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''The Best of Mickey Hart: Over the Edge and Back'' is a retrospective album by
Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...
. It was released by
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on April 23, 2002, in two formats — CD, and
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. It contains music excerpted from six of Hart's albums – ''
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'' (1976), ''
The Apocalypse Now Sessions ''The Apocalypse Now Sessions'' is an album by the Rhythm Devils. Subtitled ''The Rhythm Devils Play River Music'', and sometimes referred to by that name, it contains music that was recorded for the soundtrack of the film ''Apocalypse Now''. It ...
'' (1980), ''
At the Edge ''At the Edge'' is a percussion-based world music album by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. It was released on CD and cassette by Rykodisc Records on September 18, 1990. It was Hart's first album with the multi-national percussion ensemble ...
'' (1990), ''
Planet Drum ''Planet Drum'' is a world music album by Mickey Hart, a musician and musicologist who was a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead. Hart's concept for ''Planet Drum'' was to play drum music with percussionists from around the world, and i ...
'' (1991), '' Mickey Hart's Mystery Box'' (1996), and ''
Supralingua ''Supralingua'' is an album by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and his percussion ensemble Planet Drum. It was released on CD by Rykodisc Records on August 4, 1998. Like the band's previous album, '' Planet Drum'', ''Supralingua'' sh ...
'' (1998). It also contains one previously unreleased track. Fellow
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members Bill Kreutzmann and
Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...
perform on the track "Compound", and
Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...
plays guitar synthesizer on "The Eliminators".


Creation of the album

Micky Hart selected the tracks for ''Over the Edge and Back'', and remixed them in
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for the CD, and in
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for the DVD-Audio. In a 2002 interview, Hart said, "I'm not really up for 'Best of's to be honest with you.... My stuff doesn't really play like that 'Best of' in one CD because I'm all over the map, from the rhythm to the melody and the harmony, the ''Apocalypse'' essions the Olympics. I try to make it go together, but it just barely holds as a CD. If you look at it as individual tracks, they're terrific, but, usually, when you make a CD there’s a motif. Usually you compose the songs at the same time, so they have a certain kind of continuity to it. This doesn’t have that kind of continuity. So, I didn't try. I gave up on the continuity part because it covered 20 years of my life."


Critical reception

On
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, Hal Horowitz wrote, "This is a reasonable but far too brief overview of Mickey Hart's six world music releases for the Rykodisc label.... The original albums this material was extracted from are a better, more appropriate way to enjoy the music, especially considering the relatively short 47–minute playing time... As it stands, it's an adequate, listenable, but frustratingly limited taste of Mickey Hart's world music side projects."


Track listing

#"Angola" (
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, David Garibaldi,
Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...
, Giovanni Hidalgo,
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, Bakithi Kumalo) – 4:50 – from ''
Supralingua ''Supralingua'' is an album by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and his percussion ensemble Planet Drum. It was released on CD by Rykodisc Records on August 4, 1998. Like the band's previous album, '' Planet Drum'', ''Supralingua'' sh ...
'' #"Where Love Goes (Sito)" ( Robert Hunter, Hart, The Mint Juleps, Babatunde Olatunji, Hussain, Hidalgo) – 7:34 – from '' Mickey Hart's Mystery Box'' #"Down the Road" (Hunter, Hart, Dave Jenkins, Vince Welnick, Hidalgo) – 5:25 – from ''Mickey Hart's Mystery Box'' #"Sweet Sixteen" (Hart, Hussain) – 8:05 – from ''
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'' #"The Eliminators" (Creek Hart, Mickey Hart, Taro S. Hart,
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) – 4:49 – from ''
At the Edge ''At the Edge'' is a percussion-based world music album by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. It was released on CD and cassette by Rykodisc Records on September 18, 1990. It was Hart's first album with the multi-national percussion ensemble ...
'' #"Udu Chant" (Adepoju, Hart, Hussein,
Airto Moreira Airto Guimorvan Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. Coming to prominence in the late 1960s as a member of the ...
) – 4:14 – from ''
Planet Drum ''Planet Drum'' is a world music album by Mickey Hart, a musician and musicologist who was a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead. Hart's concept for ''Planet Drum'' was to play drum music with percussionists from around the world, and i ...
'' #"Temple Caves" (Adepoju, Hart, Hussein, Moreira, Olatunji) – 3:20 – from ''Planet Drum'' #"Compound" (Hart,
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, Moreira) – 3:18 – from ''
The Apocalypse Now Sessions ''The Apocalypse Now Sessions'' is an album by the Rhythm Devils. Subtitled ''The Rhythm Devils Play River Music'', and sometimes referred to by that name, it contains music that was recorded for the soundtrack of the film ''Apocalypse Now''. It ...
'' #"Call to All Nations" (
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, Hart, Hidalgo, Hussein) – 5:13 – previously unreleased; recorded for the opening ceremonies of the
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Personnel

*
Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...
production Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a stati ...
, mixing *Tom Flye – mixing *Howard Cohen – production coordinator *Liz DeLong – production coordinator *Ferenc Dobronyi – cover illustration *Steven Jurgensmeyer – design


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Best of Mickey Hart: Over the Edge and Back Mickey Hart albums 2002 albums Rykodisc compilation albums