Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.4.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Mickey Hart Grammy Winning Percussionist & Musicologist ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://mickeyhart.net/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [The Gong - June 22nd, New York, NY](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-gong-june-22nd-new-york-ny/) - Tonight’s Drums & Space is inspired by the gong. I’ve often said that I’m in the transportation business and it is one of the instruments I’ve been using for 50+ years to transport deadheads.Gongs are psycho-acoustic gateways to heightened states of awareness and consciousness. My favorite place to take you to. When the Gong is played, - [MEYER SOUND, RAM ROD, TOM PADDOCK and THE BEAM](https://mickeyhart.net/news/meyer-sound-ram-rod-tom-paddock-and-the-beam/) - Drums & Space | July 16th | Dead & Company | San FranciscoMEYER SOUND, RAM ROD, TOM PADDOCK and THE BEAMThe outside world fades into the background as the sound overwhelms your senses and you begin to feel the rush of adrenaline that is being pumped through your body. It works its way from the - [In the Groove - Planet Drum - OUT NOW!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/in-the-groove-planet-drum-out-now-25426/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 2022 TRAILBLAZING GLOBAL PERCUSSION GROUP PLANET DRUM RELEASES LONG-AWAITED NEW ALBUM IN THE GROOVE TWO-TIME GRAMMY-WINNING COLLECTIVE FEATURING MICKEY HART, ZAKIR HUSSAIN, GIOVANNI HIDALGO & SIKIRU ADEPOJU CHAMPIONS RHYTHMIC UNITY AMONG CULTURES “Music speaks one language.” Sikiru Adepoju Nashville, TN – Today, two-time Grammy Award winners Planet Drum release In the - [Honk Night](https://mickeyhart.net/news/honk-night/) - Drums & Space | July 2nd | Dead & Company | Boulder, COTonight’s Drums & Space is inspired by the newest work from sonic anthropologist, Steven Feld. While visiting Accra, Ghana’s capital in 2005, he discovered a remarkable and previously unknown style of music: Por Por (pronounced “paw paw”). Performed uniquely by a union of - [Cincinnati, OH – June 13th – Ice](https://mickeyhart.net/news/cincinnati-oh-june-13th-ice/) - ICE - June 13th - Cincinnati, OH Glaciers and the Ohio River Glaciers are one of the most vital components of the Earth's ecosystem, playing a crucial role in regulating the planet's climate and providing water to millions of people around the world. These massive bodies of ice form over hundreds or thousands of years, - [Mickey Hart On Music, Art As Dead And Company Sphere Residency Resumes](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-on-music-art-as-dead-and-company-sphere-residency-resumes/) - Mickey Hart performs on stage with Dead & Company. June 9, 2023 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL PHOTO BY BARRY BRECHEISEN As Dead & Company’s Las Vegas residency resumes this Memorial Day weekend, with dates set to take the group into mid-July, stunning visuals continue to define the Sphere experience, with the group finding new ways to present the legendary music of the Grateful Dead even after nearly 60 years. Drummer Mickey Hart’s artwork has appeared not only on the exterior of the Sphere itself but it’s also incorporated within the group’s specially-crafted Sphere live sets. - [John Mayer and Mickey Hart of Dead & Company Talk About Their Big, Strange Sphere Trip—and the Future of the Band](https://mickeyhart.net/news/john-mayer-and-mickey-hart-of-dead-company-talk-about-their-big-strange-sphere-trip-and-the-future-of-the-band/) - The “Dead Forever” Sphere shows are a leap far beyond all that—they’re moving tributes to the living legacy of the Grateful Dead, a sentimental journey blown up to blockbuster scale, and also metaphysical theme-park rides that leverage this multibillion-dollar venue’s remarkable vibe-manipulating capabilities to trippy and visceral effect, particularly during the “Drums/Space” portion of the evening, when the haptic seats vibrate your bones in time with Mickey Hart’s percussion. “It took a while to get used to it,” Hart tells me in an interview a few days before I speak to Mayer. “You have to understand this is an extraordinary robot and you're in the belly of it…. Once you get used to it, like anything, you can really make some serious magic happen.” - [Living Legends: How Dead & Company Drummer Mickey Hart Makes Visual Art From Vibrations — And Brought It To Las Vegas' Sphere](https://mickeyhart.net/news/living-legends-how-dead-company-drummer-mickey-hart-makes-visual-art-from-vibrations-and-brought-it-to-las-vegas-sphere/) - Dead & Company are currently embarking a residency at Las Vegas' sphere, which features drummer Mickey Hart's eye-popping, unconventional art. Hart spoke to GRAMMY.com about how it came to be, and how the Grateful Dead's legacy continues to ripple forth. - [Mickey Hart on Dead & Company’s Staggering Sphere Run and His Vegas Art Exhibition: ‘The Stars Are Aligned for Us’](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-on-dead-companys-staggering-sphere-run-and-his-vegas-art-exhibition-the-stars-are-aligned-for-us-2/) - There are subwoofers embedded in the seats of Las Vegas’ Sphere, which is part of the reason why Mickey Hart‘s nightly extended percussion segment, titled simply “Drums,” is one of the clear highlights of Dead & Company’s current 30-show residency at the venue. But that’s not the only great use Hart has been making of low-end frequencies that people can experience when they come in for a show by the Grateful Dead offshoot. There are subwoofers embedded in the seats of Las Vegas’ Sphere, which is part of the reason why Mickey Hart‘s nightly extended percussion segment, titled simply “Drums,” is one of the clear highlights of Dead & Company’s current 30-show residency at the venue. - [Watch: The Sphere Marks Earth Day with Mickey Hart Exosphere Art Display](https://mickeyhart.net/news/watch-the-sphere-marks-earth-day-with-mickey-hart-exosphere-art-display/) - Read the full story in Relix here. https://relix.com/news/detail/watch-the-sphere-marks-earth-day-with-mickey-hart-exosphere-art-display/ - [The Inside Story of How an Interstellar Jam Session Came to the Las Vegas Sphere](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-inside-story-of-how-an-interstellar-jam-session-came-to-the-las-vegas-sphere/) - A new collaboration between the Smithsonian and Grateful Dead drummer and artistic legend, Grammy award winner Mickey Hart, explores this relationship in a new series of shows at the Las Vegas Sphere. - [That’s A Rap: Oteil Sings, Mickey Hart Raps To Cap Off First Weekend Of Dead & Company Sphere Residency [Recap/Photos/Videos]](https://mickeyhart.net/news/thats-a-rap-oteil-sings-mickey-hart-raps-to-cap-off-first-weekend-of-dead-company-sphere-residency-recap-photos-videos/) - Photo: Rich Fury / Sphere Entertainment & Alive Coverage via Dead & Company Instagram Last night, Dead & Company returned to Sphere for night three of the band’s Dead Forever Sphere run—the first Saturday of the 24-show residency, which runs Thursday–Saturday throughout May and June—and proved that the age-old adage, “Never miss a Sunday show,” now applies to Saturdays. - [SPHERE CELEBRATES EARTH DAY WITH SPECIAL EXOSPHERE CONTENT SHOW FEATURING ART FROM GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING PERCUSSIONIST MICKEY HART AND RENOWNED FILMMAKER LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG](https://mickeyhart.net/news/sphere/) - Hart And Schwartzberg Are Latest Artists To Design For Sphere’s Exterior – The Largest LED Screen On Earth – As Part Of Sphere’s XO/Art ProgramLAS VEGAS (April 22, 2024) – Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE: SPHR) today announced a special Exosphere content show in celebration of Earth Day featuring work from multi-GRAMMY Award-winning Grateful Dead and - [ART AT THE EDGE OF MAGIC IMMERSIVE EXHIBIT AT THE VENETIAN RESORT LAS VEGAS - OPENING MAY 15](https://mickeyhart.net/news/artedgemagic/) - MICKEY HART ANNOUNCES ART AT THE EDGE OF MAGIC IMMERSIVE EXHIBIT AS PART OF DEAD FOREVER EXPERIENCE AT THE VENETIAN RESORT LAS VEGAS – OPENING MAY 15 GRAMMY Award-winning artist, legendary drummer for the Grateful Dead and Dead & Company, Mickey Hart, has just announced his latest immersive art exhibition showcasing his groundbreaking vibrational expressionism, - [Golden Gate Bridge](https://mickeyhart.net/news/golden-gate-bridge/) - Drums & Space | July 14th | Dead & Company | San Francisco“The sounds of the great Golden Gate Bridge, a colossus of modern architecture, a trademark symbol of our city. Its song, its sound, and its vibration in the universe- a multidimensional instrument. It is a giant wind harp blowing in the wind connecting - [The Rainforest](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-rainforest/) - Drums & Space | July 1st | Dead & Company | Boulder, CO |Saturday’s Drums & Space will feature sounds and images from the film Voices of the Rainforest: A Day in the Life of Bosavi, Papua New Guinea. This film’s soundtrack is a 7.1 surround version of the CD of the same name, originally - [The Angklung](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-angklung/) - Drums & Space | June 27th | @deadandcompany | Noblesville, IN We’re bring an Idiophone to Indiana via the Angklung. This musical instrument is made of bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to have a resonant pitch when struck and are tuned to octaves. Looking forward to introducing everyone to - [Yin and Yang: From Fenway to the Emerald Necklace - June 24th, Boston, MA](https://mickeyhart.net/news/yin-and-yang-from-fenway-to-the-emerald-necklace-june-24th-boston-ma/) - Duality and sonic balance, the yin and yang of rock and roll and the sounds of nature. The location of Fenway in the middle of Boston’s famed Emerald Necklace series of parks is the inspiration for tonight’s drums and space. The concept of yin and yang is an ancient Chinese philosophy based on the idea - [Rhythm's Infinite Symphony - June 21st, New York, NY](https://mickeyhart.net/news/rhythms-infinite-symphony-june-21st-new-york-ny/) - Welcome to rhythm central. Tonight’s Drums & Space will be an immersive experience designed to synchronize your mind and body with the universal heartbeat. An exploration of rhythm’s infinite symphony, where music and the brain intertwine in a harmonious dance. Get ready for a night of discovery and transcendence. My interest in brain science dates - [The Acoustics of Water - Saratoga Springs, NY - June 18th](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-acoustics-of-water-saratoga-springs-ny-june-18th/) - The Creation of Saratoga SpringsDuring the Paleozoic Era, a series of faults or cracks split the underlying bedrock in the area of Saratoga Springs, creating fissures through which water forced its way to the surface. These springs are the only naturally carbonated mineral springs east of the Rocky Mountains. ( a side note– The Cambrian - [Saratoga Springs, NY - June 17th](https://mickeyhart.net/news/saratoga-springs-ny-june-17th/) - ANTS ARE DRUMMERS TOO“Ants can produce substrate-borne vibrations in various modalities, e.g. through whole-body movements, drumming body parts on the substrate, scraping the mandibles on the nest surface and the more specialized stridulation. Several species of the Attini tribe are hypothesized to produce alarm signals through whole body movements, termed “jigging”, but vibrations associated with - [Chicago, IL – June 10th – Serpent's Teeth](https://mickeyhart.net/news/chicago-il-june-10th-the-serpents-teeth/) - Serpent’s Teeth – June 10th – Chicago, ILToday’s Drums and Space is inspired by the mysticism of Serpents. The wall of the drums is serpentine in nature. At times, it feels and sounds like a giant sea creature navigating the open seas. The rhythm begins and moves through it, bringing life across the giant nest - [Bob Weir: 1947-2026](https://mickeyhart.net/news/bob-weir-1947-2026/) - Bob Weir was a little brother to me for almost sixty years. He was my first friend in the Grateful Dead. We lived together, played together, and made music together that ended up changing the world. - [Mickey Hart: God Is Sound](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-god-is-sound-25435/) - Mickey Hart: God Is Sound | By Amy V. Dewhurst | September 8th, 2022 They’re called mahatmas. Translated from Sanskrit to mean “Great Soul.” Sometimes they’re revered as saints or sages, and sometimes they walk among us like undercover agents. They’re human and can be fallible and flawed. But when you take a long look at their - [LIVESTREAM Planet Drum - Live From Frost Amphitheater](https://mickeyhart.net/news/livestream-planet-drum-live-from-frost-amphitheater-25423/) - Share: - [Chicago, IL – June 9th – Gods & Planets](https://mickeyhart.net/news/chicago-il-june-9th-gods-planets/) - Gods & Planets – June 9th – Chicago, ILFollowing in the tradition of cosmos as muse, tonight’s drums and space takes its inspiration from the Music of the Spheres and the gods who’ve acted as the planet’s namesakes. *Image by Ed Mattinian“Almost every major planet in the solar system is - [Mysterium Tremendum](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mysterium-tremendum-25349/) - ” The mysterious is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” ~Albert Einstein WELCOME TO THE MYSTERIUM “Once in a while you get shown the - [SHOW #4 Dallas, TX - May 26th - COMET BELLS](https://mickeyhart.net/news/show-4-dallas-tx-may-26th-comet-bells/) - SHOW #4 Dallas, TX – COMET BELLSPete Engelhart has been crafting bells, bangers and clangers with distinct personalities since the mid-’70s. You’ve heard them in the music of the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin and in the soundtracks of ‘Wall-E’ and ‘Tenet.’Finding Pete Engelhart’s workshop feels a little like stumbling into that Charlie and the - [SHOW #5 Atlanta, CA - May 28th - COSMOS](https://mickeyhart.net/news/show-5-atlanta-ca-may-28th-cosmos/) - We are dancing with the sounds of faraway galaxies. Come along on our ride through the solar system. Have you ever looked up in the sky and imagined you heard the universe singing its song to you? In the beginning of the beginning.In the beginning of our universe: mysterious forces came together, and space, matter, and - [Raleigh, NC - June 1st - FIRE ON THE WALTON](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fire-on-the-walton-june-1st-raleigh-nc/) - The film’s title is taken from the Grateful Dead song “Fire On The Mountain,” off the band’s album “Shakedown Street,” released in November 1978. Mickey Hart and Robert Hunter collaborated to create the song, which was first performed live at Winterland on March 18, 1977. The film also opens with a new original composition by - [BRISTOW, VIRGINIA - June 3rd - THE CONCH](https://mickeyhart.net/news/bristow-virginia-the-conch/) - At the entrance to the Marsoulas cave in France’s Pyrenean foothills, Henri Begouën and James Townsend Russell stumbled upon an exceptional find in 1931. A conch shell — the hardened exoskeleton of a predatory sea snail — lay empty at the mouth of a cave the men knew was once used by human ancestors in - [SKIDZ & MICKEY HART COLLABORATE ON A LIMITED - EDITION PSYCHOPOMP COLLECTION TO LEVITATE YOUR WARDROBE](https://mickeyhart.net/news/skidz-mickey-hart-collaborate-on-a-limited-edition-psychopomp-collection-to-levitate-your-wardrobe-25437/) - SKIDZ & MICKEY HART COLLABORATE ON A LIMITED-EDITIONPSYCHOPOMPCOLLECTIONTO LEVITATE YOUR WARDROBE http://www.skidznyc.com/collections/skidz-x-mickey-hart The collection features psychopomp pants, reversible bucket hat, and a glow-in-the-dark Zippo lighter. SKIDZ, the NewYork based apparel company founded by Rick Fayer in 1987, has teamed up with Mickey Hart, renowned drummer and percussionist of the Grateful Dead, Planet Drum and Dead - [The real story of why you see tie-dyed Lithuanian basketball shirts at Grateful Dead shows](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-real-story-of-why-you-see-tie-dyed-lithuanian-basketball-shirts-at-grateful-dead-shows-25433/) - READ THE FULL STORY HERE https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/09/the-real-story-of-why-you-see-tie-dyed-lithuanian-basketball-shirts-at-grateful-dead-shows - [NPR PLANET DRUM - New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 5](https://mickeyhart.net/news/npr-planet-drum-new-music-friday-the-best-releases-out-on-aug-5-25428/) - LISTEN HERE - [RELIX - Mickey Hart: In The Groove Again with Planet Drum](https://mickeyhart.net/news/relix-mickey-hart-in-the-groove-again-with-planet-drum/) - Mickey Hart: In The Groove Again with Planet Drum - Dean Budnick on July 21, 2022 “The original Planet Drum was based on cultures coming together in rhythm and being a model for that,” Mickey Hart says of the project he initiated in 1990, after inviting percussion masters from across the world to join him - [Planet Drum Sets an Example for Global Unity with "King Clave" from IN THE GROOVE out August 5th](https://mickeyhart.net/news/planet-drum-sets-an-example-for-global-unity-with-king-clave-from-in-the-groove-out-august-5th-25425/) - Nashville, TN – Today, two-time Grammy Award winning group Planet Drum is releasing the exuberant “King Clave” from their upcoming album In the Groove, out August 5th. Master musicians Mickey Hart (USA), Zakir Hussain (India), Giovanni Hidalgo (Puerto Rico) and Sikiru Adepoju (Nigeria) are Planet Drum, and “King Clave” is based on a 6,000 person drum circle - [Planet Drum - Queens Latino](https://mickeyhart.net/news/planet-drum-queens-latino-25432/) - Renowned drummer Giovanni Hidalgo of world music supergroup Planet Drum has a new release: In The Groove. It comes out August 5 and is their first album in fifteen years, following Planet Drum (1991) and Global Drum Project (2007), both of which received Grammys in the World Music category. Only in the cosmic universe of Mickey Hart (USA), Zakir Hussain (India), Giovanni Hidalgo (Puerto Rico) and Sikiru Adepoju (Nigeria) does Planet Drum fulfill - [In the Groove - Planet Drum](https://mickeyhart.net/news/in-the-groove-planet-drum-25424/) - In The Groove - The new album from Planet Drum has arrived! We're beyond excited to share with you what we've been working on for the last two years. The video below was filmed in the studio during the recording process and shows the genuine love, respect, and pure joy these four master musicians experienced through this - [Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain and the Return of Planet Drum](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-zakir-hussain-and-the-return-of-planet-drum-25422/) - In 1991, Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain formed Planet Drum, a global percussion ensemble that brought together the world's greatest rhythm masters into a one-of-a-kind improvisational supergroup. For the first time in 15 years, Planet Drum will be performing live at the Frost Amphitheater on May 1, 2022, along with Bob Weir and the Wolf - [Inside the effort to make music that heals](https://mickeyhart.net/news/inside-the-effort-to-make-music-that-heals-25420/) - The power of music to heal—or at the least, promote well-being—is acknowledged in many cultures. But only in the past two decades have the medical and scientific communities joined together in an effort to prove its efficacy — and explore the possibilities of making music part of actual medical protocols. Special Correspondent Mike Cerre reports - [Voices of the Rainforest: A Day in the Life of Bosavi](https://mickeyhart.net/news/voices-of-the-rainforest-a-day-in-the-life-of-bosavi-25419/) - Tonight the Rhythm Devils premiere a very special drums and space inviting you on a journey to the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Through Mickey's work with Smithsonian Folkways and the Library of Congress, Mickey has continually worked to preserve endangered music around the globe. One of Mickey’s closest collaborators and trusted allies in preserving the - [And you call yourself a drummer?](https://mickeyhart.net/news/and-you-call-yourself-a-drummer-25416/) - RHYTHM If everything could be sung to the standard rock and roll progression -- C, A minor, F, G chords -- then everything’d be simple. How many variations on a single theme. The greatest drum solo I ever heard was made by a loose flap of tarpaulin on top of my car hitting the wind - [Twas the Night Before Christmas - A Grateful Interpretation](https://mickeyhart.net/news/twas-the-night-before-christmas-a-grateful-interpretation-25413/) - Classic poem turned holiday playlist. Click the links in bold to enjoy. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except Stanley Mouse. His artwork above the fire so bright, his colors, his concepts, always so tight. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Stephen soon - [Pigpen was the musician in the Grateful Dead.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/pigpen-was-the-musician-in-the-grateful-dead-25412/) - “Pigpen was the musician in the Grateful Dead. When I first met the Grateful Dead, it was Pigpen and the boys. It was a blues band… Pigpen was a kind man. He looked so hard, but he was a kind, soft man. That’s why he had to look so tough, because he was so kind, - [Vibrational Expressionism - The Art of Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/vibrational-expressionism-the-art-of-mickey-hart-25411/) - VIRTUAL EXHIBITION MICKEY HART’S VISIONARY BODY OF WORK COMBINES MUSIC, SCIENCE, AND THE VISUAL ARTS. Best known as a drummer in the renowned expedition into the soul and spirit of rock and roll that is the Grateful Dead, multi-GRAMMY Award winner Mickey Hart is also an accomplished writer, energetic painter, restless explorer, and an acclaimed expert on - [Politics of Truth With Bob Crawford And Special Guests Mickey Hart and Robert Costa](https://mickeyhart.net/news/politics-of-truth-with-bob-crawford-and-special-guests-mickey-hart-and-robert-costa-25408/) - This week Mickey joined Bob Crawford and Bob Costa on the Politics of Truth podcast. Their discussion touches on music as a unifying force and its scientifically proven ability to enhance the healing of our minds and bodies. Also the force of rhythm, not only in music but in life; even more important to be mindful of - [Classic Holiday Poem Turned Ultimate Grateful Dead Holiday Playlist](https://mickeyhart.net/news/classic-holiday-poem-turned-ultimate-grateful-dead-holiday-playlist-25406/) - HOLIDAY POEM TURNED HOLIDAY PLAYLIST. ENJOY Click the purple links for audio, video and show/song history. ?'Twas the night before Christmas, ?we all sat in the den, ?Cornell 77' playing again and again. