Dead and Company and ex-Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart believes that "Jerry [Garcia] would be smiling from ear to ear" if he could hear Hart's latest album, RAMU.
Speaking of the album, which came out last November, and his late bandmate, Hart tells Rolling Stone, "He once said to me, 'If you had the possibilities at your disposal to forage far and wide and your own imagination was your only limitation, you would be able to play a thousand instruments in real time!' I was like, 'Sounds great.' But that was way before the digital era. We were just playing loops and exotic instruments onstage. We were never able to bring it all together."
Now, of course, anyone can. In fact, Hart says it's gone way beyond his imagination. "With RAMU, I am straddling two worlds -- to the right is the world of the archaic, to the left is the world of the digital domain, where anything is possible, any rhythm can be conjured. Every day I find new things, different ways of putting things together, different tempos."