sing this at parties.We figured we might as well since we were memorizing each album as they were being released.
The wildest part was that we were in 7th and8th grade.I still remember all the words
"Symphony" Sid Page & Jaime Leopold...doesn't get much better than that!!!
The man playing the fiddle is so amazing! I know that it was a lot of work, I hope they had fun. I listened to them way back when. So happy to find this on UA-cam. The vocals and arrangements were/are astonishing.
Wow. My exposure to the Dan Hicks-Licks phenomenon was mostly audio, from the albums. They could really tear up a variety show stage, eh? The comedy implicit in the music really comes out on camera. Saw him as a duo with Rob Wasserman in Austin in '76. An underappreciated talent fer shur.
Love how they ended with the riff from "Sure Beats Me" a great John Girton tune.
He's still playing in the Bay Area as John and the Gir-tones to my knowledge.
Haven't heard Dan and his hot licks chicks since my freshman year of college in 1977. They were definitely very talented and meshed their vocals and string in such a unique way. Just great. Thanks for posting.
Still listen to Hicks and Hot Licks regularly; this beats the modern stuff coming out today.
Ahhh, takes me back. I used to watch Dan and the Hot Licks at Gino and Carlo's in North Beach where they had a weekly gig for a time in 1968 or thereabouts.
always loved them....violinist is off the chain
+Baabs Lembert
If you go way back in this thread you'll see that the violinist, Sid Page, has already made a comment or two on this video.
+Martin Meadows Sid Page ended up playing with Sly and the Family Stone for quite a while believe it or not! You can see him on many of the live TV clips here.
+Martin Wow! Which tunes?
The canned laughter is so stupid. I was listening to this band in the womb in 75 and i have never stopped...luv em!!!!!
R.I.P. Dan Hicks, who died today.
Wow! As sad as it is, I had almost forgotten about this band. Had their albums as they came out in the 70's, and I have a vague recollection of seeing them somewhere. They were, at the time, almost a cult band. Sorry to read that Dan has passed on, but at my age, it's something I read more and more. Thank to the Lickettes and the band, for great music, and glad to see some of it preserved here.
This is fantastic - thank you kindly.
RIP - Dan Hicks
Great swingin jazz, Girton and Symphony Sid were both tremendous soloists, Dan and the Lickettes provided some of the fastest and tightest harmonies ever. Only 4 albums (don't forget It Happened One Bite) but all were solid classics through and through. Thanks Dan.
Saw them a few times at the Boarding House (SF) in 73 and 74. No one did it better!
God Bless Dan Hicks......
Saw them open for Van Morrison in San Diego 1972... smoking HOT concert!
Where's the money? Today, so true.
Dan Hicks would do things while playing and singing to get the auduence involved, hence some of the laughter. He is a real class A showman and musical talent.
♫ Canned laughter, canned laughter, with out a doubt - it doesn't fit...
I wanted to see these guys so badly in the early 70's...
+Jon Doeringer - Was this the squarest audience ever? So clueless! I m guessing they were applauding when the light came on. Maybe there was a light for LAFF, too? And it was nervous laughter - they clearly didn t get the act. Sure, the band was vamping it up, but this was NOT a comedy act!
(oh, rehearsal? Was there an audience? Maybe they were testing the sound of the laughter?)
I saw them in Boulder in 72 at Tulagis, Dan and the girls danced like crazy back then, so much fun❤️. After the first breakup I saw "Lonesome Dan" Hicks in CT, then thankfully back with some new licks about a half dozen times, Boston, NY, Denver, Seattle, when they came to my town, I was there. The last time, 2010 Seattle.
I've seen hundreds of shows and Dans are always the most memorable. A true showman, brilliant musician, bandleader, dancer and the voice! No one like him in anyway.
Truly, what do you play after Dan Hicks?
Tom Waits
Saw them live at The Troubadour in the 70's. Marianne was in a red velvet spaghetti strapped dress. She was the most gorgeous girl I'd ever seen. I still remember how beautiful she looked all these years after.
This tune was written by Gower Champion, ladies and gentlemen. You probably think it's easy being up here, singing and everything and playing. It's not. It's not easy....... Thank you.
I have heard this song soooo many times that I have actually memorized that entire intro, including the timing of the "Thank you". Crazy! Love, love, love Dan & Sid & Mary Ann & Miami/Naomi & Jaime & John. RIP DAN!
mjoyce1950 - It's working called playing!
