Mickey Hart, percussion, vocals. Mickey is best known for his thirty years as percussionist with the Grateful Dead. He is a trustee at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, the executive producer of the World series of music for Rykodisc, founder of Planet Drum, author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic, Planet Drum, and Spirit into Sound, and composer of film scores, including the percussion soundtrack to Apocalypse Now. His latest album is called Spirit into Sound. He won the first World Music Grammy ever awarded, for his recording, Planet Drum.
Bruce Hornsby, vocals and keyboards. In 1987 Hornsby and his then-band the Range opened for the Dead near Monterey, and his relationship with the Dead progressed from there. Impressed with his music, Garcia sat in on several of Hornsby s albums, and when the Dead sought assistance in the keyboard realm in 1990, Hornsby ended up being a permanent part-time member of the band for the next two years. He is of course the notable singer, composer and pianist of such tunes as The Way It Is, The End of The Innocenc... (
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