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Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart on Bringing Back Jerry Garcia for His Strangest Solo Album Yet
Hart onstage in 2016
Since Rolling Thunder in 1972, percussionist Mickey Hart has been the Grateful Dead’s most prolific -- and most inventive -- solo artist. His latest album, RAMU
(out Nov. 3), named after the musical device he created, combines
archival samples, funky polyrhythms and rich melodies into a sonic
tapestry. Hart explains how he creates a sound separate from the Dead.
CREATE COOL TOYS
“RAMU,
the instrument, stands for Random Access Musical Universe. It’s a
digital database that brings universes together that [are] normally
autonomous.”
Joseph McDermott
DIVE INTO ARCHIVES
“I created
songs built around archival recordings from the Library of Congress just
waiting to be discovered. I’ve found things that never coexisted
before.”
STIR THE POT
“There’s a political
side [to the album], which was very important to me, considering who’s
in the White House. That was great stimulus; Mr. Trump is a
great inspiration.”
Joseph McDermott
BRING BACK JERRY
“My archivist
[found] a 1987 recording of [the Dead’s Jerry Garcia] messing around
with his MIDI synth on guitar. I put a groove with it -- and Jerry
[returns].”
Joseph McDermott
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