Lots of em' leavin' the planet now! And the year is still only about 5 mos. in!
This is what you’d call “a tight band”--always loved them!
Thanks for all the good times Dan!
that was cool as hell. kinda like upbeat hillbilly soul bluegrass.....big fan, big fan.
Amazing fantastic music 💕💕💕
Great Group...Peace and Happiness......:)
Me my Buddy Kane Hollins got to open for Dan and the New acoustic warriors at Rauls in Main back in the early 90's. Awsome. They blew us away by the way
I saw them with my friend Debbie, at the Olde Rollar Rink in North Vancouver, BC Canada, & then lots more at the PNE
& Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Oh man ,how many times did We see him open for so many acts at Avalon,Winterland,Greek Community. - -always have those Licketts.RIP Dan
They were the coolest human beings on the planet - still are!
They came to my college. I had to bring a rug for the stage. The Lickettes. What a night!!!!
We love you Dan - you are the mostest. Come to Oz !!
Best live band ever.... way underrated. Such talent! Glad I got to see some of the live. Sorry Sid, wish I got to see you too. Waaa!
This video brought back memory...
After two tours (cruises?) to Viet Nam, I was winding down my 4 year career in the US Navy on a DLG (think Destroyer plus 15%) that was givig week long training voyages to college kids that called themselves Midshipmen. One weekend we were parked in San fransisco Bay and I had the day off and could wear "civies"off the ship. Being this was sometime in 1970 and I was a red blooded American boy - I headed directly to Haight-Ashbury and tried to blend in with my age group. Had fun rummaging through the Head Shops and negotiating with the locals (a lid for $2.50, yeah - good times). Then as it became early afternoon I noticed the entire streetscene started a mass exodus up to the Park and into the Band Shell area. Not to be left behind I followed and discovered two things:
First, it was a free concert headlined by Leslie West (RIP) leading "Mountain" with Felix Papalardi sitting in. And the opening act was Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks! What a great day that turned out to be.
Oh, and then Second, I realized I was the onoy male in the whole audience with short hair! Hair length was a deciding factor in how well one would fit in to social gatherigs back then and it convinced me that when I got out of the service in a few months I'd never have short hair again.
Here we are fifty-two years on from that warm summer in the City and I still listen to Mountain, still enjoy the Hot Licks when I can, and still have my hair tocuhing my sholders.
Thanks for sharing your story, radwhack1, I could really imagine the scene! Just FYI, Felix Pappalardi was a co-founder and original member of Mountain.
@@bwj8 I did not remember that. Thanks Bruce. We can file that under "If you can't remember the '60's you were probably there!".
RIP Dan Hicks this has been a tough 2016
i had just arrived to Ohio University and the diudes across t the hall were playing this Dan Hicks stuff and being from Cleveland it shocked us. we were smoking panama red, all kinds of crazy things and this shit came into the racket in our red bud bong hazes and man this shit was excellent! Really different shit for a kid from rocking Cleveland. These guys were from nyc. Go figure. Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, always a part of my life experience.
Last Train to Hicksville is still in my top 10 favorite albums. I was blown away to see Dan in that old Big Mac ad, too. It's on youtube.
absolutely a very well played album in my life...
definately top 10 ... all time performers...
got your autograph made special just to me.
loved your persona...from day one feb 72 onward.
RIP Dan your in my heart
daily...autograph is framed and in my living room...and
Beating the Heat rides cd in the car. don't leave home without you.
Saw 'em in 72...if Blue Thumb Records hadn't gone belly up they would have been well known... Last Train to Hicksville is one of the greatest albums of all time...
Saw them in Palo Alto around this time. Very good show. RIP Mr. Hicks.
We will miss you my friend.
dans humor is legendary,but the music is perfection!!an all time fave..every song,every album..mine r all signed by him...and this lineup..the best..look how cute Maryanne was....oh,and the 2nd song is shorty falls in love,not another nite!!
Jools Australia 🦘🖤💛❤️🐨 Love this 💃💕💕Steely Dan Rules
thanx Martin Meadows..... looks like my finger was stuck on that post. 😵😜 I saw Dan Hicks & the hot licks early 70's .. I remember a little laughter in the audience.... Ceech & chong were on next..✌
Great violin, of course, and I love that hard driving rhythm guitar