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, ?in hopes ?that? St. Stephen soon would be there. The Menorah burns bright with 8 candles of light. - [Dr. John & His Magical Mojo - November 21, 1941 - June 6, 2019](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dr-john-his-magical-mojo-november-21-1941-june-6-2019-25402/) - Malcolm John Rebennack (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019) My personal connection to Dr. John came by way of the Carousel Ballroom - the venue the Grateful Dead owned and ran back in 1968. There he was in all his finery. Feathers, beads, headdresses, charms and a cane for good measure. For 3 months we were - [Mickey Hart Announces New Cannabis Brand, Mind Your Head](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-announces-new-cannabis-brand-mind-your-head-25400/) - GRATEFUL DEAD’S MICKEY HART PARTNERS WITH LEFT COAST VENTURES TO INTRODUCE MIND YOUR HEAD CANNABIS BRAND New cannabis brand inspired by history, passion, mindfulness and creativity. SAN FRANCISCO — Today, three-time GRAMMY winner and Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart announces the launch of Mind Your Head, an innovative cannabis brand produced in California in partnership with Left - [Introducing Magic Minis from Mind Your Head](https://mickeyhart.net/news/introducing-magic-minis-from-mind-your-head/) - Mickey Hart Announces New Cannabis Brand, Mind Your Head via Relix.com May 21, 2019 Mickey Hart has announced a new cannabis brand, Mind Your Head, marking the first such endeavor for the Grateful Dead drummer. Hart is teaming with California’s Left Coast Ventures for the brand, which launches today, May 21, with the Magic Minis 1/3-gram joints, which are - [IN MEMORY OF REMO D BELLI June 22, 1927 - April 25, 2016](https://mickeyhart.net/news/in-memory-of-remo-d-belli-june-22-1927-april-25-2016-25399/) - REMO D. BELLI OBITUARY: What Xerox is to copying machines and Kleenex is to tissue, Remo is to drumheads: a trademark that has become virtually synonymous with an entire product category. Remo Belli, the man behind the product, did more than anyone else to introduce the world to synthetic drumheads. With his passing, the industry - [Throwback Thursday - Rhythm Is A Tool for Healing - My visit to the US Senate.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-rhythm-is-a-tool-for-healing-my-visit-to-the-us-senate-25351/) - “Everywhere we see rhythm, patterns moving through time. It is there in the cycles of the seasons, in the migration of birds and animals, in the fruiting and withering of plants, and in the birth, maturation, and death of ourselves. Rhythm is at the very center of our lives. By acknowledging this fact and acting - [Classic Holiday Poem Turned Ultimate Grateful Dead Holiday Playlist 2018](https://mickeyhart.net/news/classic-holiday-poem-turned-ultimate-grateful-dead-holiday-playlist-2018-25397/) - We're back with our 4th annual classic poem turned ultimate holiday playlist. Click the purple links for audio, video and show/song history. ?'Twas the night before Christmas, ?we all sat by the fire. This Bird Song with Branford lifting us higher. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, ? In hopes ?that? Mason's Children soon - [James H. Billington, my friend and the man who put the Library of Congress online has passed away.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/james-h-billington-my-friend-and-the-man-who-put-the-library-of-congress-online-has-passed-away-25396/) - Photo: Mickey Hart and Dr. Oliver Sacks visiting the The Library of Congress with Dr. James Billington. I’ll miss Dr. James Billington, who was a good friend for many years, and passed a few days ago. He was the Librarian of Congress, and a colossal presence with extraordinary vision. An explorer of knowledge, Jim helped - [The 25 Principles for Adult Behavior by John Perry Barlow](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-25-principles-for-adult-behavior-by-john-perry-barlow-25395/) - "I don’t expect the perfect attainment of these principles. However, I post them as a standard for my conduct as an adult. Should any of my friends or colleagues catch me violating any one of them, bust me." ~John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1977) PRINCIPLES OF ADULT BEHAVIOR 1. Be patient. No matter what. 2. - [September 29th 1967. My first show with Jerry and the boys.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/september-29th-1967-my-first-show-with-jerry-and-the-boys-25394/) - Many of you have attended your first shows since the birth of Dead & Company. Here are some memories I have about my first show which was on this day 51 years ago. In order to avoid permit problems, this concert was billed as "The Straight Theater School of Dance." It was held at the - [Mickey Hart Presents Musica Universalis at The American Museum of Natural History](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-presents-musica-universalis-at-the-american-museum-of-natural-history-25391/) - Join legendary Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart for a unique program at the Museum. The evening begins with a walk-through of the special exhibition Our Senses: An Immersive Experience featuring a curated soundscape based on Hart’s recently released album, RAMU. Then, join Hart in the Hayden Planetarium Dome for an electrifying live performance of Musica Universalis, created in collaboration with the - [Classic Holiday Poem Turned Ultimate Grateful Dead Holiday Playlist 2017](https://mickeyhart.net/news/classic-holiday-poem-turned-ultimate-grateful-dead-holiday-playlist-2017-25390/) - We're back with our 3rd annual classic poem turned ultimate holiday playlist. We've taken the best of 2015 & 2016 for this year's selection. Click the purple links for audio, video and show/song history. 'Twas the night before Christmas, we're enjoying with friends Duke University 78' playing again and again. The stockings were hung by the chimney with - [Throwback Thursday to Dead & Company November 1st 2015 at MSG](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-to-dead-company-november-1st-2015-at-msg-25387/) - John and Oteil were so into the music they didn't realize the set was over. Speedy recovery to John and thanks to everyone for their support and love for Dead & Company. Video Credit: concertbiz via YouTube. - [RAMU Spotlight - Tarriona 'Tank' Ball | Tank and the Bangas](https://mickeyhart.net/news/ramu-spotlight-tarriona-tank-ball-tank-and-the-bangas-25385/) - Who is Tarriona "Tank" Ball? Spoken word poet, musician, artist and frontwoman for Tank and the Bangas, Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball’s expansive sound matches her larger than life style and huge personality. Growing up in the churches of New Orleans, Tank was first inspired by the power of words in the watching her grandfather, aunt and - [My 'Warlock' Days at the Hampton Coliseum in 1989.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/my-warlock-days-at-the-hampton-coliseum-in-1989-25384/) - What's in a name? If you are trying to keep a low profile and do some really special shows, everything. I always loved the original name for the group of musicians I would join and spend close to 50 years making music with. I can picture that moment in my head when they decided to - [Pigpen was the musician in the Grateful Dead.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/pigpen-was-the-musician-in-the-grateful-dead-9506/) - “Pigpen was the musician in the Grateful Dead. When I first met the Grateful Dead, it was Pigpen and the boys. It was a blues band… Pigpen was a kind man. He looked so hard, but he was a kind, soft man. That’s why he had to look so tough, because he was so kind, - [Out with summer, in with fall Dead & Company tour!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/out-with-summer-in-with-fall-dead-company-tour-25382/) - Out with summer, in with fall Dead & Company tour! Ticket and VIP presales kick off Tuesday, September 12 for Fall Tour 2017 with general on sale for most dates on Friday, September 16. Visit DeadandCompany.com for dates + details. To ensure you, the real fans, get tickets in your hands directly, Verified Fan Registration will be available for - [Playing in the Sand with Dead & Company!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/playing-in-the-sand-with-dead-company-25381/) - Playing in the Sand is an all-inclusive concert vacation in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. You’ll experience three Dead & Company concerts on the beach, under the stars, just steps from the Caribbean Sea. The three nightly concerts take place at the Barceló Maya Beach resort, which - [Remembering Pierre Henry](https://mickeyhart.net/news/remembering-pierre-henry-25380/) - Pierre Henry, the great composer from natural sounds, has died. He was an amazing presence in the 70s Paris scene when one of my collaborators and friends Steven Feld was a student there. His "Well-Tempered Microphone" and GRM collaborations with Pierre Schaeffer remain a huge inspiration for many of us of who took up the microphone as - [Happy Birthday Barry Melton - Aka "The Fish" or the "Yolo County Public Defender"](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-barry-melton-aka-the-fish-or-the-yolo-county-public-defender-25379/) - One of my oldest and dearest friends. We've shared decades of music and laughter. Here's to decades more! ~Mickey Check out one of our famous Barn Jams with the Marin County Collective here. Learn more about Barry's alter ego as an attorney. A FISH TALE By Stan Sinberg "What everybody gets wrong about Barry Melton is he - [Dead & Company Tour Highlights - Summer 2017](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dead-company-tour-highlights-summer-2017-25374/) - "..I was carried away in rapture. And so I am a deadhead now." ~Joseph Campbell Check out the most recent shows! Las Vegas - Phoenix - Hollywood Bowl 1 - Hollywood Bowl 2 - Shoreline 1 - Shoreline 2 - Salt Lake City - Boulder 1 - Boulder 2 Click the show posters to go to - [Happy Birthday Michal Menert](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-michal-menert-25378/) - Happy Birthday Michal! Looking forward to our upcoming album this fall! ~Mickey Checkout what Michal and I are up to. Mickey Hart And Michal Menert Are Working On New Album Featuring Jason Hann, Zakir Hussain, & More Read more about our collaboration here: "Michal is an electronic music artist and producer based in Denver, Colorado. A multi-instrumentalist, - [Happy Birthday Les Paul - The Wizard of Waukesha](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-les-paul-the-wizard-of-waukesha-25377/) - His work goes way beyond the solid-body guitar. The exciting things he experimented with in his studio helped pave the way for music as we know it. Multi-track recording, overdubbing (aka sound on sound), tape delays, and other revolutionary techniques were just some of his many contributions. Les Paul - The Wizard of Waukesha. Born - [A Special Evening With Vibrational Expressionism. Fine art by Mickey Hart from Dead & Company.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/a-special-evening-with-vibrational-expressionism-fine-art-by-mickey-hart-from-dead-company-25376/) - Wentworth Gallery is honored to present, in its premiere presentation, an exhibition showcasing the fine art of Mickey Hart, a three time Grammy award winning artist and legendary drummer of the Grateful Dead and Dead & Company. His collection quite literally paints us a picture of his creative journey combining art, music, - [Happy 40th anniversary to the legendary May 8th, 1977 Cornell/Barton Hall show!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-40th-anniversary-to-the-legendary-may-8th-1977-cornell-barton-hall-show-25373/) - “There was just some kind of magical connection this night between the band members and the band and the audience - some texture, or some type of cosmic or celestial force is in the room.” ~Nicholas Meriwether Celebrating Cornell May 8th, 1977 - “...the single best rock performance anywhere, anytime, by anyone.” Quick facts and - [Today Back In 1968 - Columbia University & My First Ride in a Bread Truck](https://mickeyhart.net/news/today-back-in-1968-columbia-university-my-first-ride-in-a-bread-truck-25372/) - Sure Rock, happy to take a ride in a bread truck. On May 3rd 1968 Columbia University students were protesting against the building of a military gym in a public park near campus. Police had been removing the strikers from occupying buildings for days and the campus was mostly on lock down. Rock reached out to the strike - [2 Receivers + 4 Speakers = Just Exactly Perfect Throwback Thursday: 1970 KQED "Calebration"](https://mickeyhart.net/news/2-receivers-4-speakers-just-exactly-perfect-throwback-thursday-1970-kqed-calebration-3656/) - #tbt back to 1970 this morning and our in-studio performance for KQED. Videos are slightly fuzzy as they are almost 47 years old. Pigpen rocking the harmonica in "Easy Wind" really brought me back. "Calebration" was a series of shows that involved KQED and two FM stations. We split the audio into two channels and each FM - [National Recording Registry Highlights - Big Mama Thornton - Renee Fleming - Marty Robbins "El Paso"](https://mickeyhart.net/news/national-recording-registry-highlights-big-mama-thornton-renee-fleming-marty-robbins-el-paso-25371/) - National Recording Registry Picks Are In! The main purpose of the registry is to preserve culturally and historically significant recordings. Sometimes this coincides with "pop hits", but our greatest role is increasing awareness of the many voices that create the fabric of our rich and diverse culture. A few highlights stick out for me this - [Happy Birthday Elizabeth (Betsy) Cohen, Ph.D. Scientist, Educator, Activist, Fairy Godmother](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-elizabeth-betsy-cohen-ph-d-scientist-educator-activist-fairy-godmother-25370/) - Meet Mark Ballora - Mark teaches music technology at Penn State University and is my partner in many sonification projects. Sonification is the use of non-verbal audio to convey data and information. For example, the rate of clicking of a Geiger counter conveys the level of radiation in the immediate vicinity of the device. Academics - [Happy Birthday Maestro](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-maestro-25369/) - Happy birthday Zakir Hussain. Celebrating decades of friendship and collaboration. It's an honor and a privilege to be on this journey together. The pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain is an international phenomenon in the field of percussion and in the music world at large. He is one of the world’s most esteemed - [Happy Birthday Vince](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-vince-25368/) - An accomplished keyboard player and great harmony vocalist, Vince joined the Grateful Dead in 1990. His first show was on September 7th at The Richfield Coliseum and we've got some footage of that to share. Check out 13:12 for Jerry’s introduction of Vince. Vince's First Show - Watch Here Vince scored a top ten hit with the - [On This Day in Grateful Dead History - Highlight 1979 - Oakland - Keith and Donna's Last Show](https://mickeyhart.net/news/on-this-day-in-grateful-dead-history-highlight-1979-oakland-keith-and-donna-s-last-show-25367/) - "Not only was this a historic night, being Donna and Keith’s last with the band, but the boys absolutely torched this show. Right out of the gate Bobby storms into Greatest Story Ever Told with Jerry following behind blazing a funky, interstellar sound and the crowd roaring its approval. A solid first set followed, - [Through this world of trouble, we've got to love one another.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/through-this-world-of-trouble-we-ve-got-to-love-one-another-25366/) - Enjoy this special Valentine's Day selection of performances celebrating songs about love from The Mickey Hart Band, The Jerry Garcia Band, Dead & Company and more. Everything in the Mickey Hart store is 15% OFF all week using code Love2017. Thanks for all the love on this long strange trip. Click Here To Shop "Which of the two powers, Love - [Throwback Thursday Celebrating The Grammys](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-celebrating-the-grammys-25365/) - A Tradition Is Born In the beginning, there was heaven and earth and the 1st Annual GRAMMY Awards—more or less in that order. On May 4, 1959, many of music’s elite—including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Gene Autry, Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini and André Previn—gathered for a black-tie dinner and awards presentation inside - [Happy Birthday Neal Cassady](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-neal-cassady-25364/) - Who is Neal Cassady? "Neal Cassady was undeniably the real genius behind the Beat movement. He was a force of nature. The inspiration behind Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, the man Allen Ginsberg dedicated his landmark poem Howl to, the man who motivated and inspired William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, the Grateful Dead…and untold number - [There's a dragon with matches loose on the town.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/there-s-a-dragon-with-matches-loose-on-the-town-25363/) - Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down. Fire! Fire on the mountain! Fire! Fire on the mountain! - [It's National Bird Day - Special playlist inspired by our feathered friends.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/it-s-national-bird-day-special-playlist-inspired-by-our-feathered-friends-25361/) - In honor of National Bird Day here are some links to music celebrating these original aviators and navigators of Earth. Visit www.nationalbirdday.com to learn more. 1. Voices Of The Rainforest on Spotify. Tune In: http://bit.ly/VoicesOfTheRainforest (Don't have Spotify? Limited copies are available on Amazon.com or sign up here spotify.com) This special album is a recorded soundscape of a day in the life of the Kaluli - [Dr. Huston Smith - What a loss!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dr-huston-smith-what-a-loss-25360/) - Rest In Peace Dr. Huston Smith - 1919-2016 What a loss! "Ever since my first hearing of Huston Smith's 1967 recordings of the Gyuto Multiphonic Choir, these amazing and inspiring sounds have been my constant companions. With kindness and compassion, the monks chant for freedom, hope and peace." ~Mickey Hart Learn More & - [Classic Holiday Poem Turned Ultimate Grateful Dead Holiday Playlist](https://mickeyhart.net/news/classic-holiday-poem-turned-ultimate-grateful-dead-holiday-playlist-25359/) - Links in purple will take you to some of the best versions of the songs and shows. Soundboards and live videos used whenever possible. Enjoy. 'Twas the night before Christmas, ?we all sat having dinner, Duke University 78' is a definite winner; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, ? In hopes ?that? China/Rider soon would - [Planet Drum - 25th Anniversary Re-Issue Is Ready For Pre-Order! Plus A Free Bonus Track!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/planet-drum-25th-anniversary-re-issue-is-ready-for-pre-order-plus-a-free-bonus-track-25357/) - Celebrating their Grammy Award winning album milestone, Mickey and the Planet Drum ensemble are proud to share the new digitally remastered album. Available for the first time on vinyl, this reissue includes additional compositions and arrangements produced by Mickey and Zakir Hussain. The 25th Anniversary Planet Drum also features never before heard material recorded back in 1991 - [Mickey Hart unveils visual art at New Jersey gallery](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-unveils-visual-art-at-new-jersey-gallery-25356/) - (Photo: Associated Press) RePost From: app.com By: Alex Biese , @ABieseAPP Mickey Hart is the first to admit that New Jersey "holds a real sweet spot" in his heart. The Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee from Brooklyn, best known for his work as one of the drummers of the Grateful Dead, holds particularly fond - [Return to Planet Drum - 25th Anniversary Re-Issue Coming This December!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/return-to-planet-drum-25th-anniversary-re-issue-coming-this-december-25354/) - Planet Drum 25th Anniversary Re-Issue is now available for pre-order! Includes never before heard material recorded back in 1991 on three new tracks: "Sea Of Showers", "Throat Games" and "The Spot." Order Here: https://UMe.lnk.to/MickeyHartPlanetDrum Listen to "Sea Of Showers" now: https://UMe.lnk.to/MickeyHartSoS It's been 25 years since the release of Mickey Hart’s groundbreaking album, Planet Drum. Today marks - [Happy Birthday Terrapin Station & A Look Back At 1977.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-terrapin-station-a-look-back-at-1977-25350/) - With today being the birthday of the Terrapin Station album we're were inspired to revisit all Terrapin performances of 1977. "Terrapin" was played quite often in 1977 and we've grabbed some of our favorites to share. Starting with 04/27/77 at The Capitol Theatre. http://bit.ly/TerrapinCapitol 1977 Highlights: "It's as close to a flawless Grateful Dead tour as I've - [Kindness is; Giving away a pair of free tickets every week to a new winner to see any Dead & Company show left on the tour.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/kindness-is-giving-away-a-pair-of-free-tickets-every-week-to-a-new-winner-to-see-any-dead-company-show-left-on-the-tour-25348/) - Entering is easy and fun. 1. Like our official Mickey Hart FB page. https://www.facebook.com/mickeyhart/ Contest clues and ideas will be shared on our page. 2. Download or update the free BounceChat App and join the "BeKind and Win DeadCo Tix" chat. For both iPhone & Droid. Click the image to download. Once logged in you'll find the chat under trending - [Remembering Jim McPherson](https://mickeyhart.net/news/remembering-jim-mcpherson-25346/) - The story of Jim McPherson is the story of what might have been - a legendarily gifted musician whose untimely passing on this day in 1985 robbed us of an unknowable wealth of music. He earned considerable recognition for the Jefferson Starship's hit "Jane," which he co-wrote with David Freiberg, but that was only a tiny bit - [Dead And Company Summer Tour Highlights](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dead-and-company-summer-tour-highlights-25345/) - Summer is here! Thanks in advance to the entire Dead & Company team for all your hard work. It's going to be a great tour. New songs, amazing visuals, and spending time with friends. See you on the road. TOUR HIGHLIGHTS The Gorge "GEORGE — If you had walked into the Grateful Dead house in 1967 after the boys - [Muhammad Ali - He didn't count the days. He made the days count.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/muhammad-ali-he-didn-t-count-the-days-he-made-the-days-count-25344/) - One of the greatest fighters of all time and an inspiration to millions passed away on June 3rd. I had the opportunity to meet Ali at the 1996 Olympic Games with Zakir and many others. Let's take a look back at the life of a legend, may the four winds blow him safely home. July - - [The musical phenomenon of 'skin orgasms'. A closer look.