Grateful Dead drummer to perform in Jerusalem
Mickey Hart and his band will jam at the Mount Scopus Amphitheater in August
Mickey Hart — former drummer of the legendary Grateful Dead — and his eponymous band will perform on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus in August.
The Mickey Hart Band is a multicultural world music percussion group which, he told Rolling Stone magazine in 2011, incorporated musical inspiration from “light waves from the cosmos, starting 13.7 billion years ago with the Big Bang.”
“The signals come from radio telescopes around the world and I work closely with NASA to take the light waves and bring it into our limited spectrum of hearing. Then I add a little spice to them with some reverb and some delay. It makes for a hot little stew,” he said.
Hart was the only Jewish member of the 1960s-70s rock band. He and the band will play at Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus Amphitheater on August 22 at 7 p.m.
