![]() Having a home studio in a room big enough to include a whole rock band was even more radical. At this time, home studios were not really viable propositions, so a band member having his own studio was a radical concept. Sometime in late 1970, a studio was built on Hart's ranch, in the barn. Hart was actually an experienced horseman, surprisingly enough, but I suspect the crew members must have introduced the suburbanites who made up the rest of the Grateful Dead to the pleasures of rural Oregon: riding horses, shooting off guns and so on. At least some key crew members were from the tiny cattle ranching town of Hermiston, OR. Apparently some members of the crew lived on the ranch between tours. The ranch rapidly became a clubhouse for the boys in the band and their crew. According to McNally, the land belonged to the city of Novato, and Hart was technically the caretaker, for the princely sum of just $250 a month. Nonetheless, land in rural Novato was cheap in those days-believe it or not-and Hart found a way. Neither Hart nor the Grateful Dead had much money at the time. ![]() Sometime in 1969, Mickey Hart moved to an unused ranch near Novato Road in Novato, CA, in Marin County. ![]() Reputedly the entrance to Mickey Hart's ranch, somewhere in Novato (photo: JGMF) ![]()
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