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After Jerry Garcia, the bearded, avuncular guitarist for the Grateful Dead, died of a heart attack while in a drug-rehab facility in 1995, one of the band's two drummers, Mickey Hart, gradually withdrew from life. He stopped going out as much, and he wouldn't play Grateful Dead music at all; he couldn't even listen to it. "I didn't play it in the house for about a year and a half," Hart says, remembering. "Oh man, are you kidding? I would cry. It was just too painful. Jerry was my best friend and the heart...
Then a package arrived. It was from Paul and Linda McCartney. Inside was a video of the Dead's early days, circa 1967, which featured photos of Garcia and Hart and the rest of the band, set to old Dead music. Hart and his wife and his five-year-old daughter danced as they watched. Not long afterward, when Bruce Hornsby--a pop pianist with his own solo career who had played with the Dead off and on--suggested reforming the band, Hart was ready. It was time...
This summer core Dead members Hart, guitarist Bob Weir and bassist Phil Lesh--along with Hornsby, guitarist Steve Kimock (from the Bay Area-band Zero), guitarist Mark Karan (who has played with the Rembrandts), drummer John Molo (from Hornsby's band) and jazz saxophonist Dave Ellis--are touring as "the Other Ones," a band that, while not the Dead, is named after a Dead song and performs material from the Dead catalog. Weir, for his part, was eager to play the old Dead songs again but reluctant to tour under the Grateful Dead name. Says Weir: "Without Pigpen [keyboardist...
...surviving Dead opted to join up. According to his band mates, Bill Kreutzmann, one of the Dead's drummers, was too comfortable in Hawaii to return to the road. Hart says all the band members are "secure" financially and that the Other Ones was launched not for commercial reasons but as an extension of the Dead's musical adventure. "This is another permutation of the Grateful Dead, another mutation," says Hart. "We're morphing into something else. And that's as it should be. When you lose a piece of you, if the body, the corpus, is strong enough...
...time Rodgers and Hammerstein were discussing the Hart crisis, the 46-year-old Hammerstein was considered something of a has-been. He had a string of flops to his name. Famously, after the successful debut of Oklahoma! he took an advertisement in Variety listing all his recent catastrophes with the punch line: "I've done it before and I can do it again...