Episode 7: Mickey Hart

Mike Finoia (0:04)

Hey, what's up? This is Mike.

Oteil Burbridge (0:06)

And this is Oteil. And you are back again with the Comes A Time podcast.

Mike Finoia (0:12)

Dude, this one is one for the ages.

The great, the self-proclaimed director of transportation, Mickey Hart, one of the most unbelievable people to ever... Oteil, I had such a great time listening to you too. I was 20% podcast, I was 80% nerd during that one.

Oteil Burbridge (0:34)

It was definitely a chance for me to nerd out because so many of my heroes, I think most people don't know and Mickey knows all of them. And I was just like, oh man, I can't believe, you know, so it was fun for me to be like a little fan boy for a while.

Mike Finoia (0:54)

I had to one up fan you when I was like, I got to hear about Jerry. I got to hear about Jerry. Well, the thing that's cool about Mickey too is that like, and if anybody that's listening only knows him as Grateful Dead or whatever, I mean, he literally created a genre of music in the, you know, categorization of things like world music.

It's wild, the things that he was able to accomplish.

Oteil Burbridge (1:20)

Yeah, and putting all those people together from different cultures, you know, I mean, wow, don't we need more of that right now? You know, that's what he's always been about and that's what they've always been about. And that's a lot of what we talk about and it's a great episode.

Mike Finoia (1:35)

That's right.

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Oteil Burbridge (3:19)

What's up, Oteil here again.

Mike Finoia (3:21)

And this is Mike. And welcome back to another episode of Comes A Time.

Today we are joined by Mr., I mean, the Director of Transportation himself, Mickey Hart. Hi.

Mickey Hart (3:38)

Indeed, indeed.

Well, hi, Mike. And of course, OT., how are you this morning?

Oteil Burbridge (3:44)

Excellent man. Good to have one half of the rhythm. I should say one third of the rhythm devils.

Mickey Hart (3:50)

That's right. Well, actually, actually, you know, Sally, he was horned once, you know, one night we had a horning ceremony for Jeff.

And so he's, you know, he's, he's an official rhythm devil as well. So that's right.

Mike Finoia (4:06)

Hey, hey, guys, for the lay person, what's a horning ceremony?

Mickey Hart (4:11)

Oh, a horning ceremony is when we when Bill and I bring someone in, you know, to the rhythm devils and, you know, and, and Oteel earned his horns, I might say, quite well and still does. And so does Jeff, you know.

So yeah, that's a horning ceremony. They get their horns and, you know, and they get their staff and, you know, they get the cape. You got to get a red cape.

And yeah, we have great pictures of our horning ceremonies. They were always fun backstage right after, you know, a real rhythm devil experience, shall we say. Oh, OK.

Oteil Burbridge (4:52)

I got lucky because I actually had mine on stage. It was a surprise. I didn't even know it was going to happen.

Mickey Hart (4:58)

Oh, did I horn you on stage?

Oteil Burbridge (4:59)

Yeah.

Mickey Hart (5:01)