He started receiving weekly chemotherapy, while still touring and also recording his album, "Arizona Bay", with Booth. He was also working with comedian Fallon Woodland on a pilot episode of a new talk show, titled "Counts of the Netherworld" for Channel 4 at the time of his death. The budget and concept had been approved, and a pilot was filmed. The "Counts of the Netherworld" pilot was shown at the various Tenth Anniversary Tribute Night events around the world on February 26, 2004. After being diagnosed with cancer, Hicks would often joke that any given performance could be his last; the public, however, was unaware of his condition, and only a few close friends and family members knew of the disease. He performed the final show of his career at Caroline's in New York on January 6, 1994; he moved back to his parents' house in Little Rock, Arkansas, shortly thereafter. In his last weeks he re-read J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", and made telephone calls to friends to say goodbye before he stopped speaking on February 14.