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-musical-phenomenon-of-skin-orgasms-a-closer-look-25343/) - According to the Urban Dictionary a musical orgasm is: "an experience in which one is moved by music to a level of consciousness which is characterized by feelings of ecstasy, omniscience, immortality, and sublime understanding." Any music lover can relate to these feelings, and as it turns out, there is real science behind them. Here's - [Dead & Company to Play Outdoor Concert for Jimmy Kimmel](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dead-company-to-play-outdoor-concert-for-jimmy-kimmel-25342/) - Dead & Company will play a special outdoor show as a part ofJimmy Kimmel Live! on May 10, one month to the day that the band’s tour kicks off in Charlotte, NC. The band previously made their late night television debut on The Tonight Show with a pair of performances including “Shakedown Street” and “Brown-Eyed Women.” Watch that here. - ["Play me. I will make you happy." - In Memory Of Remo Belli - 1927-2016](https://mickeyhart.net/news/play-me-i-will-make-you-happy-in-memory-of-remo-belli-1927-2016-25341/) - Remo was an inventor extraordinaire, a business man, father, husband, bold visionary and my dear friend of 54 years. He said, “In order to drum, you must have a good drum and a good drumhead.” In 1957, Remo himself a drummer, imagined a new membrane that could withstand the cold, the heat, the rain and survive the - [Quiz: What does your favorite music say about you?](https://mickeyhart.net/news/quiz-what-does-your-favorite-music-say-about-you-25340/) - Music taste reflects personality... Systemizers lean toward jobs in math and science: the meteorologist who rapidly deciphers emerging weather patterns, the geologist who untangles eons of mystery about how a mountain formed. Empathizers tend to be good listeners. They can put themselves in someone else's shoes. Systemizers can have an average or even high ability to - [Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm](https://mickeyhart.net/news/planet-drum-a-celebration-of-percussion-and-rhythm-25338/) - BUY THE BOOK HERE Mickey Hart's dazzling companion to his bestselling Drumming at the Edge of Magic is a captivating chronicle of our global fascination with drums and the primal rhythms and spells of percussion, dramatically illustrated with 350 photographs and illustrations. AMAZON REVIEWS: "Mickey Hart goes into a global exploration of percusion instruments in - [When I first met the Grateful Dead, it was Pigpen and the boys.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/when-i-first-met-the-grateful-dead-it-was-pigpen-and-the-boys-25336/) - “Pigpen was the musician in the Grateful Dead. When I first met the Grateful Dead, it was Pigpen and the boys. It was a blues band… Pigpen was a kind man. He looked so hard, but he was a kind, soft man. That’s why he had to look so tough, because he was so kind, - [Dead & Company 2016 Summer Tour](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dead-company-2016-summer-tour-25337/) - Jun. 10 PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte, NC United States VIP Tickets Jun. 12 Bonnaroo Festival (2 Sets) Manchester, TN United States VIP Tickets Jun. 16 Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH United States VIP Tickets Jun. 17 Klipsch Music Center Noblesville, IN United States VIP Tickets Jun. 20 BB&T Pavilion Camden, NJ United States VIP Tickets Jun. 21 Saratoga Performing Arts - [Celebrate the Science of Music and the Brain](https://mickeyhart.net/news/celebrate-the-science-of-music-and-the-brain-25332/) - I can't pinpoint the exact moment when I awoke to the fact that my life's work--a drummer in a rock and roll band--had a spirit side, a science side, and a healing side. But it happened. And the past few Dead & Company shows have touched all of those sides. We pulsed together. We created - [Twas the Night Before Christmas - a Grateful Dead inspired version.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/twas-the-night-before-christmas-a-grateful-dead-inspired-version-25331/) - Classic poem turned ultimate holiday playlist. Enjoy. Click the purple links for audio, video and show/song history. ?' Twas the night before Christmas, ?we all sat in the den, ? Cornell 77' playing again and again. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, ? In hopes ?that? St. Stephen soon would be there. - [Dear Allen, Thanks for everything.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dear-allen-thanks-for-everything-12571/) - Allen was a dear soul that touched the lives of many. My daughter and I especially. Today, we miss you as a family. May the four winds blow you safely home. Dear Allen, You made us dance, you made us smile with your mojo always flying high. I wore out hundreds of LP’s listening to your - [Throwback Thursday - Where were they before Dead & Company.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-where-were-they-before-dead-company-12401/) - Bob, Bill and I are having a blast on this tour already. Every show gets better and better. This Throwback Thursday we dedicate to John, Oteil and Jeff. Where were they before Dead & Company? Oteil has a long and rich musical history playing with some of the best Jam Bands and artists in - [Dead and Company Tour Highlights](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dead-and-company-tour-highlights-11501/) - Thanks for a great tour everyone. See you in 2016. For complete tour set lists click here. For reviews, audio, and pictures scroll down. THE FORUM "The night concluded with a “Brokedown Palace” encore preceded by Mayer’s remarks which suggested that the song’s opening lines of “fare you well” were just a temporary proclamation and not - [Billboard Touring Conference Takes on Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well](https://mickeyhart.net/news/billboard-touring-conference-takes-on-grateful-dead-s-fare-thee-well-11341/) - The key players behind the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well shows will discuss the complex process that led to the biggest concert event of the summer in a Keynote Case Study at the 12th annual Billboard Touring Conference, set for Nov. 18-19 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. Titled "The Golden Road to Fare - [Charmed By Chimenti - All about Jeff](https://mickeyhart.net/news/charmed-by-chimenti-all-about-jeff-11161/) - Continuing our look into our Dead & Company line up we're talking keys today. Jeff Chimenti is best known for his work with RatDog. He was also a member of the post-Grateful Dead bands The Dead and Furthur. He performed at Fare Thee Well and is now a part of Dead & Company. Check out the - [Cal Expo Amphitheater Part of Grateful Dead Anniversary Boxed Set](https://mickeyhart.net/news/cal-expo-amphitheater-part-of-grateful-dead-anniversary-boxed-set-11146/) - Sacramento’s Bill Graham-operated Cal Expo Amphitheater, which closed in 1995 because of neighbor noise complaints, is soon to be immortalized by the legendary Grateful Dead. By Steve Martarano ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Oct 08, 2015 http://sacramentopress.com/ Sacramento’s Bill Graham-operated Cal Expo Amphitheater, which closed in 1995 because of neighbor noise complaints, is soon to be immortalized by - [All About Oteil](https://mickeyhart.net/news/all-about-oteil-11071/) - The Dead & Company line up is one for the ages. Top talents in their crafts coming together to celebrate the music that moves us. In this next series of articles let's take a deeper look and get to know everyone. Today we're talking Oteil Burbridge. Oteil has a long and rich musical history playing with some of - [Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Ancient Treasures - Smithsonian Magazine](https://mickeyhart.net/news/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-new-cache-of-ancient-treasures-smithsonian-magazine-10981/) - Over 2,000 years ago, the churning ocean below the cliffs of the Greek island Antikythera swallowed a massive ship loaded with a trove of luxuries—fine glassware, marble statues and, famously, a complex geared device thought to be the earliest computer. Discovered by Greek sponge divers in 1900, the shipwreck has since yielded some of the - [Mother Nature Gets a Megaphone](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mother-nature-gets-a-megaphone-10901/) - We often tune out the sounds of nature, but this installation offers a chance to truly listen. By: Laura Moss Reposted from mnn.com Deep in the woods of Estonia, near the Latvian border, stand three large wooden megaphones designed to amplify the sounds of the forest. Stand in just the right place, and - [Hidden Gems, Hidden Tracks - What can you discover?](https://mickeyhart.net/news/hidden-gems-hidden-tracks-what-can-you-discover-10911/) - Many Grateful Dead studio CDs have "hidden" tracks. These are included as separate tracks, not listed in the liner notes but playable if you step forward through the tracks. They have varying lengths of silent introductions. You'll want to let the CD run on from the previous track.Thanks to whitegum.com for compiling this list. What new - [Watch The Most Unforgettable Moments That Took Place At Lockn'](https://mickeyhart.net/news/watch-the-most-unforgettable-moments-that-took-place-at-lockn-10051/) - "Another late night unforgettable moment goes to Mickey Hart's Deep Rhythm Experience, on Friday, with Steve Kimock and EOTO and Android Jones. To say the woods were lit up like a Christmas tree is an understatement. The brilliant light display flashed throughout the forest had many in a trance." "His late night deep jams - [New Human Ancestor Elicits Awe - and Many Questions](https://mickeyhart.net/news/new-human-ancestor-elicits-awe-and-many-questions-10156/) - New Human Ancestor Elicits Awe—and Many Questions Fossils of Homo naledi are an amazing discovery, experts say, but their scientific value remains in limbo until we know how old they are. By Jamie Shreeve, National Geographic Scientists reacted with a mix of awe and exasperation to the news Thursday of the discovery of fossils in - [Quick Facts About Labor Day](https://mickeyhart.net/news/quick-facts-about-labor-day-8086/) - 11 Facts About Labor Day 1. The first celebrated US Labor Day was on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 in New York City, planned by the Central Labor Union. 2. 10,000 workers marched from City Hall all the way to 42nd Street and then met with their families in Wendel’s Elm Park for a picnic, concert, and speeches. 3. - [Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/summertime-done-come-and-gone-my-oh-my-7896/) - Wave that flag, wave it wide and high. With the end of summer comes Fall festival & tour time. Looking forward to seeing you at Lockn' and with Dead & Company. It's going to be a fantastic few months of music. - [Let's Celebrate America's Workers on Labor Day](https://mickeyhart.net/news/lets-celebrate-americas-workers-labor-day-7891/) - On Labor Day I salute all the drummers of the world who keep the time we dance to--along with all the trade and craftspeople who support our endeavors. I honor the sound, light, and tech folks, set builders, and so many more.I also honor the workers Ralph Nader identifies: "Labor Day is a time to - [For my dear friend, Oliver Sacks.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/for-my-dear-friend-oliver-sacks-7676/) - Oliver Sacks was a dear friend with a brilliant brain and the road he traveled was not a familiar one. We will all miss this elegant, generous man who spoke in a language we have never heard before. He was a hunter following the hidden pathways of the brain in his search for answers, cures, and reasons - [Throwback Thursday is talking Tesla today. A most interesting fellow.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-talking-tesla-today-most-interesting-fellow-7631/) - The 10 Inventions Of Nikola Tesla That Changed The WorldBy Nicholas West Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate more than 70 years after his death. Was he for real? A crackpot? Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control? We know that he was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers - [5 Ways to Celebrate National Dog Day](https://mickeyhart.net/news/5-ways-celebrate-national-dog-day-7611/) - Original Article: http://www.sugarthegoldenretriever.com/ National Dog Day is annually celebrated on August 26. This special day began in 2004 by Colleen Paige, Pet & Family Lifestyle Expert, and Animal Advocate. National Dog Day is a Day to Celebrate Dogs. Here are 5 Ways to Celebrate National Dog Day …or any day, since every day is Dog Day! 5 Ways to - [Dead & Company Announce Fall Tour & NYE Run](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dead-company-announce-fall-tour-nye-run-7591/) - This fall Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will be joined by John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti for a tour billed as Dead And Company. According to the below post on the group's official Instagram account, Dead & Company will now debut on October 29 in Albany, New York - [Music is the best medicine- INTEGRIS Generations Music & Memory Program found successful](https://mickeyhart.net/news/music-best-medicine-integris-generations-music-memory-program-found-successful-7596/) - Reposted From hwww.miamiok.comOriginal Post: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 2:40 pmKimberly Barker kbarker@miaminewsrecord.comPhoto: Paula Cody (left), Director of Social Work at INTEGRIS in Miami, Don Henderson, INTEGRIS Director of Behavioral Health and volunteer Pam Clark have been working on the Music and Memory Program at INTEGRIS Generations. The program assists patients with Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and other - [Video Premiere: Charles Lloyd and Mickey Hart Live in Studio](https://mickeyhart.net/news/video-premiere-charles-lloyd-and-mickey-hart-live-studio-7396/) - Reposted From Relix.com Saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd remains an active musical presence over than 50 years into his career. In the late 1960s he appeared at the Fillmore in San Francisco, co-headlining bills with Jimi Hendrix & Janis Joplin (Lloyd's 1967 album Love-In was recorded at the venue). He also guested with the Grateful Dead - [LOCKN' COUNTDOWN! Biking, Travel & HeadCount Updates!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/lockn-countdown-biking-travel-headcount-updates-7336/) - Looking for information about Hotels, Shuttles, Taxis, and Airports? We've got the info for you! Check out our website's INFO Pages HERE and keep an eye on these emails as we countdown to LOCKN'. We'll keep you informed and make your LOCKN' experience the best it can be! Bring your bike to Lockn'! Use your bike - [Fire On The Mountain Friday - Fan Pick Of The Week - July 13, 1985 Ventura County Fairgrounds , CA](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fire-on-the-mountain-friday-fan-pick-of-the-week-july-13-1985-ventura-county-fairgrounds-ca-7111/) - This week's fan pick is an extremely rare stand-alone "Fire". Starting at minute 4:30...2nd song in the first set. Enjoy and see you next week. - [Music jogs memories for Imboden dementia patients.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/music-jogs-memories-for-imboden-dementia-patients-7116/) - By EMILY STEELE H&R Staff Writer Original Post: www.herald-review.com DECATUR – It's hard for Rita Raupp to recall names and faces anymore, but when she hears music, her memory starts to comes back, and it's enough to make her dance. About half of the residents at Imboden Creek skilled nursing facility have some type - [Oteil Burbridge Speaks About Jamming With The Grateful Dead, Praises Trey Anastasio, Reveals Favorite Dead Songs](https://mickeyhart.net/news/oteil-burbridge-speaks-about-jamming-grateful-dead-praises-trey-anastasio-reveals-favorite-dead/) - Oteil Burbridge Speaks About Jamming With The Grateful Dead, Praises Trey Anastasio, Reveals Favorite Dead Songs Original Article: http://bit.ly/oteilinterview_mhPosted in News by Sara Furer. As Oteil Burbridge prepares for his new role as bassist for Dead & Company along with Grateful Dead members Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, John Mayer and Jeff Chimenti, the former Allman - [How Music Can Help People with Epilepsy](https://mickeyhart.net/news/how-music-can-help-people-with-epilepsy-6946/) - From Neuroscience News August 9, 2015 Scans show brainwaves of those with disorder appear to synchronize with music. The brains of people with epilepsy appear to react to music differently from the brains of those who do not have the disorder, a finding that could lead to new therapies to prevent seizures, according to - [3rd Annual Lockn' Festival Prep Underway in Nelson County](https://mickeyhart.net/news/3rd-annual-lockn-festival-prep-underway-nelson-county-6951/) - By Mona AbdiNelson County, VA - The 3rd annual Lock'n Festival is just a month away and preparations are already starting in Nelson County. The three day event draws tens of thousands of people each year to Oak Ridge Farm. For much of the year, the Oak Ridge Farm is serene, but for the last three - [Reasons We Love John Mayer](https://mickeyhart.net/news/reasons-we-love-john-mayer-6591/) - No matter what your perception or knowledge is of John Mayer, he can play guitar like nobody's business. We're pretty sure Jerry would agree. SOME REASONS TO LOVE JOHN. 1. He is very passionate about our music's legacy and sound. "To help carry this music is the opportunity and the honor of a lifetime.” - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - 10-3-1987 - Shoreline, Mountain View, CA](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-pick-10-3-1987-shoreline-mountain-view-ca-6496/) - #TerrapinTuesdays The opus of Terrapin borrows from both American and English folklore. The tale tells the story of a lady approached by two men – a soldier and a seaman – who vie for her affection. Which one would you be? If Jerry happened to be the "storyteller" which choice do you think he would - [Fire On The Mountain Friday - Happy Early Birthday Jerry - Dear Jerry 2015](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fire-on-the-mountain-friday-happy-early-birthday-jerry-dear-jerry-2015-6416/) - In honor of Jerry's birthday tomorrow we're celebrating this version of "Fire On The Mountain" from Dear Jerry. A truly special version in honor of an amazing individual we all miss very much. Hi Jerry, We'd rather be with you too. Love, Everyone - [Bob Weir and Mickey Hart added to Lockn' Music Festival Lineup!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/bob-weir-and-mickey-hart-added-lockn-music-festival-lineup-6356/) - The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are the latest additions to the lineup at the Lockn’ Music Festival. Weir will perform as the Featured Guest Of The Day appearing in unique artist collaborations on Saturday, Sept. 12.Hart will curate a “deep rhythm experience” at Lockn’s forest stage during two consecutive one-­of-a-kind late night - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - How about every Terrapin from 1977!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-pick-how-about-every-terrapin-from-1977-6316/) - Just kidding. Well, maybe. With yesterday being the birthday of the Terrapin Station album we were inspired to revisit all of 1977. We played "Terrapin" quite often that year and we've grabbed some of our favorites to share. Starting with 04/27/77 at The Capitol Theatre. http://bit.ly/TerrapinCapitol A quick look back on 1977: "It's - [Happy Birthday - Terrapin Station - July 27th - 1977](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-birthday-terrapin-station-july-27th-1977-6286/) - Terrapin Station was our 9th studio album and was released today in 1977. It was our first album on our new label at the time, Arista Records. Over the last 35+ years there's been countless reviews, discussions and highlights about the record. Here's just a glimpse into what people had to say. "Recently, after not having heard - [Fire On The Mountain Friday - Dead Ahead - Radio City Music Hall 10/31/80](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fire-on-the-mountain-friday-dead-ahead-radio-city-music-hall-10-31-80-6221/) - Officially released as "Dead Ahead" in 1981 then re-released in 2005, this concert video is pretty special as it contains acoustic as well as electric song performances. "More perhaps than any other attraction in rock, the Dead audience is part of the show." - Los Angeles Times "Stickers with Grateful Dead slogans are - [Throwback Thursday - Honoring Brent Today](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-honoring-brent-today-6181/) - In 1979 a reporter asked Mickey how he felt about their new keyboard player. "He's making it more interesting...jamming... I'm thoroughly enjoying him..." ~Mickey Hart Earlier that year Brent joined the Grateful Dead replacing Keith and Donna. He quickly became an integral part of the sound. His last show was on July 23, 1990 at The - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - Anaheim Stadium, July 26, 1987](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-pick-anaheim-stadium-july-26-1987-6156/) - This week we're highlighting a Terrapin performance from a very very hot summer day in 1987. Perhaps also coming across the shortest Bobby shorts ever? This show was officially released as View from the Vault IV. It was released simultaneously as an album on CD and as a concert performance video on DVD. This volume - [Soundcheck Sundays - This Week's Highlight - "Eyes Of The World" - Orpheum Theater 1976](https://mickeyhart.net/news/soundcheck-sundays-this-week-s-highlight-eyes-of-the-world-orpheum-theater-1976-6131/) - SOUND CHECK SUNDAYS Thanks to YouTube user Jimmy B for sharing this gem. Published on Dec 31, 2011 July 12th 1976 Orpheum Theater San Francisco, CA Soundcheck before show Thanks for watching. ~Team Mickey - [Fire On The Mountain Friday - Special Guest Pick - Bob Minkin - Winterland 12/31/1977](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fire-mountain-friday-special-guest-pick-bob-minkin-winterland-12311977-6071/) - This week our special guest is Bob Minkin. Forty one years ago Bob's first show was a Jerry Garcia Band gig at the Capitol Theater in New Jersey. Luckily for all of us on the bus he used to take along a camera to capture memories of the shows he attended. Bitten by the shutter - [Throwback Thursday. My friend Carlos and I talk Babatunde Olatunji](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-my-friend-carlos-and-i-talk-babatunde-olatunji-6057/) - Learn about the influence Baba Olatunji had on our music in this fantastic interview about life, spirituality and as Carlos says, "pure love." Listen to another favorite of mine from The Global Drum Project titled "Baba" in his honor. http://bit.ly/babatrack Enjoy! - [Terrapin Tuesdays - Hello Wolf, It's been a while. Warren Haynes & the Boston Pops perform "Terrapin"](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-hello-wolf-it-s-been-a-while-warren-haynes-the-boston-pops-perform-terrapin-6011/) - Special "Terrapin" Tuesday today with Warren Haynes & the Boston Pops from the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration. Enjoy! - [Spotlight - The Spirit Cries / The Endangered Music Project](https://mickeyhart.net/news/spotlight-the-spirit-cries-the-endangered-music-project-5986/) - Spotlight on The Mickey Hart Collection On October 11, 2011, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released the 'Mickey Hart Collection' to preserve and further the Grateful Dead percussionist's endeavor to cross borders and expand musical horizons. Smithsonian Folkways will make many of Mickey Hart's music projects available digitally (stream and download) for the first time while - [Fire On The Mountain Friday - Fan Pick Of The Week - JFK 7/7/1989](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fire-mountain-friday-fan-pick-week-jfk-771989-5876/) - Fire Friday pick of the week takes us to JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA. July 7th, 1989. This version of "Fire On The Mountain" is just as hot as it was that day. Some reported temperatures of over 100 degrees. It was also the end of JFK Stadium. Six days after our 1989 show, then Mayor Wilson Goode, - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Guest - Grateful Dean - His Pick - Oakland Coliseum 12/30/1989](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-weeks-guest-grateful-dean-his-pick-oakland-coliseum-12301989-5716/) - Our guest this week is Grateful Dean from gratefuldean.com. His pick is Oakland Coliseum 12/30/1989. Listen Here: http://bit.ly/terrapin12_30_1989 He had this to say about his favorite Terrapin: 12/30/1989 This night has been packed with magic beyond our ability to adequately convey using words… Bertha->Good Lovin, Sugaree started the night off with flashbacks from the 70s. There’s something about a second set - [Happy Fourth Of July - Today we're all "Playing in the Band."](https://mickeyhart.net/news/happy-fourth-of-july-today-we-re-all-playing-in-the-band-5556/) - That was quite a celebration yesterday. