Lenny Hart

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Lenny Hart ( 1919 - 1974 ) was the father of Mickey Hart and a former asset manager of the band Grateful Dead .

Lenny Hart was the drummer and owner of the Hart Music instrument shop in San Carlos , California . He also taught his son, who later became the Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, to play the drums. Through his son he became the band's asset manager. Mickey joined the band in 1967, his father received the post shortly thereafter. Lenny Hart embezzled between $ 70,000 and $ 155,000 while recording the album Workingman's Dead in March 1970. That was almost the entire fortune of the band. In addition, the band was still in debt to their record label Warner Bros. Records , as the album Aoxomoxoa produced there far exceeded the originally planned costs.

Lenny Hart was born in the summer of 1971 under the name "Rev. Lenny B. Hart “taken into custody as a Baptist priest without the money. In 1974 he died of cancer at the age of 55.

Effect on the band

Due to the embezzlement of his father, Mickey Hart left the band from 1971 to 1975, so that the band, which was previously known for the interaction of its two drummers, had only one drummer and did not care about a replacement.

During the European tour in 1972, the song "He's Gone" was performed for the first time on April 17th in Tivoli , Copenhagen . This song is a dedication to the circumstances at the time. Since then, the song has been played every time someone from the Grateful Dead community died or left it.

In addition to its negative impact, the band first came into contact with Michelangelo Antonioni , the director of Zabriskie Point , through Lenny Hart , for whom the band had their first participation in a soundtrack.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rolling Stone . 2nd September 1971.
  2. ↑ Grateful Dead Time Capsule.
  3. ↑ Interview with Joe Smith (Director of Warner Bros. Records at the time) on Anthem to Beauty
  4. ↑ Dodd, David. The Annotated "He's Gone"
  5. ↑ Zabriskie Point - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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SURNAME Hard, Lenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American asset manager for the band Grateful Dead
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
DATE OF DEATH 1974