The pickup block feeds a volume pedal and various audio effects units, which route the signals through an amplifier or sound system. It has a movable magnetic pickup block to facilitate capture and transmission of various tonal qualities. The Beam has a heavy-duty bridge and string anchor at one end and a nut with tuning hardware at the other end. This is a large (8 foot in length) aluminum I-beam (actually a "C" shaped beam facing down with the strings across the flat outside-top surface) strung with 13 bass piano strings all tuned to the note of D (a Pythagorean mono-chord at various octaves). Following that, selections from the sessions were remixed and assembled into the final album.Īn unusual percussion instrument built for the sessions, variants of which have been built and later used in Grateful Dead concerts and Mickey Hart's solo touring bands, was "The Beam".
The recording sessions took place over a period of ten days. Some of that music ended up being used on the final soundtrack. Graphic inspired by Mickey Hart & The BeamĪfter attending a Grateful Dead concert, director Francis Ford Coppola asked Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann to record drum music for his film "Apocalypse Now." They improvised the music at the same time a rough cut of the movie was being screened. PRE ORDER!!! PLEASE ALLOW FOR 2-4 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY
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