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. As the year continues - let us make every day filled with gratitude and kindness. Everyday is a great day to celebrate freedom of spirit. Everyday is a great day to celebrate the extraordinary “long strange trip” so - [The Grateful Dead Bids "Fare Thee Well" at Levi's Stadium with Meyer Sound LEO](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-bids-fare-thee-well-levis-stadium-meyer-sound-leo-5516/) - Reposted With PermissionFifty years after forming their band at a Palo Alto music store, the surviving founders of the Grateful Dead kicked off their end-of-an-era "Fare Thee Well" mini-tour at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. with a Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system driving a quadraphonic surround setup. The two Silicon Valley shows - [Throwback Thursday - September 29th 1967. My first show with Jerry and the boys.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-september-29th-1967-my-first-show-jerry-and-boys-5456/) - Many of you are attending your first show this weekend. Here are some memories I have about my first show. In order to avoid permit problems, this concert was billed as "The Straight Theater School of Dance." It was held at the Straight Theater, which was an old Vaudeville movie theater in the middle of the - [Fire On The Mountain Fridays - Debut Performance March 18th 1977 at Winterland Arena](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fire-on-the-mountain-fridays-debut-performance-march-18th-1977-at-winterland-arena-5491/) - Welcome to Fire Fridays. Every Friday starting today at 4:20 we will highlight a story about a performance of "Fire On The Mountain." It's the same idea as our Terrapin Tuesday series. We are excited to bring you this new weekly offering, so let's get this fire burning. Written by lyricist Robert Hunter - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - Back To The Beginning](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-pick-back-to-the-beginning-5371/) - We're feeling so nostalgic today that ?#‎TerrapinTuesdays? will go back to where it all began - before we say ?#‎FareTheeWell?. The Grateful Dead first played Terrapin on 2/26/1977 at the Swing Auditorium. I remember we opened the show with it. We played the "Full" Terrapin only once on 03/18/1977 including the Alhambra ending. Our final - [Hey Jerry, Thanks for the rainbow!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/hey-jerry-thanks-rainbow-5321/) - "Down The Road" - Mystery Box From the corner of my eye I saw the sun explodeI didn't look directly 'cause it would have burned my soulWhen the smoke & thunder cleared enough to look aroundI heard a sweet guitar lick, an old familiar soundI heard a laugh I recognized come rolling from the earthSaw it - [Fare Thee Well Rehearsal Highlights](https://mickeyhart.net/news/fare-thee-well-rehearsal-highlights-5276/) - Click on the gallery below to see all of the great shots.All photos by John Werner - [Did You Feel It?](https://mickeyhart.net/news/did-you-feel-it-5281/) - Did you feel it? SOLDIER FIELD:The Beam moved us all last night. Here are some comments about what people felt. "Oh, what a Pythagorean's Delight indeed." ~Floyd W. "Mickey, The Beam was AMAZING, last night!!! I was home, in Ohio, and felt it, ALL!!! Thanx for a terrific ride, been on since '84!! I think it's safe to - [All About The Beam, Baby!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/all-about-the-beam-baby-5211/) - The Apocalypse Now Sessions After attending a Grateful Dead concert, director Francis Ford Coppola asked Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann to record drum music for his film Apocalypse Now. They improvised the music at the same time a rough cut of the movie was being screened. Some of that music ended up being used on - [Throwback Thursday - 1990 - Drums/Space at Madison Square Garden](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-1990-drums-space-at-madison-square-garden-5136/) - Throwback to 1990 and a highlight from Madison Square Garden. The 52 shows we'd play here between 1979 to 1994 were always spectacular. Check out the Octapad action around 7 minutes into this clip. 16 pads creating some incredible rhythm. Fun Fact: The first model of the Roland "Pad-8" was introduced in 1985. It - [Mickey Hart: Heartbeat of the Sun Solo with Acro Yoga](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-heartbeat-of-the-sun-solo-with-acro-yoga-5061/) - Published on Jan 31, 2014 Performed at: NIGHTFALL OF DIAMONDS A Benefit for the Rex Foundation December 7, 2013 - [Smithsonian Folkways To Release The Mickey Hart Collection Digitally And On-Demand](https://mickeyhart.net/news/smithsonian-folkways-to-release-the-mickey-hart-collection-digitally-and-on-demand-583/) - “Since the 1970s, I have made it a priority to record musics from around the world whenever I could. I treated each recording as if it would sell a million copies. I always recorded it at the highest resolution and had it mastered at the same place I would master a Grateful Dead recording.” ~Mickey - [Mickey Hart and George Smoot Talk Rhythms Of The Universe](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-and-george-smoot-talk-rhythms-universe-4956/) - The beginning of our universe: mysterious forces came together in space, and matter, and time began, with vibration unlike anything else before or since. The Big Bang, a birth in chaos and din, was beat one. (Planet Drum, p. 11) Rhythms of the Universe: An Evening with Mickey Hart and George Smoot.Watch Now: http://bit.ly/mickeygeorgerotu Drumming at the - [The Gyuto Monks - In Search for the Sound of Life](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-gyuto-monks-in-search-for-the-sound-of-life-4961/) - “Ever since my first hearing of Huston Smith's 1967 recordings of the Gyuto Multiphonic Choir [1], these amazing and inspiring sounds have been my constant companions. With kindness and compassion, the monks chant for freedom, hope and peace.” ~Mickey Hart "On the breath is carried the message. The breath is the most important asset - [Sonification - Finding Music in Science](https://mickeyhart.net/news/sonification-finding-music-science-4921/) - What is the Music of the Spheres? Most of us probably remember Pythagoras because of geometry class and a rule about right triangles. But there was much more to him than that. For him, principles of triangles were just a single note in the grand musical work that was the cosmos, wherein ratios, harmony, and the heavenly bodies - [Spirit Into Sound - The Magic Of Music](https://mickeyhart.net/news/spirit-into-sound-the-magic-of-music-4791/) - BUY THE BOOK HERE In this unique celebration of the power of sound, former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart shares thirty years of collected quotes and wisdom he has compiled about music's power to transform. "Come walk with Mickey in Bakundan's garden. Learn the difference between noise and music, and between music and magic." - [Songcatchers - In Search Of The Worlds Music](https://mickeyhart.net/news/songcatchers-in-search-of-the-worlds-music-4796/) - BUY THE BOOK HERE On March 15, 1890, ethnographer Jesse Walter Fewkes walked out onto a field in Calais, Maine, and, pumping a foot treadle for power, recorded a Passamaquoddy Indian singing a salutation song. The first field recording of traditional music ever made, the song he captured was heard around the world, creating - [Drumming At The Edge Of Magic - A Journey Into The Spirit Of Percussion](https://mickeyhart.net/news/drumming-at-the-edge-of-magic-a-journey-into-the-spirit-of-percussion-4801/) - BUY THE BOOK HERE A compelling tale of my quest to unlock the power, myths, and legends of percussion. Complemented by more than 90 photographs and illustrations. It is a captivating adventure into a vibrant living tradition of myth, power, and magic. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations. AMAZON REVIEWS: "This book will move you." - [Busted On Bourbon Street Pre Party Presented By Mickey Hart & WWOZ 90.7](https://mickeyhart.net/news/busted-bourbon-street-pre-party-presented-mickey-hart-wwoz-907-4836/) - Bringing a little New Orleans flavor to Chicago for Fare Thee Well on Thursday July 2nd. Presented by Silver Wrapper, WWOZ 90.7 FM New Orleans, Madison House and yours truly. This is one pre party not to be missed. Doors open at 8:00 PM. Featuring Ivan Neville, Papa Mali, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Tony Hall, - [Our Dance with the Infinite Universe](https://mickeyhart.net/news/our-dance-with-the-infinite-universe-4786/) - We are embedded within a rhythmic universe. Everywhere we see rhythm, patterns moving through time. It is there in the cycles of the seasons, in the migration of the birds and animals, in the fruiting and withering of plants, and in the birth, maturation and death. As a species, we love to play with rhythm. - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - "The story teller makes no choice..."](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-weeks-pick-story-teller-makes-no-choice-4766/) - "Terrapin Station" was first performed by the Grateful Dead in February 1977. In total we played the song over 300 times between its debut and the last time it was played in 1995. There are so many great performances to share - we've decided to pick a few this week, rather than just one. 05/17/77 - Memorial Coliseum, - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - Oakland Auditorium December 1979](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-pick-oakland-auditorium-december-1979-4591/) - This week's guest is John Werner, long time Rock & Roll photographer and member of the Grateful Dead family. John started working with the Dead in 1979 and has worked with other bay area bands like Journey and the Doobie Brothers, just to name a few. He had this to say about the first time - [Throwback Thursday. I'm in the mood for a little "Sermon" today. How about you?](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-i-m-in-the-mood-for-a-little-sermon-today-how-about-you-4496/) - Throwing it back to "The Sermon" today and an interview I gave in May 2012. Original interview posted here: http://bit.ly/1cACUKd You can also see a piece of art I made for my Drum Ki collection with inspiration from this song here: http://bit.ly/1BMYOka Let's talk about "The Sermon": Interviewer: There are a - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Guest David Dodd And A Very Special Terrapin](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-weeks-guest-david-dodd-and-very-special-terrapin-4456/) - Our guest this week is David Dodd. Author of The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics and frequent contributor to dead.net, David picked this moving story about Robert Hunter to share today."My most memorable "Terrapin" is one I’ve never heard, only read about. The performer had no audience, as a matter of fact, outside of the cosmos - [Throwback Thursday. Woody Guthrie & The Grateful Dead](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-woody-guthrie-the-grateful-dead-4386/) - Folk songs and ballads are the music of the people. They represent and acknowledge the cultural diversity from which they arise. I constantly get amazed by what’s in the American Folklife Center at the Library Of Congress. The center was created in 1976 to "preserve and present" this important part of our history. Today's throwback honors Woody - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - 05/13/1981 - Providence, RI](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-weeks-pick-05131981-providence-ri-4336/) - This week's guest pick comes from Eric Schwartz, host and producer of Lone Star Dead radio for the last 23 years. (Special nod in memorium to David Minor who contributed the very rare audience video.) Eric had this to say about his second time hearing "Terrapin": "I was just a high school kid in the tiny state of - [Throwback Thursday - 1967 - The first time I saw Janis Joplin](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-1967-the-first-time-i-saw-janis-joplin-4271/) - The first time I saw Janis was at a tiny little club called The Matrix in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. It may have held fifty people. It was like a hallway. What an amazing scene. Big Brother was going crazy feeding back, and Janis stepped to the mic, and it split your - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - California State U. Dominguez Hills 5/06/1990](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-weeks-pick-california-state-u-dominguez-hills-5061990-4201/) - Great suggestion this week from a member of our Facebook family. We love sharing "Terrapin" memories with you. See you next week.Albeit it being a bit dusty, a great time was had by all. Especially by my old friends Tim, John, and Bill it sounds like. After the show some fans in the parking lot reported seeing - ["As long as songs of mine are sung, I'm with you on this Earth."](https://mickeyhart.net/news/long-songs-mine-are-sung-im-you-earth-4116/) - Dear Jerry, Last night was a very special night. Great hang with Annabelle, Trixie, MG, and Sunshine. Playing with Jimmy Cliff was a dream come true. I turned you on to Jimmy back in 1972, and then last night I found out you turned Jorma on to Jimmy. He sang "Fire On The Mountain" with such - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Guest Pick From David Gans - Winterland Arena, March 18, 1977](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-guest-pick-from-david-gans-winterland-arena-march-18-1977-4056/) - This week, we welcome David Gans as our guest for Terrapin Tuesdays. Musician, author, and host of The Grateful Dead Hour and Dead to the World, he's definitely what we call a subject matter expert! His pick goes back to the first time he ever heard "Terrapin," which was at Winterland Arena, March 18, 1977. - [Throwback Thursday - 1989 - My 'Warlock' Days at the Hampton Coliseum](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-1989-my-warlock-days-at-the-hampton-coliseum-3976/) - What's in a name? If you are trying to keep a low profile and do some really special shows, everything. I always loved the original name for the group of musicians I would later join and spend close to 50 years making music with. I can picture that moment in my head when they decided - [Terrapin Tuesdays - Let's Talk Turtle and Knickerbocker Arena from March 1990](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-let-s-talk-turtle-and-knickerbocker-arena-from-march-1990-3951/) - What does Terrapin mean to you? To regular folks it might mean something like this: 1. Any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered. 2. Any of various similar turtles. To the rest of us, it's - [Throwback Thursday. 450 Clicks Southwest of Cairo, Egypt - 1978](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-450-clicks-southwest-cairo-egypt-1978-3856/) - It's not everyday that one journeys into the Nubian desert and hosts an impromptu drum circle. I became known as "The White Tar Player" ?in the villages of the Egyptian desert in 1978 when we played at the Great Pyramids.? ?When I wasn't on stage I would take my Tar drum and head out to discover - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Guest Pick From Jay Blakesberg - Englishtown 1977](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-weeks-guest-pick-jay-blakesberg-englishtown-1977-3776/) - Imagine your first Grateful Dead show if you will. For me I was 15 years old and my first show had close to 150,000 people to lead the way. About 250 shows later and my seat on the bus has never been empty. For years and years the bootleg tapes recorded from the radio broadcast of - [Earth Day 2015 Message From Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/earth-day-2015-message-from-mickey-hart-3631/) - #EarthDay2015 The hush, the smell, the moss, the taste of the air, a tell tale breeze, all in synchrony, beyond words, beyond thoughts. Trees, flowers, filled with wonder, sounds, shapes and flowing colors; nature becomes a symphony, if you have the ears and eyes to hear and see it all. Think about it, it's the - [GoPro Presents - My Rhythmic Universe](https://mickeyhart.net/news/gopro-presents-my-rhythmic-universe-3526/) - Join GoPro and I on a tour of? my personal universe ?where I combine my love of music, science and the visual arts. With the help of Dr. Adam Gazzaley, I am unlocking the rhythmic potential of the mind with our "Rhythm and the Brain" project at UCSF. By translating my brain’s electrical impulses into - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Guest Pick - University of Alabama, May 17, 1977 chosen by Jeff Kosiorek from Grateful Dead of the Day](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-guest-pick-university-of-alabama-may-17-1977-chosen-by-jeff-kosiorek-from-grateful-dead-of-the-day-3556/) - #TerrapinTuesdays Today we welcome Jeff Kosiorek from Grateful Dead of the Day (http://bit.ly/1DKgYpI) as our guest contributor. Though he only saw a dozen shows in the flesh, he has listened to thousands of hours of Dead, so Jeff knows a "Terrapin" or two. He picked University of Alabama, May 1977. Jeff attended his first show back - [Throwback Thursday - Just another day at rehearsal.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-just-another-day-rehearsal-3416/) - #tbt. Speaking of Jack Casady this week - we are going to solve a long standing mystery for everyone. Rosie McGee, Photographer and Storyteller? reminded me that it was Jack who is lying face down in the dirt in our Live/Dead photo. Everyone has always wondered who that is. She was there that day and took - [Terrapin Tuesdays. This week's pick 5/7/77 at the Boston Garden chosen by Aron Magner of The Disco Biscuits](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-weeks-pick-5777-boston-garden-chosen-aron-magner-disco-biscuits-3401/) - #TerrapinTuesdaysOur very, very special guest selection this week comes from Aron Magner of The Disco Biscuits. Long time fans of the Grateful Dead, and collaborators of mine, they have some special memories to share. Plus you might see us do our own version of "Terrapin" at Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater on Firday night. In - [Throwback Thursday - 1987 - My Friends Jerry, Carlos and I Create a Little Fire](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-1987-my-friends-jerry-carlos-and-i-create-a-little-fire-3351/) - Yes, there was fire in Petaluma, California on this night. Feburary 15, 1987. Just my friends and I doing what we do. This version of "Fire On The Mountain" was played with amazing musicians including Baba Olatunji, Carlos Santana, Hamza el-Din, Bobby Vega, Sikiru Adepoju, and others. ""Fire" was penned at my ranch with lyricist Robert - [Grateful Dead Original Members Add Two Dates At Levi's Stadium In June](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-original-members-add-two-dates-levis-stadium-june-3352/) - The original members of Grateful Dead — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir — have announced two additional shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on June 27th and 28th, as part of their “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead” run. Along with the three shows at Chicago's Soldier Field on - [5th Annual Meet Up At The Movies - Featuring Alpine Valley 7/19/1989](https://mickeyhart.net/news/5th-annual-meet-movies-featuring-alpine-valley-7191989-3301/) - Date: Monday, May 4Time: 7:00 p.m. (local time)Run Time: 2 hours and 50 minutes (approximate) Ticketing: Tickets are available by clicking here: http://bit.ly/1CW1Q8lIf online ticketing is not available for your location, you can purchase your tickets by visiting the box office at your local participating movie theater.Special Fathom Features: A big screen presentation of the previously unreleased Alpine Valley concert from 7/19/89.Fathom - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - Hampton Coliseum 03/24/1987](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-pick-hampton-coliseum-03-24-1987-3286/) - You've been making some great suggestions on Facebook and when we see a trend we follow it. Many of you suggested this show as your favorite Terrapin. We agree it's pretty fantastic. Enjoy and see you next week. What people are saying about this Terrapin. Best Terrpain ever. 11 out of 5 Stars. Drummers were on - [Throwback Thursday - My days living under the stairs with Phil and Rosie](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-my-days-living-under-the-stairs-with-phil-and-rosie-3231/) - Throwback Thursday with a little help from my friend Rosie McGee. She writes about the time I lived with her and Phil in her book “Dancing with the Dead—A Photographic Memoir” These were some of the most exciting days of my young life. I remember them well. The kid I chased turned out to be the - [Saving Our Sounds - The First Official Transatlantic Telephone Call](https://mickeyhart.net/news/saving-our-sounds-first-official-transatlantic-telephone-call-3226/) - Saving Our Sounds, highlighting the National Recording Registry starts today with this little gem. The First Official Transatlantic Telephone CallUpon the opening of the transatlantic telephone circuit for commercial service, W.S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., called Sir Evelyn P. Murray, secretary of the General Post Office of Great Britain, offering felicitations. Selected - [Percussion, Our Brains and Autism. How rhythm connects everything.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/percussion-our-brains-and-autism-how-rhythm-connects-everything-3241/) - World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) is celebrated on April 2 annually.Autism, and how percussion relates to the brain are long time passions of mine. See how an organization I am closely involved with called Hidden Wings uses rhythm and drumming to unfurl the gifts of young adults on the autistic spectrum! http://bit.ly/1apzdHaAccording to Hidden Wings Founder, Jim Billington, - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Pick - 12/30/83 - San Francisco Civic Auditorium](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-pick-12-30-83-san-francisco-civic-auditorium-3211/) - ?