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KTVU.com Talks To Bay Area Rock Icon Mickey Hart

SAN FRANCISCO -- As one of the drummers for iconic Bay Area rock band The Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart is no stranger to heading into deep space musically. During its epic existence as the psychedelic era's most durable act, the Dead blazed a singularly unique trail that stretched from the '60s well into the 1990s. The band's unique improvisational chemistry earned it a loyal rag-tag caravan of gypsy followers that made the Dead a small cottage industry unto itself and nearly a religion for its most dedicated fans.

In addition to his decades as a member of the Dead and Dead-affiliated bands, Hart has explored a myriad of other projects as a noted musicologist, band leader (recording landmark albums with his global percussion ensembles Planet Drum and the Global Drum Project) and author. He recently spoke with KTVU.com about his latest group -- the Mickey Hart Band -- and the unusual sound sources he is using to build the foundation of his new music.

KTVU.com: It seems that -- with the exception of live work with Rhythm Devils and possibly going back to the Music Box project -- a majority of what you’ve done outside of the Dead seem to have focused primarily on percussion and global rhythms rather than traditional rock songwriting. I was wondering is the new Mickey Hart Band a return to a rock setting for you?

Mickey Hart: Yes, but it’s also about global rhythms. But this is now more cosmic and universal rhythms as opposed to global rhythms. Because what I’m involved in doing now is a personal investigation into the sounds of the universe starting with the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. That’s the start of our story, as humans and as the universe. All my books are about that.

Until recently we weren’t able to really detect the echo of the Big Bang, and now we are. Reading the radio telescopes from around the world, we actually have light waves that we change into sound waves and bring into our auditory spectrum and play with them and make music with them. As opposed to just random space sounds; its not science fiction. These are sounds that actually come from these epic events in the cosmos. It's beyond global now. Now its galactic. Universal more appropriately.

KTVU.com: I'm trying to imagine what light waves from the Big Bang sound might like when converted into sound waves...

Mickey Hart: Actually, in a way, it sounds like a low-flying plane. It's not like a bang.

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