Lenny Hart

Leonard "Lenny" Hart (1918/19 - 1974) was a drummer, who owned and operated Hart Music, selling drums and musical instruments in San Carlos, California. He was the father of Mickey Hart, the percussionist for the Grateful Dead. Lenny Hart was also the Grateful Dead's original money manager. [Rolling Stone, 2 September 1971] Lenny Hart was responsible for disappearing with a large sum of the group's profits (approx. US$155,000) in March, 1970.Fact|date=July 2008 Later that same month, the Grateful Dead recorded Working Man's Dead and toured Canada by train as part of the Trans Continental Pop Festival, which was later depicted in the documentary, Festival Express.

Lenny Hart was arrested in San Diego in the summer of 1971, while baptizing people and using the name "Rev. Lenny B. Hart." [Rolling Stone, 2 September 1971]

The Grateful Dead song "He's Gone" is based on Lenny Hart's disappearance. As a result of the fiasco, Mickey Hart left the band in February 1971, not returning to the group on a full-time basis until 1975.

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