#‎TerrapinTuesdays? pick of the week. San Francisco Civic Auditorium December 30th 1983. Great footage and some fantastic rhythm devil action starting around 12:20 Let's talk lyrics today. The big opus of Terrapin Station actually borrows from both American and English folklore, including a late 1920′s or 1930′s song called the Lady of Carlisle by Basil May. The - [Creating the Orchestra of Nature with Mark Ballora](https://mickeyhart.net/news/creating-orchestra-nature-mark-ballora-3201/) - Meet Mark Ballora - Mark teaches music technology at Penn State University and is my partner in many sonification projects. Sonification is the use of non-verbal audio to convey data and information. For example, the rate of clicking of a Geiger counter conveys the level of radiation in the immediate vicinity of the device.Academics like - [Throwback Thursday - 1968 - Columbia University & My First Ride in a Bread Truck](https://mickeyhart.net/news/throwback-thursday-1968-columbia-university-my-first-ride-bread-truck-3171/) - Sure Rock, happy to take a ride in a bread truck. In May of 1968 Columbia University students were protesting against the building of a military gym in a public park near campus. Police had been removing the strikers from occupying buildings for days and the campus was mostly on lock down. Rock reached out to the - [Amplifying the Voices, Saving our Sounds - A Day In the Life of the National Recording Registry](https://mickeyhart.net/news/amplifying-voices-saving-our-sounds-day-life-national-recording-registry-3166/) - Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named 25 new sound recordings to the National Recording Registry today. He remarked; “By preserving these recordings, we safeguard the words, sounds and music that embody who we are as a people and a nation.” The recordings selected are; “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and are at least 10 - [Terrapin Tuesdays - This Week's Guest Pick From Dennis McNally](https://mickeyhart.net/news/terrapin-tuesdays-this-week-s-guest-pick-from-dennis-mcnally-3156/) - ?#‎TerrapinTuesdays? extra special guest pick this week from Dennis McNally. Jerry Garcia once said “Get McNally to do it...” Great suggestion Jerry, don't mind if we do. Dennis picked Winterland Arena 12/29/1977. He shared these memories with us. "It was special because I’d gone back east to take care of some business and flew into San Francisco early - [Creating a Digital Alexandria within the Library of Congress](https://mickeyhart.net/news/creating-digital-alexandria-within-library-congress-3126/) - How will the music of the future sound? How will we remember the music of the past? Thanks to a project I am deeply involved with - the National Recording Registry (NRR) - we will always be able to answer these questions. To celebrate the NRR, every Wednesday I'll be hosting a? ?"Saving Our Sounds" series on - [Grateful Dead's Robert Hunter on Jerry's Final Days: 'We Were Brothers'](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-deads-robert-hunter-jerrys-final-days-we-were-brothers-3071/) - The 'Touch of Grey' songwriter shares intimate details from the partnership that defined his life: "We were just getting started."Read this great two part interview Robert gave to Rolling Stone. As always his words are heartfelt, powerful and very moving.Part One - Robert Hunter on Grateful Dead's Early Days, Wild Tours, 'Sacred' Songshttp://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/robert-hunter-on-grateful-deads-early-days-wild-tours-sacred-songs-20150309 Part Two - Grateful Dead's - [The Grateful Dead Wants Your Stories](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-wants-your-stories-3036/) - The Grateful Dead's rich legacy is a long and enduring one, filled with exploration, innovation, and the greatest fans in the world! Now's your chance to let the band know just how much they mean to you through YOUR grateful stories and art. Some may be shared with the world in our 50th anniversary audio - [Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter Inducted Into the Songwriters Hall of Fame](https://mickeyhart.net/news/jerry-garcia-and-robert-hunter-inducted-songwriters-hall-fame-3041/) - We're pleased to announce that Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 18th in NYC. Learn more about this very special honor here. - [Exclusive: Grateful Dead to Reunite, Jam With Trey Anastasio for Final Shows](https://mickeyhart.net/news/exclusive-grateful-dead-to-reunite-jam-with-trey-anastasio-for-final-shows-3046/) - Read The Original Article HereBy Shirley Halperin and Steve Bloom | January 16, 2015 9:30 AM ESTIn a match made in hippie heaven, Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio will join the four living original members of The Grateful Dead for three 50th-anniversary shows July 3-5 at Soldier Field in Chicago. The Dead's last performance withJerry Garcia, who died in August 1995, was - [Grateful Dead promoter plans to do right for shut-out fans.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-promoter-plans-do-right-shut-out-fans-3051/) - If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of Grateful Dead fans who got shut out of tickets for the band’s 50th anniversary shows July 3-5 in Soldier Field, promoter Peter Shapiro has some good news for you.“We’re going to try to create ways to experience the show outside the stadium, using technology,” Shapiro says. - [Envelope Art Tradition Continues](https://mickeyhart.net/news/envelope-art-tradition-continues-3056/) - Grateful Dead fans could mail order for tickets to Fare Thee Well - a celebration of 50 years of the Grateful Dead featuring Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti and Bruce Hornsby. We've been excited to see how seriously fans have taken the old school mail order as many - [Grateful Dead Tribute Night - 50th Anniversary Celebration! Thursday, 8/13](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-tribute-night-50th-anniversary-celebration-thursday-813-3061/) - The Giants invite you to join them in celebrating the 50th Anniversary of one of the most legendary and coveted groups associated with the San Francisco music scene, the Grateful Dead! This event is always one of the biggest of the year, and on this special anniversary year, we are calling on all Dead Heads - [MLK: A Great Warrior](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mlk-great-warrior-2776/) - [Grateful Dead Original Members Reunite to Celebrate 50th Anniversary](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-original-members-reunite-celebrate-50th-anniversary-2736/) - We are excited to announce, “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead" at Chicago’s Soldier FieldTo celebrate the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir will reunite at Chicago's Soldier Field, nearly 20 years to the day from the last Grateful Dead concert, which took place at - [The Most Afflicted Find Peace II](https://mickeyhart.net/news/most-afflicted-find-peace-ii-2691/) - Dear Readers,Reflections on First Installment : CalmThanks for the great comments and observations. Feel free to make them directly on the blog. I will try to summarize what I said in different emails. The drum is not magic. Involuntary motor tics, hand flapping, etc. are ways in which people on the spectrum “regulate the internal - [New Years Message from Mickey](https://mickeyhart.net/news/new-years-message-mickey-2671/) - I would like to thank you all for making 2014 so cool. Without your support I could not have explored the music of the cosmos, brainwaves and stem cells.Music is a special thing. An energy that has a direct route to the soul. It knows no boundary lines, no demographics. Age and sex don’t really - [The Most Afflicted Find Peace](https://mickeyhart.net/news/most-afflicted-find-peace-2641/) - In 2011, I met Mickey Hart who had been working for the last several decades with rhythm as a therapeutic modality to help those with neurologic damage, particularly the afflictions of the elderly. He proposed doing similar work for those with autism. Mickey and Remo designed a drum specifically for those with autism. The result - [A Conversation: With Steven Feld on The Tao of Wood](https://mickeyhart.net/news/a-conversation-with-steven-feld-on-the-tao-of-wood-2596/) - I've talked wood, drums, and sounds with sonic anthropologist Steven Feld since 1983. Some of our conversations are reported in my books Drumming at the Edge of Magic, Planet Drum, and Songcatchers, and our CD Voices of the Rainforest, an acoustic portrait of a day in the life of the Bosavi people and their Papua - [The Tao Of Wood](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-tao-of-wood-2526/) - Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. ? —Hermann Hesse MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH WOOD It started innocently enough with the annual New Year’s - [A Tribute to Armando Peraza](https://mickeyhart.net/news/tribute-armando-peraza-2491/) - On October 12, 2014, Mickey joined Zakir Hussain at SFJazz for a tribute to the late Armando Peraza. Sikiru Adepoju also joined to celebrate Armando's life through rhythm. Photos by John Werner - [Reflections of Robin Williams...](https://mickeyhart.net/news/reflections-of-robin-williams-2366/) - Robin Williams was Mr. Fantasy for me and many others.... "Dear Mr. Fantasy" Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune Something to make us all happy Do anything take us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy You are the one who can make us all laugh But doing that you - [Gathering of the Vibes](https://mickeyhart.net/news/gathering-vibes-2346/) - July 31-August 3, 2014. Bridgeport, CT. Bill Kruetzmann and I played with the Disco Biscuits. Caught up with Dave Schools...A good time was had by all! - [Jambands.com - Skrillex Teams Up with Big Gigantic, Mickey Hart, Robby Krieger, Joel Cummins and More for Bonnaroo SuperJam](https://mickeyhart.net/news/jambands-com-skrillex-teams-up-with-big-gigantic-mickey-hart-robby-krieger-joel-cummins-and-more-for-bonnaroo-superjam-2266/) - Skrillex got some help from an eclectic assortment of guests during the one-of-a-kind Skrillex & Friends SuperJam at Bonnaroo on Saturday night. Article from Jambands.com The show got started with a few songs featuring the “core band”—Skrillex and Big Gigantic—along with some the High and Might horns and background vocalists Ruby Amanfu and Lucie Silvas. - [MOZART AND THE MIND: RHYTHM AND THE BRAIN WITH MICKEY HART AND ADAM GAZZALEY](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mozart-and-mind-rhythm-and-brain-mickey-hart-and-adam-gazzaley-1991/) - MICKEY HART & DR. ADAM GAZZALEY Present: Rhythm and the BrainMay 17th 6:00 PMFree Open Air Performance and Rhythm ExperienceFor More Info Go HERE The presentation will conclude with a unique interactive performance combining cutting-edge technology, immersive 3D visualization, and interactive rhythm-making. Mickey will lead us on a musical journey into the virtual-reality world of NeuroDrummer, which combines - [Remembering Voices of the Rainforest: Earth Day 1991](https://mickeyhart.net/news/remembering-voices-rainforest-earth-day-1991-1796/) - "Voices of the Rainforest," now part of the Mickey Hart Collection at Smithsonian Folkways, was originally released on Earth Day 1991. Produced by Mickey and recorded by Steven Feld in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, it was the first commercial CD recording ever to consist equally of ambient environmental sounds and indigenous songs. This was no sound effects gimmick. The Bosavi - [Earthdance 1: Honoring Earth Day](https://mickeyhart.net/news/earthdance-1-honoring-earth-day-1776/) - What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. -Gandhi Earthdance #1 is a prayer for the earth. Perhaps if we understand it more we will take better care of it. I listen for the rhythms of - [Earthdance #1: Honor the Earth Day](https://mickeyhart.net/news/earthdance-1-honor-the-earth-day-1781/) - What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. -Gandhi "Earthdance #1" is my musical offering for the Earth. This work was created from sonifications of the electromagnetic resonances of the Earth, along with processed sounds of nature. To listen to - [It Happened Again...](https://mickeyhart.net/news/it-happened-again-1711/) - It is important to know that every single human being, from the moment of birth until the moment when we make the transition and end this physical existence, is in the presence of guides or guardian angels who will wait for us and help us in the transition from life to life after death. -Elisabeth - [Help Shine A Bright Light On Autism](https://mickeyhart.net/news/help-shine-bright-light-autism-1631/) - World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD), celebrated on April 2 annually, was adopted by the United Nations in 2007 to shine a bright light on autism as a growing global health crisis. WAAD activities increase and develop world knowledge of the autism crisis and impart information regarding the importance of early diagnosis and early intervention. Additionally, - [Mickey's Art Exhibition Part of Napa Valley Arts in April](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickeys-art-exhibition-part-napa-valley-arts-april-1551/) - Art at the Edges of Sight with Mickey Hart Jamieson Ranch Vineyards is pleased to feature the artwork of Grammy Award-winning ?musician, Mickey Hart, in conjunction with Napa Valley Arts in April. Mickey has applied his considerable creative energies towards a one-of-a-kind collection of art that expresses his interpretation of rhythm and the cosmos. A portion - [Rolling Stone: Grateful Dead Members Joining Disco Biscuits at Gathering of the Vibes](https://mickeyhart.net/news/rolling-stone-grateful-dead-members-joining-disco-biscuits-gathering-vibes-1476/) - Drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart scheduled to perform together for the first time since 2011. Rolling Stone Article by Benjy Eisen "Any day playing drums with Bill is a very good day," Mickey Hart tells Rolling Stone. "The Disco Biscuits seem to prefer trance/space, moment music. Bill Kreutzmann and I are quite familiar with the genre. Let the fun begin! Check out the - [On this day in 1890](https://mickeyhart.net/news/day-1890-1451/) - March 15, 1890, in Calais, Maine, a Harvard naturalist turned anthropologist, Jesse Walter Fewkes made the what would become the first field recordings. He worked with Noel Josephs and Peter Selmore, Passamaquodies who knew the old oral traditions. Over the course of three days he recorded 36 wax cylinders of their songs, folktales, vocabularies and conversations. (Listen) Josephs told Fewkes - [SXSW Panel: The Rhythm & the Brain Dead drummer helps spawn the first prescribed video game!?](https://mickeyhart.net/news/sxsw-panel-rhythm-brain-dead-drummer-helps-spawn-first-prescribed-video-game-1441/) - Dead drummer helps spawn the first prescribed video game!?The austin chronicleBY THOMAS FAWCETT, 11:40PM, THU. MAR. 13On a somber day in Austin there was something healing about Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart expounding on the big picture of why music matters. “Music is not a luxury. It’s a necessity,” he proclaimed. “It’s part of our DNA.”--Read - [Playin, Playin in the Brain: Glass Brain Goes to SXSW... How cool!](https://mickeyhart.net/news/playin-playin-in-the-brain-glass-brain-goes-to-sxsw-how-cool-1336/) - A RHYTHM JOURNEY: The Glass Brain Adam The only way to seek out and find the secrets of the universe is through Rhythm. Tonight there it was, hanging in space, giant snapshot of my brain for all to see. It was pulsing, it was throbbing, it was alive and - [KGO-TV: UCSF opens virtual brain lab](https://mickeyhart.net/news/kgo-tv-ucsf-opens-virtual-brain-lab-1291/) - The @GazzLab launched last night. More great coverage from our friends at KGO-TV! http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/health&id=9455010Stay tuned... @Neuroscapelab launch @mickeyhart @GazzLab @UCSF #rhythmandthebrain #glassbrain #neurodrummer - [SXSW: Healing Powers of Music: Rhythm and the Brain](https://mickeyhart.net/news/sxsw-healing-powers-music-rhythm-and-brain-1266/) - Join Mickey Hart and Adam Gazzaley for the Rhythm and the Brain session at SXSW Music for a visual demonstration of Mickey’s brain rhythms. During the session, you’ll see Mickey Hart’s brain waves transform in real-time during a live percussion performancefrom Hart himself. The session is scheduled for Thursday, March 13th, in Room 16AB of the Austin Convention Center. Click here for more - [Grateful Dead drummer joins effort to explore the science of rhythm](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-drummer-joins-effort-to-explore-the-science-of-rhythm-1271/) - Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is helping neuroscientists in California explore the relationship between rhythm and brain function. Hart is part of a virtual reality experiment to see if rhythm could be used as a form of therapy for people in cognitive decline. Ben Gruber has more. As seen on @reuters, @gratefuldead, @msn, @sfgate, @ucsf, @benreuters, @dead.net, #rhythmandthebrain, #musicandthebrain, - [An Overview of Drum Ki: A Collection of Rhythm-On-Canvas](https://mickeyhart.net/news/an-overview-of-drum-ki-a-collection-of-rhythm-on-canvas-1201/) - In this short documentary, Mickey Hart breaks down the creation of Drum Ki, his fine art release crafted from rhythm. Available at www.mickeyhartartwork.com, the artwork featured in the collection showcases a new medium in fine art, as rhythm determines the visuals featured in the work. - [Win Free Downloads from the Superorganism Tour](https://mickeyhart.net/news/win-free-downloads-from-the-superorganism-tour-1068/) - Mickey is giving away free downloads of all the shows available from the recent Superorganism Tour as a thank you for your support! One lucky winner will be announced on Thursday, Oct. 31st. How to Enter: All you have to do to enter is to send a message to send a message to the Stellar - [Cuz's Corner - Interview with Mickey Hart (Telluride, CO)](https://mickeyhart.net/news/cuz-s-corner-interview-with-mickey-hart-telluride-co-1056/) - Mickey Hart Interview on Cuz's Corner with Spud from the Telluride Blues Festival on September 14, 2013. - [From the Mysterium: 3 Bay Area Scientists win MacArthur grants](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mysterium-3-bay-area-scientists-win-macarthur-grants-1026/) - A Berkeley physicist who rescues ancient recordings through technology and two Stanford professors studying the effects of climate change are among 24 exceptional innovators from around the nation named Tuesday as this year's MacArthur Fellows.The no-strings fellowships come with $625,000 cash to be paid out over five years and to be used for whatever strikes the - [Music as Medicine: Mickey Hart x GoPro (Teaser)](https://mickeyhart.net/news/music-as-medicine-mickey-hart-x-gopro-teaser-1031/) - SAN FRANCISCO, CA- Mickey Hart & UCSF nueroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley will speak in front of the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus in Washington, DC today (9/30/13) to demonstrate the impacts of music on the human brain and how music can be utilized to stem the effects of an aging brain. The presentation will take place at - [Mickey Hart and Dr. Adam Gazzaley Stop By Huffington Post Live](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-and-dr-adam-gazzaley-stop-huffington-post-live-1042/) - Mickey Hart & UCSF neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley stopped by Huffinton Post Live on 9/27/13 for an interview with Mike Sacks. Watch the interview below.Huffington Post Live Interview - [Win Tickets to a Special Screening of Rhythms of the Universe](https://mickeyhart.net/news/win-tickets-special-screening-rhythms-universe-1020/) - How to Win Tickets1. Create an account on this site and make sure you are logged in.2. CLICK HERE to send a private message to the Stellar Crew with the subject line "RHYTHMS OF THE UNIVERSE" and your first and last name in the message.3. The 6 winners will receive a reply, confirming that they - [Drum Ki](https://mickeyhart.net/news/drum-ki-1006/) - Drum KiBy Mickey HartA Collection of Rhythm on CanvasTHE COLLECTION: The process of creating Drum Ki began in 2012. The focus of the collection was to utilize rhythm to create fine artwork, a new medium in visual art being led by a select group of iconic drummers and L.A. art team SceneFour.THE MEDIUM: Like a - [The Mickey Hart Band jams, impresses MET](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-jams-impresses-met-1010/) - Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart’s Mickey Hart Band put on an excellent show Thursday evening at the Metropolitan Theatre.Earlier that evening, before the performance even started, there was some fun going on outside the theater. A drum circle had gathered and was gracing the area with their tribal beats to entertain the gathering masses and - [Mickey Hart Band: Superorganism](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-superorganism-1011/) - Mickey Hart continues to be inspired by the rhythms of the universe around him, including the vast cerebral brain, letting it inform his work with a timeless and modern appeal. His band’s second album, co-produced and engineered by Ben Yonas, brings together an impressive array of ethereal and groove-centric sounds. The fine vocal contributions of - [Mickey Hart on Ray Dolby's "Sonic Dream"](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-on-ray-dolby-s-sonic-dream-982/) - Mickey Hart, formerly the drummer for the Grateful Dead, is one of many musicians who have remembered Ray Dolby and his impact on the music industry over the past few days. Hart received a Grammy® Lifetime Achievement award in 2007 and was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2009. A social - [Star Apps: Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/star-apps-mickey-hart-983/) - As the house band for author and counter-culture icon Ken Kesey's notorious acid tests, the Grateful Dead made music perfectly suited for mind-bending exploration. With the Mickey Hart Band, the Dead's longtime drummer and Grammy-winning percussionist Mickey Hart continues this fantastic voyage of discovery with his new album, "Superorganism," on which he transforms actual brain - [Readings from the Torah of The Dead: Mickey Hart Band Rebuilds Jerusalem](https://mickeyhart.net/news/readings-torah-dead-mickey-hart-band-rebuilds-jerusalem-984/) - “Dude, I’m 60, almost 61, with a belly. I danced the whole night. I spun like I hadn’t in years.”If this were America, the man talking — call him Moishe — could put any number of local Santa Clauses out of business. But this is Jerusalem, so his beard and belly are as formidable as - [Lib at Large: Mickey Hart's brain on drums with 'Superorganism'](https://mickeyhart.net/news/lib-large-mickey-harts-brain-drums-superorganism-934/) - Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, who celebrated his 70th birthday this week, has played with a lot of great musicians in his long career. But on his new a "Superorganism" album and tour, he's improvising with something that no one has ever shared a stage or a studio with before. He's jamming with his - [Superorganism Album