JUST THINKING BACK ON ALL THE TIMES I SAW THE GRATEFUL DEAD. PHIL LESH WAS A WONDERFUL PLAYER, VERY CENTRAL TO THEIR SOUND AND TO THEIR IMPROVIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. PEOPLE LIKE JESSE HAVE ...
The Grateful Dead was so much more than a jam band. Throughout the decades the band was together, they experimented with everything from rock to country to blues to folk and beyond. They also had ...
When Phil Lesh had his first rehearsal with the Warlocks just a few months before they changed their name to the Grateful Dead, it was an epiphany. Even though the bass he played was clunky and ...
The Grateful Dead have found themselves back at No. 1, but this time as a top Amazon bestseller for an official book on the rock band’s songs. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics offers ...
The Grateful Dead has long since disbanded, and few bands since have garnered as substantial and dedicated of a fanbase as they did. That being said, their hefty discography is still limited ...
Among the legions of Grateful Dead fans mourning Phil Lesh are a small but devoted cohort of Jewish Deadheads with memories of celebrating Passover with him. “To life! To Phil! Our love will not ...
Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead’s singularly iconic and beloved bassist, died last week at age 84. He was a beautiful musician, a wonderful man, a sweet soul. He also – through his identifiably ...
The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, as well as other musicians and fans, are paying tribute to Phil Lesh, one of the founding members of the band, who died Friday at the age of 84.
Magazine. Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty The Grateful Dead is paying tribute to “brother” Phil Lesh. The bassist, 84, died “peacefully” on the morning of Friday, Oct. 25 ...
Even among the mongrels and misfits who made up the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh managed to be ... Within that spectrum — from the head to the heart — laid Lesh’s enduring legacy, an entire ...
So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we’ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever. For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago….