Mickey Hart
Birthday: 1943-09-11 Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Synopsis
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until the group disbanded in August 1995. He and fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned the nickname "the rhythm devils".
Acting
Move Me Brightly - Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday
"Move Me Brightly" is a film based around a musical gathering at Bob Weir's TRI Studios in San Rafael, California to mark what would have been Jerry Garcia's 70th birthday on 3rd August, 2012. The revolving line-up of performers included fellow Grateful Dead members along with many guest artists who joined together to celebrate Jerry Garcia's life and work. Grateful Dead bandmates and other musicians who played with or were inspired by him. It is fitting tribute to one of rock music's most creative and imaginative composers and performers. Features contributions from fellow Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart and Donna Jean Godchaux along with Garcia family members and guests including Carlos Santana, Furthur's Joe Russo & Jeff Chimenti, Phish's Mike Gordon, Black Crowes' Adam MacDougall, Vampire Weekend's Chris Tomson, Yellowbirds' Sam Cohen & Josh Kaufman and many more.
The Other Dream Team
The incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and – with help from the Grateful Dead – triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
Beware of Mr. Baker
Ginger Baker is known for playing in Cream and Blind Faith, but the world's greatest drummer didn’t hit his stride until 1972, when he arrived in Nigeria and discovered Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. After leaving Nigeria, Ginger returned to his pattern of drug-induced self-destruction, and countless groundbreaking musical works, eventually settling in South Africa, where the 73-year-old lives with his young bride and 39 polo ponies. This documentary includes interviews with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Carlos Santana and more. Beware of Mr. Baker! With every smash of the drum is a man smashing his way through life.
Grateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle
Grateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle
Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show
While recorded in the late 70s and early 80s, the theme to this Tom Snyder release is icons of the 1960s. Features Ken Kesey, the Grateful Dead, Dr. Timothy Leary, and Tom Wolfe as Guests The Dead play a short set of 'On the Road Again,' 'Dire Wolf,' 'Deep Elm Blues' and an abbreviated 'Cassidy.
Festival Express
The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts. In the summer of 1970, a chartered train crossed Canada carrying some of the world's greatest rock bands. The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, and others lived (and partied) together for five days, stopping in major cities along the way to play live concerts. Their journey was filmed.
Grateful Dead: View from the Vault IV
The Grateful Dead perform two live concerts in Oakland and Anaheim in 1987. Featuring the entire sets from both shows, View from the Vault 4 is a must-rent for the legions of Deadheads. Songs include "When Push Comes to Shove," "Funiculi Funicula," "Terrapin Station," "Throwing Stones" and many more.
Grateful Dead: View from the Vault III
Grateful Dead - View from the Vault III Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View CA June 16, 1990 First Set: 1 Let The Good Times Roll 2 Truckin' 3 Touch Of Grey 4 Mama Tried 5 Big River 6 Friend Of The Devil 7 Cassidy 8 Big Boss Man 9 One More Saturday Night Second Set: 10 China Cat Sunflower 11 I Know You Rider 12 We Can Run 13 Estimated Prophet 14 Terrapin Station 15 Jam 16 Space 17 Drums 18 China Doll 19 Sugar Magnolia 20 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Bonus Footage: Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA - October 3, 1987 21 Hey Pocky Way 22 New Minglewood Blues 23 Candyman 24 When I Paint My Masterpiece 25 West L.A. Fadeaway 26 My Brother Esau
Grateful Dead: View from the Vault
View from the Vault, Volume One, sometimes known simply as View from the Vault, is the first release in a series of DVDs and companion soundtracks by the Grateful Dead known as "View from the Vault". The audio is taken from the soundboard and the video from the video screens at the concerts. The first volume was recorded and filmed at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh on July 8, 1990 with bonus material recorded two days earlier at Cardinal Stadium, Louisville. The set was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 2, 2001.
Kodo: Live at the Acropolis
Live action documentary footage of a concert by the Kodo drummers of Japan at the Acropolis, Greece, in 1995, with commentary by members of the drum group concerning the concert and the drum troupe
Grateful Dead: Truckin Up to Buffalo
Grateful Dead live concert footage from July 4, 1989. Set list includes: Set 1: Bertha-> The Greatest Story Ever Told Cold Rain And Snow Walkin' Blues Row Jimmy When I Paint My Masterpiece Stagger Lee Looks Like Rain-> Deal Set 2: Touch Of Grey-> Man Smart Woman Smarter Ship Of Fools-> Playin' In The Band Reprise-> Terrapin Station-> Drums-> I Will Take You Home-> All Along The Watchtower-> Morning Dew-> Not Fade Away Encore: U.S. Blues The Band: Jerry Garcia Mickey Hart Bill Kreutzmann Phil Lesh Brent Mydland Bob Weir
View from the Vault IV
View from the Vault, Volume Four (or View from the Vault IV) is the fourth release in the "View from the Vault" series of rock concert recordings by the Grateful Dead. Like the other entries in the series, it was released simultaneously as an album on CD and as a concert performance video on DVD. This volume contains two consecutive complete shows — July 24, 1987, at Oakland Stadium, and July 26, 1987 at Anaheim Stadium. The album was released as a 4 CD set.
These concerts were recorded during the "Dylan & the Dead" tour. On this brief tour, each Grateful Dead show was followed by a performance by Bob Dylan, with the Dead providing accompaniment. Songs from those performances are documented on the album Dylan & the Dead.
Grateful Dead: Ticket to New Year's Eve Concert
Grateful Dead's New Year's Eve concert 12/31/87 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.
Grateful Dead: So Far
So Far is a music documentary video by the Grateful Dead. Directed by Jerry Garcia and Len Dell'Amico, it is intended to give a subjective view of the Grateful Dead experience. The soundtrack includes Dead song performances, largely from 1985. The visuals combine scenes of the band playing the songs, other Dead related material, computer animation, and found footage that has been altered and edited in various ways. So Far was released on VHS videotape and on laserdisc in 1987, and has a running time of 55 minutes.
Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead
Recorded October 30th and 31st, 1980, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Dead Ahead showcases the recently reformed Grateful Dead lineup in acoustic and electric splendor.
Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland
The Closing Of Winterland documents the Grateful Dead's landmark New Year's Eve 1978 concert that marked the end of the famed San Francisco Bay Area venue Winterland Aena. The Dead celebrated the closing as an approximately five-hour-long party (complete with breakfast with the audience at dawn) and invited some guests including guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ken Kesey as well as actor Dan Aykroyd who provided the midnight countdown.