Review](https://mickeyhart.net/news/superorganism-album-review-888/) - Superorganism Grade: A Music is a tough industry to be in, so many songs have been made that it's very improbable that something new will be created. Though, having to worry about whether or not a sound has been used before, bands have to actually sound good or else they won't be going too - [Mickey Hart Brought All Smiles to the House of Blues in Hollywood](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-brought-all-smiles-to-the-house-of-blues-in-hollywood-891/) - If there’s one word that can describe the night at the Mickey Hart show in West Hollywood on Saturday, that word is SMILES. Smiles on the faces of the elated, near sell-out, crowd. Smiles on the faces of the band members. Last, but certainly not least, a smile as wide as the Grand Canyon on - [NPR: This is Musician Mickey Hart's Brain on Music](https://mickeyhart.net/news/npr-musician-mickey-harts-brain-music-894/) - Peering inside our mind and capturing images of our thoughts has become a preoccupation in much of neuroscience. It's also an unlikely part of the light show at a Mickey Hart Band concert.Yes, the musician best known as the percussionist for the Grateful Dead for more than 20 years jams with a light show powered - [Famed Bay Area musician helps with brain research](https://mickeyhart.net/news/famed-bay-area-musician-helps-with-brain-research-895/) - SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Famed Bay Area musician Mickey Hart has long believed that music is the best medicine. Now he's helping uncover the science to prove it. Hart is best known for the rhythms he created with the Grateful Dead. But lately, he's more concerned with a different kind of rhythm. The rhythm in - [Mickey Hart Band, Mount Scopus Amphitheater, Jerusalem, Israel- 8/22](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-mount-scopus-amphitheater-jerusalem-israel-822-860/) - For so many Deadheads, the band wasn’t a group of musicians so much as the bearers of an alternative spirituality. It’s that same mystic energy that’s historically appealed to so many religious Jews, piecing through bootleg tapes with as much vigor as Torah commentary. So for the audience members wearing both tie-dye and tzit-tzit (prayer - [BitTorrent: Free Music, Interviews, and Concert Video from Mickey Hart Band](https://mickeyhart.net/news/bittorrent-free-music-interviews-and-concert-video-mickey-hart-band-852/) - Mickey Hart has sonified the universe in his work with Grateful Dead and the Mickey Hart Band. Want to get inside his head? Download the BitTorrent Bundle for free music, interviews with the artist, plus a 4K concert video exclusive, delivered direct to your inbox.Download the bundle here: http://bundles.bittorrent.com/mickeyhartband-superorganism/To open the files you'll need BitTorrent. - [Win a Pair of Meet and Greet Tickets to Mickey Hart Band at the Fillmore 9/6/13](https://mickeyhart.net/news/win-a-pair-of-meet-and-greet-tickets-to-mickey-hart-band-at-the-fillmore-9-6-13-839/) - We're giving away a pair of Meet & Greet tickets to the Mickey Hart Band show at The Fillmore in San Francisco on September 6th! The tickets include: -Early entry to view part of soundcheck - Meet & greet with Mickey - Superorganism Tour Poster HOW TO ENTER 1. Create an account on this site - [Win an Autographed Mickey Hart Drum Head](https://mickeyhart.net/news/win-autographed-mickey-hart-drum-head-824/) - (Source - UltimateClassicRock.com)ENTER THE CONTEST HEREDescription of ContestMickey Hart, former drummer for the Grateful Dead, has a new album, ‘Superorganism,’ out and to celebrate, we’re giving away a framed drum head, autographed by Hart.Throughout his solo career, Hart has explored how percussion is used in other cultures around the world. With ‘Superorganism,’ he goes inward - [Mickey Hart Band in Jerusalem (A Gallery)](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-jerusalem-gallery-814/) - Last week, Mickey Hart, the only Jewish member of the Grateful Dead, performed in Israel as part of the four-day Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival. Here are photos from Bruce Shaffer of the performance.-Relix - [Mickey Hart raises the Dead in Jerusalem](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-raises-the-dead-in-jerusalem-809/) - “It’s impossible to categorize this music, what would you call it?” the friend who accompanied me to see The Mickey Hart Band on Thursday night in Jerusalem kept saying. And there wasn’t really any answer. Like his mother ship The Grateful Dead – the legendary free-form jam band that could veer from country and blues - ["Superorganism" Album Review by Grateful Music](https://mickeyhart.net/news/superorganism-album-review-by-grateful-music-807/) - "Superorganism" as written in the liner notes by Mickey Hart is "a complex organism composed of many smaller organisms…A band is a Superorganism and so is the universe," It also happens to be the latest release by The Mickey Hart Band. The legendary drummer of the Grateful Dead has yet again created an album that - [Mickey Hart Band - Mr. Smalls Theater - Pittsburgh, PA - 8/15/13](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-mr-smalls-theater-pittsburgh-pa-81513-811/) - It isn’t every day that you get a chance to see a member of the Grateful Dead in a gorgeous theater that holds less than 700 people, so when Mickey Hart Band rolled into Millvale, PA’s quaint Mr. Smalls Theater, a converted 18th century Catholic church, last Thursday on their SuperOrganism tour, I jumped at the chance to go. With - [Electrodes instead of drumsticks at Grateful Dead member's Jerusalem concert](https://mickeyhart.net/news/electrodes-instead-drumsticks-grateful-dead-members-jerusalem-concert-812/) - "Rhythm connects people with the universe," says former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart ahead of his Jerusalem concert, which incorporates sonification of his brainwaves.Maybe this article should begin with one of those jokes that mock drummers’ intelligence. Mickey Hart, a former drummer for the Grateful Dead and now the leader of the Mickey Hart Band, plays straight from - [Review: Mickey Hart still aspiring and inspiring](https://mickeyhart.net/news/review-mickey-hart-still-aspiring-and-inspiring-813/) - The former Grateful Dead percussionist and his seven-piece band jam with polish and restraint.CONCERT REVIEWWHO: The Mickey Hart BandDATE REVIEWED: Sunday, Aug. 19WHERE: Port City Music HallNo matter how you feel about the Grateful Dead and the jam band culture it spawned, you have to appreciate the loftiness of its goals.These musicians try to deliver - [Welcome To The Mysterium](https://mickeyhart.net/news/welcome-mysterium-739/) - We live in a multi-verse of swarming microworlds -- movements of light, movements of sound, pulsing, spinning -- from the tremendum of the Big Bang to the cellular level of our own DNA -- our own life print -- each part moving through time with a unique rhythm that repeats and repeats and repeats.Look around. - [Mickey Hart: Rhythm on the Brain](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-rhythm-brain-765/) - Mickey Hart is probably best known as one half of the Rhythm Devils, the percussion powerhouse that gave the Grateful Dead their rhythmic spine.But now, Hart is making a name for himself in an entirely different field -- ethnomusicology.Most recently, he joined with Dr. Adam Gazzalley, a professor of neurology at the University of California, - [A Still Grateful Mickey Hart Set to Touch Down in Jerusalem](https://mickeyhart.net/news/still-grateful-mickey-hart-set-touch-down-jerusalem-773/) - For Mickey Hart, "the world is my oyster" is too limited a phrase – it's more like the universe is his playground. One half of the fabled drumming team that formed the backbone of the legendary band The Grateful Dead, the 69-yearold Hart has spent the past 18 years since the band's demise ratcheting up - [Getting Cerebral with Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/getting-cerebral-mickey-hart-753/) - When you get a phone call from Mickey Hart at 1:30 a.m. you are grateful.As one of the Rhythm Devils that helped the Grateful Dead create its iconic sound, the cadence of a conversation with the rock legend feels like a jam session.He may be best known as a former member of the Dead, but - ["Superorganism" Review by Adequacy.net](https://mickeyhart.net/news/superorganism-review-by-adequacy-net-752/) - Mickey Hart, drummer extraordinaire of the Grateful Dead, kicks it old school and new on his latest album Superorganism, collaborating with such talents as fellow Grateful Dead member Robert Hunter (lyricist), Sikiru Adepoju (percussionist), Crystal Monee Hall (singer), Joe Bagale (singer and multi-instrumentalist), Greg Schutte (drummer), Gawain Matthews (guitarist), Reed Mathis (bassist), and Jonah Sharp - [Superorganism Tour Sampler- Free Download](https://mickeyhart.net/news/superorganism-tour-sampler-free-download-696/) - The Mickey Hart Band is releasing two new tracks off their upcoming album, Superorganism, along with over 30 minutes of live recordings from the first two shows of their Superorganism Tour. 100% of the proceeds go to RhythmAndTheBrain.com. Download Instructions 1. Click the “Free Download” button in the image above. 2. - [RollingStone.com: Mickey Hart Band Goes Mental on 'Superorganism'](https://mickeyhart.net/news/rollingstonecom-mickey-hart-band-goes-mental-superorganism-706/) - Listen to the new album Superorganism on Rolling Stone.com now here: http://bit.ly/MHBStreamMickey Hart knows the road. The former Grateful Dead drummer has crisscrossed the globe several times over during his 46 years of touring. And yet, the 69-year old chose to look inwards with Superorganism, his new LP with the Mickey Hart Band.Hart tuned out the - [Mickey Hart Interview in Little Village Magazine](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-interview-little-village-magazine-671/) - A band is a superorganism, the mind is a superorganism, ants are superorganismsThe Mickey Hart Interview for LittleVillageMag.com by Mike Roeder is on page 22 and 23! Photo by George Burrows.Read the Interview - [Mickey Hart: Grateful Dead Could Never Unleash the Dragon in the Studio](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-grateful-dead-could-never-unleash-the-dragon-in-the-studio-674/) - Mickey Hart will be turning 70 in September, and has been on a long, strange trip to connect the body and mind with music. As a world-music percussionist and drummer -- most notably for the Grateful Dead -- with his new record Superorganism he seems closer than he's ever been. Essentially pinpointing the parts of - [Adam Gazzaley, UCSF Neuroscientist](https://mickeyhart.net/news/adam-gazzaley-ucsf-neuroscientist-745/) - I first teamed up with Mickey to give a keynote lecture at the 2012 AARP meeting in New Orleans. We gave a talk together on rhythm and the brain to a large audience and also presented a unique demonstration of Mickey’s brain rhythms using real-time EEG signals overlaid onto a 3-D reconstruction of his brain - [Dr. Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institutes](https://mickeyhart.net/news/dr-deepak-srivastava-gladstone-institutes-746/) - Mickey and I quickly connected based on our mutual interest in creative, out of the box approaches, in this case focusing on science and medicine. Mickey had just finished sonifying the vibrations of the cosmos, and we had just used new Nobel Prize-winning stem cell technology from the Gladstone Institutes to generate heart and brain - [Mark Ballora, Penn State](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mark-ballora-penn-state-747/) - I teach music technology at Penn State University. My creative work includes music composition, sound design, and data sonifications. When I heard that Mickey Hart was working in the area of data sonification, I was naturally very interested. I looked into what he was doing, and made some inquiries. It turned out that contributions from - [Drummer Mickey Hart has Rhythm in Mind](https://mickeyhart.net/news/drummer-mickey-hart-has-rhythm-mind-672/) - Drummer Mickey Hart's search for fascinating rhythms never stops.During his stints with the Grateful Dead — from 1967 to 1971, and 1974 to 1995 — he and fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann got tagged with the nickname "rhythm devils."In 1991, Hart won a Grammy Award for best world-music album with "Planet Drum," which also hit - [Mickey Hart Band To Release SUPERORGANISM on August 13th](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-to-release-superorganism-on-august-13th-615/) - SAN FRANCISCO, CA- In the past two years, Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead/Mickey Hart Band) has sonified the Universe, the Golden Gate Bridge, the America's Cup, and now, he is going even deeper. On his new record SUPERORGANISM, due out August 13, 2013, Hart is breaking new ground by combining music with science and the human - [Mickey Hart Band Announce New Album, Superorganism, and Tour To Celebrate Hart's 70th Birthday](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-announce-new-album-superorganism-and-tour-celebrate-harts-70th-birthday-396/) - The Mickey Hart Band will release their second album in two years on August 13th, 2013, titled Superorganism, just weeks before Hart's 70th Birthday. On the band's last record, Mysterium Tremendum (2012), Hart sonified light waves from space with the help of NASA and scientists from Penn State and Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Now, with Superorganism, - [A Conversation with Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/conversation-mickey-hart-397/) - By now, the history has been written about the quintessence of the Grateful Dead in 1960s and early 70s America and the particular place they hold in the far-reaching and often ill-defined realm of American hippiedom. They are a metonym for all things groovy and psychedelic—they were the heart and soul of the Acid Tests, - [The Science of Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/science-mickey-hart-399/) - Mickey Hart is probably one of the most iconic drummers out there. Best known for being an original member of The Grateful Dead and now for his experimentation with sound alongside his group The Mickey Hart Band, he can't be stopped. However, he still wishes he had the chance to jam with one of the - [Spartanburg Guitar Hero Joe Bennett Reunites with Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead Fame](https://mickeyhart.net/news/spartanburg-guitar-hero-joe-bennett-reunites-mickey-hart-grateful-dead-fame-398/) - Spartanburg native and original Sparkletones front man Joe Bennett has been battling some life-threatening health problems in the past year.Bennett's ailments include Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's-related dementia stemming from his exposure to Agent Orange while serving in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, and he and his family have been trying to secure - [Mickey Hart Reprimes The Pump](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-reprimes-pump-400/) - Mickey Hart is at it again. He just played what seemed like a one-off show with members of Planet Drum, he's touring with his self-named band and he's also working at self-professed "breakneck speed" on a new album he plans to release this year. Hart took a break to talk about Planet Drum, how he - [Mickey Hart, Approaching 70, Keeping the Spirit Alive with Evolving Group](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-approaching-70-keeping-spirit-alive-evolving-group-401/) - When Hurricane Sandy devastated the east coast last year, drummer Mickey Hart said he sat around watching the news, saddened but inspired by the resiliency shown."It was heart-wrenching," Hart, one of the four living members of the Grateful Dead, said in a recent phone interview. "I saw Bon Jovi on NBC News and all of - [Adam Theis - Mickey Hart Band](https://mickeyhart.net/news/adam-theis-mickey-hart-band-173/) - An interview with Adam Theis of the Mickey Hart Band - [Mysterium Tremendum Extended Liner Notes and Sonfication.](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mysterium-tremendum-extended-liner-notes-and-sonfication-740/) - WELCOME TO THE MYSTERIUM I began dreaming another dream just before the DEAD Tour of 2009. It set in motion a series of events that were the catalyst for Mysterium Tremendum. I had been looking deeper into the mystery of space and time and felt myself being pulled upward,toward the sky. I began playing with - [Playing In The Band (Live)](https://mickeyhart.net/news/playing-in-the-band-live-174/) - The Mickey Hart Band Live at the Rogue Theatre in Grants Pass, OR on 2/16/13. - [Oh Mickey, You're So Fine](https://mickeyhart.net/news/oh-mickey-youre-so-fine-402/) - For 25 years, Mickey Hart sat behind the drum kit for legendary rock & roll nomads the Grateful Dead. When the Dead disbanded in '95, Hart turned musicologist, penned four books on the history of drumming and worked to release otherwise unavailable titles (from percussionists across the globe) on the non-profit label, Smithsonian Folkways. Through - [Mickey Hart Band @ Fox Theater, Denver CO 2/28/13](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-fox-theater-denver-co-22813-403/) - The contemporary musical universe of Mickey Hart is perfectly aligned with the cosmos. Never has his theological approach to music or pursuit of combining music sensibilities across the globe been so relevant. From the beginnings he sought out further bounds than his primary project, the American rock institution, The Grateful Dead. His evolving contributions to - [Mickey Hart's Universe](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-harts-universe-405/) - "What does the universe sound like, man?"Sure, this may seem like the kind of dopey questions asked, over Funyuns and gooballs, in the parking lots of a thousand Grateful Dead shows. But Dead drummer Mickey Hart asked the question seriously and — with help from some scientists and Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools — answered - [Mickey Hart - Always Learning](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-always-learning-406/) - 'This interview is over!" declared Mickey Hart, apparently offended by the joke he had just been told about a drummer. (Specifically: What do you call a drummer in a coat and tie? Answer: The defendant.)After being informed his interviewer is also a drummer, if not nearly on his level, Hart chuckled. Asked if he had - [Jersey Shore (Official Video)](https://mickeyhart.net/news/jersey-shore-official-video-175/) - The Mickey Hart Band has released a new song, "Jersey Shore," to benefit Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Those who make a donation will also receive two bonus hours of music including the full length performance of the Mickey Hart Band Live on the Jersey Shore (August 17, 2012), and tracks from the band's latest album, - [Mickey Hart Band Spans Cross-Cultural to Cosmic](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-spans-cross-cultural-cosmic-407/) - From the cross-cultural to the cosmic, the Mickey Hart Band concert with the African Showboyz was 'out there' in the best of ways.From the minute the African Showboyz claimed Red Deer's Memorial Centre stage on Thursday night, the audience of about 300 knew they were about to explore some exciting — maybe even uncharted — - [Concert Preview: Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart Headlines Festival](https://mickeyhart.net/news/concert-preview-grateful-deads-mickey-hart-headlines-festival-408/) - Imagine capturing light and radio waves from outer space, sampling synapse firings from that inner space, your brain, and then translating it all into musical sounds.For Mickey Hart, venturing into the sonic unknown — via a process called sonification — is just another day at the studio. And while the famous high priest of percussion - [Worlds Within Tour 2013](https://mickeyhart.net/news/worlds-within-tour-2013-176/) - The Mickey Hart Band consists of Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools, Grammy winning percussionist and longtime band mate Sikiru Adepoju, Tony Award winning vocalist Crystal Monee Hall, singer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Bagale, drummer Greg Schutte, guitarist Gawain Matthews, and keyboardist/sound engineer Jonah Sharp. - [Mickey Hart Jams for the Jersey Shore](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-jams-jersey-shore-410/) - Mickey Hart is putting his grooves to work for a good cause.The Grateful Dead drummer has released the digital single "Jersey Shore" to benefit the superstorm Sandy relief efforts of Highlands-based nonprofit organization Clean Ocean Action."They're taking care of all the things that are still there on the ground: memories, photographs … there's a lot - [Going Deep with Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/going-deep-mickey-hart-409/) - Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's new music, sonification, featured on the album "Mysterium Tremendum, mixes trace, dance and science. A tour with his band starts Friday in the Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room. Here he talks with Lake Tahoe Action's Tim Parsons about his new sound and a new song, "Jersey Shore," which benefits - [Jersey Shore](https://mickeyhart.net/news/jersey-shore-177/) - The Mickey Hart Band has released a new song, "Jersey Shore," to benefit Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. To download the song and help rebuild the shore go to http://www.mickeyhart.net/jersey. Those who make a donation will also receive two bonus hours of music including the full length performance of the Mickey Hart Band Live on the Jersey - [An Oral History of YOLO, the Word That Lived Too Long](https://mickeyhart.net/news/oral-history-yolo-word-lived-too-long-404/) - On the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live, the Lonely Island crew partnered with host Adam Levine and musical guest Kendrick Lamar to parody the past year's most popular and most hated word: YOLO. Andy Samburg declared the saying, short for "you only live once," to be "the battle cry of a generation," only - [Mickey Hart & Dr. Adam Gazzaley in Congo Square](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-dr-adam-gazzaley-in-congo-square-178/) - Mickey Hart and neurologist Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D., take a stroll through Congo Square after their presentation at Life @50+, the AARP National Event & Expo in New Orleans on September 22nd, 2012. Watch Hart turn everything in site into and instrument, and stumble upon a band performing "Fire on the Mountain". - [White Room (Cream) Live at The Gathering of the Vibes Festival](https://mickeyhart.net/news/white-room-cream-live-at-the-gathering-of-the-vibes-festival-179/) - The Mickey Hart Band performs Cream's "White Room" at The Gathering of the Vibes Festival. - [Unlikely Partners: Grateful Dead Drummer Teams with Scientist to Study How Rhythm Heals](https://mickeyhart.net/news/unlikely-partners-grateful-dead-drummer-teams-scientist-study-how-rhythm-heals-412/) - When Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's grandmother descended into the depths of dementia, she stopped speaking. Hart was caring for her at his home, but was on the verge of entering her in hospice.Then he played for her. Although she had not uttered a word for nearly a year, when he began to pound out - ["China Cat Sunflower" feat. Bob Weir & The African Showboyz](https://mickeyhart.net/news/china-cat-sunflower-feat-bob-weir-the-african-showboyz-384/) - Mickey Hart Band - "China Cat Sunflower" feat. Bob Weir & The African Showboyz at The Rex Foundation Benefit, "A Buck Dancer's Choice" - ["Samson and Delilah" Live at The Fillmore Dec 1st](https://mickeyhart.net/news/samson-and-delilah-live-at-the-fillmore-dec-1st-385/) - Opening song of The Mickey Hart Band set at The Fillmore for the Rex Foundation - [Mickey and Bob Soar at Fillmore Rex Benefit](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-and-bob-soar-fillmore-rex-benefit-414/) - On a stormy night when it was raining cats, dogs, mice, hedgehogs and all manner of other beasts, the good ol' Fillmore was definitely the most inviting place to be in San Francisco. The occasion was the annual Rex Foundation hometown benefit concert and de facto GD Family gathering, held Dec. 1, and as always - [Mickey Hart on Joe Smith with the Boston Globe](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-joe-smith-boston-globe-415/) - Some 3,000 miles away from the hardscrabble streets of his native Chelsea, Joe Smith stood next to his living room stereo in Beverly Hills and thumbed through a row of CDs."Dylan, Streisand, Paul McCartney, Artie Shaw," he said aloud, holding them together like an accordion. "I got them all to talk. Well, that's pretty good."Smith, - [Mickey Hart Band at The Variety Playhouse](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-variety-playhouse-416/) - The Mickey Hart Band featuring Grateful Dead percussionist and his 6 member backing band including Dave Schools from Widespread Panic played a 3 hour show at The Variety Playhouse on Friday night. The energetic 2 set show including songs from the Grateful Dead including Bertha, Franklin’s Tower and Going Down the Road Feeling Bad.Photos by - [Mickey Hart Bringing Far Out Sounds to St. Pete](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-bringing-far-out-sounds-st-pete-417/) - It may be a misnomer to file Mickey Hart under world music. How about placing the veteran percussionist in the universe music section?It would be a new subgenre, but the maverick musician is paving the way toward something completely different.Hart is going out there, way out there as he explores the power and genesis of - [To the Beat of the World's Drum](https://mickeyhart.net/news/beat-worlds-drum-418/) - "The rhythm is right and the music is flowing." That's how you know it's a good day in Mickey Hart's world. He and the Grateful Dead's music helped turn the world on its head in the '60s and '70s. He played stadiums in the '90s, and crossed the world studying the music of humanity. Now - [Grateful Dead's Drummer Mickey Hart: "The Brain Is Rhythm Central"](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-s-drummer-mickey-hart-the-brain-is-rhythm-central-419/) - For Mickey Hart, passion brings purpose. "I like it when there's a lot of rhythms going on and a lot of mental and physical activity," he insists. "Being able to follow the muse is a real privilege." While he may have gained fame for his decades-long tenure as a drummer for the Grateful Dead and - [Mickey Hart and Dr. Adam Gazzaley Make History - Visualizing and Sonifying Brain Activity in Real Time for Live Audience](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-and-dr-adam-gazzaley-make-history-visualizing-and-sonifying-brain-activity-in-real-time-for-live-audience-420/) - Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead percussionist, and neurologist Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D., professor at the University of California San Francisco made history by becoming the first to sonify and visualize brain activity in real time in front of a live audience. The two did so at the closing session of Life @50+, the AARP National Event - [Mickey Hart's Brain on Drums -- Interview at AARP in New Orleans](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-harts-brain-drums-interview-aarp-new-orleans-421/) - By the time Mickey Hart finished his AARP convention appearance in New Orleans yesterday, we had quite literally seen his brain on drums as his brain waves were projected onto a screen by neurologist Dr. Adam Gazzaley through the magic of electrodes and computer modeling. Hart then led the audience in a 1,000-piece drum circle - [Interview with Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/interview-with-grateful-dead-drummer-mickey-hart-424/) - In 2012, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart sat for an interview at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was on hand to perform and help open the Grateful Dead: the Long, Strange Trip exhibit. In this clip, Hart shares the story of when he first saw the - [Mickey Hart Stone Pony 8/17/12 Review](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-stone-pony-81712-review-423/) - Going into the Mickey Hart Band show at the Stone Pony, I tried not to clutter my brain with possible expectations for the night of music ahead. As I arrived to the tourist section of Asbury Park, I saw Steal Your Face logos and tiedyes scattered amongst beach goers that were accompanied by a distant - [Mickey Hart Band at The National](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-national-428/) - Mickey Hart BandThe NationalRichmond, VASeptember 2Some people are galactic gazers, a lucky few find themselves physical travelers of space, and Mickey Hart (in a partnership with NASA) has discovered a passion for simply listening to the pulses of the universe. Thankfully, Hart has the background and skills to convert those cosmic whispers into magnetic sound - [Mickey Hart's Cosmic Inspiration](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-harts-cosmic-inspiration-425/) - After decades of drumming with the Grateful Dead, a band known for being intrepid onstage explorers, Mickey Hart recently looked to the skies for inspiration.But rather than simply contemplating space, Hart sought to actually incorporate it into the recordings of his latest release, "Mysterium Tremendum.""The whole album is a concept around sonification of light waves - [Five Minutes With Mickey On The "Jersey Shore"](https://mickeyhart.net/news/five-minutes-with-mickey-on-the-jersey-shore-411/) - Hi Mickey. Thanks for taking the time to talk us. We're really digging "Jersey Shore." Ain't it neat? Crystal sounds great... She really does. I believe in these people. They believe in me. She believes in the song. It was kind of a little miracle song. It just kind of popped out. Who wrote the - [Mickey Hart from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-from-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-430/) - In this video clip filmed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio – where he was inducted in the Class of 1994 – Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart discusses the first time he caught the band live, before he was a member. "I didn't even know the Grateful Dead," says - [The Practical Side Of The Great American Jam Band](https://mickeyhart.net/news/practical-side-great-american-jam-band-431/) - The Grateful Dead's eponymous live album started it all for Nicholas Meriwether.It was 1985. He was studying history at Princeton and got hooked by psychedelic jams like "Wharf Rat." After his first concert, he knew: "I will spend the rest of my life thinking and studying this."Meriwether now heads the Grateful Dead Archive at the - [Interview: The Dead's Mickey Hart Explores the Sounds of the Universe](https://mickeyhart.net/news/interview-deads-mickey-hart-explores-sounds-universe-432/) - While the Grateful Dead may have been described as far out, drummer Mickey Hart's new album, Mysterium Tremendum goes farther than ever before, into outer space. In addition to musicians from all over the world, Hart has brought the sounds of the universe to this album, which he is sure to dip into at the - [Mickey Hart Hears Things You Don't](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-hears-things-you-dont-435/) - Mickey Hart would be the first one to admit that his hobbies are a little out of the so-called "ordinary," but then again, to the drumming legend and Grateful Dead member, converting light waves into sound, mic-ing up the Golden Gate Bridge to mine its aural possibilities,pondering the spiritual implications of dark matter – these - [Cut The Deck - Live @ The Ogden](https://mickeyhart.net/news/cut-the-deck-live-the-ogden-434/) - Cut The Deck, Live at The Ogden Theatre in Denver, CO. Recorded 5/17/12 - [Drum Circle with Grateful Dead Percussionist Brings Community Together in Reno](https://mickeyhart.net/news/drum-circle-grateful-dead-percussionist-brings-community-together-reno-437/) - For a few hours on Sunday afternoon, Idlewild Park was transformed into a throwback to San Francisco in the 1960s, with dozens of self-proclaimed hippies dancing and drumming in a circle with former Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart during Artown's first day.Artown has in the past focused opening day events such as parades and face-painting, - [Mickey Offers Music as Medicine for Children](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-offers-music-as-medicine-for-children-438/) - He's rocked out in front of as many as 600,000 fans at concert venues all over the country. As a Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart and his band mates have headlined more than 2,300 concerts while developing a cult following among devotees who proudly call themselves "Deadheads." After being a professional drummer for more than - [KQED Interview with Michael Krasny](https://mickeyhart.net/news/kqed-interview-michael-krasny-439/) - Listen to the whole interview HERE,Interview HighlightsFor his latest album, former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart collaborated with scientists from NASA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to convert light waves from outer space into music. Hart joins us to talk about his varied career and to discuss his efforts to tap into the rhythm and - [Into the Trance Zone with Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/trance-zone-mickey-hart-440/) - As a founding member of the Grateful Dead, ethnomusicologist, sound archivist and preservationist, and seeker after billions of years old vibrations from the deep recesses of space, Mickey Hart has done more during his years on earth than many of us could imagine undertaking over several lifetimes. At 69 years of age, the California native - [REVIEW: Music of the Spheres with the Mickey Hart Band | La Zona Rosa Downtown Austin April 26 2012](https://mickeyhart.net/news/review-music-spheres-mickey-hart-band-la-zona-rosa-downtown-austin-april-26-2012-441/) - Clearly, Mickey Hart is taking music making in cosmic directions.It's another perfect segue for the legendary drummer of the Grateful Dead.With his knack for innovation, he's leaping light years here, from using his son's in utero heart beat for his album Music to be Born By to this: harnessing the sounds of the universe through - [Show Review: Mickey Hart Band - The Wilma Theater - Missoula, MT -5/14/12](https://mickeyhart.net/news/show-review-mickey-hart-band-wilma-theater-missoula-mt-51412-443/) - Mickey Hart is a mad scientist, one that likes to pound on things. His genius is his ability to encircle himself with gadgets and drums and noise makers, call upon an amazing talent of musicians to back him, and take to the stage with the ferocity of a lion, yet centered like a Buddhist Monk.The - [Good Vibrations: A Q&A With Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/good-vibrations-qa-mickey-hart-444/) - From his early days working in his Dad's drum shop through his years with the Grateful Dead to his diverse work as a solo artist and ethnomusicologist, Mickey Hart has been fascinated with the inner workings of rhythm, melody and harmony.His latest album, Mysterium Tremendum, combines the lyric poetry of Robert Hunter, the rhythmic celebration - ["Above the Clouds Tour" Montage](https://mickeyhart.net/news/above-the-clouds-tour-montage-387/) - Check out this great mishmash of clips from the amazing "Above the Clouds Tour"! - ["Mysterium Tremendum" Review by Kind Web](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mysterium-tremendum-review-by-kind-web-161/) - In the liner notes of Mickey Hart's new album, Mysterium Tremendum, there is a brief explanation of "sonification", which is described as the mapping of visual symbols, such as light waves, to musical notes. Mickey Hart's past endeavors have dealt with rhythms from all around our planet, but this album has extended that reach to - ["Mysterium Tremendum" Review by American Songwriter](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mysterium-tremendum-review-by-american-songwriter-447/) - Grateful Dead drummer/percussionist Hart mirrors his band's penchant for cheesy cover art, but that's where the similarities end. There's lots of cosmic speechifying in Hart's liner notes that connects this group's funky space/soul sound with the music of the universe (or something), yet the songs, about half with lyrics by Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, take - [Show Review - 4/25/2012: The Granada Theater; Dallas, TX](https://mickeyhart.net/news/show-review-4-25-2012-the-granada-theater-dallas-tx-448/) - The Mickey Hart Band is currently on tour in support of their new album, Mysterium Tremendum, which was released on April 10. The band's most recent effort is an interesting mix of cosmic sound waves from around our galaxy and Robert Hunter poetry. Most people know Mickey as half of the Grateful Dead's drum section, - [Scenes from the tour bus - Part 1 - The debut of the cheese drum...](https://mickeyhart.net/news/scenes-from-the-tour-bus-part-1-the-debut-of-the-cheese-drum-388/) - What really goes on in the tour bus.... - [Mickey Hart Travels Across the Universe on 'Mysterium Tremendum'](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-travels-across-universe-mysterium-tremendum-449/) - Mickey Hart has tapped into the sounds of the universe and the heart of the Grateful Dead for his latest band's first album, "Mysterium Tremendum."The percussion virtuoso tells Billboard.com that he built the songs from the 12-song set from celestial sound waves captured by scientists at Penn State University, the Lawrence Berkeley Labs and Meyer - [Show Review - Venue: Granada Theater, Dallas, TX 4/25/12](https://mickeyhart.net/news/show-review-venue-granada-theater-dallas-tx-4-25-12-450/) - Equal parts ambassador of rhythm, ethnomusicologist and musical mad scientist, Mickey Hart is perhaps rock music's most possessed artist. An intense obsessive in every sense of the word, Hart has been a part of the musical exploration that is the Grateful Dead since joining the band, mid-performance, as second drummer in 1967. As diverse and - [The Mickey Hart Band Brings Drums, Grooves, and Jams to the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-brings-drums-grooves-and-jams-cats-cradle-carrboro-451/) - The Mickey Hart Band played The Cat's Cradle Wednesday April 17th. I had never seen The Mickey Hart Band live before and was pondering what might be in store for the show. What pieces of his musical influences would he showcase tonight? I am a big fan of Mickey Hart's world percussion and his folk - [Mickey Hart on the Grateful Dead: 'We Weren't a Girl Scouts Troop'](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-grateful-dead-we-werent-girl-scouts-troop-453/) - As the percussionist in the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart explored the outer reaches of American popular music. As a musicologist with the Smithsonian Institute, Hart has explored historical rhythms from around the world. But in recent years, Hart has been exploring music from outer space – quite literally. Space itself is a vacuum where no - ["Mysterium Tremendum" Review by No Depression](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mysterium-tremendum-review-by-no-depression-159/) - This one has been a long time coming. Since the last Dead tour in 2009, Mickey Hart has been maintaining a fairly low profile, which isn't to say that he's been kicking back on a beach or drifting away at home doing nothing. Like a true mad scientist, he has been exploring new vistas, conversing - ["Mysterium Tremendum" Review by Relix](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mysterium-tremendum-review-by-relix-160/) - Mickey Hart, half of the throbbing percussive pulse of the Grateful Dead, has never been one for modest rock and roll ideas. His 1971 solo debut, Rolling Thunder, included a Native American prayer and involved rain sticks. His 1991 Grammy-winning Planet Drum was full of—you guessed it—drummers from all over the planet. And yet, even - [From Hart to Heart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/from-hart-to-heart-454/) - Mickey Hart is taking the Gladstone Institutes on a long, strange trip. The Grammy-winning drummer with iconic hippie rock group the Grateful Dead is teaming with Deepak Srivastava, the head of San Francisco's Gladstone Institute for Cardiovascular Research, in an effort to discover the sounds that cells make. For Srivastava and other Gladstone scientists, the - [Behind the Stage...](https://mickeyhart.net/news/behind-the-stage-389/) - A look at what goes on before The Mickey Hart Band hits the stage. - [The Mickey Hart Band Winter Tour 2011/2012](https://mickeyhart.net/news/the-mickey-hart-band-winter-tour-2011-2012-390/) - Catch a glimpse inside the world of the Mickey Hart Band. Clips from the Winter 2011/2012 tour. - [Mickey Hart Band Live Tonight! At 'Lincoln Hall' Chicago, IL](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-band-live-tonight-at-lincoln-hall-chicago-il-391/) - Mickey Hart Band Live Tonight! At 'Lincoln Hall' Chicago, IL - [Introducing: The Mickey Hart Band](https://mickeyhart.net/news/introducing-the-mickey-hart-band-392/) - This lineup for The Mickey Hart Band is made up of vocalists Crystal Monee Hall and Tim Hockenberry, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Ian "Inx" Herman, guitarist Gawain Matthews, percussionist Sikuru Adepoju, keyboardist Ben Yonas and of course, former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart. - [George Lucas and Mickey Hart Episode 1](https://mickeyhart.net/news/george-lucas-and-mickey-hart-episode-1-393/) - Mickey Hart fans can tune in to the first in a series of videos featuring Mickey with George Lucas telling stories of their work together, the importance of sound in film, and the power of music. "Episode One" finds George & Mickey "Back to the Big Room" at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch where Hart recorded the - [Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman on Recording Music To be Born By](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-and-fredric-lieberman-on-recording-music-to-be-born-by-456/) - With the recent news of Jay-Z and Beyonce's newborn daughter "Blue Ivy" grabbing the record for the youngest person to enter the Billboard charts on her Dad's new single "Glory", Mickey Hart reflects on his son Taro who holds the record for the youngest recording artist, 6 months in utero, on his father's album "Music - [Let There Be Light](https://mickeyhart.net/news/let-there-be-light-458/) - The newly formed Mickey Hart Band performs 'Let There Be Light' at New York's Brooklyn Bowl on 8/18/11 - [Sonification of Cosmic Sounds, Sailing, Tours, Grateful Dead Music and Deadheadland](https://mickeyhart.net/news/sonification-cosmic-sounds-sailing-tours-grateful-dead-music-and-deadheadland-459/) - Deadheadland: Hi this is happycat! from Deadheadland, here with Mickey Hart..Mickey Hart: Is there really a Deadheadland? I've always known there to be one, but I didn't know there to be a physical face on it (laughs), I was always hoping there would be a Deadheadland in the afterlife, but now I am seeing it - [At the Edge of the Universe with Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/news/edge-universe-mickey-hart-460/) - As a Grammy award-winning musician, author and ethnomusicologist, Mickey Hart is coming up on half a century "at the edge" of music, art, science and culture. It's a journey that has taken the globally revered drummer/percussionist from the band room at Lawrence High School in the late 50s and very early 60s, to the deepest - [Tipper Gore Steps Back in the Spotlight for Grateful Dead Movie](https://mickeyhart.net/news/tipper-gore-steps-back-spotlight-grateful-dead-movie-462/) - Tipper Gore is back.The former veep's wife, who's kept a very low profile since separating from husband Al last June, turned up at E Street Cinema Monday night to emcee a screening of "The Music Never Stopped," a film about family, healing and the Grateful Dead.Gore, wearing her blonde hair longer now, politely dodged questions - [GRATEFUL DEAD'S MICKEY HART WINS ANOTHER WORLD MUSIC GRAMMY](https://mickeyhart.net/news/grateful-dead-s-mickey-hart-wins-another-world-music-grammy-395/) - Drummer extraordinaire Mickey Hart shares his thoughts on winning another Grammy Award in the World Music category. - [Mickey Hart and Global Drum Project - NatGeoMusic.net](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-and-global-drum-project-natgeomusic-net-394/) - Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart brings his band of international percussion superheroes to Geo Sessions, mesmerizing all who dare step in their path with intricate patterns of rhythm. See more GeoSessions at NatGeoMusic.net - ["Supralingua" Review by World Music Central](https://mickeyhart.net/news/supralingua-review-world-music-central-162/) - Originally released in 1998, Supralingua is part of a collection of drumming masterpieces reissued by Shout! Factory. In addition to the outstanding collection of drumming masters that percussion visionary Mickey Hart has accustomed us to, the album also includes Tibetan chants by real monks (not samples), vocals and a wide range of sounds made by - ["Global Drum Project" Review by The Music Box](https://mickeyhart.net/news/global-drum-project-review-by-the-music-box-382/) - There are many reasons why the Grateful Dead functioned so well as a unit, not the least of which is the fact that, musically speaking, its members never were forced to curtail their personalities or kowtow to the group's dynamics. Instead, their individualism was left intact, where it could roam freely within the larger, nearly - ["Global Drum Project" Review by All About Jazz](https://mickeyhart.net/news/global-drum-project-review-by-all-about-jazz-381/) - Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, tabla master Zakie Hussain and other eminent percussionists who comprise this time-honored outfit continue with their navigations of life's heartbeat. This studio session commemorates the fifteenth-anniversary of the influential Planet Drum (Rykodisc, 1991). Pristinely recorded, the artists use some of the latest and greatest studio processing techniques to augment the - ["Global Drum Project" Review by AllMusic](https://mickeyhart.net/news/global-drum-project-review-by-allmusic-380/) - Former Grateful Dead drummer and world music enthusiast Mickey Hart teams up again with tabla master Zakir Hussein (the two also collaborated on the landmark albums DIGA RHYTHM BAND and PLANET DRUM) for 2007's GLOBAL DRUM PROJECT. Like those albums, Hart and Hussein enlist the help of some of the world's great percussionists, including Nigerian - ["Global Drum Project" Review by Acoustic Music](https://mickeyhart.net/news/global-drum-project-review-by-acoustic-music-383/) - From his grade school workshops with Nigerian drummer (and future collaborator) Babatunde Olatunji; throught he polyrhythmic peaks with Bill Kreutzmann and the Grateful Dead, you could tell early on that Mickey Hart's ear heard far beyond the rock n roll spectrum. And he's still listening. Though fifteen years have passed since the duo released the - ["Spirit Into Sound" Album Review by The Music Box](https://mickeyhart.net/news/spirit-into-sound-album-review-by-the-music-box-378/) - The spiritual power of music is something with which Mickey Hart is quite familiar. Like Carlos Santana, he's made it an essential part of his life's work. As percussionist for the Grateful Dead, famed author, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Hart has devoted himself - ["Spirit Into Sound" Album Review by zBoneman](https://mickeyhart.net/news/spirit-into-sound-album-review-by-zboneman-379/) - Spirit Into Sound is an appropriate title for this entrancing journey through the natural and exotic sounds of this excellent new opus. Mickey Hart (the ex-percussionist for the Grateful Dead) leads us through a mezmerizing assortment of enchanting sound. At points the beats sound like African tribal drumming, but then the music will progress into - ["Spirit Into Sound" Album Review by the Chicago Tribune](https://mickeyhart.net/news/spirit-into-sound-album-review-by-the-chicago-tribune-377/) - Famous for his three decades of drumming with the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart is also noted for the rhythmic excursions of his percussion ensemble, Planet Drum, and his work as an author whose latest book, a collection of insights into the art of music-making, shares its title with this recording. The album, composed by Hart - ["Mickey Hart's Mystery Box" Review by The Music Box](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-s-mystery-box-review-by-the-music-box-156/) - At first glance, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box appears to be a bit of a departure from the Grateful Dead percussionists Mickey Hart's last few albums, all of which have focused around drum and rhythm tracks performed by an all-star line-up of artists from around the world. In reality, however, this is just a logical extension - ["Mickey Hart's Mystery Box" Review by Hartford Courant](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-s-mystery-box-review-by-hartford-courant-157/) - When Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann traditionally started out the second set of a Grateful Dead show with something called ``Drumz/Space,'' it was a good time to extend your visit to the concession stands. ``Planet Drum'' was better to be appreciated for its worldly view and scholarship than to be enjoyed. That all changes in - ["Mickey Hart's Mystery Box" Review by AllMusic](https://mickeyhart.net/news/mickey-hart-s-mystery-box-review-by-allmusic-155/) - After the passing of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and the venerable band's demise, it was percussionist Mickey Hart who proved to be the most creatively resilient. As Deadheads and appreciators of world music can attest, Hart -- who is also an author and learned ethnomusicologist -- has been fusing genres ever since his debut - ["Planet Drum" Review by Entertainment Weekly](https://mickeyhart.net/news/planet-drum-review-by-entertainment-weekly-163/) - Planet Drum is more than just an album. This is the aural branch of Grateful Dead percussionist Hart's grand ''Planet Drum'' project, a vision that also embraces Planet Drum the coffee-table book, and the Planet Drum Foundation (which, according to the liner notes, is ''committed to a synthesis of people and habitat through bioregional education''). - ["Rolling Thunder" Review by AllMusic](https://mickeyhart.net/news/rolling-thunder-review-by-allmusic-154/) - Along with Bobby Weir's Ace (1972) and Jerry Garcia's Garcia (1972), Mickey Hart (percussion) issued his debut solo in 1972. 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Read it and weep!”—Jerry Garcia“You - [DRUMS & SPACE](https://mickeyhart.net/drums-space/) - July 16, 2023 MEYER SOUND, RAM ROD, TOM PADDOCK and THE BEAM Drums & Space | July 16th | Dead & Company | San Francisco MEYER SOUND, RAM ROD, TOM PADDOCK and THE BEAM The outside world fades into the… Read more July 14, 2023 Golden Gate Bridge Drums & Space | July 14th | - [Mickey's Life in Videos](https://mickeyhart.net/mickeys-life-in-videos/) - Play Video King Clave Under One Groove Dances With Wood Inside The Mind Of Mickey All About Baba Global Drum Project Interviews Drones for Sonic Bathing with Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain Carlos Santana & Mickey George Lucas Interview with Mickey Behind the Scenes Tour of Smithsonian Folkways Smithsonian Folkways Presents: The Mickey Hart Collection - [Drumming At The Edge Of Magic - A Journey Into The Spirit Of Percussion](https://mickeyhart.net/drumming-at-the-edge-of-magic-a-journey-into-the-spirit-of-percussion/) - January 1, 1990 BUY THE BOOK HERE A compelling tale of my quest to unlock the power, myths, and legends of percussion. Complemented by more than 90 photographs and illustrations. It is a captivating adventure into a vibrant living tradition of myth, power, and magic. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations. When I decided to take up - [Songcatchers - In Search Of The Worlds Music](https://mickeyhart.net/songcatchers-in-search-of-the-worlds-music/) - June 1, 2003 BUY THE BOOK HERE On March 15, 1890, ethnographer Jesse Walter Fewkes walked out onto a field in Calais, Maine, and, pumping a foot treadle for power, recorded a Passamaquoddy Indian singing a salutation song. The first field recording of traditional music ever made, the song he captured was heard around the - [Spirit Into Sound - The Magic Of Music](https://mickeyhart.net/spirit-into-sound-the-magic-of-music/) - October 1, 1999 BUY THE BOOK HERE In this unique celebration of the power of sound, former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart shares thirty years of collected quotes and wisdom he has compiled about music’s power to transform. 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Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the - [Jordan Paul](https://mickeyhart.net/artist/jordan-paul/) - In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or performing stand-up comedy, artist was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his aptitude for classy pop-rock songs. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the - [Derek Dixon](https://mickeyhart.net/artist/derek-dixon-2/) - In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or performing stand-up comedy, artist was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his aptitude for classy pop-rock songs. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the - [Joel Lindsey](https://mickeyhart.net/artist/joel-lindsey/) - In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or performing stand-up comedy, artist was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his aptitude for classy pop-rock songs. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the - [Jordan Howell](https://mickeyhart.net/artist/jordan-howell/) - In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or performing stand-up comedy, artist was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his aptitude for classy pop-rock songs. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the - [Roxie Mathis](https://mickeyhart.net/artist/roxie-mathis/) - In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or performing stand-up comedy, artist was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his aptitude for classy pop-rock songs. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the - [Amy Dixon](https://mickeyhart.net/artist/amy-dixon/) - In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or performing stand-up comedy, artist was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his aptitude for classy pop-rock songs. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the - [Mark Perkins](https://mickeyhart.net/artist/mark-perkins/) - In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or performing stand-up comedy, artist was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his aptitude for classy pop-rock songs. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, his blues-rock group, the artist earned big chart success, becoming the ## Videos - [King Clave Music Video](https://mickeyhart.net/video/king-clave-music-video/) - [Under One Groove](https://mickeyhart.net/video/under-one-groove/) - [Dances With Wood](https://mickeyhart.net/video/dances-with-wood/) - [Inside The Mind Of Mickey](https://mickeyhart.net/video/inside-the-mind-of-mickey/) - [All About Baba](https://mickeyhart.net/video/all-about-baba/) - [Global Drum Project Interviews](https://mickeyhart.net/video/global-drum-project-interviews/) - [Drones for Sonic Bathing with Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain](https://mickeyhart.net/video/drones-for-sonic-bathing-with-mickey-hart-and-zakir-hussain/) - [Carlos Santana & Mickey](https://mickeyhart.net/video/carlos-santana-mickey/) - [George Lucas Interview with Mickey](https://mickeyhart.net/video/george-lucas-interview-with-mickey/) - [Behind the Scenes Tour of Smithsonian Folkways](https://mickeyhart.net/video/behind-the-scenes-tour-of-smithsonian-folkways/) - [Smithsonian Folkways Presents: The Mickey Hart Collection](https://mickeyhart.net/video/smithsonian-folkways-presents-the-mickey-hart-collection/) - [Mickey Hart & Planet Drum - Fire On The Mountain - Woodstock 99 West Stage](https://mickeyhart.net/video/mickey-hart-planet-drum-fire-on-the-mountain-woodstock-99-west-stage/) - [Mickey Hart & Planet Drum - Woodstock 99 West Stage - Full Concert](https://mickeyhart.net/video/mickey-hart-planet-drum-woodstock-99-west-stage-full-concert/) ## Photo Albums - [Dead & Company Final Tour 2023](https://mickeyhart.net/photo-album/dead-company-final-tour-2023/) - What a long strange trip for sure! Enjoy some highlights from the 2023 final Dead & Company tour. Special shout out to all the tour photographers for capturing these memories. ## Albums - [Mysterium Tremendum](https://mickeyhart.net/album/mysterium-tremendum/) - Track List Heartbeat of the SunSlow Joe RainCut the DeckStarlight StarbrightWho Stole The Show?Djinn DjinnThis One HourSupersonic VisionTime Never EndsLet There Be LightTicket to NowhereThrough Endless Skies A project born from the first measurable traces of the Big Bang itself, Mysterium Tremendum is Mickey Hart’s paean to the rhythms vibrating through all dimensions of reality. Each - [In the Groove](https://mickeyhart.net/album/in-the-groove/) - "King Clave" "Storm Drum" "Tides" "Drops" "Phil Da Glass" "Gadago Gadago" - [Utom: Summoning the Spirit](https://mickeyhart.net/album/utom-summoning-the-spirit/) - [The Music of Upper and Lower Egypt](https://mickeyhart.net/album/the-music-of-upper-and-lower-egypt/) - [The Travelling Jewish Wedding](https://mickeyhart.net/album/the-travelling-jewish-wedding/) - [Drums of Passion: The Invocation](https://mickeyhart.net/album/drums-of-passion-the-invocation/) - [Eclipse](https://mickeyhart.net/album/eclipse/) - [Sarangi: The Music of India](https://mickeyhart.net/album/sarangi-the-music-of-india/) - [Music to Be Born By](https://mickeyhart.net/album/music-to-be-born-by/) - [Freedom Chants from the Roof of the World](https://mickeyhart.net/album/freedom-chants-from-the-roof-of-the-world/) - [Venu](https://mickeyhart.net/album/venu/) - [Drums of Passion: The Beat](https://mickeyhart.net/album/drums-of-passion-the-beat/) - [The Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America & the Caribbean](https://mickeyhart.net/album/the-spirit-cries-music-from-the-rainforests-of-south-america-the-caribbean/) - [Music for the Gods: The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition: Indonesia](https://mickeyhart.net/album/music-for-the-gods-the-fahnestock-south-sea-expedition-indonesia/) - [American Warriors: Songs for Indian Veterans](https://mickeyhart.net/album/american-warriors-songs-for-indian-veterans/) - [The Discoteca Collection: Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas](https://mickeyhart.net/album/the-discoteca-collection-missao-de-pesquisas-folcloricas/) - [L. 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It was released on CD and cassette by Rykodisc Records on June 11, 1996. The album combines Hart’s percussion-based - [Superorganism](https://mickeyhart.net/album/superorganism/) - Track List Falling StarsThe SermonChabadasDon’t Let Your God DownI Want It BackAliromba O SaroRage OnMind Your HeadBully BoyGhost Rider Hart tuned out the world for his ambitious new album, tapping into his own brainwaves to find the intersection between biology, rhythm and music. RJ CUBARRUBIA RollingStone.com Mickey provides the dynamic and flexible rhythmic backbone to - [Planet Drum](https://mickeyhart.net/album/planet-drum/) - Track List Udu ChantLight Over ShadowDance Of The Hunter’s FireJewe (You Are The One)The HuntThe Dancing SorcererLost RiverEvening SambaIyanu (Surprises)Mysterious IslandIsland GrooveTemple CavesBones EXCITING NEWS - 25TH ANNIVERSARY RE-ISSUE COMING DECEMBER 2016 CHECK BACK FOR BONUS TRACKS, RELEASE DATES AND MORE. Planet Drum is a world music album by Mickey Hart, a musician and musicologist, - [Ramu](https://mickeyhart.net/album/ramu/) - Track List Auctioneers (Mickey Hart) – 2:412. Wayward Son (Hart, Robert Hunter) – 4:083. Big Bad Wolf (Hart, Tarriona Tank Ball) – 5:094. The Lost Coast (Hart) – 4:245. Who Do You Think You Are? (Hart, Hunter) – 3:546. You Remind Me (Hart, Hunter) – 4:087. When the Morning Comes (Hart, Ball) – 1:538. Jerry - [Supralingua](https://mickeyhart.net/album/supralingua/) - Track List 1. Angola (Sikiru Adepoju, David Garibaldi, Mickey Hart, Giovanni Hidalgo, Zakir Hussain, Bakithi Kumalo) – 4:542. Yabu (Garibaldi, Hart, Hidalgo, Hussain, Kumalo, Babatunde Olatunji) – 4:443. Endless River (Adepoju, Garibaldi, Hart, Hidalgo, Hussain, Kumalo, Rebeca Mauleón) – 2:504. Umayeyo (Adepoju, Garibaldi, Hart, Hidalgo, Hussain, Kumalo) – 6:035. Secret Meeting Place (Adepoju, Garibaldi, Hart, - [Diga](https://mickeyhart.net/album/diga/) - Track List Sweet SixteenMagnificent SevensHappiness Is DrummingRazooliTal Mala On the heels of Mickey Hart’s acclaimed Global Drum Project album comes The Mickey Hart Collection, a series focusing on landmark world music albums masterminded by the Grateful Dead percussionist. Diga, by the Diga Rhythm Band, was originally released on The Grateful Dead’s label in 1976, was - [Global Drum Project](https://mickeyhart.net/album/global-drum-project/) - Track List BabaKaluli GrooveFunky ZenaUnder One GrooveDances With WoodHeartspaceTarsI Can Tell You More Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart’s innovative Planet Drum CD convened some of the world’s finest drum talent for a collaboration that won the very first GRAMMY for world music — bringing together Nigerian drum legend Babatunde Olatunji, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, - [Spirit Into Sound](https://mickeyhart.net/album/spirit-into-sound/) - Track List Amazon NguniSueno TropicaleCloud MossFunky PeruShambolayaLizard DanceNature TalkElephant WalkChromaHidden BeachNative SunIndian Night Mickey Hart is a rhythm proselytizer. He’s been sounding-off from the percussion pulpit since writing his first book, Drumming at the Edge of Magic in 1990. Hart’s Planet Drum–the book and the album–set forth an army of percussion acolytes. With Spirit into - [At The Edge](https://mickeyhart.net/album/at-the-edge/) - Track List #4 For GaiaSky WaterSlow SailingLonesome HeroFast SailingCougar RunThe EliminatorsBrainstormPigs In Space At the Edge is a percussion-based world music album by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. It was released on CD and cassette by Rykodisc Records on September 18, 1990. It was Hart’s first album with the multi-national percussion ensemble that would later - [Rolling Thunder](https://mickeyhart.net/album/rolling-thunder/) - Track List Rolling Thunder/ Shoshone InvocationThe Main Ten (Playing In The Band)Fletcher CarnabyThe Chase (Progress)Blind JohnYoung ManDeep, Wide, And FrequentPump Song (Greatest Story Ever Told)Granma’s CookiesHangin’ On Although Hart had temporarily left the Grateful Dead at the time he made Rolling Thunder, members of the Dead play on the album, along with a number of - [The Bali Sessions: Living Art, Sounding Spirit](https://mickeyhart.net/album/the-bali-sessions-living-art-sounding-spirit/) ## Events - [Mickey Hart: Art at the Edge of Magic - HAIGHT STREET ART CENTER](https://mickeyhart.net/event/mickey-hart-art-at-the-edge-of-magic-haight-street-art-center/) - The Haight Street Art Center will honor music icon and celebrated visual artist Mickey Hart with the opening of a groundbreaking exhibition: Mickey Hart: Art at the Edge of Magic. The legendary Grateful Dead drummer’s unique and powerful installation- featuring nearly 100paintings and prints on canvas, paper, plexiglass, metal, drumheads, and cymbals – marks the - [Dead & Company: Celebrating 60 Years of the Grateful Dead's Music](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-celebrating-60-years-of-the-grateful-deads-music/) - [Rhythm Masters On ESPN & ESPN+](https://mickeyhart.net/event/rhythm-masters-on-espn-espn/) - A Mickey Hart Experience coming to ESPN & ESPN+ on August 14th! - [Playa Luna Presents: Dead Ahead](https://mickeyhart.net/event/playa-luna-presents-dead-ahead/) - WE ARE GOING DEAD AHEAD! Playa Luna Presents: Dead Ahead is an all-inclusive vacation experience hosted on the beach at Moon Palace Resort in Riviera Cancún, Mexico January 12-15, 2024. The event will celebrate the Grateful Dead songbook featuring two nights of curated collaborations themed "Dead Ahead" with Bobby Weir, Mickey Hart, Jeff Chimenti, Oteil - [Mickey Hart Fine Art - Pop Up Gallery](https://mickeyhart.net/event/mickey-hart-fine-art-pop-up-gallery/) - Wentworth Gallery is doing a pop up gallery of Mickey's art across the street from Oracle Park at 238 King St during the final San Francisco Dead & Company shows. Hours 10AM - 6PM - Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Stop by the gallery to see his art and get details of his appearances. You can - [Dead & Company - The Gorge - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-the-gorge/) - [Dead & Company - The Gorge - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-the-gorge-2/) - [Dead & Company - Folsom Field](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-folsom-field-2/) - [Dead & Company - Folsom Field](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-folsom-field-3/) - [Dead & Company - Oracle Park - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-oracle-park-2/) - [Dead & Company - Oracle Park - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-oracle-park-3/) - [Dead & Company - Oracle Park - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-oracle-park/) - [Dead & Company - Folsom Field - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-folsom-field/) - [Dead & Company - Fenway Park - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-fenway-park-2/) - [Dead & Company - Fenway Park](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-fenway-park/) - [Dead & Company - Citi Field](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-citi-field-2/) - [Dead & Company - Citi Field](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-citi-field/) - [Dead & Company - Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-ruoff-home-mortgage-music-center/) - [Dead & Company - Saratoga Performing Arts Center - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-saratoga-performing-arts-center-2/) - [Dead & Company - Saratoga Performing Arts Center - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-saratoga-performing-arts-center/) - [Dead & Company - Citizen's Bank Park](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-citizens-bank-park/) - [Dead & Company - Riverbend Music Center - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-riverbend-music-center/) - [Dead & Company - Wrigley Field - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-wrigley-field-2/) - [Dead & Company - Barton Hall at Cornell University](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-barton-hall-at-cornell-university/) - [Dead & Company - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival/) - [Dead & Company - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - SOLD OUT](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-hollywood-casino-amphitheatre/) - [MICKEY HART ART SHOW](https://mickeyhart.net/event/mickey-hart-art-show-2/) - [MICKEY HART ART SHOW](https://mickeyhart.net/event/mickey-hart-art-show/) - [Dead & Company - The Forum](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-the-forum/) - [Dead & Company - The Forum](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-the-forum-2/) - [Dead & Company - Ak-Chin Pavilion](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-ak-chin-pavilion/) - [Dead & Company - Dos Equis Pavilion](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-dos-equis-pavilion/) - [Dead & Company - Lakewood Amphitheatre](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-lakewood-amphitheatre/) - [Dead & Company - PNC Music Pavilion](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-pnc-music-pavilion/) - [Dead & Company - Coastal Credit Union Music Park](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-coastal-credit-union-music-park/) - [Dead & Company - Jiffy Lube Live](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-jiffy-lube-live/) - [Dead & Company - The Pavilion at Star Lake](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-the-pavilion-at-star-lake/) - [Dead & Company - Wrigley Field](https://mickeyhart.net/event/dead-company-wrigley-field/) ## Categories - [DRUMS & SPACE](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/drums-space/) - [Review](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/review/) - [Hear](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/hear/) - [News](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/news/) - [Blog](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/blog/) - [Discover](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/discover/) - [See](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/see/) - [Read](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/read/) - [Press Release](https://mickeyhart.net/news/category/press-release/) ## Album Categories - [Mickey Hart](https://mickeyhart.net/album_category/mickey-hart/) - [Mickey Hart Collection](https://mickeyhart.net/album_category/mickey-hart-collection/) ## Event Categories - [Dead & Company](https://mickeyhart.net/event_category/dead-company/) - [Art Shows](https://mickeyhart.net/event_category/art-shows/)